Wrongfully Accused: The Political Motivations Behind Socrates’ Execution
In 399 B.C.E., Socrates was executed by the Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth. The controversial decision lingers atop the great legacy of Athens, a city praised for its intellectual and political liberty. However, the reasons behind Socrates’ execution are themselves questionable.
The Role of Greek Cavalry on the Battlefield: A Study of Greek Cavalry from the Peloponnesian Wars to the Second Battle of Mantinea
Students of Greek military history tend to assume that cavalry played a marginal role on the battlefields of ancient Greece until the era of Philip and Alexander. Until recently historians have also assumed that the hoplite phalanx rendered cavalry obsolete on the Greek battlefield.
Competing Constructions of Masculinity in Ancient Greece
Competing Constructions of Masculinity in Ancient Greece Scott Rubarth (Rollins College) ATINER’S Conference Paper Series: No: MDT2013-0392 (2013) Abstract Scholars often speak of…
The past come into the present – Does the New Acropolis Museum in Athens encompass successfully the archaeological and ancient past?
The New Acropolis Museum opened to the public on the 21st June, 2009. Nearly four thousand artefacts are exhibited over an area of fourteen thousand square metres.
THUCYDIDES CONSTRUCTS HIS SPEAKERS: THE CASE OF DIODOTUS
In a nutshell: there is no way to avoid the conclusion that Thucydides himself is responsible for the most important parts of his speakers’ speeches, that is, that for all practical purposes he composed them.
The Delian League: A Prelude to Empire and War
During the classical period of Greece, the rise of the Delian League was a major factor that lead to the Peloponnesian War. What changed over time that transformed the league into an empire?
Instructive Irony in Herodotus: The Socles Scene
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The Menelaion: A Local Manifestation of a Pan-Hellenic Phenomenon
Sparta, the mythological birthplace and home of the Homeric heroine, was alleged to have worshiped her at two sites, at a shrine within the polis and at a shrine several kilometers outside the polis.8 We know very little about the former shrine, but the latter has been archaeologically attested; the partial walls and foundations of a fifth-century BCE monument to Helen of Sparta and her husband Menelaos, known as the Menelaion, have been recovered on a ridge near the west bank of the Eurotas.
Divorce in Classical Athenian Society: Law, Practice and Power
The practice of divorce in classical Athens sheds light on relationships which are fundamental to our understanding of Athenian society: between husband and wife, between separate households, and between household and state.
The Periclean Citizenship Law of 451/0 B.C.
I will then examine a variety of reason why Pericles may have chosen to implement this measure and why it might have been accepted by the existing citizenship body, as well as considering the various objectives that the law may have intended to achieve.