The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Zeus Blitzes A Monster. This vase, made in a Chalcidian colony in South Italy in about 550-525 B.C., shows Zeus attacking with t ...

upon a time the clever Prometheus (a god, not a man: but his actions involve men for ever) tricked Zeus by cunning division of a ...

Bronze Warrior Fighting A Centaur, Both Helmeted. Geometric style of the later eighth century B.C. The centaur need not be the c ...

Relief Vase From Boeotia, of a type made both in Boeotia and the Greek islands in the mid seventh century, Perseus beheads the g ...

The Decoration Of A Handle Of The Francois Vase, a large Athenian mixing-bowl (crater), 66 cm high, found in Etruria at Chmsi. I ...

healthy spirit of competitiveness, which makes men work. For brother Perses has been behaving badly, demanding more than his sha ...

The Calydonian Boar Hunt on the neck of the Francois Vase (see illustration on p. 94). An epic occasion introducing many importa ...

And as I choose I'll let you go, or have you for my meat.' (205 ff.) Having reached this point, Hesiod tells his brother 'Don't ...

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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 ...