Volume 17 / Number 4
1975
On The Cover: Arcesilaus II, King of Cyrene, detail on the interior of a wine cup made in Laconia around 560 BC; today in the Bibliotheque Nationale.
Vol. 17 / No. 4
By: Karen S. Rubinson
Herodotus and the Scythians
The Greek historian Herodotus (490/480-425 B.C.], in his History of the Persian Wars, included an excursus on the ethnography of […]
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By: Alfred Friendly
Vindolanda
In the past two years British archaeologists have discovered and in some part deciphered more than 240 fragments of 1st […]
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Vol. 17 / No. 4
By: David S. Reese
Men, Saints or Dragons?
“There were giants in the earth in those days…” Genesis 6:4 During the Pleistocene epoch of pre-history (three million to […]
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By: Tamara Stech Wheeler, Robert Maddin and James D. Muhly
Ingots and the Bronze Age Copper Trade in the Mediterranean: A Progress Report
The last twenty years have seen an increase in scientific studies of archaeological materials resulting from the desire for greater […]
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By: Donald White
Archaic Cyrene and the Cult of Demeter and Persephone
The rapid outward movement of the ancient Greeks from their mainland homes between the 10th and 6th centuries B.C., first […]
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