The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Acknowledgements The editors wish to express their thanks to the many institutions and individuals named in the List of Illustra ...

Introduction By Jasper Griffin The subject of this book is enormous. In time it covers a period of well over a thousand years, f ...

thought struggles out of the mythical and poetic mode. We see the interaction of Greek intellectual supremacy and the irresistib ...

A River Valley In Arcadia, east of Olympia. Rivers in such a landscape are treacherous in flood though commonly dry in midsummer ...

It is a revealing piece of evidence for the importance of the surrounding cultures that in Greek most names of musical instrumen ...

independent city-state, in which alone a man could develop to the full as a citizen, is the central Greek achievement. It was po ...

literature their immense impact on the other societies with whom they came into contact. The formal perfection of Greek architec ...

armies on Rome in pursuit of their own aggrandizement. It is tempting to suppose that the reality had always been as venal and a ...

The Approach To Delphi From The East, through the foothills of Mount Parnassus. Land communications in Greece were not easy, and ...

Jews and the Greeks do not mention each other at all until a surprisingly late period, and when they did meet neither side was v ...

like Gracchus and claimed the inheritance of the tyrannicide Brutus and the Roman Republic. A German revolutionary movement name ...

The English language itself is distinguished from its cousins in the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family by the very lar ...

Greece Greece: The History of the Archaic Period (By George Forrest) Map 1. Greece And The Aegean World The Emergence of the P ...

For most historians the characteristic and peculiar element in Greek political life has been the polis, the city-state, an insti ...

Lefkandi. The site lies on the shore of the Straits of Euboea, between Chalcis and Eretria, and must have been the focus of the ...

building over 45 metres long, with an external wooden colonnade. This is a striking demonstration of Lefkandi's wealth and indus ...

man; respectable Greeks grew things rather than sold them; on the land, not in the market-place, were found Greeks who formed go ...

years. Most of the Libyan cities were settled by 600 B.C., but further expansion to the west was contained by Phoenicians (in Ca ...

control of the state and of the wealth that could be gained thereby had lain with one aristocratic clan, the Bacchiadae. In 657 ...

expelled the Bacchiads by force and did not need a bodyguard. Earlier, in Sparta, the army and its structure was at the heart of ...