The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer's Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the 4th century BC.
Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity, offering opportunities for sociability, cultic activities, mutual support and a context in which to display and recognize virtuous achievement.
Beinahe zeitgleich mit der im November 1913 eröffneten Ausstellung der Funde von Tell el-Amarna im Berliner Ägyptischen Museum erschien Die Plastik der Aegypter von Hedwig Fechheimer (1871-1942).
Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry.
This third volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae includes inscriptions from the South Coast from the time of Alexander through the end of Byzantine rule in the 7th century.
This book provides an interpretation of Plato’s Euthydemus as a unified piece of literature, taking into account both its dramatic and its philosophical aspects.
Historically speaking, the majority of efforts in the study of ancient Greek physics have traditionally been devoted either to the analysis of the surviving evidence concerning Presocratic philosophers or to the systematic examination of the Platonic and the Aristotelian oeuvre.
