Ancient Greece

Death and Burial in Ancient Greece

It was very important to the Greeks to be buried in their homeland by their close family. (4) The rituals accompanying death were often expensive, and over time laws were enacted that limited the cost of funerals. Although women were a crucial element of the rituals, only women who were closely related to the deceased or over the age of sixty were ...

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Ancient Athenian Women

Once a woman was married her husband controlled all property. Any property that she might have inherited would go directly to her husband. She had no rights to wander about the town, without a just cause. Any respectable woman would not be seen in public. Greek women had virtually no political rights of any kind and were controlled by men at all st...

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Ancient Theatre

(meta-index) Malaspina Univ. [Greece] [Resources]...

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Software Directory for the Classics

Rob Latousek [Greece] [Resources]...

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Antiqua Medicina

Aspects in Ancient Medicine, Univ. of Virginia [Greece] [Resources]...

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Daughters of Demeter

Demeter`s Olympian world was a patriarchal one, governed by Zeus, "father of gods and men." But in her myth, Demeter successfully resists the arbitrary and tyrannical exercise of patriarchal power, circumscribes her own areas of potency and authority, and celebrates her affinity with other female divinities. Similarly, the women of ancient Greece i...

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Ancient Greek Music

Stefan Hagel, Austrian Academy of Sciences [Greece] [Resources]...

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Art and Archaeology

Tufts Univ. [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

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The Internet Classics Archive

Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation, and more from Daniel C. Stevenson [Greece] [Resources]...

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