I've been reading The Greeks by Roderick Beaton, and the section that covers antiquity is fantastic. I've read parts of Introducing the Greeks by Edith Hall, but it really is an overview. Ultimately I'm looking for books that readable and not too dry and textbooky, but that aren't superficial. It would great to read more about Dark Age and Archaic Greece.

Hello, as the title says, I’m looking for recommendations for any sort of diary or journal written in Ancient Rome. I recently read through the journal of Nicholas Cresswell and I loved the first person, day to day writings of his daily life. And I thought it would be cool if there were any made during Ancient Rome. I’d like something that’s been made into book form that I can buy and physically read. If anyone knows of any, I’d love to hear about them.

Diogenes was an interesting man

what story, to you, is a testament to the kind of man he was?

Movies or other media that have captured the look, architecture, nature and beauty of what everyday life back then could have been. It could be paintings or art as well. A detailed encyclopedia artwork piece? Something that comes to mind immediately when you think of the time period. Any input is appreciated!

I'm just curious as to whether there is a play or plays that are reported as being above the rest, as in if 'Hamlet' was missing but contempory sources said it was fantastic.

I know we are missing lots, but it would be interesting to know what the biggest 'losses' are.

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Granted, it's not the most talked about as the old days of Socrates and Alcibiades or as romanticized as the time of Miltiades, Cimon, Aeschylus, etc...

But later on, after the peace of Artaxerxes especially and waning of the Spartan hegemony, it's when things get very interesting in Athena's wisdom-loving city

We have so many interesting characters. Demosthenes, Diogenes, Hypereides, Aristotle, Aeschines, Plato, Lais and Phryne, etc...

Surrounded by players like Philip, Artaxerxes, Epaminondas, Pelopidas, the chaos of the social war, and jolly adventures like the one of Plato to Syracuse, Xenophon's expedition to the east, etc...

It's this Athens is struggling to find herself while also dealing with turmoils overseas.

Hi, does anyone know the correct order to read the events before we get to Sophocles' Electra?

He knew he wouldn’t come home because of his mother, so why did he allow his cousin to be killed?

I hope this /r contains some folks who, like me, love both ancient Greece and Dungeons & Dragons.

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Demosthenes, the famous orator who shined as the twilight of old Athens, the wisdom-loving city of Athena.

Yet I noticed that so many of the later Greek writers don't really give him much credit, a rare case being Plutarch who paints him in a better light.

But scattered throughout the Hellenistic and Roman Greek writers is all these disparaging statements about him, Polybius, for example, paints him as a narcissist who only cares about subjugating the other Greeks to Athens, while Athenaeus discusses his various promiscuous episodes with courtesans like Lais and whatnot. While Diodorus of Sicily gives him the cold shoulder and minimizes his importance in typical historic revionist fashion.

But perhaps being too pro-Demosthenes in the hellenistic era and Roman era was taboo and maybe we could read in between the lines here.

I mean when did Demosthenes ever face a resurgence other than the admiration of Cicero and the biography of Plutarch?