Ancient Greek Civilization

the altar and the frieze. For one thing, the frieze is much more conspicuous and more readily visible than, say, ...

Figure 77 Part of the west frieze of the Great Altar of Zeus, showing the gods of the sea battling unident ...

Figure 78 The Apoxyomenos by Lysippus: Roman copy in marble of bronze original (which needed no struts or b ...

Figure 79 Marble copy of an original statue, attributed to Doidalsas, depicting Aphrodite at her bath; height ...

Figure 80 Hollow-cast original bronze statue from the Classical Period, recovered in the 1920s from an ancie ...

of Pergamum would come to an end, its territory and wealth falling under the control of a much better o ...

Apollonius’ dependence on Homer? What differences are there between the way in which writers and artists today suppo ...

images. Return to Antikythera (antikythera.whoi.edu, accessed March 29, 2016) is a valuable web-site created ...

AFTERWORD LOOKING FORWARD The conventional date for the end of the Hellenistic Period is 30 BC, the year in which ...

“Last of all he saw the souls who were returning to birth, being forcibly turned into all sorts of beast ...

teach those subjects in Rome. It was, thus, necessary for the Romans to come to terms with Greek ...

Later Greek Literature: Poetry Greek literature during the period of the Roman Empire thus displayed a remarka ...

My name — my country — what are they to thee? What, whether base or proud my pedigree? ...

At threescore winters' end I died A cheerless being, sole and sad; The nuptial knot I never ...

Figure 83 Life-size bronze head, perhaps of a philosopher, recovered in 1900 from the Antikythera shipwrec ...

We find the practitioners of the Second Sophistic and their successors producing the same kinds of rhetorica ...

heritage of the Greek past. Although there survive today nearly a hundred works by Plutarch, mostly essays ...

Figure 84 View of interior of the Stoa of Attalus II, in the agora of Athens, built ca. 150 BC and reconstr ...

Roman emperor are the authors of the two most substantial surviving works of Stoic philosophy. Epictetus, a cont ...

Figure 85 Marble statue of Marcus Aurelius from Alexandria in Egypt; height 1.84 m, ca. AD 176–180. London, ...