Peter's Ancient History and Religion Pages
Education in Ancient History & Religion
- Note: These pages include Ancient Greek History, Ancient Greek religion, Judaism and Iran. Early Christianity has moved to here>
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| Topic : Ancient Greece | Link |
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| 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 A-B
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Acropolis - boulimos |
| Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms C-E
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Carians - exegetai |
| Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms F-L
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faux de mieux - lysis kakon |
| Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms M-O
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makarismos - oschophoroi |
Ancient Greek History - Glossary of terms P-Z
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palaestra - zeugitai |
| Principal Athenian Festivals | Table of Feasts |
| Ancient Deities | Olympian Deities |
| Topic: Judaism | Link |
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The Maccabees and Hasmoneans  |
Maccabees |
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Pilate and Caligula |
Pilate |
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4 Ezra and 2 Baruch |
4 Ezra and 2 Baruch |
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Yohanan ben Zakkai |
Yohanan ben Zakkai |
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The Synagogue in the First Century CE |
Synagogue |
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The Jews in Rome |
Jews in Rome |
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Philo of Alexandria |
Philo |
| Topic: Middle East & Persia | Link |
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| Christianity | Early Christianity has moved to here> |
| Mesopotamia & Iran | Not yet available. |
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Shapur I and the Roman Wars |
Shapur I and the Roman Wars |
| Bardaisan, Marcion and Mani | Bardaisan, Marcion & Mani |
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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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