Ancient History and Religion

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Ancient Greek History and Religion

An alliance was made between Egesta (a town in NW Sicily) and Athens. The evidence for this alliance comes from an inscription on two fragments of a marble stele. The alliance has been dated as 458/7 or 454/3 or 418/17 BCE. The dating is a critical point for the history of Athens.	The dating of the Egesta inscription
An outline history of Athenian relations with Samos for the period 477 to 404 BCE.	Relations between Samos and Athens
The significance of Erechtheus/Erichthonios in Athenian myth and ritual.	Erechtheus
The cosmological thinking that underpins Hesiod's Theogony.	Hesiod's Cosmology
Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms	Acropolis - boulimos
Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms	Carians - exegetai
Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms	faux de mieux - lysis kakon
Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms	makarismos - oschophoroi
Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms	palaestra - zeugitai
Principal Athenian Festivals	Table of Feasts
Ancient Deities	Olympian Deities

Judaism

The Maccabees and Hasmoneans	Not yet available.
Pilate and Caligula	Not yet available.
Ezra and 2 Baruch	Not yet available.
Yohanan ben Zakkai	Not yet available.
The Synagogue in the First Century CE	Not yet available.
The Jews in Rome	Not yet available.
Philo of Alexandria	Not yet available.

Christianity

Early Christianity has moved to here>

Mesopotamia & Iran

Shapur I and the Roman Wars	Not yet available.
Bardaisan, Marcion and Mani	Bardaisan, Marcion & Mani

References:

Abbott-Smith, G., A manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, T & T Clark, Aberdeen, 1964

Reference: Bruit Zaidman L., and Schmidt Pantel P. Religion in the Ancient Greek City, trans. Cartledge, P., CambridgeUP, Cambridge, 1992, p.103

Buxton, R, Oxford Readings in Greek Religion, OxfordUP, Oxford, 2000

Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Columbia UP, 2003

Gibbon, J, Athenian Society, Bristol Classical Press, London, 1997

Guinagh, K, Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations, 1965

Harris S.L., and Platzner, G., Classical Mythology, Mayfield, Mountain View, 2001

Neils, J, Worshipping Athena, Panathenaia & Parthenon, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1996

G P Putnam's Sons, The Concise Mythological Dictionary, Peerage Books, London, 1963

Langenscheidts Taschenwortenbuch

Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised by Sir Henry Stuart Jones and Roderick McKenzie, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1940. Found on line at Perseus

Peck, H. T., Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898

Smith, W., A Smaller History of [Ancient] Greece

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