Ancient Greece's cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought—new research
While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...
Cambridge University Press5 个月
Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece
The very creation of the 'classical' and the perennial use of Greece by later European civilizations as a source of knowledge and inspiration would not have taken place without the textual innovations ...
Greek Reporter2 天
The Forgotten Pillars of Heaven in Greek Mythology
Evidence shows that the Greeks originally imagined Atlas as holding up by the sky by means of supporting the pillars of ...
BBC2 个月
What does ancient Egyptian writing look like?
It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken ... also used papyrus and writing boards to keep records of thing ...
Cambridge University Press9 个月
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic
It includes wide-ranging close readings of epics from Homer to Nonnus, traces their dialogues with other modes such as ancient Mesopotamian poetry, Greek lyric and didactic writing, and explores their ...
The Amazing Times on MSN25 天
20+ Facts About Ancient Greece That Might Even Surprise a History Professor
Ancient Greece is often credited with numerous innovations ... developed in the early 8th century B.C.E., is noteworthy for ...
The Conversation28 天
A brief history of the muses: the Greek goddesses who provided divine inspiration for ...
Though writing remained a ritualistic practice ... that most people are eu amousoi (εὖ ἄμουσοι) an ancient Greek expression that means “happily without the muses”.
University of Delaware1 个月
Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...