Ancient Greek Civilization

mind because their memory was developed by frequent exposure to oral performance. It was necessary for the ...

Figure 44 Attic red-figure hydria (water pitcher), by a painter of the Group of Polygnotus, showing the poet ...

seven by Sophocles that have survived, and we refer to them, as they were referred to already in ...

“The other spirits of the dead and departed stood there sorrowfully, each one of them asking about fr ...

Figure 45 Attic black-figure amphora by Exekias, showing Ajax preparing to commit suicide; height of vase ...

contrast between the powerful, unyielding hero, whose on-stage body is the focus of the dramatic action, ...

Because she is a woman, Electra cannot act alone. Her mother and her mother’s lover have refused to allow Elect ...

Sophocles’ subtle use of prayers offered by the characters. Just before Orestes’ servant enters the scene to repor ...

possible, then, the husband would try to make sure that his bride was well supervised while he was away ...

“household management” is oikonomia, the word from which English “economy” is derived, so that the role ...

taming. Zetemata: Questions for Discussion Why is it that a mere recounting of events, no matter how accurate ...

World According to Herodotus (myoldmaps.com/maps-from-antiquity-6200-bc/109-herodotus, accessed March 29, 2016) is ...

9 THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: A TALE OF THUCYDIDES Thucydides and the Writing of the Peloponnesian War Diagnosis a ...

two coalitions of Greek poleis: Sparta and its allies, mostly located in the Peloponnese, and Athens and its allies, ...

Thucydides and the Writing of the Peloponnesian War Just as the first two words of Herodotus’ work were “H ...

Timeline 6 The late fifth century BC. Why has Thucydides begun his history with a prediction about the futu ...

generally providing reasons why he – all the speeches in Thucydides are delivered by men – is confident that ...

“Nevertheless you must know, that of necessity war there will be; and the more willingly we embrace it, t ...

part more interested in securing their own personal advancement, and so they threw their support behi ...

others of the accuracy of their predictions. Pericles, for example, knew that it would be disastrous ...