I. Excerpts about Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
• Army • Coins • Horsemanship • Kings and government • Religions II. Reflections of Ancient Greece in Poetry
I. Excerpts about Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
Interesting excerpts from various sources.Army
- Alexander’s military and equestrian inheritance
(From The Horse in the Ancient World by Ann Hyland)- Shock cavalry
(From Early Riders: The Beginnings of Mounted Warfare in Asia and Europe by Robert Drews)- Supreme command of the Seleukid army
(From The Seleucid Army: Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns by Bezalel Bar-Kochva)Coins
- Why focus on coins to study Hellenistic royal iconography?
(From Hellenistic Royal Iconography on Coins by Robert Fleischer)- Apollo Archer on Seleukid coins
(From Testing ‘historical’ theses against numerical data: the Seleucid case by Panagiotis Iossif)Horsemanship
- Riding dress
(From Ancient Greek Horsemanship by J. K. Anderson)- Economic aspects of military horses in Athens
(From The Horse in the Ancient World by Ann Hyland)- The nine hippic contests in the Hellenic Olympics
(From Olympica Hippica by Theodore G. Antikas)- Jockeys and charioteers in the Classical period
(From The Horse and Jockey from Artemision by Seán Hemingway)- Chariot racing in ancient sources
(From Homer, Sophocles, Statius, Pausanias, Sidonius and Nonnos)- Differences of the Roman racing charioteers from the Greek ones
(From Chariot Racing in the Roman Empire by Fik Meijer)Kings and government
- The Hellenistic royal diadem and dress
(From The House of Seleucus by Edwyn Robert Bevan)- Hellenistic kings
(From Hellenistic Palaces by Inge Nielsen)- The functions of royal palaces
(From Hellenistic Palaces by Inge Nielsen)- Political system of Syrian cities founded by Seleukid kings
(From The Cities of Seleukid Syria by John D. Grainger)Religions
- The Hellenistic civilization and Hellenistic religions
(From Atargatis/Dea Syria: Hellenization of Her Cult in the Hellenistic-Roman Period? by Per Bilde)- The supernatural in antiquity
(From Hellenistic Superstition: The Problems of Defining a Vice and from Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians by Dale B. Martin)
II. Reflections of Ancient Greece in Poetry
A small selection of public domain poems.