Ancient Greece Archive
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Was the Peloponnesian War inevitable after 435 BC?
Posted on March 31, 2013 | No CommentsBased heavily on the account of the Greek historian Thucydides, the paper outlines the events leading up to the outbreak of the 2nd Peloponnesian War in 435, and analyzes whether the outbreak of the war was inevitable -
Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Posted on March 17, 2013 | No CommentsThis study looks at ancient Greek and Roman sexual practices from the point of view of their (implied) differences from modern western practices. There are eight major themes: sex and status, the ubiquity of sex, the body, body modification, violence and pain, having sex, viewing sex, and transgressions. -
The Historical Evidence of Greek and Roman Coins
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsIn contrast to works of art and inscriptions, Greek and Roman coins are wholly official in the information which they impart, for the simple reason (not sufficiently often realized) that they were almost always produced under state prerogative. -
The past come into the present – Does the New Acropolis Museum in Athens encompass successfully the archaeological and ancient past?
Posted on March 12, 2013 | No CommentsThe New Acropolis Museum opened to the public on the 21st June, 2009. Nearly four thousand artefacts are exhibited over an area of fourteen thousand square metres. -
Isocrates
Posted on March 9, 2013 | No CommentsThe main sources in Greek literature for the cult of Helen and/or Menelaus at Therapn? are Herodotus (6.61.3), Isocrates 10 (Encomium of Helen), and Pausanias (3.19.9-10). Isocrates is the one who speaks of joint-worship of Helen and Menelaus (10.63). -
Re-Envisioning Classics As a Liberal Art
Posted on March 9, 2013 | No CommentsCollegiate classics, under the sway of too severe a concept of professional philology, has drastically underplayed its educational hand in such a way that it has diminished its vitality, impact, and usefulness; yet this damage can be reversed -
THUCYDIDES CONSTRUCTS HIS SPEAKERS: THE CASE OF DIODOTUS
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsIn a nutshell: there is no way to avoid the conclusion that Thucydides himself is responsible for the most important parts of his speakers' speeches, that is, that for all practical purposes he composed them. -
Drugs and the Delphic Oracle
Posted on March 4, 2013 | No CommentsWere the priestesses of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi were intoxicated on gaseous fumes? -
Women doctors in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire
Posted on March 3, 2013 | No CommentsOur sources for knowledge about women doctors in antiquity are fragmentary: a few passing mentions in classical authors, some scattered references in the medical writers, nearly forty inscriptions. -
Ancient Kithara – Greek musical instrument – recreated by scholars
Posted on March 1, 2013 | No CommentsWhile we know something of the music of ancient people from surviving texts and images that describe and depict it, we know less about what their music and instruments actually sounded like.
