The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Lyric And Elegiac Poetry (By Ewen Bowie) Only of hexameter poetry have we examples earlier than 700 B.C. But many genres first ...

songs remain. Some poets composed in several genres. Since many composed both elegiac and iambic poetry, I treat these genres to ...

male friend of his passion for Neobule's younger sister and how he seduced her in a flowery meadow. His 'reported' words critici ...

we enjoy, at the hands of the gods knowing not evil days nor good. But beside us there stand the black spirits of Death, one of ...

composed a witty male-chauvinist piece whose 118 lines compare women unflatteringly with various animals (fr. 7). Bitter invecti ...

And many garlands woven from flowers about your soft neck [ ] fashioned And with m[uch] myrrh from rich flowers [ ] and royal yo ...

scene of Aphrodite's descent from Olympus (fr. 1) it attests her skill in vivid depiction. Of more formal poetry we have but scr ...

beneath the vine's shady shoots: but my Love rests at no season; [but like] the Thracian North Wind blazing -with lightning it d ...

creates sympathy by developing an Iliadic simile (8. 306-8): and then Geryon's neck leaned over to one side, as when a poppy dis ...

until in 1892 a papyrus yielded twenty poems, many almost complete. Its fourteen victory songs can be confronted with those of P ...

wrong' (54-64). Pelops, sent back to earth, obtained Poseidon's help in defeating Oenomaus, king at Olympia, in the chariot race ...

Here famed Megistias is laid, whom once the Mede slew at the crossing of Spercheius' flood: this prophet clearly saw the Fates' ...

Early Greek Philosophy (By Martin West) In the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. the Greeks appear as a lively and talented pe ...

works written in Greek prose, were the record of their discourses. This Milesian phenomenon of the philosopher who discoursed be ...

Anaximander taught that the world, and countless other worlds beyond our ken, came into being out of the Boundless and will even ...

transformations. It is in a sense a materialistic cosmology. But Anaximenes does not conceive of his air as an inert substance w ...

else by the power of his thought. Heraclitus, who wrote in a particularly haughty and oracular manner, and was unusual among the ...

Empedocles, who denounced the killing and eating of animals as murder and cannibalism, and implored men to abandon it. An Oil Va ...

Statue Of A Girl (kore) dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis about 520-510 B.C. Probably Ionian (Chian) work. Like Heraclitus, Em ...

a line of defence that was to remain popular into the Middle Ages, interpreting the Homeric deities as allegories of the physica ...