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can illuminate. 29 Just as the Attalids are key to Pergamon’s history and development, Sparta’s proximity influenced Tegea’s life for centuries. Their relationship was not consistently a state of enmity or friendship, but rather alternated between phases of collaboration and armed opposition such
from Helios (1–89). In the central part (90–304) she visits Eleusis, where she eventually orders the people to build her a temple. In the final part, she creates a famine, which deprives the gods of sacrifices, and so brings about the return of her daughter, followed by the restoration of life to the
he has led a ful lling life, especially when he has lived to see children and grandchildren).27 He may, nevertheless, ask the wanderer for a prayer or, more generally, to honor his memory. Different perspectives may also be combined, either in a dialogue between the deceased and a living person
) within the institution, the term had a life independent of the gymnasium from its earliest appearances, as will be illustrated below. Moreover, there is nothing in the word itself that necessitates or even indicates the concept of military training and service. As with πρωθήβης and the rest, the word
Archelaus develops, recalls at first sight a certain demand for truth together with the persons associated with the life of the poet. Nevertheless, a second look at the details that are referred to here, in the light of further biographical evidence, reveals that these have little to do with the true story
top of which stands a lion. 40 It is unclear whether this is supposed to be a living animal or another sculpture like that of the god below. The static attitude of the divinity surely contrasts with the dynamic pose of the lion, which seems about to hurl itself to the right, towards two dove
a similar rule for the khoregoi of boys’ khoroi . According to Aiskhines, the purpose for this rule was to ensure that the khoregos had reached “the most temperate time of life” (σωφρονεστάτῃ ἡλικίᾳ) when he came into contact with the Athenian boys under his care. 7 This provision formed part
paths of your much-loved calf and tender heifer? By the sea-girt land, by the animal nurturing island which fell to the Cyprus-born begetter of Desire, Aphrodite (a name either bestowed or taken), there beholding them, you will see where they were living
Sicily and the western Mediterranean—a history that, despite Polybius’ abuses, had been motivated by an ambitious and even groundbreaking vision. For Timaeus represents the earliest known attempt to integrate the histories of the western and eastern Greeks with those of Rome and Carthage, utilizing the
overview of the identity affiliations and self-description possibilities recognized for a Roman of his times, as the definition of “schizophrenia” would lead us to believe. Cicero is not describing what social geographers consider the two necessary territorial contexts when living in modern nations, State