... Panhellenism tragedy Heroes Travel in the ancient world Heracles Odysseus Orestes Jason Trojan War In the following two chapters we will review the background to the dissemination of tragedy. The two factors that enabled plays to spread quickly across the Greek world are (1) the Panhellenic content...

.... That power depended on a rising historical outlook which radically defamiliarized the ancient world and made it “so little resemble our own.” Part 1 of this work thus examines the period's increasing sensitivity to the divide between antiquity and modernity. The second part of the book turns from cool-headed...

... Coleridge spoke about biblical and classical literature at his Thursday-evening soirées. The article evaluates Coleridge's influence on his younger contemporaries, especially as it relates to how the ancient world was understood and interpreted. Works Cited Barth, J. Robert, S. J. 1969...

... that is harmful to people who should be protected, to one’s community, or to oneself, we illuminate tensions and contradictions within Greek and Roman conceptions of gender, while tracing some origins of modern gender roles. This book also highlights the ways that texts and events from the ancient world...

...This chapter exemplifies the complexities of the surviving evidence, looking at the literary works of Cicero. The Letters of Cicero are one of the most extraordinary survivals from the ancient world, and a correspondence that ranks with the great letter collections of all time...

... by slaves Bradley Keith ancient world Greek slavery unfreedom servile systems chattel slaves Athens Ideologies matter, not so much as guides to history, but as vehicles for belief and political action. M. Mazower , The Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (London 1998...

..., and the types of documents in them. Such an approach to archival documentation of the ancient world has in general been attracting increasing interest and brings together scholars who are studying different regions. Bibliography Adams, J. N. ( 2003 ). Bilingualism and the Latin Language...

... little interest as a result of educational and scholarly traditions. The chapter explains how Roman Germany and other western provinces fit into a North American view of the ancient world. It then turns to the point of how German archaeological scholarship could be made more accessible to a North...

...In the second of three chapters that address Rome’s complicated legacy as an imperial state, McAuley contrasts the mid-twentieth century “golden old days” of ancient-world epics, which represented Roman soldiers as consummate professionals and warfare as neatly executed, with recent representations...

... Xenophon Outlines of Pyrrhonism Caesar Julius Jewish mythology Philo of Alexandria Samuel Judge Perseus Augustus Romulus and Remus Moses Cyrus Children in ancient world Alexander the Great Josephus Let fiction written for pleasure be close to the truth so thatyour fable not demand belief...

...The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were originally a sort of “bucket” list of must-see monuments chosen for their grandeur, and this compilation still resonates today. Some people have sought a link between the Wonders and Alexander the Great, although he did not build any of them. All...

...This chapter examines the metamorphosis of humans into animals in the ancient world. It suggests that stories of metamorphosis cannot be considered as an expression of a popular ‘underground’ culture indulgent to the fantastic, wondrous, or magic, but as something that seriously engages with Greek...

...Collections of scholarly articles on aspects of the ancient world often end with a token article on the later ‘reception’ of the topic under discussion. This article also ends with a paper on reception, but for a different reason. It focuses on the theory of reception, and various examples of its...

... and humiliation applied to people they thought deserved it. This has been common to all cultures from the ancient world to the modern era. The relationship between power and violence is worth considering. The criminal justice system has evolved over time and with that, we have seen changing attitudes towards...

...This introductory chapter begins by reviewing the different responses evoked by lightning throughout the ancient world. Thunder and lightning had primary importance and associations among the various pantheons, religious ideology, and origin mythologies with common symbolic references to death...

...The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia...

...Libraries of the ancient world have long held a space in the public imagination. The library at Alexandria, even during antiquity, was nearly legendary. Until now there has been relatively little research done to learn what was inside these libraries, who wrote the book rolls, who maintained...

...This book collects and introduces some of the writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greece and ancient Rome, including four chapters translated from German and French. For centuries, discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all...

... translation of all the remaining fragments, as well as a separate chapter on each lost play. It discusses Eupolis' career, redates the plays, examines how Eupolis was known in the ancient world, explores his relationship with Aristophanes (as both rival and collaborator), and delineates the distinct nature...