Volume 1 (1912) of Usener's posthumously published essays focuses on Greek philosophy and rhetoric, addressing such diverse topics as Theophrastus' legal writings and Epicurean sayings.... Læs mere
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) was a businessman and self-taught archaeologist best known for discovering... Læs mere
Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) was a businessman and self-taught archaeologist best known for discovering the ancient city of Troy. This short... Læs mere
In this first-hand account of his excavations at Hissarlik in Turkey between 1871 and 1873, Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), a successful... Læs mere
Volume 2 (1899) focuses almost entirely on the Greek history of the fifth century BCE, except for some discussion of the governments of the Persian and Spartan kings.... Læs mere
The German historian Eduard Meyer's two-volume work on ancient Greek history was first published in 1892–1899 and describes specific periods up to the fifth century BCE.... Læs mere
Schliemann (1822–1890) was a wealthy German businessman who set out on a quest to find the exact location of Troy and the other cities of the Homeric tradition by journeying to Greece and Asia Minor to conduct excavations, as described in this 1869 book.
This pioneering 1825 publication by the German classicist Karl Ottfried Müller (1797–1840) was one of the earliest scholarly books to investigate the... Læs mere
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931) was a prominent German philologist. In Volume 2 of this 1893 book he offers a detailed reconstruction of Athenian constitutional... Læs mere
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931) was a prominent German philologist. In Volume 1 of this 1893 book on The Constitution of the Athenians, he investigates the sources... Læs mere
In Psyche, Erwin Rohde (1845–1898) seeks to establish the sources of the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul. In Volume 2 he argues that the origin of this belief is to be found in the cult of Dionysos.
In Psyche, Erwin Rohde (1845–1898) seeks to establish the sources of the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul. Volume 1 examines belief in the soul as it appears in Homeric poetry and within local cults. The author also discusses burial rites and the Eleusinian Mysteries.