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 real
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...
The gymnasium was the venue where such relationships typically developed. As with the symposium, there was an almost ritual element to it all; certain gifts—such as, for example, the gift of a hare—were thought especially appropriate. The date, however, at which Greek homosexuality became a...
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...
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 ...
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...
All these buildings are to the west of Pion. On its north side is the stadium and north of this the gymnasium of Publius Vedius Antoninus, relatively small but very complete and with a notable chapel for the cult ofAntoninus Pius. South of Pion were the odeum—another gift of Vedius—a...
The Sophists proposed to meet a new need that was generally felt in Greek society—particularly in the most active cities, such as Athens, where political life had been intensively developed. Henceforth, participation in public affairs became the supreme occupation engaging the ambition of Greek man...