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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 ...
Seneca's Phaedra
Roland Mayer
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Seneca’s PhaedraIntroductionSeneca’s tragedy Phaedra is a powerful depiction of the disintegration of the character of a woman driven by desire for he...
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...
Seneca’s Oedipus
Susanna Braund, Emma Hilliard
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Seneca’s OedipusIntroductionSeneca’s Oedipus, like all his plays, has in the past fifty years moved from being marginalized and rejected to being stud...
Severans, The
Stéphane Benoist
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
The Severans Introduction The reigns of the Severi (193–235), from Septimius Severus (the founder of the dynasty) to the last emperor Severus ...
Sexuality
Allison Glazebrook
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Sexuality Introduction While ancient sexuality has long been a topic of interest, it is only since the 1970s that it has become recognized as ...
Silius Italicus
Antony Augoustakis
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Silius Italicus Introduction Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, simply known as Silius Italicus, is the author of the longest extant po...
Slavery, Greek
Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Greek SlaveryIntroductionThe earliest Greek texts known to us already attest to the existence of unfree labor. Despite being widespread and considered...
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...
Socrates
Dimitri El Murr
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
SocratesIntroductionSocrates of Athens (470/469–399 bce) is perhaps the most famous philosopher of all time. Yet there is a striking contrast between ...
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