Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Attic calendar or Athenian calendar is the lunisolar calendar beginning in midsummer with the lunar month of Hekatombaion, in use in ancient Attica, the ancestral territory of the Athenian polis. It is sometimes called the Greek calendar because of Athens's cultural importance, but it is only one of many ancient Greek calendars .
In 2004 Chambers Harrap published a new Book of Days.Rosalind Fergusson wrote for the Chambers Harrap website that: Like its illustrious predecessor, Chambers Book of Days (2004) is a compendium of information relating to the days, months, and seasons of the year, selected and presented with the personal touch of the author. ...
Classical antiquity generally covers the period in Mediterranean history from around 700 BC through the 5th or 6th centuries AD, culminating in Late antiquity (7th century AD). See also the preceding Category:Prehistoric Europe and the succeeding Category:Late antiquity
Jump to content. Main menu
Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities is an English-language encyclopedia on subjects of classical antiquity. Publication history [ edit ]
The Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1891), covers Ancient Greek and Roman antiquities, mythology and literature in over 2,500 articles. [1] It was written in German by Oskar Seyffert and edited by Henry Nettleship and John Edwin Sandys.
The names for archaeological periods vary enormously from region to region. This is a list of the main divisions by continent and region. Dating also varies considerably and those given are broad approximations across wide areas.
The vase collection is listed until 2010. The find complex associated with a group of ancient Apulian picture vases for a funeral ceremony (German: Apulische Bildervasen für eine Totenfeier) consists of 29 vases, plates, vase fragments, and fragment groups, which are showpieces of the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities in the Altes Museum.