The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

representation of the human form at the moment of death there is dignity as well as pathos. Parallel to the sculptures of the Pe ...

ART 269 FIGURE 72 Laocoon Source:Vatican, Rome ...

of the Classical era as models. The Aphrodite from Melos (the Venus de Milo) (fig. 73), named after the island where it was disc ...

ART 271 FIGURE 73 Aphrodite from Melos Source:Louvre, Paris ...

272 THE GREEKS FIGURE 74 Mosaic of a stag hunt, ‘The Deer Hunt’ Source:©Photo Ann Ronan/HIP/Scala, Florence http://www.ebook3000 ...

ART 273 FIGURE 75 Drunken old woman Source:Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich, with permission ...

Further reading Boardman, John, Greek Art, fourth edition, Thames and Hudson, 1996. Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Gre ...

Appendix 1 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE This is confined for the most part to events and works given significant mention in this book.Bef ...

594 Archonship of Solon 561 First rule of Peisistratus 546 Persian King Cyrus defeats Croesus of Lydia 545–510 Tyranny of the Pe ...

371 Battle of Leuctra: eclipse of Spartan power; ascendancy of Thebes 359 Accession of Philip II of Macedon (b. c. 383) 357 Phil ...

CULTURAL RECORD BC Iron Age – Dark Age 875–750 Geometric pottery 750 Greek alphabet developed from Phoenician model 750 Homer c. ...

460 Empedocles fl. 458 Aeschylus: Oresteia 456 Death of Aeschylus Completion of the temple of Zeus at Olympia 455 First play by ...

344 Demosthenes: Philippic II 342 Demosthenes: Philippic III, On the Chersonese 338 Death of Isocrates 335 Aristotle founds the ...

Appendix 2 TRANSLATIONS CITED IN THE TEXT Aeschylus, The Persians, inPrometheus Bound and Other Plays, Philip Vellacott, Penguin ...

Epicurus: in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, R.D. Hicks, Loeb, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1925. ...

Theocritus, The Idylls, Robert Wells, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1989. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, Rex Warner, Pe ...

Glossary of terms acropolis literally, the top part of the city agoge state training for young men at Sparta agora a meeting pla ...

ephebe a youth between 18 and 20 who undertook military training epikleros literally, someone who went with the property; an hei ...

krypteia from kryptos, secret; the ‘secret police’ at Sparta kouros a youth, especially used of early statues kylix a drinking c ...

peripeteia ironic reversal, term in dramatic criticism phalanx a line of infantrymen phallus the male organ in Greek; often part ...