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Death
Paul Chrystal
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2020-10-28
DeathIntroductionLife and death is a vast subject, potentially taking in a massive chunk of the published output of Greco-Roman scholarship since the ...
Death and Burial in the Roman Age
John Pearce
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
Death and Burial in the Roman AgeIntroductionEvidence for death and burial in the Roman age extends across all materials surviving from Antiquity, lit...
Declamation
Neil W. Bernstein
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
DeclamationIntroductionA declamation in the ancient Greco-Roman context refers to a speech in the character of a speaker before an imaginary law court...
Democritus
John Palmer
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Democritus Introduction Democritus of Abdera (c. 460–c. 360 bc) developed the atomist physical theory of Leucippus into a comprehensive philos...
Demography, Ancient
Saskia Hin
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Ancient DemographyIntroductionDemography, or population studies, tackles questions surrounding the structure and dynamics of populations. It is concer...
Demosthenes
Michael Gagarin
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
DemosthenesIntroductionDemosthenes (b. 384–d. 322 bce) was one of the leading public figures in Athens in the third quarter of the 4th century—a state...
Dio, Cassius
David Wardle
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Cassius Dio Introduction The surviving books of Cassius Dio’s Roman history (those that have survived intact and those preserved by Byzantine ...
Diodorus Siculus
Franca Landucci
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Diodorus SiculusIntroductionDiodorus is known as the author of the Library of History, a universal, or world, history in forty books from the age of t...
Diogenes Laertius
Tiziano Dorandi
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-09-29
Diogenes LaertiusIntroductionDiogenes Laertius (3rd century ce) is the author of a collection of poems entitled Pammetros and of a work in ten books k...
Dionysus
Fiachra Mac Góráin
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
DionysusIntroductionDionysus/Bacchus is the most widely-studied of the Greco-Roman divinities. For long it was believed that he was a late addition to...
Donatus
Rainer Jakobi
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
DonatusIntroductionAelius Donatus was a mid-4th century ad Latin grammarian and professor in Rome. As a teacher in the classroom—one of his prominent ...
Doxography, Ancient
David T. Runia
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Ancient DoxographyIntroductionThe term “doxography” is derived from two Greek words, doxa (tenet, view, opinion) and graphein (to write). Literally, t...
Drama, Latin
Susanna Braund
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Latin Drama Introduction Latin drama comprises several genres, serious and humorous, and extends chronologically from the beginnings of Latin ...
Economy, Roman
Dennis Kehoe
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-10-25
Roman Economy Introduction As in other preindustrial societies, the economy of the Roman Empire was based on agriculture, which employed the v...
Education
Mark Joyal
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
EducationIntroductionGreek and Roman educational practices and theories exercised an unbroken though fluctuating influence on Western culture from the...
Egypt, Hellenistic and Roman
Caitlín E. Barrett
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
Hellenistic and Roman Egypt Introduction Alexander’s conquest of Egypt in 332 bce heralded two lengthy periods of foreign rule over the ancien...
Emotions
Pia Campeggiani, David Konstan
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-01-11
EmotionsIntroductionOnly recently has the history of emotions emerged as a field of investigation, and within that field the study of emotions in clas...
Empedocles
Simon Trépanier
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
EmpedoclesIntroductionEmpedocles of Acragas was a philosopher-poet of the first half of the 5th century bce, one of the major Greek philosophers befor...
Ennius
Sandro La Barbera
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-08-26
EnniusIntroductionQuintus Ennius was an author of Latin poetry and prose who lived and wrote between the second half of the 3rd century and the first ...
Epictetus
John Sellars
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
EpictetusIntroductionThe philosopher Epictetus (b. c. 55–d. c. 135 ce) came originally from Hierapolis in Asia Minor and became a slave in Rome under ...
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