By Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow
What did the traditional Greeks consume and drink? What position did migration play? Why used to be emperor Nero well-liked by the standard humans yet much less so with the higher periods? Why (according to old authors) was once Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called?
For over 2,000 years the civilizations of historical Greece and Rome have captivated our collective mind's eye and supplied idea for thus many facets of our lives, from tradition, literature, drama, cinema, and tv to society, schooling, and politics. a few of the roots of ways lifestyles is lived within the West this day could be traced to the traditional civilizations, not just in politics, legislation, expertise, philosophy, and technology, but in addition in social and family members lifestyles, language, and art.
This authoritative A to Z consultant good points over seven-hundred entries on all points of lifestyles in historic Greece and Rome. appealing illustrations, jargon-free entries, and an invaluable chronology and bibliography make this better half the suitable consultant for readers drawn to studying extra in regards to the Graeco-Roman global. in addition to supplying sound details on all features of classical civilization reminiscent of heritage, politics, ethics, morals, legislation, society, faith, mythology, technological know-how and know-how, language, literature, paintings, and scholarship, the entries within the spouse replicate the altering interdisciplinary points of classical stories, masking vast thematic topics, similar to race, nationalism, gender, ethics, and ecology, confirming the effect classical civilizations have had at the glossy global.
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Adoption imitates nature’ (Inst. Iust. 1. 11. 4), so an adoptive relationship barred marriage and the adopter had to be older than the adoptee (a rule allegedly flouted by the adoption of Publius *Clodius Pulcher). Bachelors and men physically incapable of reproduction (except if they had been castrated) could adopt. Adoption could be reversed by emancipation. Adoption (of both kinds), since it created paternal power and continued the agnatic family, was originally the prerogative of men only.
Iust. 5. 17. 8) his adultery in the matrimonial home or with a married woman entitled his wife to divorce him without incurring the penalties then imposed for unjustified divorce (see marriage law (Roman)). AB/BN/SMT Aegae (Vergina) in northern Pieria (see º Map 1, Ba »), overlooking the coastal plain of Macedonia. Founded by the first of the Temenid kings and thereafter the site of their tombs, it has been made famous by Manolis Andronikos, who excavated a pre-Temenid cemetery of tumuli and then, in 1977, three royal tombs of the 4th cent.
G. Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 1. 64. 5; Livy 1. 2. 6). The list of Aeneas’ westward wanderings towards Italy is already long and contradictory by the 1st cent. bc (cf. Dion. Hal. 1. 44–64), including cities and cults supposedly named after him in Thrace, Chalcidice, Epirus, and Sicily, and visits to Delos and Crete. A visit to Carthage, possibly involving a meeting with Dido, is certainly part of the itinerary by the time of *Naevius’ Bellum Punicum (3rd cent. bc), where it is seen as an ancestral cause of the enmity between Rome and *Carthage.