The Oxford History Of The Classical World

of the ancient world. A proper history of Greek history writing must take due notice of what has been lost as well as of what su ...

theme. Herodotus of Halicarnassus in fact deserves his ancient title of 'father of history'. His work is the earliest Greek book ...

historian in his approach to the ideal of total history. Herodotus' openness to other cultures indeed caused him to be called a ...

Sparta he gives an official line, for Athens a version based at least in part on particular aristocratic traditions; the narrati ...

The first of these consisted in a fragmentation of the synoptic view of Herodotus into the systematic exploitation of local trad ...

Thucydides too is a product of the world of the developed city-state, and belongs to roughly the same generation as the first lo ...

impossible to write accurately about the past; his methods and his standards of proof are applicable only to the present. He is ...

The result is, of course, that he has his limitations. The silences of Colonel Thucydides are impenetrable for us; we have no me ...

dead in Book 2 portrays a society without conflict or tension, united in pursuit of an ideal, in contrast to the pathological st ...

The Oxyrhynchus historian achieves this, Xenophon almost does in the first two books of his Hellenica or Greek History, which ca ...

where necessary inventing circumstantial detail. His style and completeness unfortunately made him rather popular, but at least ...

another was the lack of a real biographical tradition in Greece. For such reasons it was left to the Romans to discover the fasc ...

geographers like Eratosthenes and Strabo (whose work survives), and from time to time a figure of interest emerged to unite the ...

Life And Society In Classical Greece (By Oswyn Murray) Society By the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. ...

Plan Of The Agora (Market- Place) In Athens In The Hellenistic Period. The Square had been cleared early in the sixth century, t ...

than a form of ritual release reserved for the theatre: how regular was father-bashing or female drunkenness off the stage? Did ...

of the important linguistic root common to most Indo-European languages, found for instance in the Celtic brathir, German Bruder ...

school with you and fought in the army with you, braving together with you the dangers of land and sea in defence of our common ...

Wedding Procession on an Athenian vase by the Amasis Painter, about 540 B.C. Bride and groom sit in a mule cart, accompanied by ...

concerns the dowry: it was the duty of a kyrios to provide a dowry for all women in his family: the lack of a dowry demonstrated ...