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This paper re-examines the figure of Solon in the Histories of Herodotus. It suggests that we do so by looking first at the Herodotean Solon and the Solon known to us from poetry and traditions associated with him. Second, the connection between the Herodotean Solon and Herodotus as narrator and author needs to be evaluated. Finally, we should consider the idea of a Solonian Herodotus, a Herodotus who himself is a performer of wisdom.

The range of colour terms used in archaic Greek poetry was quite limited, leading to Gladstone’s infamous conclusion that the Greeks of Homer’s time must have been colour-blind (1858). The spectrum of colour terms used by the tragic poets was similarly small, with an emphasis on the contrast between light and dark and a smaller number of words for hues that correspond to our conceptions of “red”, “yellow”, “purple”, “blue”, and “green”. The playwrights applied colour terms to props and costumes visible to the audience (e.g.

The political dimension of Aeschylus’ Suppliants interrelates gender, sexuality and race. The underlying problem is one of insider and outsider, defined by gender and ethnicity/race. While the violence against the maidens is explicitly sexual, there is also a racial dimension to it. The title of this paper is meant to be somewhat provocative: woman of color is a term that came into usage at a particular time responding to perceived problems in the way feminism ignored race.

One might expect the stereotypical skin color of Greek women, whiteness, to play a key role in the gender disguises of Aristophanic comedy. I argue that another function of white skin color is to link women to male professional craftsmen. While much has been written about the plays' transvestism and the gender-blending character of Agathon, little attention has been paid to the role of skin color or to the significant ties between women and craftsmen made on this basis.

In recent years, there has been an eruption in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and such courses have become a seemingly permanent feature within the discussions of curricula of many colleges and universities. The value of MOOCs—educational, pedagogical, and financial—continues to be sharply debated.

The Internet has become a frequent site for featuring texts, interpretive commentary, as well as grammatical, lexical, and syntactical aids, often with the help of multimedia.

Despite the health of many Classics departments, a number of classicists are the only trained classicist at their institution. One- or two-person programs and departments are nothing new, yet the challenges posed for such individuals and programs continue to mount, as teaching loads, service expectations, and research requirements for tenure and promotion seem to increase. In such programs, when faced with a limited staff and budget, Latin is frequently offered, and its students’ interest cultivated, and ancient Greek is often one of the first language sequences to be cut;,.

Although collaborative efforts between archaeologists and ecologists are not common, these two seemingly disparate disciplines often strive to answer the same research questions. Archaeological and ecological methods used to quantify study sites are often times complimentary and have the potential to create a much more comprehensive and cohesive synthesis.

Among the more astonishing finds recovered during the maritime survey project off W. Sicily is a series of bronze helmets and associated cheek pieces, military equipment likely in the possession of the Roman and Carthaginian combatants who fought in the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 B.C. The assemblage of galeae or cassides from this unique battlefield context presents a remarkable opportunity to explore the character of Roman armament during the mid-third century B.C., a critical transitory period for the Roman manipular army.

Five of the rams so far recovered during the Egadi Islands project bear Latin inscriptions; a sixth carries a Punic text. The Latin inscriptions make reference to named Roman officials (quaestors in four instances; members of a board of six in one case) who approved the rams. The Punic inscription offers a prayer for good fortune to one or more Punic deities. The Latin inscriptions are diverse in both form and content. Latin inscriptions of the third century B.C. are relatively few in number, and inscriptions on metal even less common.