The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Fragment Of The Tribute List For The Year 440-39 B.C., recording 1/60 of the sums paid to Athens by contributing states of the A ...

300, Athenians still identified themselves by the old double system of father's name and deme. The second limit on the ekklesia ...

The Furniture Of Democracy, fifth to fourth century B.C. The bronze wheels are public ballots: Aristotle tells us that those wit ...

Ostraca Found In The Athenian Agora. These are votes cast to choose a victim for ostracism - banishment from Athens for ten year ...

governors), and even the Athenians themselves, had been using mercenaries for two or three decades before 400. The Peloponnesian ...

of troops on the Theban side: these extra troops are a kind of tactical reserve, of a kind later perfected by the Theban Epamino ...

time (400-390) Sparta was fighting in Asia against Persia. Alcibiades had been right: liberation of mainland Greece by Sparta di ...

'Greco-Persian', current in the southern states of Asia Minor in the later fifth and fourth centuries B.C., and serving Persian ...

Not only did Athens begin thus early to break her negative pledges; more important, the ideological justification of the new lea ...

The Mausoleum At Halicarnassus. Reconstruction by Peter Jackson. One of the Seven Wonders of the World, it was built in the mid ...

Relief Slab From The Tomb Of Mausolus At Halicarnassus (see last illustration). It shows Greeks fighting Amazons, who were skilf ...

mainland; and that mid-fourth-century Sicily, anarchic and economically battered, was in no position to intervene against the ne ...

They were never, either under Macedon or Rome, to lose that position of power; the classical class struggle had been decided: de ...

Greek Drama (By Peter Levi) Introduction There is plenty of drama in everyday life, and the experience of life is the source o ...

the same, the English miracle plays, mystery plays, and mummers' plays, the goat dancers of Scyros, and the commedia dell'arte d ...

Figure Of An Actor on a fragment of a vase from Tarentum, painted about 340 BC. He is shown holding a mask, as for a king, carri ...

perform, though there is no doubt that both the tragedies and the comedies were great state occasions and popular national event ...

then I weep for the miseries of this house that lacks the good management of the past. O for lucky relief of these labours and t ...

What Aeschylus has done is to present a squalid and bloody killing, quite unacceptable in principle to Greek feelings about wome ...

The Eumenides By Aeschylus. Scene on a vase made in Paestum by the artist Python, about 350-340B.C. The fourth-century Greek vas ...