The Oxford History Of The Classical World

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The Assassination Of The Athenian Tyrant Hipparchus In 514 BC By Harmodius And Aristogeiton. This event was celebrated by the ne ...

major city, Argos, and a number of lesser cities, settlements, or tribal agglomerations. Against Argos they won, though in no de ...

ambition to occupy Greece, but they were there and had to be reckoned with. All Greek states we know of were divided about their ...

Bronze Helmet Dedicated At Olympia By Miltiades in the early fifth century B.C. The dedicator's name appears incised along the l ...

Greeks had distinguished between themselves and 'those who spoke other languages'; other civilized societies had done the same. ...

The Athenian Treasury At Delphi. The Greek states dedicated treasuries at the major national sanctuaries, to house rich offering ...

Persians on their way south and now wrecked as many more when Xerxes sent a squadron of 200 to encircle Euboea and catch the Gre ...

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(d) Four Early Greek Coins, (a) is of electrum, a metal alloy of gold and silver readily obtainable in western Asia Minor where ...

Homer (By Oliver Taplin) Preamble The early Greeks envisaged the world as encircled by the mighty freshwater river of Ocean, a ...

goes against the very nature of the poems to be summarized. Yet this lengthiness is not the result of telling a long and eventfu ...

The Iliad picks a few days only out of the whole story: not the most obvious days (which might be the arrival of the Achaeans, o ...

Achilles Fights Memnon, on a vase by the Berlin Painter of about 490 B.C. At the left Achilles is encouraged by his mother Theti ...

But now, when the son of devious-devising Kronos has given me the winning of glory by the ships, to pin the Achaians on the sea, ...

There is a comparable economy of place. In fact nearly all the Iliad is set in one of four places, distinct in topography and si ...

The Dragging Of Hector's Body By Achilles. On this late-sixth-century Athenian vase the artist expresses several different aspec ...

get killed. During the Iliad the gods travel far and wide, but they always converge on Mount Olympus. There they have their home ...

(6.476-81) The urge to gain heroic glory kills both Hector and his son, for it demands a loser as well as a winner. The Iliad ne ...

The Ransom Of Hector. From the left Priam approaches with attendants bearing rich gifts. Achilles, at ease on his dining couch b ...