Shortly before the decisive battle of Salamis (480 BC), the Hellenic army was in danger of falling apart: the conquest and burning of Athens by the Persians had, in fact,...
Read moreBefore the meeting between the Greek ambassadors and Gelon, which aimed to convince Syracuse to support the Greek contingent against the Persians, Herodotus dedicates a brief digression to Gelon. He,...
Read moreThucydides is the first author to report a rare case of Athenian citizenship being granted to an entire community, that of the Plataeans. The event is reported in the section...
Read moreThe inscription records the dedication of a statue to Quintus Tullius by three of his freedmen: Heracleon, Aristarchus, and Alexander (on these individuals, see Ferrary–Hasenohr–Le Dinahet 2002, 218, nos. 4–7;...
Read moreThe four passages presented here outline, in broad terms, the text of the law regulating commercial suits (dikai emporikai). From passage (a) it appears that the law allowed merchants and...
Read moreWhen Euripides premiered the Heracleidai, likely in 430 BC, the Peloponnesian invasion of Attica had already occurred. The Athenian audience had witnessed firsthand a Peloponnesian army follow the same path...
Read moreThe two comedies considered here allow us to address the long-standing question regarding the position of the metoikoi within the spectrum of Athenian citizenship—namely, whether they were conceptually associated by...
Read moreAt the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, in the summer of 431, the Athenians entered into an alliance with the Thracians. The symmachia with King Sitalkes, son of the powerful...
Read moreThis is the first attestation of the term politeia and, rather unexpectedly, it concerns Sparta, one of the most strict cities, at least in the classical age, in the delimitation...
Read moreThe inscription, dated to 394/3 BC, consists of two decrees, issued a short distance apart, in favour of Sthorys, a soothsayer from Thasos. The first decree, enacted by the council,...
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