I. Excerpts about Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
• Coins • Culture and daily life • Kings • Religions II. Reflections of Ancient Greece in Poetry
I. Excerpts about Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
Interesting excerpts from various sources.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)Culture and daily life
- Riding dress
(From Ancient Greek Horsemanship by J. K. Anderson)Kings
- 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)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.