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STOA POIKILE
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Atheneion's researches and studies on the Ancient World
- Added on: Feb 5th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: ATHENEION
- Listed in: Cultural Culture
- Tags: art literature philosophy history greece antiquity
Recent Posts
Athenian orators, politicians and demagogues
Ancient Athens public scene - during and even after its Pentecontaetia - was quite accustomed to display, beside those citizens in charge of specific institutional assignments and public servants who were performing minor duties to maintain the regul...
Political absenteeism in ancient Athens
The vastly celebrated Athenian democracy, still nowadays almost unanimously considered as the mother of all the modern forms of government unfortunately had its own flaws, perhaps less grave in terms of its overall design, but most certainly - and mo...
Basileus, wanax and king in Homer
The precise contextualisation of the Homeric poems is still to a certain extent inconclusive: many scholars have pursued this undertaking yet reaching rather hesitant results. The Mycenaean epoch, even though widely recognised as the social framework...
The death of Philip II: a cold case
The death of Philip II of Macedonia is permeated by particularly mystifying circumstances and most likely was only partly influenced by previous events occurred a few years before and more likely due to political and dynastical motives. According to ...
Heroic virtues in the Homeric world
The Homeric poems and some legends and myths narrated by posthumous authors are the only literary source we can rely on in order to assess the main features and events of the dawn of Greek civilisation. The lack of very organised information, rather ...
The women of Heinrich Schliemann
On Christmas 1890 in Piazza Carità in Naples, Italy an unknown lonely old gentleman dressed in simple attire – clearly a foreigner – while strolling with an absentminded attitude silently faints and lies down on the sidewalk; succoured by the by...
