Ancient Greek Civilization

Figure 29 Minoan green jasper seal stone from Crete and plaster impression of the same (top), showing two ...

Figure 30 Obverse of silver coin, perhaps from the island of Thera, showing two dolphins swimming; diameter ...

“Let us suppose, hypothetically, that there is in our mind a chunk of wax, and that one person has ...

a substitute for the person, virtually embodying the identity of the seal’s owner. Polycrates sought to avert th ...

Figure 31 Engraved chalcedony scarab, showing a satyr with vessels for wine; length 16 mm, ca. 500 BC. Boston, ...

poleis in the period immediately following the Dark Age was in the hands of a local aristocracy consisting of ...

citizens of the polis (a practice that is annoyingly common among today’s politicians, facilitated by the ...

Trojan War are represented as being bound by personal ties to Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon, who are thems ...

responsible for this reorganization, as the tyrant Cleisthenes of Sicyon seems to have had a hand in the foun ...

Figure 32 Obverse of Panathenaic prize amphora attributed to the Berlin Painter, showing Athena; height 62.4 cm, c ...

Figure 33 Reverse of figure 32, showing a competitor in the four-horse chariot race. Princeton University Art Museu ...

public life of men left them sunburned and dark. The scenes depicted on Athenian black-figure vases in ...

Figure 34 Attic black-figure amphora signed, “Exekias made and painted me,” showing Ajax and Achilles (bot ...

scene, the artist was now painting, rather than incising, those interior details, which could now be produ ...

order to protect their intellectual property? Why is it that Plato (above) uses impressions made by a se ...

Carvers and Collectors: The Lasting Allure of Ancient Gems (getty.edu/art/exhibitions/gems, accessed March 29, 2016) ...

6 THE BIRTH OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE PERSIAN WARS Miletus and the Beginnings of Philosophy The Agora The Ionian Revolt (4 ...

with the non-Greek inhabitants of Asia and North Africa. The Milesians were Ionian Greeks and considered them ...

(presumably that of May 28, 585 BC). If these accounts are accurate, they point to a familiarity on Thal ...

independence from its Lydian and, later, its Persian neighbors. In 546 BC the Lydian Empire of King Croesus cam ...