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Macedonia
Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Dimitra Andrianou
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
MacedoniaIntroductionMacedonia is understood as the country that existed as an independent kingdom between c. 700 bce and 168 bce; as a formally indep...
Macrobius
Benjamin Goldlust
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2022-04-25
MacrobiusIntroductionMacrobius Ambrosius Thedosius is a Latin author of provincial origin (possibly from North Africa, but southern Italy and Spain ha...
Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World
Radcliffe Edmonds
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman WorldIntroductionThe study of magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world has blossomed in the decades since the publicati...
Maps
Richard J.A. Talbert
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Maps Introduction Maps and mapmaking may be considered from at least three related perspectives: the nature and purpose of maps produced in cl...
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
Marcel van Ackeren
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Marcus Aurelius’s MeditationsIntroductionMarcus Aurelius (b. 121 ce) was heir to the throne for twenty-three years, beginning in 138 ce, and then Roma...
Marcus Cornelius Fronto
Caillan Davenport
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Marcus Cornelius FrontoIntroductionMarcus Cornelius Fronto was a prominent lawyer and orator of the Antonine age and tutor in Latin rhetoric to the em...
Marcus Manilius
Katharina Volk
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Marcus ManiliusIntroductionMarcus Manilius was a Roman poet who in the second decade of the 1st century ce wrote Astronomica, a hexameter poem in five...
Maritime Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean
Justin Leidwanger, Elizabeth S. Greene
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
Maritime Archaeology of the Ancient MediterraneanIntroductionMaritime archaeology of the classical world explores the traders, travelers, pirates, fis...
Marius and Sulla
Federico Santangelo
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Marius and SullaIntroductionGaius Marius (b. 158/157–d. 86 bce) and Lucius Cornelius Sulla (b. 138–d. 78 bce) were the most prominent, and in several ...
Martial
Patricia A. Johnston
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2013-11-27
Martial Introduction Most of what we know of the origin and early life of Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) has been gleaned from his works:...
Maximianus
Benjamin Goldlust
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2022-04-25
MaximianusIntroductionThe poet commonly known as Maximianus is quite a mystery. While he is most generally dated to the 6th century and considered to ...
Mechanics
Courtney Ann Roby
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Mechanics Introduction Mechanics in antiquity was a complex discipline, including both theoretical and applied components, drawing methodology...
Menander of Athens
David Konstan
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Menander of Athens Introduction Menander, born in 342/1 bce, was an Athenian citizen, the son of Diopeithes and Hegestrate (Suda s.v. Menander...
Metaphysics, Greek and Roman
Anna Marmodoro
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Greek and Roman MetaphysicsIntroductionMetaphysics, in its broadest definition, is about what there is. Its domain is so vast that it is not possible ...
Metrics, Greek
Joel Lidov
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Greek MetricsIntroductionGreek metrics is the discipline that studies the patterns and arrangements of syllables and words that characterize Greek poe...
Middle Platonism
Mauro Bonazzi
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-03-30
Middle PlatonismIntroductionThe term “Middle Platonism” was created in the 19th century ce to distinguish this movement from the later tradition known...
Military, Greek
Fernando Echeverría
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Greek MilitaryIntroductionWar was an overriding phenomenon in Greek civilization. It determined to a great extent the political, social, and economic ...
Military, Roman
M.C. Bishop
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Roman Military Introduction The Roman army evolved from a small citizen yeoman force into a tool of international diplomacy, the mercenary blad...
Miltiades of Cimon
Gabriella Vanotti
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Miltiades of CimonIntroductionMiltiades, son of Cimon Coalemos, was a member of a side branch of the aristocratic Philaid clan. According to the accou...
Minor Socratics
Aldo Brancacci
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Minor SocraticsIntroductionMinor Socratics (Socratici minori, Petits Socratiques, Kleine Sokratiker) are conventionally labelled the direct disciples ...
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