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64Review of An Iliad
Not content with available translations of The Iliad, Baricco set out to fashion the text to be readable for the current era. In his notes to the text the author explains he found no suitable versions of...
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79Greek Philosopher: Diogenes
The celebrated Greek cynic philosopher who is said to have lived in a tub, wearing the coarsest clothing and living on the plainest food. Many of his sayings have been preseved, and serve for occasional...
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72Ancient Greece
The earliest inhabitants of Greece were probably Mousterian hunter-gatherers who roamed the region during the Middle Palaeolithic period. By 4000 BC Neolithic villages were established in most fertile lowland...
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81Hippocrates
Hippocrates was a Greek physician who lived around 400 BC, born on the island of Cos, Asia Minor. Historically known as the "father of medicine". Little is known concerning him, and of that little, much may be legend. He devised a code of ethical practice which is known as the Hippocratic Oath.
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77Greek History: Lesson 2--The Formation of the Polis
In my previous hub Oikos and Basileus, we encountered the small communities of early Greece, which from a sociological perspective are categorized as "prestate" societies. The term "prestate" is used for...
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86Alexander the Great and the Battle of Gaugamela
334 years before Christ, Alexander of Macedon stormed into Asia Minor and began a series of conquests that would result in the defeat of the mighty Persian Empire, the integration of Greek thought and...
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86Greek God Poseidon
Information about the Greek God Poseidon. The god of the sea and the oceans.
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84Greek Philosopher: Socrates
Born in Athens at the peak of the Athenian civilization. Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were his contemporaries. He served for several years as a soldier. As a member of the Athenian Senate, he refused to...
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74Greek God Zeus
Information about the greek god zeus, the king of the olympians in Greek mythology.
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