Athens’s heavy-handed control of the Delian League ultimately prompted the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Introduction The Delian...
Athens
Athenians preferred to memorialize punishments for eternity. By Dr. Danielle S. AllenJames Conant Bryan University Professor of...
Constructing a “national” identity of the Athenian inhabitants during the tyrannical governance of Peisistratos and his sons....
Figure 1: Greek Colonization of western Asia Minor / Image by Alexikoua, Wikimedia Commons The development of...
Part of Themistocles’s wall in Kerameikos / Wikimedia Commons Built in several phases, they provided a secure...
The Acropolis of Athens. Dominating the acropolis is the Parthenon, built between 447 and 432 BCE in the Age of Pericles, and...
The Athens Acropolis as seen from the Court of Cassation (Areopagus, i.e. the “Stone, or Hill, of Ares”)...
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Ancient Athens was a remarkably peaceful and well-ordered society by both ancient and contemporary standards. By Adriaan...
Athens agora / Photo by Andreas Trepte, Wikimedia Commons Ethics was a function of being and, as...
The Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians / British Library (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 131), Wikimedia Commons Solon’s new constitution...
The Erechtheum, western side, Acropolis, Athens, Greece / Photo by Jebulon, Wikimedia Commons Athens attained its Golden...
Ostraka from classical Athens nominating the persons of Kallias and Megakles. Cycladic Art Museum, Athens, Greece/Wikimedia Commons For the first...
By Dr. Christopher W. Blackwell / 01.24.2003Louis G. Forgione University Professor of ClassicsFurman University Introduction The Greek...
Reconstruction of an ancient Greek Trireme battleship / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Donald Kagan / 10.25.2007 Sterling...
Aerial view of Ancient Athens / Wikimedia Commons Lecture by Dr. Donald Kagan / 10.09.2007 Sterling Professor...
Illustrations of Roman Athens / AthensIn3D.com Lecture by Dr. Diana E.E. Kleiner / 04.09.2009 Dunham Professor, History...
By Dr. Kostas KapparisAssociate Professor of ClassicsUniversity of Florida Summary Suggested Reading: Apollodoros, “Against Neaira” (transmitted among...
Speaker’s Platform, Athens Assembly, Pynx, Athens By Dr. Edward M. Harris Professor of Ancient History Durham University...