This selection of sixteen photographs together with the accompanying descriptions by Xenophon aim to provide a sense of the travel experience from the journey’s beginning at Sardis to the army’s famous sighting of the Black Sea from the mountains south of modern Trabzon.
Tag: Classics
Melissa Mueller and Lilah Grace Canevaro interview Amy Lather, author of Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, the first book to publish in the new Ancient Cultures, New Materialism series.
By Virginie Trachsler The young Persephone is gathering flowers in a meadow when her uncle Hades, god of the underworld,…
By Tessa Roynon In recent weeks, the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. has been much in the public eye. Whether…
By Stefano Maso The way we think and approach life nowadays is rooted in Greek and Latin antiquity. There is…
By Nicholas Baima Greed is clearly unjust, but is it foolish? In Book 1 of Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus defends the…
Thomas Nail writes about Venus as the desire of gods and men in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. She is not only the external object of desire of the other gods and of men; she is the desire itself.
When compared to Juvenal or Horace (the two most prominent figures of Roman satire in sixteenth and seventeenth century England),…