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Epigraphy, Greek
Sara Saba, Gil H. Renberg
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Greek Epigraphy Introduction Epigraphy is the discipline devoted to the study of documents engraved, painted, or written on any material surviv...
Epigraphy, Latin
Gil H. Renberg, Sara Saba
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Latin Epigraphy Introduction Epigraphy is the discipline devoted to the study of texts engraved, painted, or written on any material surviving...
Etruscans
David Ridgway
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Etruscans Introduction For most of the nine centuries prior to the Augustan settlement of Italy in 27 bce, the Etruscans were the most sign...
Euripides
Sophie Mills
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Euripides Introduction Euripides is one of the great Athenian tragedians whose dramatic output has survived, if only partially, into the moder...
Gardens, Greek and Roman
Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Greek and Roman Gardens Introduction Gardens were a fundamental feature of the classical world. In ancient Greece, while gardens were not incl...
Greek Originals and Roman Copies
Anna Anguissola
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Greek Originals and Roman Copies Introduction The label “Roman copy after a Greek original” can be found in museums throughout the world on mo...
Herculaneum (Modern Ercolano)
Carol C. Mattusch
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Herculaneum (Modern Ercolano) Introduction Herculaneum, named after the mythical hero Hercules, was a town of perhaps five thousand inhabitants...
Heritage Management
Ricardo Elia, Marta E. Ostovich
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-09-30
Heritage Management Introduction Heritage management is a growing field that is concerned with the identification, protection, and stewardship ...
Herodas
Graham Zanker
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Herodas Introduction Herodas, a poet of the early 3rd century bce whose name also appears in ancient sources as Herondas and Herodes, is the in...
Herodotus
Emily Baragwanath, Mathieu de Bakker
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Herodotus Introduction Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c. 485—c. 425 bce) is the author of the Histories, the oldest surviving historiographica...
Hesiod
Ruth Scodel
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Hesiod Introduction Until relatively recently, most scholars agreed that an individual named Hesiod (Greek, Hesiodos; Latin, Hesiodus), who...
Historia Augusta
François Paschoud
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Historia Augusta Introduction The Historia Augusta (HA) is a collection of thirty biographies of Roman emperors, co-emperors, and usurpers in ...
History, Greek: Archaic to Classical Age
Jennifer Roberts
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Greek History: Archaic to Classical Age Introduction The accomplishments of the ancient Greeks were remarkable. Without rich natural resour...
History, Greek: Hellenistic
Angelos Chaniotis
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Greek History: Hellenistic Introduction The Hellenistic period, from the conquests of Alexander the Great (334 bce) to the conquest of the ...
History, Roman: Early to the Republic
Erich S. Gruen
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Roman History: Early to the Republic Introduction The Roman Republic continues to intrigue researchers and students alike. The rise of a sm...
History, Roman: Imperial, 31 BCE—284 CE
David Potter
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Roman History: Imperial, 31 BCE–284 CE Introduction The history of the Roman Empire is the history of one of the largest and most enduring mult...
History, Roman: Late Antiquity
Eric Rebillard
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Roman History: Late Antiquity Introduction Late Antiquity, here defined as the period between the accession of Diocletian in 284 ce an...
Homer
R.B. Rutherford
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Homer Introduction “Homer” is the name given to the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the greatest and probably earliest surviving Greek...
Homeric Hymns
Andrew Faulkner
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Homeric Hymns Introduction The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three hexameter hymns to Greek deities, so named because they were ofte...
Horace
Randall McNeill
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Horace Introduction Horace (Q. Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 bce) was one of the foremost poets of what is traditionally known as the Golden Age o...
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