Eumenides – Aeschylus – Summary
Orestes kills Clytemnestra Third in a trilogy The Eumenides is the third of a cycle of three plays written by the Greek playwright Aeschylus. Who was Aeschylus? Agamemnon Curse of [...]
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Athena in Homer’s Odyssey
Athena in the Odyssey: Odysseus and Athena, on a red-figure vase Athena in the Odyssey In the Iliad and the Odyssey, Athena was on the side of the Greeks, because [...]
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Ancient Greek coins
Ancient Greek coins: an Athenian silver coin with Athena's owl How Greeks minted coins Beginning around 600 BC, each Greek city-state minted (made) its own kinds of coins. (They got [...]
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Women in Severe style Greek sculpture
Severe style: Athena But just as in the Archaic period, all Greek Severe Style sculptors carved women with their clothes on. Women also did much less moving around, and had [...]
