The Oxford History Of The Classical World

hunting catches, of spoils of war, and the like. In this case it was rather a meagre share, since they were given only the inedi ...

you will give.' In their prayers Greeks often alluded explicitly to this nexus of mutual benefit and obligation between man and ...

Religion and Society Economic historians have found that the modern notion of an autonomous 'economy' is inapplicable to ancient ...

The Oracle At Dodona. After Olympia Dodona was the principal shrine of Zeus, where he gave oracles through the rustling of leave ...

Divine Healing. A relief dedicated about 370 B.C. by Aeschmus to the hero healer Amphiaraus. The relief is in the form of a buil ...

of the archaic age defied assimilation. Late in the sixth century Pythagoras taught that souls migrated after death into other b ...

Dancing For Dionysus, on an Athenian cup by the painter Macron, of about 490B.C. The god is worshipped as a pillar, dressed, wit ...

A Herm From Siphnos, of the later sixth century B.C. Herms are stone pillars, topped with the head of the god Hermes and commonl ...

on his side. For their own Athena the Athenians clearly often felt a genuinely warm affection. Comic poets could even make good- ...

an autonomous democracy or even oligarchy there had been no room for men-gods. The divine kings did not supplant the old gods bu ...

Greek Art And Architecture (By John Boardman) Introduction: Greekness The arts of the western world have been dominated by the ...

The ideal man. The Doryphorus (spear-carrier) by Polyclitus. Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze original of about 440 B.C. The ...

with no less subtlety in architecture. It is demonstrated by the shapes of vases, by the articulation of the decoration upon the ...

The Athenian Acropolis ...

The Fourth-Century Theatre At Epidaurus ...

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-F- Engraved Gems, Finger Rings, And Jewellery: (a) and (b) are of around 500 and 470 B.C.; (c) and (d) are Classical; (e) and ( ...

admitted Greek motifs; gradually the jewellery of Attica and Crete geometricized its shapes and patterns; gradually eastern tech ...