Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Entries include: Acropolis of Athens Archaic Period Banking Burial Places Carthage City State Crete Dance Democracy Dorians Econom y Eunuchs Fate Furniture Gardens Gods and Goddesses Hades Hellenistic Period Homosexuality Illyrians Imperialism Ju dicial Procedure Kinship Lesbos Libraries Marathon, Battle of Minoans Museum of Alexandria Navy Oligarchy Olympic Games Oral Tradition Painting Plato Poetry, Epic Rhodes Roman Period Sacrifice Slavery Superstition Technol ogy Trade Trojan War Votive Offerings Warfare Women and many more...

University of Oxford

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