The Oxford History Of The Classical World

The Mausoleum At Halicarnassus. Reconstruction by Peter Jackson. One of the Seven Wonders of the World, it was built in the mid ...

Relief Slab From The Tomb Of Mausolus At Halicarnassus (see last illustration). It shows Greeks fighting Amazons, who were skilf ...

mainland; and that mid-fourth-century Sicily, anarchic and economically battered, was in no position to intervene against the ne ...

They were never, either under Macedon or Rome, to lose that position of power; the classical class struggle had been decided: de ...

Greek Drama (By Peter Levi) Introduction There is plenty of drama in everyday life, and the experience of life is the source o ...

the same, the English miracle plays, mystery plays, and mummers' plays, the goat dancers of Scyros, and the commedia dell'arte d ...

Figure Of An Actor on a fragment of a vase from Tarentum, painted about 340 BC. He is shown holding a mask, as for a king, carri ...

perform, though there is no doubt that both the tragedies and the comedies were great state occasions and popular national event ...

then I weep for the miseries of this house that lacks the good management of the past. O for lucky relief of these labours and t ...

What Aeschylus has done is to present a squalid and bloody killing, quite unacceptable in principle to Greek feelings about wome ...

The Eumenides By Aeschylus. Scene on a vase made in Paestum by the artist Python, about 350-340B.C. The fourth-century Greek vas ...

exotic. Sophocles lived from about 496 to 406 B.C., that is, nearly all the years of the fifth century. At the age of about twen ...

come now, help now, avenge our father killed. Send me my brother home. I can no longer carry the weight of grief I am to bear. F ...

at his best in the play Oedipus at Colonus, but that is a strange and wonderful place. The play centres on a holy wood near Colo ...

Euripides was country-born as Aeschylus was, quite early in the fifth century, in about 485 B.C.; that means he was no more than ...

theatre demands freshness; old stories demand intellectual versatility. But a passionate coherence and a passionate understandin ...

O throne of Earth and thou whose seat is earth hard to be known whatever thou mayest be, necessity of nature, mind of man, Zeus ...

black-dressed peasants around a market square, who give sudden murder or the vengeance of the gods its social meaning. The tragi ...

later, and perhaps elsewhere, was to produce elaborate perspective painting. It spread to the walls of houses, the house of Alci ...

Scene From A Satyr Play, on an Athenian vase of about 470-460 B.C. That these are not real satyrs is shown by the loin-cloth to ...