The myth of Laocoön dates back to the seventh century BCE as part of a series of...
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The story of Psyche is one of a mortal woman who completes many seemingly impossible trials. Introduction...
Places in ancient cities such as shops and marketplaces were useful locations to spread false rumors. At...
The oldest form of security offered by property was pawning. By Kelly Lambert As long as people...
Treatment of mental illness in ancient Greece was a new and experimental process. Introduction Mental illness was an...
Myth can be told with the intent of being allegorical, symbolic, rational, romantic, theoretical, or analytical. By...
Proclus devoted his entire life to the defense of Greek polytheism and the systematization of Platonic theology....
The earliest forms of democratic governments began to form in Greek city-states in the sixth century BCE....
Sparta was a society with too many institutional checks and balances, and Athens was a society with...
She won a contest with Poseidon over who would preside over the city cherished by all the...
The state of poverty in fact covers a variety of situations, but always leads to exclusion, primarily...
The elite classes in Rome and Athens found lucrative business endeavors necessary in order to climb their...
Examining classical Athens’ distinctive approach to building a system of law and order. Abstract How do democratic...
Rhetoric took precedence over evidence in Ancient Athenian courts. By Lauren Davis Introduction To many modern audiences,...
Ancient Greek literature has had a profound impact on later Greek literature and also western literature at...
Ancient Greek houses frequently had a “complex pattern of spatial usage”, with rooms being used for multiple...
The military unit is first mentioned in 324 BCE in the speech ‘Against Demosthenes’. Introduction The Sacred Band...
Ballots that date more than two millennia old tell the story of ostracism. In the 1960s, archaeologists...
Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple in 2008 yielded new insights into the engineering feats of the golden...
The Periplus is an astonishing record of travel and trade in the ancient world. Introduction The Periplus of...
The design of the trireme most likely pushed the technological limits of the ancient world. Introduction A trireme,[1] “with...
Most of what is known of ancient Greek clothing reflects only the upper-class as they were most...
We find a vast range of their artistic representations in frescos, vase paintings, and sculptures. Introduction Sacred...
In approximately 630 BCE, someone in the Anatolian kingdom of Lydia stamped a piece of precious metal....
This agora was destroyed by invasions by the Germanic Heruli and Visigoths in 267 CE and 396...
Ancient writers from Aristophanes to Plato to Plutarch reference her eloquence and power in a world controlled...
Pandora opened a jar left in her care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which...
Introduction In Greek mythology, Prometheus, possibly meaning “forethought”)[1] is a Titan god of fire.[2] Prometheus is credited with the creation of humanity from...
One of Dionysos’s symbols was a phallus, and an oversized version was carried by a “phallus-bearer” in...
The agoge was at its height during the Classical Period and was praised as the ideal form...