Classics
There are 1312 items in Classics:
Historiography
Historiography: the study of the way historians have tried to render account of their past.Ancient Near East Clio, the Muse of…Homer
Homer: legendary Greek poet, author of the Iliad and Odyssey. Homer The Greeks and Romans always thought that the legendary poet Homer…Homer on the Cyclopes
Your caption text here In the Odyssey, the legendary poet Homer describes many countries and islands in the seas west of…Intaphrenes
Intaphrenes (Old Persian Vindafranâ): Persian courtier and general. Intaphrenes was one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius I the Great become king (September 522 BCE). …Josephus
In the war between the Jews and the Romans of 66-70, the Jewish general Joseph son of Matthias defended Galilee against the Roman legions. After he had been defeated, he defected to his enemies, and advised the Roman general Vespasian.…Josephus on Alexander's visit to Jerusalem
Most scholars agree that the following story, told by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in his Jewish antiquities 11.317-345, is not true. One argument is that Alexander is shown a book that was not yet written. Another argument is that…Josephus' Against the Greeks
Josephus' Against the Greeks: polemic treatise against the anti-Semitic slander of Apion of Alexandria. Epaphroditus of Chaeronea The two volumes of Josephus'…Josephus' Jewish War
Josephus' Jewish War: main source about the Jewish revolt against the Romans (66-70), the destruction of Jerusalem (70), and the siege of Masada (74). …Lucius Junius Brutus
Lucius Junius Brutus: the legendary founder of the Roman republic.Rome as monarchy The so-called Brutus, a bust from the second century…Lacus Curtius
Lacus Curtius ("lake of Curtius"): small pool on the Roman Forum, venerated by the Romans, even when they did no longer remember why it was a holy place. For the website LacusCurtius, go here. …Lake Palodes
Lake Palodes or Pelodes: lagoon near ancient Buthrotum. Lake Palodes Lake Palodes is the lagoon east of Buthrotum, separated from the Ionian…Latium
Latium: regio to the southeast of Rome. Albanus Mons Latium is bordered by the Tyrrhenian Sea in the southwest, by Etruria in…