Hellenic Archive
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Glass in the Roman Empire: History, Technology, and Typology
Posted on August 24, 2012 | No CommentsThe Hellenistic society seems to have given less emphasis to glass than metal ware and pottery, but it still provided enough support to allow continuation of the trade on a smaller scale. -
The Greek Achievement: The Birth of Classicism
Posted on August 22, 2012 | No CommentsThis article is based on a lecture delivered at the The Greeks Institute, a series of lectures presented to secondary school teachers in the Bridgeport Public Schools during the spring of 1989. Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Humanities Council, Sacred Heart University, and the Bridgeport Public Schools, the purpose of the institute has been to provide teachers with an interdisciplinary exploration of classical Greece for the purposes of professional enrichment and curriculum development. -
The death of Alexander the Great
Posted on July 29, 2012 | No CommentsAlexander, King of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian empire, died in Babylon at sunset on the 10th of June, 323 BC.1 He was not yet 33 years old, had been king for 12 years and 8 months and had shown himself to be fully deserving of the title -
Roman Women and Reproductive Autonomy: An exploration of the intersection between social forces, medical practice, and law from the late Republic to the early Empire
Posted on July 25, 2012 | No CommentsSince Greco-Roman medicine was male focused medicine, as I shall demonstrate, women were only written of when their medical issues were distinctly female. Thus medical writings about women focus on reproduction and reproductive health, and are layered with social prejudices from a strictly male perspective. -
The Transformation of a Goddess: Depictions of Isis throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World
Posted on July 24, 2012 | No CommentsHowever, before the cult of Isis spread to the Roman world, the goddess was first worshiped in Egypt. Although the myth of Isis and Osiris is never completely narrated in any one Egyptian document, many different texts include short extracts from it, so that modern scholars can reconstruct it. -
Rhetoric as Ritual: The Semiotics of the Attic Funeral Oration
Posted on July 13, 2012 | No CommentsIndeed, these speeches formed a truly popular genre. The speakers were selected by the democratic city council, themselves chosen for office by blind lot, and voted upon by the assembly. -
An Archaeological Approach to
Posted on July 8, 2012 | No CommentsUpon his death in 323, Alexander the Great was the supreme ruler of an empire greater than any the world had ever seen. Though his infighting successors quickly broke it apart, the kingdoms they built from the rubble of his conquests would soon match their General -
The Emergence of Ruler Portraiture on Early Hellenistic Coins: The Importance of Being Divine
Posted on June 10, 2012 | No CommentsThe appearance of a ruler's portrait on a Greek coinage was something new and even quite radical in the late fourth and early third centuries. -
The Early Seleucids, their gods and their coins
Posted on June 4, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis explains how the Seleucid kings used the representations of divine and semi- divine beings on their coinage as a tool for creating and legitimising royal authority during the most stable period of their rule (Seleucus I to Antiochus III: 312/1 -
Conversations in History: Arrian and Herodotus, Parmenio and Alexander
Posted on May 25, 2012 | No CommentsArrian's account of Alexander
