Ancient Greek Civilization

Map 18 The divided Roman Empire, ca. AD 400. In addition to establishing Constantinople as his capital, Constan ...

“After this he issued in rapid succession a series of universal laws and directives, forbidding sacrifice t ...

Figure 86 A Greek prayer book with its thirteenth-century text written at right angles over the tenth- c ...

of art intended for a specifically Christian context might include representations of Orpheus (Figure 88), who lik ...

Figure 87 Fragmentary marble SARCOPHAGUS, showing Christ (center) transmitting the law to Peter; 0.74 × 2.05 ...

Figure 89 Detail of fresco in the Catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus in Rome, showing the sun god Sol driv ...

conquest of the Byzantine Empire could somehow be envisioned as retribution for the Greeks' sack of Troy two a ...

Archimedes Palimpsest Project and a brilliant historian of cognitive practices who is also a published poet. ...

GLOSSARY acropolis Literally “the highest point of the city,” a rocky eminence sometimes used as the site ...

An adjective or descriptive phrase indicating some quality or attribute which the speaker or writer regards as c ...

oligarchy Literally “rule by the few,” it denotes a type of government that, unlike democracy, excludes th ...

An upright stone slab, often carved in RELIEF and/or painted for use as a grave marker (figure 12). stoa A lo ...

INDEX Academy Achaia province Achilles and Agamemnon and Ajax in Homer acropolis (Athens) architecture Persian occupation Ac ...

Ai Khanoum aition term Ajax Akkadian Empire Al Mina, Syria Alaksandu of Troy Alcaeus Alcibiades Alcman Alexander I ...

Anaximenes andron (gentlemen's quarters) animal sacrifice Antigone Antigonid kingdom Antigonus Antikythera Mechanism Anto ...

Archimedes Archimedes Palimpsest architecture Ares Arethusa Argonautica Argos Aristagoras aristocracy aristoi Aristophanes Acha ...

Athena aegis and Ajax in Ajax Athens beauty contest Dionysus Jason's cloak Linear B tablets Nike and Orestes Athena Nike ...

oratory Peloponnesian War Persian occupation Persian Wars plague epidemic Plataea public offices right of appeal to the ...

barbarians bardic tradition basileus BC (before birth of Christ) beauty bell-krater Berlin Painter Bernini, Gian Lor ...

calendar systems Callimachus Callinus canon caryatids cauldrons cento ceramic ware animal figures archaeological dating Ath ...