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)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)- Jockeys and charioteers in the Classical period
(From The Horse and Jockey from Artemision by Seán Hemingway)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.