The Oxford History Of The Classical World

can be translated into action; in the same way a puff of breath can scatter a heap of poppy seeds, while corn-ears are too big a ...

(931 ff): Away with your tears, you rascal, and muzzle your moans ... Because you always long for what you don't have and disreg ...

This leads to a satirical account of lovers' euphemistic endearments, which are expressed in the affected Greek of the girls con ...

human race would not have been preserved (a sometimes forgotten aspect of the 'survival of the fittest'). Language was not arbit ...

Catullus There is much about humanity in Lucretius, but no people. The balance is redressed by his young contemporary Catullus, ...

metre, now in another, tit for tat amid laughing and drinking'); the very fact that he explains the details shows that he is bui ...

Love-poetry of this sort has no precedent in Greek literature, and was conditioned by a novel combination of social circumstance ...

war about 65 B.C.; his captor Cinna has been identified with the Cisalpine poet of that name, who will be familiar to readers of ...

poem's languorous beauty. 'As soon as the ship ploughed the windy plain with her beak and churned by the oars the wave whitened ...

post uento crescente magis magis increbescunt, purpureaque procul nantes ab luce refulgent. (269-75) Then just as the West Wind ...

Hellenistic And Graeco-Roman Art (By Roger Ling) Introduction Hellenistic art is an unfashionable field. To the aficionados of ...

rules of each order relaxed, but we find the two orders more freely combined "within one building, for example in the superimpos ...

Columns Of The Olympieum In Athens. Begun by Pisistratus in the sixth century B.C. probably as an Ionic temple, this most ambiti ...

the spring of the vault there are no internal caesuras to justify the external show. Such display architecture is epitomized by ...

Crypt Of The So-Called Oracle Of The Dead At Ephyra, in western Greece (third century B.C.). It is typical of Greek architecture ...

architectural composition of the age dispensed altogether with orthogonal patterns. The upper city of Pergamum (first half of th ...

winter; its interior surfaces were protected and enhanced by mosaic pavements and painted stucco wall-decorations; and quite oft ...

leads the eye into an inner focus (C.300-C.240 B.C.); the High Hellenistic phase, characterized by grandeur and pathos (C.240-C. ...

Terracotta Figurine Of Lady With Dove from Tanagra (late fourth or third century B.C.). Wrapped in a voluminous cloak (himation) ...

Aphrodite From Melos (Venus De Milo), the finest of all surviving nude female statues (late second century B.C.). It is normally ...