The Oxford History Of The Classical World

The Oxyrhynchus historian achieves this, Xenophon almost does in the first two books of his Hellenica or Greek History, which ca ...

where necessary inventing circumstantial detail. His style and completeness unfortunately made him rather popular, but at least ...

another was the lack of a real biographical tradition in Greece. For such reasons it was left to the Romans to discover the fasc ...

geographers like Eratosthenes and Strabo (whose work survives), and from time to time a figure of interest emerged to unite the ...

Life And Society In Classical Greece (By Oswyn Murray) Society By the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. ...

Plan Of The Agora (Market- Place) In Athens In The Hellenistic Period. The Square had been cleared early in the sixth century, t ...

than a form of ritual release reserved for the theatre: how regular was father-bashing or female drunkenness off the stage? Did ...

of the important linguistic root common to most Indo-European languages, found for instance in the Celtic brathir, German Bruder ...

school with you and fought in the army with you, braving together with you the dangers of land and sea in defence of our common ...

Wedding Procession on an Athenian vase by the Amasis Painter, about 540 B.C. Bride and groom sit in a mule cart, accompanied by ...

concerns the dowry: it was the duty of a kyrios to provide a dowry for all women in his family: the lack of a dowry demonstrated ...

Clay Figures Of A Woman Kneading Bread And A Cook Working At A Grill. Fifth century B.C. There are several of these Classical st ...

A Street 'Block' Of Fourth-Century B.C. Houses At Olynthus In North Greece. There is some variety in the basic scheme of entranc ...

The Villa Of Good Fortune At Olynthus, fourth century B.C. The main entrance (A) is into a verandahed courtyard with a central a ...

was in most important respects the same as that of the 200,000,000 women who today live under Islam, and that in the history of ...

Map 4. Attica. Attica, the territory of the city of Athens, comprises about 1,000 square miles, and is one of the largest city t ...

laws preventing the re-export or stockpiling of corn, and special officials to regulate the market. The system of mixed loan, pr ...

Similarly with unskilled labour: it is noticeable that the democratic state at Athens at all times, except during war and period ...

in the Laurium hills, and silver mining continued intensively, with intermissions in times of disturbance, throughout the classi ...

performing (porter, nurse, tutor, maid, cook, and so on) suggests a comparison with the numbers of servants in Victorian househo ...