Lysias' 21st speech "e;On a charge of taking bribes"e; is an important example of Attic oratory that sheds significant light on Classical history and society.
Die Monographie arbeitet erstmals an den Formen, Bildern und Inschriften der attischen Grabmäler die Athener Haltung dem Tod gegenüber, ihren Wandel in der geometrischen, archaischen und klassischen Zeit (1000–300 v.
Bei einer Zwischenlandung der griechischen Troiakämpfer auf der Insel Chryse wurde Philoktet, der den Bogen des Herakles besitzt, von einer Schlange am Bein gebissen.
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.
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.
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.
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean.
