The Oxford History Of The Classical World

according to which numbers are generated from an initial One as it 'breathes in' a portion of the adjacent infinity; this portio ...

the Ionian tradition for the general shape of his cosmos, and contradicts the central axiom of the Eleatics by asserting that No ...

understand it is a Greek creation. TOC ...

Greece: The History Of The Classical Period (By Simon Hornblower) Outline of Events The Athenians founded a naval empire in 47 ...

the Caryatid porch and the columns of the north porch - were often copied in antiquity and in nineteenth-century Europe. The h ...

The Temple Of Hephaestus In Athens, Seen From The South-West. This IS the best preserved of all Doric temples of mainland Greece ...

through our period; and it is worth noticing here what Thessaly had to offer. Thessaly was agriculturally rich and thus able to ...

discontented Arcadians to stab her in the back. She had (unlike Corinth) positive incentives to offer, in her democracy and her ...

Silver Coin (Tetradrachm) Of Athens, 440-430 B.C. The types for Athenian coins, with Athena's head and the owl with olive twig, ...

Map 3. The Athenian Empire. The shaded area on the map shows the maximum extent of the Athenian Empire: 'the cities which the At ...

allies. A more concrete abuse of religion was the territorial encroachment on allied territory by the 'goddess Athena' herself, ...

Fragment Of The Tribute List For The Year 440-39 B.C., recording 1/60 of the sums paid to Athens by contributing states of the A ...

300, Athenians still identified themselves by the old double system of father's name and deme. The second limit on the ekklesia ...

The Furniture Of Democracy, fifth to fourth century B.C. The bronze wheels are public ballots: Aristotle tells us that those wit ...

Ostraca Found In The Athenian Agora. These are votes cast to choose a victim for ostracism - banishment from Athens for ten year ...

governors), and even the Athenians themselves, had been using mercenaries for two or three decades before 400. The Peloponnesian ...

of troops on the Theban side: these extra troops are a kind of tactical reserve, of a kind later perfected by the Theban Epamino ...

time (400-390) Sparta was fighting in Asia against Persia. Alcibiades had been right: liberation of mainland Greece by Sparta di ...

'Greco-Persian', current in the southern states of Asia Minor in the later fifth and fourth centuries B.C., and serving Persian ...

Not only did Athens begin thus early to break her negative pledges; more important, the ideological justification of the new lea ...