Hellenic Archive
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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 -
Between Macedonia and Rome: Political Landscapes and Social Change in Hellenistic Greece
Posted on January 26, 2013 | No CommentsA fresh look at the Peloponnese in the early hellenistic period is particularly worthwhile. Though it was now only a small corner of a Greek world that stretched as far as the Punjab, many of its cities enjoyed international prestige because of their distinguished past. -
The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon
Posted on December 11, 2012 | No CommentsSparta, the mythological birthplace and home of the Homeric heroine, was alleged to have worshiped her at two sites, at a shrine within the polis and at a shrine several kilometers outside the polis.8 We know very little about the former shrine, but the latter has been archaeologically attested; the partial walls and foundations of a fifth-century BCE monument to Helen of Sparta and her husband Menelaos, known as the Menelaion, have been recovered on a ridge near the west bank of the Eurotas. -
The Evolution of the Study of the Hellenistic Period
Posted on December 5, 2012 | No CommentsTo this day, the texts of ancient historians such as Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the historical phenomenon of the rise of Rome 'from village to Empire,' are considered fundamental cultural monuments of European civilization -
History and Importance of Bath in Ancient Times
Posted on September 28, 2012 | No CommentsIn Ancient Greece, swimming was never considered as one of the traditional games (although, it is possible that the Isthmian Games were swimming competi- tions in the Sea of Corinth, in the true competitive Greek spirit). Among the Greeks, the Athenians and, above all, the Delians from Delos were the best swim- mers. Their ability is well-known. -
Women in Egypt – how the status of women in Egypt changed during the Ptolemaic Period
Posted on September 12, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation will thus attempt to shed light on the question of how and if the status of women changed in Ptolemaic Egypt during the Hellenistic period. The women in question will be both of the native Egyptian population and of the Graeco-Macedonian upper class who migrated toEgypt along with the early Ptolemaic dynasty (and who continued tomigrate to Egypt throughout the Hellenistic period). -
Tyrants and Tyranny in the Late Roman Republic
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsDuring Cicero -
A Sacred People: Roman Identity in the Age of Augustus
Posted on August 30, 2012 | No CommentsStudies of collective identity have grown rapidly among ancient historians in recent decades, particularly among scholars of the Greek world. Scholars have been fascinated by the development of Greek identity, from the dark ages of Greece through the classical period, from the Hellenistic Age through to its period of political dormancy under Roman rule. Despite this plethora of work being done on Greek identity, there is not a comparable genre of works on Roman identity. -
Studies in the Representation of Dwarfs in Hellenistic and Roman Art
Posted on August 27, 2012 | No CommentsAs individuals who fell outside the prevailing norms of society, dwarfs were often regarded as prodigies in antiquity: living amulets as well as instruments of private and public entertainment. -
Hellenism and the Shaping of the Byzantine Empire
Posted on August 27, 2012 | No CommentsWhile the role of Byzantine Hellenism on the art, literature, and society of the Empire has been the subject of tremendous study, the question of its origins has, nonetheless, rarely been raised, and the strongly Hellenic Byzantine identity seems, to a large extent, to have been taken for granted historiographically.
