After Sicily, the empire was already being replaced, not because Sparta immediately surpassed Athens in every dimension,...
Greece
Greek fears of Persian law did not arise from systematic observation of Achaemenid governance, nor from sustained...
The Athenian settlement of 403 BCE stands as a rare example of democratic recovery that refused both...
The Athenian experience demonstrates that democracy does not collapse when elections disappear, but when they are emptied...
The history of classical Athens reveals a form of political power that is easy to overlook precisely...
The history traced here suggests that repetition is not a symptom of cultural decay but a structural...
There is a purported history of Sparta in Mycenaean times, as set forward by Homer is his...
Greek political theory converged on a stark conclusion: republican government ends not when laws disappear, but when...
Athens reveals that demagoguery does not fall because it is intellectually refuted. It collapses when it fails...
This three-hundred-year period was one of artistic vibrance and immense cultural influence. Introduction In contrast to the...
The city of Homer’s Iliad is generally accepted to have been found and is associated with three...
Examining the Peplos Kore reminds us that years of erosion and wear can significantly change the appearance...
The deity that is depicted on the clay disc from Pella is not easy to identify. Introduction...
How these Oriental Mysteries constructed their initiatory rituals in the first centuries of the Roman Empire. Introduction...
The original form of ancient Greek tympanon, a big hand-drum with a roaring sound, lives on in...
Understanding wedding rituals through images on a vase from Ancient Greece. Marriage in Athens 2400 years ago...
Kouroi and korai broadcasted the wealth and ideals of their patrons, revealing much about Archaic society. By...
Exploring the origin, development and social location of the Orphic-Bacchic mysteries. Introduction While the Eleusinian Mysteries and...
Understanding Sparta as dystopian does not require denying its achievements or ignoring its historical context. It requires...
It represents a detailed narrative of combat between man and monster, and it hints at the man’s...
Ancient Greek and Roman bodies are often seen as flawless – cast in buff bronze and white...
Reconstructing the cost of living in ancient Greece and Rome requires integrating evidence that is scattered across...
Contemporary societies, equipped with vastly more sophisticated systems of governance, continue to wrestle with the same moral...
Symposia were attended by wealthy men who talked and listened to music as they reclined on couches...
The tyrant’s descent from ruler to exile followed a logic as ancient as power itself. In seeking...
The act of rewriting history is as old as history itself. To revise is not inherently to...
The funeral speech offers the audience a model to be imitated and thus contributes to the timeless...
Gaining a deeper understanding of the goals and meanings of the idealized art of the Classical Greek...
No matter where people settled in Greece, they were rarely more than 50 miles from the sea....
Over one hundred official attempts have been made to try to identify the site of Alexander’s tomb....