The Oxford History Of The Classical World

The Departure Of Amphiaraus For Thebes. Drawing from a Corinthian vase of about 560bc (see text for description and commentary). ...

The Deeds Of Theseus, on the interior of an Athenian cup of about 430BC. It is unusual in being decorated around its central med ...

past, both mythical and recent, and Athenians. On other temples the relevance of the subject is sometimes less apparent, and we ...

columned interior of a temple and barely lit from the doors or windows before them and, at Olympia and in the Parthenon, by the ...

She stood some 40 feet tall. Decoration in Art Nothing, except perhaps the heroic nude, provokes recognition of Greekness more r ...

Bronze Crater (Mixing Bowl), from Derveni, near Salonica, found in 1962. Late fourth century B.C. The most elaborate of its type ...

Greek art was not the big business in antiquity that it is today. Some portable works, jewellery and plate, were expensive, and ...

requirements of a far wider range of the community than its priests and governors, and he demonstrated for the first time in the ...

Greece And Rome The History of the Hellenistic Period (By Simon Price) Map 5. The Hellenistic World The Hellenistic period, th ...

dominance has an interesting analogy in the spread of European culture to our colonies. The needs of the competing kingdoms led ...

Alexander's followers aspired not only to his ideals but also to his lands. The twenty years following his death saw tortuous st ...

Thirdly, Macedon. The ancient dynasty from which Alexander himself came was exterminated, and possession of the land was fiercel ...

Aerial View Of Antioch On The Orontes (modern Antakya, in south-eastern Turkey). Founded by Seleucus I in 300 B.C. and named aft ...

were separate Greek and Egyptian courts administering different law-codes, while the law of Alexandria itself was modeled in par ...

The king was the key figure in the royal administration. To him were addressed petitions by individuals and communities, and all ...

Alexander In The Van Of Battle, detail of a figured frieze on a sarcophagus from the royal cemetery at Sidon (Phoenicia) (c.325- ...

Terracotta Statuette Prom Myrina, showing an Indian war-elephant crushing a Celt, perhaps a reference to Antiochus I's victory o ...

A comparable phenomenon is the competition between the major kingdoms in building ever more elaborate and impressive ships of wa ...

the following oath: I will abide by the established democracy ... and the ancestral laws of Cos ... I will also abide by the fri ...

Aratus turned to the Macedonian king to save the league from Sparta and perhaps also to ward off popular revolution in the Pelop ...