Achilles was too proud and bad-tempered for his own good, and his reckless rage would cost both...
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Exploring how manuscripts reveal the evolution of the tale of Troy in ancient Greek and Latin traditions....
Thrasybulus was helping his ally Periander, the tyrant of Corinth. By Sergey M. ZhestokanovProfessor of ArchaeologySt. Petersburg...
The classics contain many references to tyranny and its causes, effects, methods, practitioners, alternatives. Introduction In the...
Ancient Greek religious practice was essentially conservative in nature and was based on time-honored observances By Colette...
In archaic and classical Greece thrones were reserved for the gods and by extension, their priests and...
Examining the Macedonian king in combat. In his account of the preparations for the battle at Granicus,...
Following the conquests of Alexander the Great, Egypt was taken over by a Greco-Macedonian dynasty based in...
Classical Greece saw a flourishing of philosophers, especially in Athens during its Golden Age. Philosophy Socrates Socrates,...
Many women in ancient Greece led interesting lives and performed heroic acts and who remain lesser known...
Economic crisis, impoverishment, and elite conflict led Athens to be managed by individual rulers, the last tyrants...
Cassander embarked on an ambitious plan to control the region and solidify his power in Macedonia. Cassander’s...
A place for the performance of rituals of congregation. Abstract The discovery of the early bronze age...
The Hellenistic world which had had no monarch for half a decade after Alexander suddenly had a...
Looking past a plague at how a massive government spending plan went badly awry 2,500 years ago....
The earliest written sources of Homer and Hesiod attest to the existence of trade (emporia) and merchants...
From ancient Greek, the word was used to connote any foreigner not sharing a recognized culture or...
The Spartan myth of stranger-kings of divine descent was opposed to the Athenian ideology of autochthony. Introduction...
Ancient Sparta could be considered the most fully-realized form of gerontocracy that any state has ever implemented....
The ‘Hippocratic’ four humours, Roman hygiene, the first hospitals, and home remedies. The Greeks combined dietetics, medicines,...
Thirty of the Achaeans’ best warriors hid in the Trojan horse’s womb and two spies in its...
The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War by causing the Judgement of...
The Greeks treated their city-states like bodies. To protect them from disasters, it was the poor that...
Considering their limited role in actual society there is a surprisingly strong cast of female characters in...
Idle gossip or rumor is personified by the Ancient poets. At the heart of the greatest works...
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Menelaus, and others like him, reduced the physical world to a purely geometric one. By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
The Hippocratic philosophy on health care provision applied standards and ethical rules that are still valid today....
One of the earliest dateable events in Athenian history is the creation of the Draconian law code,...
His work catapulted Powers to international fame in the 19th century. Introduction They say Ideal beauty cannot...