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Sculpture, Etruscan
P. Gregory Warden
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Etruscan Sculpture Introduction The primary focus of Etruscan sculpture was the human body. In this sense, the main interest of Etruscan sculpt...
Sculpture, Greek
Carol C. Mattusch
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Greek Sculpture Introduction In his History of the Art of Antiquity (1764; Winckelmann 2006 in General Overviews), J. J. Winckelmann proposed a...
Seneca's Tragedies
Susanna Braund
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Seneca’s Tragedies Introduction Lucius Annaeus Seneca (b. c. 4 bce–d. 65 ce), also known as Seneca the Younger to distinguish him from his fath...
Slavery, Greek
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Greek Slavery Introduction The earliest Greek texts known to us already attest to the existence of unfree labor. Despite being widespread and ...
Slavery, Roman
Theresa Urbainczyk
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Roman Slavery Introduction Romans could never escape their slaves. Slaves were always a physical presence: in the city, in the country, in the fo...
Sophocles
Ruth Scodel
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Sophocles Introduction Sophocles won his first victory as a tragedian in 468 bce (according to the ancient tradition, with his first production...
Sparta
Lukas Thommen
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Sparta Introduction Alongside Athens, Sparta is considered as the second mighty polis in the Greek world and has always attracted admiration as...
Sport
Zinon Papakonstantinou
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Sport Introduction Sport was practiced in ancient Greece since at least the Bronze Age; however, athletic activities are not extensively docume...
Statius
Elaine Fantham, Emily Fairey
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Statius Introduction Publius Papinius Statius was born in Naples around 45 ce. Very little is recorded about his life; most of what is know...
Suetonius
David Wardle
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Suetonius Introduction Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (born c. 69 ce) was prominent as a senior figure in the imperial administration of the early...
Tacitus
Dylan Sailor
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Tacitus Introduction Publius Cornelius Tacitus (the name Publius is likely, but not certain) was born around 56 ce, probably in Narbonese o...
Terence
Susanna Braund
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Terence Introduction Publius Terentius Afer was born at Carthage (the last part of his name means “the African”) but was brought to Rome as a s...
Theocritus of Syracuse
J. Andrew Foster
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Theocritus of Syracuse Introduction Theocritus, the imagined father of Western pastoral poetry, flourished in the first half of the 3rd cen...
Thucydides
Jeffrey S. Rusten
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Thucydides Introduction Thucydides is known as the historian of the “Peloponnesian” war (431–404 bce, between Athens with its subject citie...
Topography of Athens
Jeffrey M. Hurwit
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Topography of Athens Introduction The ancient city-state (or polis) of Athens was contiguous with the region known as Attica, a large, triangul...
Topography of Rome
Eve D'Ambra
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Topography of Rome Introduction Roman topography is the study of the city of Rome, its monuments, buildings, and open spaces in their physic...
Valerius Flaccus
Tim Stover
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Valerius Flaccus Introduction Gaius Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus, usually known simply as Valerius Flaccus, is the author of the Argonautic...
Veii
Helen Nagy
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Veii Introduction The ancient city of Veii (in Italian, Veio) lies seventeen kilometers northwest of Rome and occupies a plateau of approximat...
Virgil
Elaine Fantham, Emily Fairey
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Virgil Introduction Many regard Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, 70–19 bce; also spelled Vergil in English) as the greatest of the Roman poe...
Xenophon
Vivienne Gray
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Xenophon Introduction Xenophon (c. 430 to post-355 bce) wrote fourteen works of varied content and style. His interest in leadership gives them...
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