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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 RhetoricIntroductionRhetoric was recognized as a discipline for the first time in Ancient Greece, probably by Plato, who was generally hostile t...
Rhetoric, Latin
Robert N. Gaines
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Latin RhetoricIntroductionThis bibliography is designed to provide a structured list of materials relevant to the study of Latin rhetoric in ancient t...
Roman Italy, 4th Century bce to 3rd Century ce
John R. Patterson
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2020-04-22
Roman Italy, 4th Century bce to 3rd Century ceIntroductionThe history of Roman Italy is a vast subject, so the topics highlighted and the bibliography...
Roman Kingship
Christopher Smith
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2020-06-24
Roman KingshipIntroductionThe Romans developed an account of their early history which was organized by the reigns of seven kings. By the 1st century
Roman Patronage
Angela Ganter
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Roman PatronageIntroductionWhat provides coherence in societies of enormous social disparity? Dionysos of Halicarnassos answered this question by refe...
Roman Roads and Transport
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Roman Roads and TransportIntroductionThe total length of the Roman Empire’s highway network is not known, but can be estimated at well above 100,000 k...
Sacrifice
Fred Naiden, James Rives
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
SacrificeIntroductionFor the purpose of this article, ancient “sacrifice” was the act of making a destructible or perishable offering to a god, hero, ...
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...
Samnites
Rafael Scopacasa
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2021-10-27
SamnitesIntroductionAccording to most of our historical sources, namely the Greek and Roman writers, the Samnites were a tough and warlike people who ...
Sappho
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
SapphoIntroductionThis bibliographical article focuses on studies on Sappho in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sappho, on whom modern research has been v...
Scholia
Lara Pagani
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
ScholiaIntroductionThe word σχόλιον (“scholion,” Lat. scholium), a diminutive of σχολή, means originally “short note” or “brief explanation.” Today “s...
Science, Greek and Roman
Paul T. Keyser
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Greek and Roman ScienceIntroductionThe study of the science of the ancient Greco-Roman world falls between two academic stools: on the one hand, the h...
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...
Sculpture, Roman
Diane Atnally Conlin
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-03-30
Roman SculptureIntroductionSculpture in the Roman world constitutes a broad category of diverse objects: from miniature votive statuettes deposited at...
Seneca the Elder
Stefan Feddern
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-05-29
Seneca the ElderIntroductionThough Seneca the Elder (c. 50 bce–c. 40 ce) is a person almost unknown to us, his extant work, the Oratorum et rhetorum s...
Seneca the Younger's Philosophical Works
Margaret Graver
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Seneca the Younger’s Philosophical WorksIntroductionLucius Annaeus Seneca, a Roman adherent of Stoicism with a particular interest in ethics, died in ...
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