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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...

Intertextuality in Latin Poetry

Neil Coffee

Subject: Classics »

Date Added: 2013-04-22

Intertextuality in Latin Poetry Introduction The phenomenon of meaningful connections between texts, or “intertextuality,” has been defined an...

Jews and Judaism

Sandra Gambetti

Subject: Classics »

Date Added: 2009-12-14

Jews and Judaism Introduction The Jewish experience in the Greco-Roman period embraces geographically the region of the Mediterranean basin...

Juvenal

Christopher Nappa

Subject: Classics »

Date Added: 2009-12-14

Juvenal Introduction Little is known with certainty about the life of Juvenal, despite the existence of part of an ancient biography. He appear...

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