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1999 Ancient / Classical History Features
12/28/99 - Elsewhere on About
Five of my fellow Guides whose sites offer information related to Ancient History.
12/21/99 - Croesus of Lydia
Ten reasons to be familiar with the name of this wealthy king.
12/06/99 - Studies in Mithraism
Ulansey and Cumont disagrees on whether Mithraism came from the East.
11/16/99 -
Celebrate the Saturnalia
An alternative, but ancient way to make December festive.
11/30/99 - Review: Children of Athena
Nicole Loraux looks at the myths that justified second class status for women in Athens.
11/23/99 - Classicists' Contributions to The Internet: III
The volumes Emeritus Professor William Harris has written and made available online.
11/15/99 - Classicists' Contributions to The Internet: II
University of Saskatchewan's John Porter's pages on Homer, drama, and daily life are back online.
11/09/99 - Cybele and Attis
The Great Mother, her priests, and the ritual of rebirth.
11/02/99 - 333,000,000 Hindu Gods
Learn about the pantheon of Hindu deities.
10/26/99 - Julian the Apostate
Although popular, paganism failed when the apostate reinstituted it.
10/19/99 - Dionysus: The God a Foolish Mortal Imprisoned
The story of Dionysus' revenge on the family of Cadmus.
10/12/99 - The Huns
Review of Thompson's classic look at the nomadic people associated with Rome's downfall.
10/05/99 - Who's Who in Greek Legend
Quick reference to the major heroes of Greek legend.
09/28/99 - Heroic Behavior Then and Now
To learn about a society look at the people it calls heroes.
09/21/99 - Jason's Angels
The original "we get by with a little help from our friends" kind of hero.
09/14/99 - Moses
Story of the Jewish lawgiver's rise from the bulrushes.
09/07/99 - Oedipus
The love of Oedipus for his mother led Freud to believe in the existence of a universal Oedipal Complex.
08/31/99 - Norse Mythology: Creation of the World
All the worlds are joined by a huge tree, but a great serpent surrounds the world in which humans live.
08/24/99 - Arian Heresy
Before he was baptized, Constantine passed judgment on Christian heretics who followed Arius.
08/17/99 - Norse Mythology: The Gods
The gods of Norse mythology will die at Ragnarok after the mischievous Loki is released from his bonds.
08/10/99 - Tragedy: Setting the Stage
In spring wealthy Athenians paid taxes by presenting three plays to the community.
08/03/99 - Ancient Eclipses
Fear, fascination, and control are functions of solar eclipses.
07/27/99 - Medea
Medea, a descendant of Helios and Circe's niece, shared some of the family powers.
07/20/99 - Ancient Greek Eroticism
Aristophanes explains why people have different sexual preferences.
07/13/99 - Sparta II: Rise to Power
Military efficiency wasn't enough to make up for a diminished population, but Sparta also had powerful allies.
07/08/99 - Homeschooling Classical History
Travel and the internet are two excellent tools for homeschoolers interested in Greco-Roman history.
06/28/99 - Happy Birthday, Julius Caesar!
Celebrate Caesar's birthday a bit early on the Latin and Ancient/Classical History sites.
06/25/99 - The Olympians: A Goddess For Men II
While Athena helped the heroes, she wasn't so kind to women.
06/22/99 - Sparta
Child-rearing practices in Sparta were geared towards making obedient citizens.
06/15/99 - Decline of the Roman Empire
Was it lead, economics, military incompetence or something else that caused the Fall of the Roman Empire?
06/08/99 - Test Your Knowledge of the Pharaohs and Dynasties
Guide to Egyptian resources on the Net and a self-grading multiple choice quiz.
06/01/99 - Roman Kings: L. Tarquinius Priscus
Father of the notorious Tarquin, Tarquin the Elder was the first Etruscan king of Rome.
05/25/99 -
Roman Kings: Numa Pompilius
He didn't want the crown but once he took it he reformed the calendar and made changes to Roman religion.
05/17/99 - Daily Life in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
How to use the internet to learn about the fascinating, if mundane, details of how ordinary people lived in antiquity.
05/11/99 -
Ancient Writing: Race to be First
Harappa may have had the earliest writing.
05/04/99 - The Play Within The Play
Midsummer Night's Dream owes a debt to Ovid.
04/27/99 - Rise of Democracy - Cylon and Draco
Cylon's supporters and Draco's thieves lost their lives along the Athenian road to democracy.
04/13/99 - Rise of Democracy - The Four Tribes
Social organization of the Archaic Athenians.
03/27/99 - Balkan Cleansing
Roots of the modern conflict.
03/23/99 - Chronoscope
Features arranged by century.
03/16/99 - The Last Pharaoh
Cleopatra, larger than life, as befits a human god, won the hearts of the leading men.
03/09/99 - Make Love Not War
In Aristophanes Lysistrata, to end the Peloponnesian War the women of Greece resort to a sex strike.
03/02/99 - The Olympians: A Goddess for Men
Without Athena's help Odysseus, Bellerophon, and Perseus would have failed and the Furies would still be harassing Orestes.
02/23/99 - Ancient Writing: Epigraphy/Papyrology
Not only literature but more mundane writing about ancient daily life, miraculously preserved and available on the Internet.
02/16/99 - Shakespeare's Caesar
How could the political situation have become so strained that a friend's murderer was deemed the noblest Roman of them all?
02/09/99 - A Women's Guide to The Art of Love
Ovid gave arms to the Amazons, now he gives them to you.
02/02/99 - The Four Humors
Systematic, symptomatic treatment of disease started with earth, air, fire, and water.
01/26/99 - The Olympians: The Lesser Share (Continued)
Poseidon begot more trouble than he got into.
01/19/99 - The Olympians: The Lesser Share
A trident and the ocean conferred limited power on Zeus' second-in-command.
01/12/99 - Presocratic Philosophers: Pythagoras
Mathematician, musician, mystic, philosopher, astronomer in one.
01/05/99 -
Presocratic Philosophers
Thales, Heraclitus, Xenophanes, Zeno, Empedocles, and Anaxagoras.
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