The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

You must be some wretched outcast then and no Athenian at all, a man without family gods and sacrifices or anything else good an ...

RELIGION AND SOCIAL LIFE 109 god of medicine) (Phaedo, 118a) perhaps in recognition of his comparatively painless death. Whether ...

Fragments of such herms have been identified in the excavations of the Athenian agora. Alcibiades, then a general and politician ...

RELIGION AND SOCIAL LIFE 111 anthropomorphic form (the Greeks rejected the animal-headed figures of Egyptian detities) but weari ...

112 THE GREEKS FIGURE 29 Serapis: a Grecian head with an Egyptian headdress. Alexandria, Egypt, Graeco-Roman Museum Source:©2014 ...

in honour of Poseidon. These four, held at different times, constituted the Periodos or Circuit and were open to all Greeks. Acc ...

A notable late addition to the buildings at Olympia was the Philippeion, a tholos similar to the Athenian rotunda at Delphi (fig ...

There was a time when the Hellenes imagined that our city had been ruined by the war, but they came to consider it even greater ...

Over and above this, they are sent to a trainer, so that a good mind may have a good body to serve it, and no one be forced by p ...

singularly fond of listening. And moreover, as they are keeping the Hermaea, boys and men are all mixed up together today. ... o ...

was an all male affair (except in the event of any invited entertainment), like the institution of the gymnasium, it had the ind ...

RELIGION AND SOCIAL LIFE 119 FIGURE 30 Athletes with javelin and discus in the palaestra, Attic red-figure amphora, Munich Sourc ...

120 THE GREEKS An observer of the scene would at once have reflected that beauty has something naturally regal about it, especia ...

Plato: ‘A Syracusan came in to provide entertainment. He had with him a girl who was an expert flautist, another who was an acro ...

identity, are not really easily transferable. The pattern is subject to particular variation in the customs and legal frameworks ...

public performance in the modern world before the second half of the twentieth century. This comic reversal suggests that the so ...

124 THE GREEKS frieze, or on the inside of the base, the tondo. Potters and painters were not simply indulging their own fancy b ...

In Plato’s Symposium Pausanias makes distinctions between Athenian practice and that of other states, finding that Athens repres ...

126 THE GREEKS FIGURE 34 Statue group of the tyrant-slayers, Aristogeiton (left) and Harmodius (right), Roman marble copy of the ...

ashamed to be base in the sight of their lovers, and the beloved before their lovers, willingly rush into danger for the relief ...