10/01/03 - Medea by Euripides
The context of Medea's actions in the Euripides tragedy Medea.
10/08/03 - Review - "Slayer of Gods"
"Slayer of Gods," by Lynda S. Robinson, is an excellent, polished mystery about the poisoning of the beautiful Queen Nefertiti. Sixth in the series, it is set in the time of the boy-king Tutankhamen.
10/01/03 - Review - "Words and Ideas"
"Words and Ideas," by William J. Dominik, combines word building and etymology with Greco-Roman culture. It even explains the oddities of spelling conventions and why a name like Aeschylus is also spelled Aischylos.
10/01/03 - Roman Military Diet
In an article from 1971, R.W. Davies looks at archaeological, literary, and epigraphical evidence of the diet of the Roman soldier. He concludes that the assumption that Roman soldiers usually avoided meat is wrong.
10/02/03 - Ares Mates
List of the mates and offspring of Ares.
10/02/03 - Ares
Profile of the Greek god Ares.
10/02/03 - Early Greek Poets Timeline
After the blind bard Homer recited his epic stories about the Trojan War, other songwriters developed new styles that affected the way they performed and their choice of musical instrument. Not exactly rock concerts, but poetry readings were a lot livelier in the days when a performance involved song and dance and, perhaps, a drinking party. Here's an introductory look at the early Greek poetic styles and the chronology of the major poets.
10/01/03 - Philemon and Baucis
Jupiter was about to wipe out mankind because people seemed so completely evil and worthless to him, when he heard about a virtuous old couple named Philemon and Baucis.
10/01/03 - Theognis
Profile of the Greek poet Theognis.
10/01/03 - Semonides of Amorgas
Profile of the Greek poet Semonides of Amorgas.
10/01/03 - Aristides
Aristides was known as "The Just." The most familiar Aristides anecdote is about an illiterate farmer who asked Aristides to write down a name on an ostraka. Aristides agreed and wrote the name the farmer asked -- Aristides. The farmer's grievance? He was sick and tired of hearing Aristides called "the just." Guest article by Bingley.
09/24/03 - Semele
The story of the pregnancy, death, and resurrection of Semele, the mother of the Greek god Dionysus, from the perspective of Nemesis.
09/17/03 - Caesar Declines a Triumph
In 60 B.C., Caesar was entitled to a lavish triumphal procession through the streets of Rome. Even Caesar's enemy Cato agreed that Caesar's victory in Spain was worthy of the highest military honor. But Caesar decided against it.
09/15/03 - Lucullus
Lost among the reams of information about the period of Spartacus, the Mithridatic Wars, and the first triumvirate, is the Roman general Lucullus. Lucullus defeated the king of Pontus at the Battle of Granicus, helped the Asians by introducing measures to lower extortionist interest rates, and imported the cherry tree to Italy. Biography by Bingley.
09/16/03 - Nicias of Athens
Nicias was an Athenian of the fifth century B.C. Getting credit for a victory in war wasn't important enough for this general to let two soldiers lie unburied. Later, during the Peloponnesian War, Nicias was captured by the enemy and executed. Guest biography by Bingley.
09/10/03 - Marcellus
It was a singular honor for the Romans to win the "spolia opima," the armor and weaponry of a slain enemy leader. Only three Roman leaders won this honor. Marcellus, the last, won the armor of King Britomartus of the Insubrian Gauls. Marcellus was also in charge of the seige of Syracuse at which the engineer Archimedes was killed. Guest article by Bingley.
09/03/03 - Pelopidas
At the Battle of Leuctra, the Spartan army of 10,000 foot soldiers and 1000 cavalry was defeated by a much smaller army, the Theban forces, consisting of the Sacred Band, an elite squadron of 300 lover-soldiers led by Pelopidas. Guest article by Bingley.
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