The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Clay Figures Of A Woman Kneading Bread And A Cook Working At A Grill. Fifth century B.C. There are several of these Classical st ...

A Street 'Block' Of Fourth-Century B.C. Houses At Olynthus In North Greece. There is some variety in the basic scheme of entranc ...

The Villa Of Good Fortune At Olynthus, fourth century B.C. The main entrance (A) is into a verandahed courtyard with a central a ...

was in most important respects the same as that of the 200,000,000 women who today live under Islam, and that in the history of ...

Map 4. Attica. Attica, the territory of the city of Athens, comprises about 1,000 square miles, and is one of the largest city t ...

laws preventing the re-export or stockpiling of corn, and special officials to regulate the market. The system of mixed loan, pr ...

Similarly with unskilled labour: it is noticeable that the democratic state at Athens at all times, except during war and period ...

in the Laurium hills, and silver mining continued intensively, with intermissions in times of disturbance, throughout the classi ...

performing (porter, nurse, tutor, maid, cook, and so on) suggests a comparison with the numbers of servants in Victorian househo ...

Symposion, on an Athenian cup by the Brygos Painter of about 490-480 B.C. Reclining at a feast-an eastern habit-was adopted by G ...

inspect the ceiling, admire the hangings in the hall. Needless to say, the old man ends up behaving disgracefully, stealing one ...

A Reading Lesson. On the interior of an Athenian cup of about 430-420 B.C. The boy stands reading a folding wooden tablet, the l ...

citizen and non-citizen. The main point of Aristophanes' Clouds is, however, a different conflict, that between lower and higher ...

An East Greek Gravestone For A Doctor, about 500 B.C. Two metal 'cups' hang in the background. Heated and applied to the flesh, ...

Society is composed of interrelating phenomena, and there is a fascination in seeing how they fit together; perhaps that aim is ...

Classical Greek Philosophy (By Julia Annas) Background: Philosophy in the Fifth Century When Plato began to write, philosophy ...

effects of the arguments propounded by the Eleatic thinkers Parmenides and Melissus. They proved, by an argument that nobody cou ...

politics; thus they tended to pride themselves on skill in arguing, without being clear what in this was due to rhetorical trick ...

associated with many of the aristocrats who had overthrown the democracy, but the dislike was in part genuinely anti-philosophic ...

The dialogues that have these characteristics, and are traditionally accepted as early, are: Apology (a monologue), Crito, Euthy ...