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Fabius Pictor
Tim Cornell
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Fabius PictorIntroductionQuintus Fabius Pictor was the first Roman to write a history of his city in prose. A member of the great patrician family of ...
Family, Roman
Mary Harlow
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Roman FamilyIntroductionThe history of the Roman family was “reinvented” in the last half of the 20th century by Beryl Rawson, followed closely by sch...
Federal States, Greek
Hans Beck
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Greek Federal States Introduction Ancient Greece witnessed some of the most elaborate experiments with federalism in the pre-modern era. From ...
Festus
Fay Glinister
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
FestusIntroductionSextus Pompeius Festus was the author of a Latin lexical work of the mid-imperial period, generally known as the De Verborum Signifi...
Fragments, Greek Old Comic
Ian C. Storey
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Greek Old Comic Fragments Introduction Although there must have been various sorts of humorous entertainment at Athens in the 6th century bce,...
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Richard Hingley
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
Frontiers of the Roman EmpireIntroductionTo simplify the list of sources, all accounts postdate 1985, apart from a few key earlier works. The Roman fr...
Galen
Véronique Boudon-Millot
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-05-24
GalenIntroductionAfter remaining for a long time in Hippocrates’ shadow, the Galenic corpus has attracted considerable scholarly attention since the 1...
Gardens, Greek and Roman
Elizabeth R. Macaulay
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Greek and Roman GardensIntroductionGardens were a fundamental feature of the classical world. In ancient Greece, while gardens were not included withi...
Gracchi Brothers, The
Saskia T. Roselaar
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
The Gracchi Brothers Introduction The brothers Tiberius (163–133 bce) and Gaius (153–121 bce) Sempronius Gracchus left a great mark on the his...
Greek and Roman Logic
Robby Finley, Justin Vlasits, Katja Maria Vogt
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Greek and Roman LogicIntroductionIn ancient philosophy, there is no discipline called “logic” in the contemporary sense of “the study of formally vali...
Greek Colonization
Jeremy McInerney
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Greek ColonizationIntroductionFor much of the 20th century, the topic of colonization reflected—sometimes unwittingly, but sometimes explicitly—the pr...
Greek Domestic Architecture c. 800 bce to c. 100 bce
Lisa Nevett
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Greek Domestic Architecture c. 800 bce to c. 100 bceIntroductionThis article discusses research on the housing of culturally-Greek settlements dating ...
Greek Inscribed Epigram
Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Greek Inscribed EpigramIntroduction“Epigram,” (Gr. epigramma) is one of the terms that the Greeks employed, from Herodotus onward, for short verse-ins...
Greek New Comic Fragments
Sebastiana Nervegna
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2020-09-24
Greek New Comic FragmentsIntroductionThe expression “Greek New Comedy” traditionally indicates a specific phase of Attic Comedy dated to the late 4th ...
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...
Greek Prehistory Through the Bronze Age
Brendan Burke
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-07-31
Greek Prehistory Through the Bronze AgeIntroductionThe history of archaeology of Greece as we know it today begins with prehistoric investigations tha...
Greek Vase Painting
Tyler Jo Smith
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Greek Vase PaintingIntroductionGreek vase-painting is one of the best studied areas of classical antiquity. Figure decorated pottery, often called “va...
Hellenistic Tragedy
Agnieszka Kotlinska-Toma
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Hellenistic TragedyIntroductionAlready by the mid-18th century J. J. Winckelmann was of the opinion that the Hellenistic period was a decadent era of ...
Heracles
Katherine Lu Hsu
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-07-28
Heracles Introduction Heracles (also spelled Herakles, or Hercules in the Roman tradition) was Greece’s most popular mythological hero. Unlike...
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