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Daily Life & Death

Resources on daily life in ancient Greece, including information on death and dying, fashion, magic, society, roles of women in ancient Greece.

Agora

Basically, the Greek agora, like the forum that served similar purposes in Rome, was an outdoor market and meeting place.

Cecrops

Cecrops was an early Greek king who civilized the people of what became Athens.

Daily Life in Greece and Rome

Resources for children and adults on many aspects of what life and death was life in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era

Review of James S. Jeffers' Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era.

A Day In Old Athens

The text of the University of Minnesota's William Stearns Davis' 1910 look at daily life in Ancient Athens in the fourth century B.C.

Horse and Mule in Ancient Life

Horses and Mules. Comparison of the value of horses and mules for tasks in daily life in the ancient Mediterranean. Also Ancient / Classical History Forum notes on breeding horses and mules.

Names - Greek vs. Roman - Gods and Goddesses

The Roman and Greek names for the equivalent gods and goddesses. Chart includes some of the minor deities, as well as the Olympians.

Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Joan Breton Connelly's Portrait of a Priestess challenges common assumptions about the role and importance of women in public life in ancient Greece.

Shame Culture

E.R. Dodds' distinction between shame and guilt culture has been used to distinguish the collectivist shame-based Greek society from modern individualist guilt-based society.

Spartan Education

Education was state-sponsored in ancient Sparta, at least for the sons of the Spartan elite. Considered a very rigorous education, children learned to sing and dance, played ball and ate at the home of their 20-year old teacher. Learn more about this ancient education system that was considered so good that Xenophon sent his own sons to be fostered in Sparta so they could enjoy its benefits.

Thargelia

Thargelia was an ancient Athenian festival with scapegoats.

A Nineteenth Century Classical Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome features words related to agriculture, architecture,daily life, engineering, implements, law, political life, religion, transportation, and warfare.

Illustrated Guide to the Classical World: Greece

An ever-evolving series of "tours" of Greek archaeological points of interest developed from the travels of Professor Janice Siegel. Click on the location to take a photo tour complete with descriptions of the photographs.

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

Alphabetized lists of attested ancient Greek male, female, and ambiguous names.

Marriage and Funeral Rites in Classical Athens

Jana Shopkorn describes component rituals of marriages and funerals in 5th Century B.C. Athens. Shopkorn also describes overlapping elements, like the dedication of a lock of hair, ritual purification, and use of the veil.

Thomas R. Martin - Greek Food

By Thomas Martin, on the Athenian diet. Bread was purchased or baked at home, but meat was a feast day luxury.

Thomas R. Martin - Greek Slavery After the Peloponnesian War

On slavery: "The output of the mines apparently never regained its previous heights, but it is not clear whether this decline in production of silver was the result of an enduring shortage of slaves to work in the mines or a petering out of the veins of precious metal, or perhaps a combination of these factors."

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