Ancient Greece Archive
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Foreign Policy of Agesilaus
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe policy he favoured in Greece was an aggressive expansion of Spartan domination through disciplining the member states of the Peloponnesian League, such as Mantinea and Phlius, and a constant pursuit of an anti-Theban policy. -
Ritual Dining, Drinking, and Dedication at Stymphalos: A Case Study in the Influence of “Popular” Culture on Religion
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe excavated site of Stymphalos is located in a valley just south of Mount Kyllene in Arcadia on the modern shores of lake Stymphalos. Corinth lies approximately 35 kilometers to the northeast of Stymphalos and Sikyon is positioned about 20 kilometers to the north. -
The discovery of the body: human dissection and its cultural contexts in ancient Greece
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis paper explores, first, the cultural factors - including traditional Greek attitudes to the corpse and to the skin, also as manifested in Greek sacred laws - that may have prevented systematic human dissection during almost all of Greek antiquity -
Hoplite Revolution or Evolution?
Posted on May 15, 2012 | No CommentsThe study of Homeric and Archaic Age warfare has undergone significant change in modern scholarship that make these styles of battle appear very different than the traditional representations. -
Rome Becoming Athens, Athens Becoming Rome: Building Cultural Reciprocity in the Augustan Period
Posted on May 14, 2012 | No CommentsThrough an examination of new buildings and reconstructions in Athens during the Augustan period (31 BC – AD 14) I will demonstrate the influence of Rome on the provincial urban landscape. -
A Gleaming Ray: Blessed Afterlife in the Mysteries
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsBut were the mysteries largely concerned with the mundane cares of this life rather than the more horrendous possibilities of the next? -
The provisioning of the Ten Thousand
Posted on April 26, 2012 | No CommentsImagine finding yourself and a group of thousands of fellow citizens stranded in the middle of a strange country, thousands of kilometres away from home. -
Artemis in Attica
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsAncient writers tell us about the basis of the Western-European culture, but that is not enough to know for sure what it was like. By studying the ancient goddess Artemis and her cults, and the architecture and art that belongs to these cults it is possible to take a closer look at the ancient history. -
Early hellenistic Sparta: changing modes of interaction with the wider world?
Posted on April 22, 2012 | No CommentsHow absolute was Sparta's loss of hegemonic power in the mid-fourth century? How weak was Sparta as a military force at the end of the Classical period and in early Hellenistic times? -
Warning signs from ancient Greek tsunami
Posted on April 20, 2012 | No CommentsIn the winter of 479 B.C., a tsunami was the savior of Potidaea, drowning hundreds of Persian invaders as they lay siege to the ancient Greek village.