The Oxford History Of The Classical World

thousand miles here from the kind of argument he deals with. It is a pity we have no complete satyr play by Aeschylus. The fragm ...

Clay Figures Of Comic Actors, both masked, and the one on the right wearing the characteristic short padded dress with phallus a ...

with a play in which the poet deserts his wife Comedy to go whoring after boys called Wine-bottles and a slut called Drunkenness ...

characters. What he really hates, apart from such scum of the earth as Cleon, is charlatans and pretentiousness and pseudo-refor ...

despair about altering the course of events seems to have set hard. What he proposes is a conspiracy of women to refuse sex with ...

Would Socrates say so? His last surviving play, Wealth, was produced in 388 B.C. Wealth is notoriously blind, and gives his bene ...

The New Comedy Poet Menander (who died about 292bc). Mosaic portrait found in a Roman villa of the fourth century A.D. near the ...

All the same, the harmonious confusion and the mild violence within the magic circle of Menander's theatrical effects are meant ...

A Comic Production With Phlyax Actors (probably so-called for their padded costumes), on a vase made in Apulia about 375 BC. The ...

which happened at many removes, partly through the blood-soaked exaggerations of Seneca, exaggerated still further in translatio ...

Greek Historians (By Oswyn Murray) The Origins of History Many societies possess professional remembrancers, priests or offici ...

of the ancient world. A proper history of Greek history writing must take due notice of what has been lost as well as of what su ...

theme. Herodotus of Halicarnassus in fact deserves his ancient title of 'father of history'. His work is the earliest Greek book ...

historian in his approach to the ideal of total history. Herodotus' openness to other cultures indeed caused him to be called a ...

Sparta he gives an official line, for Athens a version based at least in part on particular aristocratic traditions; the narrati ...

The first of these consisted in a fragmentation of the synoptic view of Herodotus into the systematic exploitation of local trad ...

Thucydides too is a product of the world of the developed city-state, and belongs to roughly the same generation as the first lo ...

impossible to write accurately about the past; his methods and his standards of proof are applicable only to the present. He is ...

The result is, of course, that he has his limitations. The silences of Colonel Thucydides are impenetrable for us; we have no me ...

dead in Book 2 portrays a society without conflict or tension, united in pursuit of an ideal, in contrast to the pathological st ...