Ancient Greek Civilization

that she has conferred on him and convicting him of ingratitude and violation of his marriage oath. In a speech ...

Twenty years later, in 405 BC, Aristophanes made Euripides a major character in his comedy The Frogs. The p ...

the old man hears the women delivering speeches, much in the manner of the formal debates familiar from the pla ...

Figure 57 Apulian red-figure bell-krater illustrating a scene from Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae; height of v ...

another citizen. In the eyes of Greek men, women pose the danger of a particularly interesting and part ...

Figure 58 Bronze figurine of a Spartan girl; height 11.4 cm, ca. 520–500 BC. London, British Museum, GR 1876.5–1 ...

Telephus, of which only fragments survive – and often the objects of Aristophanes’ humor are not written text ...

“I suppose it must seem odd to you that I go around and give this kind of advice in private and get ...

stood outside houses and in public places. These herms took the form of a pillar surmounted with a head ...

Figure 59 Interior of red-figure cup, attributed to the Triptolemus Painter, showing a man carrying a provoc ...

Athenian popular courts did not operate under the same rules of evidence or proof that we are accustomed t ...

who actually knew Socrates are the works of Plato and Xenophon, who were in their late twenties at ...

Figure 60 Silver decadrachm of Syracuse, signed by Kimon, showing the nymph Arethusa with dolphins and a cha ...

apparently, of 280 to 221. There were no fixed penalties in Attic law for trials of this nature; instead, ...

Stone, I. F. The Trial of Socrates (Boston and Toronto 1988): a lively and provocative book, by a man who was ...

11 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE GREEK WORLD IN THE FOURTH CENTURY Plato’s Bright Ideas Attic Oratory in the Fifth ...

unify the Greek poleis. That alliance was successful in its primary aim of forestalling a possible further ...

Timeline 7 The fourth century BC. Plato’s Bright Ideas As we saw in chapter 10, the problem of reconstructing the ...

someone wiser than himself. So he sought out the experts in various fields, but his relentless interrogations revea ...

Figure 61 Attic red-figure amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter, showing a rhapsode performing; height of ...