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Oxford Classical Art Research Center: The Beazley Archive beazley.ox.ac.uk The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization pbs.org/empires/thegreeks Janice Siegel, Department of Classics, Hampden–Sydney College, Virginia hsc.edu/drjclassics
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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Hellenistic World BBC Ancient Greeks bbc.co.uk/history/ Canadian Museum of History historymuseum.ca Perseus Project - Tufts University Later Ancient Roman History (33 articles) Īncient Roman Life (39 articles) Īncient Roman Art and Culture (33 articles) Īncient Roman Government, Military, Infrastructure and Economics (42 articles) Pliny said "We are much at the mercy of Chance that Chance is our god." The sphinx represented prophecy.Ĭategories with related articles in this website: Ancient Greek and Roman Religion and Myths (35 articles) Īncient Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science (33articles) Īncient Greek History (48 articles) Īncient Greek Art and Culture (21 articles) Īncient Greek Life, Government and Infrastructure (29 articles) Įarly Ancient Roman History (34 articles) Greeks believed in the magic spells of the sorceress Medea. Plutarch once wrote that superstitious "word and gestures, sorcery and magic, running backwards and forward" drove reasonable men to atheism. The Athenian leader Pericles once lost two armies because two medicine men told him he should not move his army until "thrice nine" days after lunar eclipse. Alexander the Great used fortunetellers used haruspicy (searching for omens in the entrails of animals) to predict the future. "Every month on the forth and seventh he gives instructions for wine to be mulled for his family.Every time he has a dream he rushes to the dream experts.If ever he sees one of the figures of Hecate.with a wreath of garlic, he rushes straight home to wash his head, and sends for a priestesses, and tells them to purify him by carrying around a puppy." If he sees a snake in his house, he calls on Sabazius, if it is one of the red variety if its one of the sacred sort he builds a shrine on the spot.If he hear an owl hoot while he's out walking he is much shaken and won't go past without muttering 'All power is Athene's." If a cat crosses the road he won't go any further until someone else passes or he has thrown three stones across the road. In the “ Characters” Theophrastus describes a man who "won't go out for the day without washing hands.and putting a piece of laurel leaf from a temple in his mouth. The scholar Joan Breton Connelly noted “there was no area of life that lacked a religious aspect,” citing one estimate that 2,000 cults operated during the classical period in the territory of Athens alone. Religion and ritual permeated the world of the city-states. Steve Coates wrote in the New York Times, “The Greeks don’t deserve their reputation as rationalists. Black figure eye cup with a mask of Dionysus