Dated to the New Kingdom (c. 1570 – c. 1069 BCE), and specifically to c. 1200 BCE, the text...
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Ancient Athens was a remarkably peaceful and well-ordered society by both ancient and contemporary standards. By Adriaan...
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A wall of the triclinium, traditionally interpreted to represent the stages of initiation to the cult. Silenus...
Drunken Old Woman. Late 3rd century BCE. Hellenistic Sculpture / Photo by Evergreen State College, Creative Commons...
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi / Photo by tamara semina, Wikimedia Commons The fact that the...
Bust carved by by Victor Wager from a model by Paul Montford, University of Western Australia, Crawley,...
This ancient Greek fresco, known as The Toreador, was found on the Greek island of Crete. The...
The Greeks failed miserably to see the need for the development of a discipline, economic science, devoted...
Association with Alcibiades was later part of the charge brought against Socrates for corrupting the youth. Who...
Athens agora / Photo by Andreas Trepte, Wikimedia Commons Ethics was a function of being and, as...
Bacchanalia (cut), on a frieze / Photo by Roland zh, Wikimedia Commons Practices intimately tied to the...
The Triumph of Civilization / Photo by Grizzli, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Wikimedia Commons The enormous contribution of ancient...
If we take off the cloak of reason and instead clothe with that of madness, we may...
The Aristotelian Constitution of the Athenians / British Library (Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 131), Wikimedia Commons Solon’s new constitution...
Highlighting the evolution of corruption and represents the highlights of the phenomenon from the social, economic and...
A representation of Draco at the library of the Supreme Court of the United States / Photo...
By Dr. Michael Davis / 01.07.2016 Professor of Philosophy Sarah Lawrence College Abstract How is it possible...
John W. Waterhouse, “A Mother Bringing Her Sick Child to the Temple of Asklepios”, 1877 (Image in...
The Pantheon in 1836, by Jakob Alt / Albertina, Wikimedia Commons Religious worship was a public affair...
Mt Etna, with Catania in the foreground / Photo by BenAveling, Wikimedia Commons Stories were used as...
The Temple to Apollo at Delphi / Photo by Greudin, Wikimedia Commons The history of ancient Greece...
Statue of Themistocles in Piraeus, Greece By David Van Dyk / 08.17.2016 “My boy, you will be...
A detail from the frieze of the Treasury of the Siphians at Delphi depicting the Gods fighting...
Relief scene of Roman legionaries marching, from the Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Italy, 2nd century CE...
Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological...
Pnyx hill in Athens by Qwqchris. / Wikimedia Commons In the matter of the dēmokratia (‘People-Power’) that the Greeks invented (the...
Alcibades being taught by Socrates, by François-André Vincent, 1776 / Musée Fabre, Wikimedia Commons Socrates’ most famous students before...
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