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Ancient Greece: City and Society

This subject deals with the cultural history of the ancient Greek world through both textual sources and the material evidence of art and archaeology. The period covered runs from the Iron Age world o... Read more

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Introduction

Introduction

In this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd describes the basic background of ancient Greece – geography, resources, main politi... Read more

11 Aug 2013

22mins

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Slavery, Part I (handout)

Slavery, Part I (handout)

In the first of two lectures on Ancient Greek slavery, Dr Gillian Shepherd looks at two important slave systems – chatte... Read more

28 Apr 2014

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Mining, Money and Economy

Athens was a wealthy and prosperous place in the classical period. In this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd takes a closer lo... Read more

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Marriage to Death: Sophocles’ Antigone

Marriage to Death: Sophocles’ Antigone

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Death in Athens

One of the best sources of evidence for understanding an ancient society is burials. Ancient cemeteries can provide evid... Read more

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Images of Barbarians

Images of Barbarians

Greek art is full of images of “others”, both historical (such as the Persians and Scythians) and mythological (such as ... Read more

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The Greeks and the Other

The Greeks and the Other

One of the preoccupations of the ancient Greeks, especially in the fifth century BC, was the idea of the barbarian “othe... Read more

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Sexuality and the Symposion

Sexuality and the Symposion

In this lecture Dr Gillian Shepherd takes a closer look at the ancient Greek symposion – the ritualised, male and often ... Read more

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Sexuality: Plato’s Symposium

Sexuality: Plato’s Symposium

Greek ideas of male sexuality differed from modern Western ones; rather than defining their sexual orientation one way o... Read more

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Lesbian Women: Sappho

Lesbian Women: Sappho

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