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Pompeii
Christopher A. Gregg
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Pompeii Introduction Founded around the 6th century bce, perhaps by the Italic Ausonian tribe, Pompeii rests on a plateau overlooking both the ...
Posidippus of Pella
Enrico Magnelli
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Posidippus of Pella Introduction Though the Greek Anthology has preserved fewer than thirty epigrams ascribed to him, Posidippus of Pella w...
Propertius
Hans-Christian Günther
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Propertius Introduction The scarce information we possess of Propertius’s life must be deduced almost completely from what the poet himself tel...
Prosopography
Matthäus Heil
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-09-30
Prosopography Introduction The tongue twister “prosopography” literally means “descriptions of persons”; it is a learned neologism derived from...
Pyrrho of Elis
Dee Clayman
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Pyrrho of Elis Introduction Pyrrho of Elis (c. 365–c. 275 bce) stood at the head of the skeptical movement in Greek philosophy, or so it seem...
Quintilian
Elaine Fantham, Emily Fairey
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Quintilian Introduction Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was born c. 35 ce in Calagurris in Hispania (modern Calahorra in La Rioja, Spain). His f...
Religion, Greek
Angelos Chaniotis
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Greek Religion Introduction Because of the importance of Greek religion and mythology for the study of literature and philosophy, but also fo...
Religion, Roman
Elaine Fantham, Emily Fairey
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Roman Religion Introduction Roman religion encompasses a wide variety of cult practices and beliefs, from the Early Republic to the Imperial ...
Rhetoric, Greek
Michael Gagarin
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2010-02-15
Greek Rhetoric Introduction Rhetoric was recognized as a discipline for the first time in Ancient Greece, probably by Plato, who was generall...
Sallust
Abram Ring
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Sallust Introduction Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86–35? bce) was born at Amiternum, about 93 kilometers northeast of Rome. He may have been the fi...
Sappho
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Sappho Introduction The bibliography on Sappho is truly enormous and labyrinthine. She is the only ancient woman poet whose work and polyvalen...
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...
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