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Aphrodite
Monica S. Cyrino
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-10-28
Aphrodite Introduction Aphrodite was a goddess of immense authority and universal significance for the people of the ancient Greek-speaking wo...
Apollodorus
Stephen M. Trzaskoma
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
ApollodorusIntroductionApollodorus’s Bibliotheca is the most important extant mythographical work from antiquity, because of both its comprehensive or...
Apollonius of Rhodes
Martine Cuypers
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Apollonius of RhodesIntroductionApollonius of Rhodes (3rd century bce) is the author of the Argonautica, the only full-scale epic surviving from the s...
Appendix Vergiliana
Dorothee Gall
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Appendix VergilianaIntroductionThe so-called Appendix Vergiliana (the name goes back to Joseph Scaliger’s first edition from 1573) comprises poems of ...
Apuleius
Stephen Harrison
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
ApuleiusIntroductionApuleius (no other names certain, c. 125–after 170 ce) is one of the key Latin writers of the 2nd century ce, a period that marks ...
Apuleius's Platonism
Christina Hoenig
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-11-26
Apuleius's PlatonismIntroductionLucius Apuleius (c. 125–after 170 ce), of the North African city Madaura, was a Roman philosophical writer of the 2nd ...
Ara Pacis Augustae
Diane Atnally Conlin
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2012-11-21
Ara Pacis Augustae Introduction The Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) is a relatively large marble structure (estimated to have bee...
Arabic “Theology of Aristotle”, The
Cristina D'Ancona
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2021-04-21
The Arabic “Theology of Aristotle”IntroductionThe Theology of Aristotle is an Arabic adaptation of parts of Plotinus’s Enneads IV–VI. Both the transla...
Aratus
Helen Van Noorden
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
AratusIntroductionAratus of Soli (3rd century bce) is the author of the Phaenomena, a hexameter poem of just over one thousand lines on constellations...
Archaeology, Greek
Maria Stamatopoulou
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Greek Archaeology Introduction The study of Greek archaeology was until the late 1970s art historical in its approach, focusing on the study of...
Archaeology, Roman
Kathryn J. McDonnell
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Roman ArchaeologyIntroductionIn its broadest sense, Roman archaeology encompasses all forms of study of the material remains of the Roman world, begin...
Architecture, Etruscan
Ingrid Edlund-Berry
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Etruscan ArchitectureIntroductionThe study of Etruscan architecture suffers greatly in comparison with its Greek and Roman counterparts because of the...
Architecture, Greek
Nancy Klein
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2016-05-26
Greek ArchitectureIntroductionGreece occupies an important place in the history of architecture: as the birthplace of the classical orders in the anci...
Architecture, Roman
Janet DeLaine
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
Roman Architecture Introduction Architecture is the quintessential Roman art, and the well-preserved remains of Roman buildings dominate our vi...
Arena Spectacles
Kathleen M. Coleman
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Arena Spectacles Introduction The staging of various types of violent spectacle characterizes Roman urban culture from the mid-Republic...
Aristophanes
David Konstan
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2009-12-14
Aristophanes Introduction Aristophanes was recognized in antiquity as one of the greatest poets of Old Comedy, along with Eupolis and ...
Aristophanes’ Clouds
Jeffrey Henderson
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Aristophanes’ CloudsIntroductionAristophanes’ Clouds was produced at the City Dionysia of 423, following a remarkable record of success in national co...
Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
Niklas Holzberg
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Aristophanes’ LysistrataIntroductionLysistrata was performed in the year 411 bce, either in winter at the Lenaia or in spring at the Dionysia. Athens,...
Aristotle
Carlo Natali, Gaia Bagnati
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
AristotleIntroductionAristotle (384–322 bce) was a younger disciple and colleague of Plato. They are the two most famous and important ancient philoso...
Aristotle, Ancient Commentators on
John Sellars
Subject: Classics »
Date Added: 2014-06-30
Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Introduction In the 1st century bce, the previously unknown lecture notes that we now know as Aristotle’s wo...
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