The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Here famed Megistias is laid, whom once the Mede slew at the crossing of Spercheius' flood: this prophet clearly saw the Fates' ...

Early Greek Philosophy (By Martin West) In the eighth and seventh centuries B.C. the Greeks appear as a lively and talented pe ...

works written in Greek prose, were the record of their discourses. This Milesian phenomenon of the philosopher who discoursed be ...

Anaximander taught that the world, and countless other worlds beyond our ken, came into being out of the Boundless and will even ...

transformations. It is in a sense a materialistic cosmology. But Anaximenes does not conceive of his air as an inert substance w ...

else by the power of his thought. Heraclitus, who wrote in a particularly haughty and oracular manner, and was unusual among the ...

Empedocles, who denounced the killing and eating of animals as murder and cannibalism, and implored men to abandon it. An Oil Va ...

Statue Of A Girl (kore) dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis about 520-510 B.C. Probably Ionian (Chian) work. Like Heraclitus, Em ...

a line of defence that was to remain popular into the Middle Ages, interpreting the Homeric deities as allegories of the physica ...

according to which numbers are generated from an initial One as it 'breathes in' a portion of the adjacent infinity; this portio ...

the Ionian tradition for the general shape of his cosmos, and contradicts the central axiom of the Eleatics by asserting that No ...

understand it is a Greek creation. TOC ...

Greece: The History Of The Classical Period (By Simon Hornblower) Outline of Events The Athenians founded a naval empire in 47 ...

the Caryatid porch and the columns of the north porch - were often copied in antiquity and in nineteenth-century Europe. The h ...

The Temple Of Hephaestus In Athens, Seen From The South-West. This IS the best preserved of all Doric temples of mainland Greece ...

through our period; and it is worth noticing here what Thessaly had to offer. Thessaly was agriculturally rich and thus able to ...

discontented Arcadians to stab her in the back. She had (unlike Corinth) positive incentives to offer, in her democracy and her ...

Silver Coin (Tetradrachm) Of Athens, 440-430 B.C. The types for Athenian coins, with Athena's head and the owl with olive twig, ...

Map 3. The Athenian Empire. The shaded area on the map shows the maximum extent of the Athenian Empire: 'the cities which the At ...

allies. A more concrete abuse of religion was the territorial encroachment on allied territory by the 'goddess Athena' herself, ...