The Ionian Era of Athenian Civic Identity
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Athens' Democratic Witnesses
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Demography and Dowries: Perspectives on Female Infanticide in Classical Greece
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Ideology and "The Status of Women" in Ancient Greece
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WHAT COULD MARCUS AURELIUS FEEL FOR FRONTO?
n a provocative booklet, Amy Richlin, a distinguished scholar in the field of ancient sexuality, has used these letters to prove that the relationship between Marcus Aurelius and Fronto was in fact a fully sexual, physically erotic relationship.
APOLLO AND HIS PURPOSE IN SOPHOCLES
Apollo actively intervenes in the fulfilment of Oedipus’ destiny through oracles and immanently in the onstage action. Rather than to punish him for any offence, the god’s purpose appears to be to impress upon Oedipus his existential insignificance. In the context of an ordered but absurd universe, Sophocles emphasises the paradox of the moral greatness of a man whose ‘official’ existential value is less than zero.