In 2003, an ancient Greek Gymnasium was found in Naples, Italy, during the excavation for a new underground station. The artifacts had to be cut into blocks to be temporarily removed from the site and then reallocated after the end of the work. In this article, after describing the results...
There were six books of Alcman's choral lyric in antiquity (ca. 50-60 hymns), but they were lost at the threshold of the Medieval Age, and Alcman was known only through fragmentary quotations in other Greek authors until the discovery of a papyrus in 1855 in a tomb near the second pyra...
One can imagine the excitement that gripped the city during the Panathenaea. Civic pride would have been at an all-time high, the city sparkling and adorned in honour of Athena. Greeks from across the Greek world would have come to Athens for the event, to watch, to compete, to trade,...
This education usually ended at the age of 15, though those who did not have to work could join a gymnasium where they would further their studies in topics like science and Greek philosophy. 一位雅典的妻子被限制在她自己的家中,即 Gynaeceum,她将在那里抚养她的儿子直到七岁,并教她的女儿们...
“tyrant” of a small northwestern Greekpoliscalled Astacus in the 420sbce. But for this chance mention, one would never have guessed thattyrannycould have existed orpersistedin such a place so late or so long. Another difficulty is that, while a fair amount about the social structure of ...
Kennell, The Gymnasium of Virtue: Education & Culture in Ancient Sparta (1995). The Kinadon affair is addressed by J.F. Lazenby,“The Conspiracy of Kinadon Reconsidered,” Athenaeum, 85 (1997), pp. 437–447, while a reply by Simon Hornblower,“Sticks, Stones, and Spartans: The ...
Ephesus, the most important Greek city in Ionian Asia Minor, the ruins of which lie near the modern village of Selƈuk in western Turkey. In Roman times it was situated on the northern slopes of the hills Coressus and Pion and south of the Cayster (Kü
and many new buildings were erected. Athens at this time was still the cultural capital of the Greek world and astrongholdof paganism. Its schools of philosophy, which retained their ancient names, however different their outlooks may have been, flourished, attracting students from all parts. The...
the agoras and gymnasiums in Greek towns are hardly Roman in aspect, but, for most structures of a practical utilitarian kind, the Greek debt to Rome was heavy. Sometimes Roman influence can be seen not only in the fundamental engineering of such buildings as market gateways, theatres, and ...
on the Saronic Gulf. On a small rise northwest of the agora stand seven Doric columns, which are the remains of theTemple of Apollo(c. 550bce). The remains of other temples, villas, a theatre, shops, public baths, pottery factories, a gymnasium, a largetriumphal arch, and other buildin...