The Oxford History Of The Classical World

hardest of all forms, the staccato galliambics which were used in one type of cult-hymn. Scholar poets set out to enrich the lan ...

standards, and later they interested Roman satirists. The best may have come from that sympathetic figure, Timon. One-eyed, he w ...

incidental to Callimachus' patronage. No king gave long-term support to the other masters as poets only. Their debt was to the w ...

threshing and churning ...' In fact, the charm of Theocritus is that he keeps a foot in both camps. His shepherds still abuse ea ...

Lycidas (for his undergraduate friend Edward King), Arnold's Thyrsis (for the poet Clough), and the Adonais, or lament for Keats ...

Europa And The Bull, Pompeian painting from the House of Jason, or of the Fatal Loves (first quarter of first century A.D.). Thi ...

Could a royal tutor escape the faults of a royal librarian? Like Apollonius, whom he may have taught, Callimachus could write fi ...

archaic lyric. So far as patronage helped, it was as a source of leisure and as the setting for secure life in a great capital c ...

Hellenistic Philosophy And Science (By Jonathan Barnes) Greek philosophy has a continuous history. The death of Alexander the ...

Imprint Of A Greek Papyrus found in the palace at Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan. The papyrus has perished, leaving only the traces of ...

Athens, in a remote garrison town in Afghanistan, archaeologists have recovered evidence of an interest in Aristotelian philosop ...

Portrait Of Epicurus (341-27O B.C.), based on a commemorative statue of the mid third century B.C. The founder of the Epicurean ...

the proofs for himself'. None the less, the central tenets of the Old Stoics remained firm. In ethics they rejected hedonism and ...

Philosophy was pursued outside the main schools. Pyrrho of Elis (c. 365-c. 270) adopted an extreme scepticism, holding that our ...

Diogenes in his storage jar, as depicted on an engraved gem-stone of the Roman age. The story that the Cynic philosopher (414-32 ...

was some measure of agreement among the schools at the most general level. According to Epicurus, we should 'refer all choice an ...

women, nor by fish and the other items on an expensive menu, but by sober reasoning'. Secondly, Epicurus has an idiosyncratic ac ...

that a Stoic will like horses and hunting, that he will go to parties, that he will fall in love with beautiful young men; and ' ...

to Epicurus, 'since they are aggregates of fire, we should not suppose them to possess happiness and pursue their courses volunt ...

happening and more than one account of their nature which harmonizes with perception'. Epicurus' scepticism is amateur, and the ...