The Greek Kitchen

1962 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 121-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. A. Sparkes
Keyword(s):  
Complete Picture ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek History

The utensils which I am going to describe and discuss in the following pages are the ordinary utensils of Greek, mainly Athenian, households in the classical period; they have been found in abundance, are not special articles and may therefore serve to furnish a fairly complete picture of the classical batterie de cuisine. It is only in the last generation that material has come to hand which enables us to venture some way to understanding the methods of ancient Greek cooking. The Excavations of the Athenian Agora, in which the majority of the cooking pots on plates IV–VIII have been found, have produced evidence for the contents of Greek kitchens in most periods of Greek history, objects for the most part thrown away when broken as the result either of public or of private sacrifices. Rarely, in contrast with Pompeii, are the contents of the kitchen found in the places where they were used. Thus other evidence must be brought forward to supplement the archaeological, and this evidence is of two kinds: literary and artistic. Our literary knowledge of Greek cookery is derived in the main from the quotations preserved by Athenaeus; other authors refer to cookery incidentally and rarely provide a straight description.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
David A. Blome
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Third World ◽  
Military History ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek History ◽  
Greek World

This introductory chapter provides a background of the ancient Greek scholarship “beyond the polis.” At its broadest, third-world or beyond-the-polis scholarship encompasses all Greek polities aside from Athens and Sparta. In a more focused version, such scholarship concentrates on regions where the polis—that is, a self-governing community of citizens—coexisted with or was subsidiary to other forms of political and social organization. Instead of viewing the ancient Greek world through a single sociopolitical lens, beyond-the-polis scholars seek to contextualize the different state-forms that prevailed elsewhere in the Greek world. In this way, the focus of classical Greek history can shift beyond the polis. This book explores four military encounters during the classical period which document the collective capabilities of upland Greeks, bringing ancient Greek military history and beyond-the-polis scholarship into dialogue with each other.

scholarly journals Slavery and Athens’ Economic Efflorescence

Mare Nostrum ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Douglas Porter
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Economics ◽  
New Institutional Economics ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Significant Growth ◽  
Milling Operations ◽  
Greek History ◽  
Greek Economy

Following a recent wave of literature arguing for significant growth in the ancient Greek economy, several ground-breaking books have sought to explain this phenomenon through the lens of New Institutional Economics (NIE). The undeniable prevalence of slavery throughout ancient Greek history, however, has not been substantially integrated into these new analyses. This essay intends to address this problem, by elucidating some of the ways in which slavery contributed to the economic efflorescence of Greece’s late archaic and classical period (600–300 BC) within an institutionally focused approach. Examining specifically the state of Athens, this study contends that not only did the system of slavery import a vast amount of labour from other areas of the Mediterranean into the Athenian polity, but it also directed labour towards economically productive aims that were otherwise  limited by Athens’ societal framework. The use of slaves in milling operations provides a key and often overlooked example, which will here be used as a case study.

The Living Art of Greek Tragedy. By Marianne McDonald. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003; pp. 224. $15.95 paper.

2005 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Author(s):  
Edmund P. Cueva
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Indiana University

Marianne McDonald's book provides a solid introduction to ancient tragedy and theatre. The author examines the works by the three major ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and supplies for each playwright biographies, synopses of their works, and modern and ancient translations and adaptations of their plays. The listing of the translations and adaptations is selective and spans from the classical period up to the twentieth century.

Language, ancient philosophy of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Shields
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Natural Languages ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Singular Terms ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Philosophical Argumentation ◽  
Semantic Values ◽  
Independent Inquiry

The earliest interest in language during the ancient Greek period was largely instrumental: presumed facts about language and its features were pressed into service for the purpose of philosophical argumentation. Perhaps inevitably, this activity gave way to the analysis of language for its own sake. Claims, for example, about the relation between the semantic values of general terms and the existence of universals invited independent inquiry into the nature of the meanings of those general terms themselves. Language thus became an object of philosophical inquiry in its own right. Accordingly, philosophers at least from the time of Plato conducted inquiries proper to philosophy of language. They investigated: - how words acquire their semantic values; - how proper names and other singular terms refer; - how words combine to form larger semantic units; - the compositional principles necessary for language understanding; - how sentences, statements, or propositions come to be truth-evaluable; and, among later figures of the classical period, - (6) how propositions, as abstract, mind- and language-independent entities, are to be (a) characterized in terms of their constituents, (b) related to minds and the natural languages used to express them, and (c) related to the language-independent world.

Spartan Oliganthropia

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-106
Author(s):  
Timothy Doran
Keyword(s):  
Population Dynamics ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek History

Abstract The population of the Spartiates declined from some 8,000 to fewer than 1,000 in the Classical and Hellenistic eras. The causes and consequences of this decline are important for an understanding not only of ancient Greek history, but also of the study of pre-industrial populations and population dynamics more generally. This work surveys a range of representative modern scholarship on this phenomenon and discusses topics such as family planning, elite under-reproduction, wealth polarization, and notions of eugenic exclusivity, and suggests avenues for further research.

scholarly journals A FAKE OR GENUINE ARTEFACT? THE PARIAN CHRONICLE AND PERCEPTIONS OF AUTHENTICITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 271-295
Author(s):  
Peter N Lindfield
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Greek History ◽  
Eighteenth Century Britain ◽  
The University ◽  
Opening Up

A remarkable controversy raged in the late 1780s concerning the authenticity of the Parian Chronicle, a supposedly genuine carved fragment recording ancient Greek history that was included in the 1667 Arundel bequest to the University of Oxford. Drawing in figures in British antiquarianism, including Richard Gough who, as Director of the Society of Antiquaries of London, intervened in the debate with a pamphlet that came out in support of the artefact’s authenticity, this was an important moment in eighteenth-century antiquarian study. Hot on the heels of the now much more well-known Ossian controversy of the 1760s, the Chatterton–Rowley–Walpole debacle from 1770, Chatterton’s subsequent death and the publication of his forgeries from 1777, the literature variously refuting and supporting the Parian Chronicle’s authenticity strikes at the heart of antiquarianism, in particular opening up to dispute assumptions made about or accepted interpretations concerning the authenticity of the fragments upon which subsequent antiquarian work and interpretation was based. This debate took the form of a very public attack upon, and defence of, the Parian Chronicle’s status as a genuine third-century bc antiquarian fragment, and the controversy within antiquarian circles that it occasioned is reconstructed here.

Thucydideses: authorship, anachrony, and anachronism in Greek historiography

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Emily Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek History ◽  
The Future ◽  
Greek Historiography

Abstract This article revisits the theme of temporality in ancient Greek historiography through the lens of the Byzantine Histories of Laonikos Chalkokondyles, who fastened onto the device of the anachronic, proleptic future in Herodotus and Thucydides to license his apparently anachronistic device of writing in the language and persona of both, eighteen centuries after they wrote. In Laonikos’ account, his narrative is part of the future of ‘Greek’ history anticipated by Herodotus and Thucydides. Laonikos’ clever assimilation of Herodotus and Thucydides sheds new light on Thucydides’ own reduplication of himself to project an authorial and textual future. This strong, anachronic move has made Thucydides’ work assimilable by future readers and also opened up the work to the contingencies of reception, with its potential for anachronism.

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