The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Hellenistic Culture And Literature (By Robin Lane Fox) Introduction: The World after Alexander After Alexander the horizons of ...

Inscription Of Asoka From Kandahar (Afghanistan). The great Mauryan king Asoka (c.268-232 B.C.), ruler of an empire covering muc ...

Exedra In The Gymnasion At Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan (late second century B.C.). Such recesses, equipped with benches against the ...

Main Hall In The Library At Pergamum. Founded by Attalus I (241-197 B.C.), the library has been identified in a group of first-f ...

In every city the culture of the ephebes continued to be valued highly. Fathers troubled to put their sons down for a good gymna ...

Remains Of Hypocaust In The Greek Baths At Olympia. This under floor heating system, dated about 100 B.C. foreshadows the subseq ...

The Stadium At Perge In Southern Turkey. Though the present seating is Roman, the stadium was certainly laid out in Hellenistic ...

What, in return, of the Greeks? Like Alexander, the vast majority were not bilingual, and their schooling still absorbed them. B ...

from 'people who turn their powers against every place'. He was referring, surely, to the Romans. Literature and Patronage Betwe ...

hardest of all forms, the staccato galliambics which were used in one type of cult-hymn. Scholar poets set out to enrich the lan ...

standards, and later they interested Roman satirists. The best may have come from that sympathetic figure, Timon. One-eyed, he w ...

incidental to Callimachus' patronage. No king gave long-term support to the other masters as poets only. Their debt was to the w ...

threshing and churning ...' In fact, the charm of Theocritus is that he keeps a foot in both camps. His shepherds still abuse ea ...

Lycidas (for his undergraduate friend Edward King), Arnold's Thyrsis (for the poet Clough), and the Adonais, or lament for Keats ...

Europa And The Bull, Pompeian painting from the House of Jason, or of the Fatal Loves (first quarter of first century A.D.). Thi ...

Could a royal tutor escape the faults of a royal librarian? Like Apollonius, whom he may have taught, Callimachus could write fi ...

archaic lyric. So far as patronage helped, it was as a source of leisure and as the setting for secure life in a great capital c ...

Hellenistic Philosophy And Science (By Jonathan Barnes) Greek philosophy has a continuous history. The death of Alexander the ...

Imprint Of A Greek Papyrus found in the palace at Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan. The papyrus has perished, leaving only the traces of ...

Athens, in a remote garrison town in Afghanistan, archaeologists have recovered evidence of an interest in Aristotelian philosop ...