Ancient Greek

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF ATLANTIS: PLATO'S IDEAL STATE	The text book for the course is Kershaw, S.P., A Brief History of Atlantis: Plato's Ideal State, London: Robinson, 2016. It can be...	Plato, Plato's 'Critias', Plato's 'Kritias', Plato's 'Timaeus', Plato's 'Timaios', Ancient Greek, Ancient history, Greek culture, Atlantis, Kershaw	view
HERODOTUS ON BABYLON	Herodotus' History includes a memorable description of the city of Babylon, which may have had a considerable influence on Plato's...	Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Timaeus, Critias, Babylon, Ancient Greek	view
HERODOTUS ON ECBATANA	One major city in the Persian Empire that Herodotus describes, and which might have had a bearing on Plato’s description of Atlantis-ville, was...	Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Ecbatana, Ancient Greek, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Ancient history	view
HERODOTUS ON EGYPT	The Greek historian Herodotus, produced a wonderfully engaging account of his historia (= ‘inquiry’) into the origins and events of...	Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Egypt, Archaeology, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Ancient Greek, Ancient history	view
New Testament Greek 2	This course is for those who attended New Testament Greek 1 or have acquired a similar level of koiné Greek elsewhere. If you attended NT...	Bible, New Testament, Ancient Greek	view
PLATO'S CRITIAS (KRITIAS)	The Atlantis myth is unique in the corpus of Greek mythology in that it has no antecedents, and it has no genealogical relationship to any earlier...	Plato, Plato's 'Critias', Plato's 'Kritias', Greek philosophy, Atlantis, Pseudoarchaeology, Pseudoscience, Ancient Greek	view
SOLON'S POETRY	Plutarch wrote a biography of Solon, in which he tells us that Solon tried, unsuccessfully, to introduce to the Atlantis story to the Greeks in a...	Atlantis, Plato, Solon, Ancient Greek, myth	view
XERXES AND THE MOUNT ATHOS CANAL	The construction of Xerxes' canal across the base of mount Athos is the type of hybristic engineering project which Plato's Atlanteans, themselves...	Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Ancient Greek, Persian Wars, Xerxes, Canal, hybris, hubris	view
XERXES AT THE HELLESPONT	Herodotus' description of Xerxes' bridging of the Hellespont show us the combination of ambitious engineering projects with out-of-control...	Atlantis, Plato, Herodotus, Xerxes, hybris, Ancient Greek, Persian Wars, Ancient history	view

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