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- The Lions of March, 2006
- New Year Edition (Jan 2006)
- Blessing Season Edition (Nov 2005)
- Goldfest '05: Special Edition (Oct 2005)
- Fall-Friendly Edition (Aug 2005)
- Soothing Summertime Edition (Jun 2005)
- The Flowers of May (May 2005)
- Springfest in Hellas (Apr 2005)
- The Lions of March 2005
- Bringing in the New Year! (Jan 2005)
- Celebrating the Winter Solstice, 2004 (Nov 2004)
- Beginning Year III! Vol 1V, Iss. 1 (Oct 2004)
- Volume III - Issue III - December 15, 2003
- Volume III - Issue II - November 15, 2003
- Bronze Statuary in Ancient Greece - An overview of the bronze-casting techniques in ancient Greece
- Contrapossto from Praxiteles to Rubens and Playboy - Victoria Socrates takes us through some twists and turns from Polyclitos through Rubens to Hugh Hefner and the New Yorker Magazine.
- Is Ganymede the Boy from Marathon Bay? - Arguments pro & con, and questions about the technology, design & mythic meaning of this beautiful bronze by Praxiteles or his school.
- Thanatos at Ephesus
- The Dancing Satyr - A Lost Bronze of Praxiteles? - With stunning photos of a stunning statue, DIonysia asks whether this recently discovered Greek bronze of a dancing satyr is by Praxiteles himself or is a later Roman copy.
- The Getty Kouros - A report on the colloquium convened in Athens to discuss the authenticity of the Getty Kouros.
- The Marathon Boy and the Satyr
- The Met returns its Euphronios vase! - This world-famous Greek vase, a 2500-year-old krater for mixing wine and water, painted by Euphronios, has been The Metropolitan Museum's most prized antique since 1972, not long after it was dug up and stolen from a tomb in Cerveteri, a buried Etruscan site just north of Rome. Now it's going back to Italy
- The Olympeion - The History Of The Greatest Temple In Hellas.
- THE PALACE OF KNOSSOS
- The School Of Athens
- A Woman Of Sparta - The freedom of spartan women came at a terrible price
- Jousting at Tripods? - A correction, with photo, by Victoria Socrates to the description of the Bryaxis relief
- THE ANCIENT OLYMPIEIA FESTIVAL AT ATHENS - An imaginative reconstruction of the equestrian events at Athens' spring festival in honor of Zeus, by DIonysia Xanthippos
- The Binding Curse - Greek magical practice was not considered to be separate from Greek religion. Curses were common and, in most cases not meant to be fatal. The most common curses were "binding curses".
- The development of Minoan tombs - Minoan burials and tomb styles
- The Fabric Of Greece - Textiles by the hands of Greek women
- A HISTORY OF MINOAN CULTURE
- A Visit To Thessalia - A visitor is shown the old land of Hellas.
- A War Of Mice - The contribution to Alexander's campaign by Antipater may be under rated by history, but Alexander must have been well aware of them.
- An Epic and a Group - The short history of Epyllion
- Athenian Imperialism and the Black Sea Grain Route
- Byzantium before Constantine: The Greco-Roman City, 658 BCE - 330 CE - The first 960 years of the city that became Constantinople and later Istanbul.
- Crete
- History of Ancient Wine: In the Beginning
- Host cities of the Modern Olympics
- How could the Spartans have avoided the loss of their leading position in Greece? - At Leuctra in 371BC, the Spartan military machine was humbled and humiliated beyond repair, but why did this happen and how could it have been different?
- How did the Empire of Nicaea emerge as the front-runner of the Byzantine Successor States and eventually become the restorer of Constantinople? - A study of the aftermath of the abortive Fourth Crusade which, instead of attacking the Turkish 'enemies of the faith' in the Holy Land, captured two Christian cities in the eastern Mediterranean, putting the last bastion of eastern Christianity, Constantinople, to the sack in 1204.
- How was Spartan Strategy after the Persian Wars geared towards preventing a helot revolt?
- Isocrates and the Idea of Pan-Hellenism - An article published in the web-site Tropaion concering the Isocrates' idea of Hellenismos.
- Ithaca: the Homeric Island - The Ionian island of Ithaca, immortalized by the epics of Homer.
- Knossos
- Linear A: The Problems of Decipherment - Why Linear A hasn't yet been translated
- Olympia Links - Links For Greek Athletes And The Olympics
- Phylakopi Project 2003
- PYTHAGOREAN HARMONICS: FROM PYTHAGORAS TO NEWTON
- Salamis: the Palace of Ajax? - The discovery of a Mycenaean palace on Salamis, believed to be that of Trojan War warrior-king Ajax
- Some Observations on the Topography of Knossos - The Minoans had a strong orientation towards the mountain peaks. So what exactly did they look at in Knossos?
- Spartan Dance Liturgies in Honour of Apollo - The term Dance, Choros, by Plato means the Joy-happiness, Chara. For Spartans, Apollo means reborn and power. For them Dance is athletics!
- The Desecration of the Herms: An Indictment
- The Heart of the Aegean - The Cycladic Islands
- THE MACEDONES - The Highland Warriors of Hellas
- THE MINOAN WORLD
- The Siege Of Tyre - The Reason for the Tyresome Siege
- Valentine's Day
- Vergina Tombs Tour by Kallistos Alexandros
- Was the battle of Ankara the last chance for the Byzantine Empire? - Storying the last years of the Byzantine Empire from the Fourth Crusade to the final fall of Constantinople in 1453 and assessing whether the interference of Timur at the turn of the 15th century could have been the last chance for survival for the "fag-end of the Roman Empire"
- What do we know of the purposes, the provisions, and the results of the Periclean citizenship law? - There is little doubt that Athens was the centre of Classical Greece and as the head honcho of Athens, Pericles was effectively head of much of the Hellenic world. The crux of this article is to investigate the aspects of one of his more famous pieces of legislation, the Citizenship Law of 450/1.
- What were the motives behind Greek opposition to and co-operation with Philip of Macedon? - A brief look at the relations between Macedon and her Greek neighbours during the reign of Philip
- Alexander, The Movie - Reviews of The Oliver Stone production Of Alexander The Great by AW members.
- Beginning Persona Developement - 1st in series of articles on persona development.
- Doing Research Online - 2nd in series of articles on persona development.
- Hellas Hoods: A comprehensive development guide
- Hellas Monster Puzzle
- Hellas Sources - 3rd in series of articles on persona development.
- Information about Crete, Knossos, Rethymno and Chania - Tanaquil's trip to Crete in 2003
- Love for Sparta - Sparta's friends in AWs proved their 'love'!
- Macedon Quiz
- Olympic Find-a-word puzzle
- Persona Development Questions - 4th in series of articles on persona development.
- A Short Life of Socrates (?469-399 BC) - One of the most famous philosophers of the western world
- A Woman Of Little Importance - The story of Barsine, the mistress of Alexander and mother of his son, Herakles.
- ALCIBIADES
- Alexander And The Iliad - How The Iliad May Have Effected Alexanders Life And Self Image.
- Alexander and The Rocks - During his campaigns in Bactria and Sogdiana, Alexander's military conquests of three fortresses expanded what was possible in siege warfare.
- Alexander at Thebes - Few actions of Alexander's were more controversial than his conquest and destruction of the Greek city-state of Thebes
- Alexander's Campaigns in Europe - Alexander's military brilliance was clearly revealed in his pre-Persian campaigns of 335 BC
- Alexandros - By Plutarch
- Cyrus The Great And Alexander - Cyrus The Great was much admired by Alexander and this admiration illuminates many of Alexander's actions in The Orient. A better understanding of Cyrus helps us to understand Alexander.
- Divine Alexander - An overview of the religious faith so much a part of Alexander the Great.
- In the Shadow of his Son - Philip II of Macedon
- Olympias Mother Of Alexander - The story of Alexander's Mother
- Philip V, Part I - Philip and the first Macedonian war. The beginings of Macedon's first war with Rome.
- Philip V Part II - The continuation of the life of Philip V, king of The macedones
- Philip V Part III - The end of the story of Philip V, King of Macedon.
- Socrates the Peculiar - Winning essay of the Philos Sophia group essay contest
- The Influence of Alexander
- The Long Haired Devil
- The Nature Of Alexander - What was it that made Alexander Alexander? How was his character formed and what self image made him what he was?
- The Rise of Philip of Macedon
- Thessalonike The Tragic Queen - Thessalonike the namesake of Thessaloniki
- Alexandros' Lament - A poem I'm working on about Alexander (Alexandros) of Macedon seeking the Shade of his beloved friend, Hephastion Amyontoros.
- Apologia - One of Plato's most moving works...
- Montaigne: Thermopylae - Translated by Donald M.Frame
- Reading The Life Of Alexander - A guide to selective reading of books about Alexander The Great.
- Socrates' Apology: The Background
- Spartan Books Read - Novels and Non Fiction
- Spartan National Character in Thucydides
- The Afternoon of a Faun
- What do the speeches in Thucydides I-II.65 add to our understanding of the events he is describing? - Widely considered as the first modern historian, Thucydides is still a giant in the annals of analytical writing, but how much good were his early speeches in helping us understand the outbreak and early years of the Peloponnesian War
- What do we know about Homer?
- A FATEFUL CHARIOT RACE: The STORY of PELOPS and OENOMAUS - THE MYTH OF PELOPS and OENOMAUS
- Adonis & Aphrodite - Under Construction
- Alcyone - The Goddess of the Sea, the Moon, Calm, and Tranquility
- Ancient Gods
- Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty
- Demeter, the Mother Goddess - The myth of Demeter and Demophon
- Fatal Boar Hunts, Fatal Loves: Meleager & Adonis
- Greek and Roman Gods - A list of Greek and Roman Gods, and their Powers and Responsibilities.
- Greek Myths
- Hermes, The Liar Who Invented the Lyre - The Greek myth about how the infant Hermes made a lyre from a turtle's shell, and how after stealing a herd of cattle from his brother Apollo he got to keep them in exchange for giving the lyre to Apollo. Told with new translations from the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and illustrations from Greek vases, an ancient coin, and a mysterious bronze statue.
- Hypnos & Thanatos, Sleep & Death
- Laughter from the Golden Age: Rhadamanthys - "The gods will take you to the Elysian plain, which is at the ends of the world. There fair-haired Rhadamanthys reigns, and men lead an easier life than any where else in the world..."
- THE GREEK SPHINX
- The Myth of Admetos and Alkestis
- The SPHINX and The ROBOT
- TYCHE & OEDIPUS
