The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

Phemius is spared, whereas the earlier direct appeal of the priest Leodes to Odysseus goes unheeded and he is cut down with the ...

scenes follow: the ploughing of a field with a drink of mellow wine for the ploughman; the harvest on the king’s estate with a f ...

The Greek love of beauty and Homer’s style For the modern world the Hellenic spirit has come to be particularly associated with ...

When Telemachus arrived, Odysseus and the worthy swineherd were preparing their breakfast in the hut by the light of dawn, after ...

Outgoes the mark, and drowns his father’s name: That at these words his mother may rejoice, And add her suffrage to the public v ...

had stolen fire from heaven and given it to mortals. Pandora opens the jar she carries unleashing all the ills of life onto the ...

2 HISTORY The main historical sources In the modern world, archaeologists have uncovered much of the early history of Greek civi ...

meaning foreign but not necessarily uncivilized). More particularly he aims to show the reason why they came into conflict (I, 1 ...

went to Egypt, to Gaza and Tyre, to Babylon, to Scythia and throughout the northern Aegean. In his addiction to travel (at a tim ...

believe the Trojan account, and dismissing the implausibility of the Homeric version in which the Trojans refuse to surrender He ...

presumptuous folly of this ‘barbarous’ behaviour, and here for once the word has a special charge (7, 35). There soon follows a ...

In the first place, it has the best of all names to describe it – equality before the law. In the second place, it is entirely f ...

I lived through the whole of it, being of an age to understand what was happening, and I put my mind to the subject so as to get ...

And it may well be that my history will seem less easy to read because of the absence in it of a romantic element [to mythodes: ...

I have found it difficult to remember the precise words used in the speeches which I listened to myself and my various informant ...

the Persian Cyrus the Younger, whose cause they were supporting, at the battle of Cunaxa in 401. His interest in the Persians is ...

not record all their more celebrated achievements or describe any of them exhaustively, but merely summarize for the most part w ...

Alexander may be taken to represent popular tradition: some of these, which are interesting in themselves and may well be true, ...

in Ithaca, is smaller than the developed city-state. Despite the boisterous contri- bution of the common man, Thersites, at the ...

HISTORY 47 It has been resolved by the assembly; since Apollo spontaneously told Battos and the Theraeans to found a colony in C ...