(book review)

History Today;  May 1, 2001 ;   Freeman, Charles;   787 words ...The Greek World after Alexander, 323-30 BC Graham Shipley...the Age itself, sprawls across the Greek world and is exuberantly curious about its...academic calibre of its authors. The Greek World after Alexander is no exception. The...

drachma

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;    TIMOTHY DARVILL;   23 words ...drachma [Ar]. A unit of silver coinage in the Greek world issued in multiple such as the didrachm (2), the tetradrachm (4), and the deckadrachm (10).

Hellenistic

The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;    M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS;   52 words ......term used to denote the civilization, language, art, and literature of the Greek world from the late fourth to the late first centuries BC. (For the Greek world see GREECE ; for the term ‘classical’ referring to the fifth and...

(book reviews)

CLIO;  September 22, 1994 ;   Klonoski, Richard J.;   787 words ......especially on the ethical ideas of the archaic Greek poets and Greek tragedians, is largely...conceptions but also of suggesting that where archaic Greek ideas about morality may in some ways...recover, re-understand, and re-evaluate archaic Greek ethical ideas is in no way ...

COLUMN: Fear and belonging

University Wire;  February 14, 2006 ;   Erin Geld;   787 words ......I have had very little do with the greek world. I tend to hang out with the crowd that...come to test my prejudices against the greek world and there were hits and misses along...where the kernel of contempt towards the greek world comes from: it's a club. It's good at...

Persian Wars

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      25 words ...Per·sian Wars the wars fought between Greece and Persia in the 5th century bc , in which the Persians sought to extend their territory over the Greek world.

Pots, trade and the archaic Greek economy.

Antiquity;  March 1, 1996 ;   Osborne, Robin;   787 words ......painted pottery is the archaeological trade-mark of the Greek presence overseas. Since other materials of exchange...archaeologically visible, a fresh look at issues in the archaic Greek economy revolves once more around patterns in the...staple foodstuffs. In this paper I argue that the archaic ...

kore

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      39 words ...ko·re / ˈkôrē; ˈkôrā / • n. ( pl. korai / ˈkôrī / ) an archaic Greek statue of a young woman, standing and clothed in long loose robes. ORIGIN: from Greek korē ‘maiden.’

Ancient & modern

The Spectator;  November 11, 2006 ;   Jones, Peter;   364 words ......surely not as cleverly as the Roman emperor Hadrian wooed the Greek world. It helped that the Romans in general held the Greek, in particular...Panhellenion (All-Greek), to act as the administrative centre of the Greek world from Thrace in the north to Asia Minor, Crete and North Africa...

ATHS: Greek world triple jump champion injured

AAP Sports News (Australia);  January 28, 2000 ;     122 words ...AAP Sports News (Australia) 01-28-2000 ATHS: Greek world triple jump champion injured ATHENS, Jan 27 Reuters - Greek world outdoor triple jump champion Paraskevi Tsiamita will miss the European indoor championships in Ghent, Belgium, next month...

AROUND THE WORLD: Exhumed troop graves probe.(News)

The Mirror (London, England);  June 3, 2006 ;     36 words ...FIVE workers hired to dig up 69 bodies are being investigated by Albanian police. The skeletons were exhumed near a church on behalf of families of Greek World War Two fallen. They are being analysed to pinpoint their nationalities.

OBITUARY: Martin Price

The Independent - London;  May 4, 1995 ;   ROGER BLAND;   787 words ......introduction of bronze coinage into the Greek world. From then on he produced a steady stream...on all aspects of the coinage of the Greek world. To pick just the most notable examples...awards, while his book Coinage in the Greek World (written with Ian Carradice, 1988) is...

kouros

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      33 words ...kou·ros / ˈkoŏräs / • n. ( pl. kouroi / ˈkoŏroi / ) an archaic Greek statue of a young man, standing and often naked. ORIGIN: Greek, Ionic form of koros ‘boy.’

talent

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;    TIMOTHY DARVILL;   43 words ...talent [Ar]. 1. A unit of weight used in the classical Greek world and Near East, the equivalent of 60 minas, 25.86kg in Athens. 2. A coin which in Pericles' time in Athens was equivalent in value to 6000 drachmae at a time when a normal wage for a week's work was 3.5 drachmae.

herm

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;    TIMOTHY DARVILL;   44 words ...herm [Co]. A square-section pillar, tapering out from ground level, typically about 2m high, and surmounted by the sculptured head of a deity. They are found widely in the Greek world, for example in the agora, and were also popular in the gardens of private houses in Roman times.