Ancient Greece Archive
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“The Past on Display: A Curatorial Perspective”
Posted on February 17, 2013 | No CommentsWhat goes into creating a captivating museum display? How do museums engage their visitors? Dr. Kate Cooper answered these questions in a fascinating talk at the University of Toronto about challenges in museum curation. -
The Social Status of Physicians in Greece and Rome
Posted on February 17, 2013 | No CommentsIn Greece around the 5th century B.C. there was a rise in a new class of healer. These physicians were not priests with divine gifts, but simply craftsmen practicing an art. -
How, Where and with Whom: The Politics of Sex in Ancient Greece
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper, in living up to the promise of that title, discusses the politics of sex through an investigation of the sexual positions and activities of women, men, slaves, foreigners and satyrs (half men, half horse creatures) as depicted on the pots and pans that surrounded the ancient Greeks. -
Hector and Iliad VI
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsHomer?s Iliad is the tale of the ninth year of the Trojan War, narrating events in both the Trojan city and the Achaean camp. The work is grand in its scope and remains character driven; for this reason we still discuss Achilles, Odysseus, Hector, and Paris as if they were real people. -
Why did ancient athletes compete in sports?
Posted on February 13, 2013 | No CommentsStanford scholar Susan Stephens says that modern sports may be misguided in attempting to emulate ancient Greek and Roman athletic ideals. -
Hybrid monsters in the Classical World : the nature and function of hybrid monsters in Greek mythology, literature and art
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsIn the search for satisfying answers to these questions an in-depth review of two examples of human-animal hybrids -
Information-gathering and the strategic use of culture in Herodotus
Posted on February 8, 2013 | No CommentsHerodotus -
Ostracism: selection and de-selection in ancient Greece
Posted on February 5, 2013 | No CommentsThis was mainly because ancient Greek states were face-to-face, direct forms of self-government. They did not recognise and would not have wanted to recognise our indirect, representative mode of democracy, which an ancient Greek democrat would have dismissed as elective oligarchy anyway. -
The Ancient Greek World
Posted on February 1, 2013 | No CommentsIn trying to understand the world, they began a serious study of science, mathematics, astronomy, engineering and philosophy. For these endeavours, ancient Greece came to stand among the great civilizations. -
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius’ Astronomica
Posted on January 31, 2013 | No CommentsThe five-book astrological poem of Manilius, composed during the final years of Augustus
