Category: Europe

According to watchtutorials, the London Protocol (1830) gave rise to the Kingdom of Greece, territorially limited between the Gulf of Arta and that of Volos, while Great Britain retained possession of the Ionian islands (ceded to the Greeks only in 1863). The 1832 convention attributed the crown to Otto of Wittelsbach, son of Louis I…

Scopa’s finding of two new copies of the so-called Apollo with the goose, quite fine, in via Cavour in Rome, led to a re-proposal of the problem of attribution to the master of this type, in which the Pothos (personification of desire amoroso) and its critical evaluation. For Leocare we have a new signature found…

A small plastic monument of severe style can also be considered a nice perfume burner with peplophóros found in Delphi. W. Amelung’s reconstruction of the famous Aphrodite Sosandra of Calamioe found interesting confirmation with the discovery in the excavations of Hama on the Orontes of a new copy with the head of the so-called Aspasia type. Of…

For the plastic arts, after the discovery of the small wooden xóana by Palma Montechiaro (see xoanon, XXXV, p. 825), three statuettes of laminated and hammered bronze, one male and two female, came to light in Dreros in Crete. with geometrized and schematized bodies, datable towards the middle of the century. VII a. C., which give a…

The lira follows the evolution of this system. At first its extension includes two joint tetrachords (lira heptachorde). Each of the strings has its own name deriving from its position on the instrument: ipate (ὑπάτη) means the highest string; paripate (παρυπάτη) closest to highest; licanos (λίχανος) index; month (μέση) mean; trite (τρίτη) third; paranete (παρανήτη)…

The meeting of a large number of choristers and players in the immense Roman and Alexandrian theaters and amphitheaters does not constitute progress, leading only to an increase in sonority. The only genres that retain any vitality are the hymn, the citarodia, the auletic nómos. But Christianity does not take long to proscribe them, as…

According to sourcemakeup, the nomic melodies (νόμοι), transmitted by tradition, and kept by the priests in the archives of the major sanctuaries, where they were performed in the practices of worship, initially limited to a small number, became the subject of a series of transformations and elaborations to which each composer brought his own contribution….

The deeper one penetrates into the history of the Greek people, the greater appears to have been the place occupied by music in public and private life. There was no act or event of urban or rural existence (funerals, weddings, harvests, reaping, etc.) that did not involve or explicitly did not require a more or…

The succession is, in principle and by rule as ancient as and more than the Greek people, of children to the father: whoever has no descendants can create them with adoption, between living or due to death (εἰσποίησις). In progress of time the laws call to inherit, in the absence of legitimate and adoptive descendants,…

The most characteristic features, perhaps even the least intelligible to the scholar educated in Roman law, are in terms of rights over things. The concept of ownership is missing, as an elastic right that any limitation potentially leaves intact: κύριος, κυριεία, κυριεύειν indicate the situation that allows the owner, according to an economic evaluation, the…

According to picktrue, there are as many Greek rights as there are cities in Greece: only a small part of the συμπολιτεία which links several cities in a federation, translates into laws having effect in all associated cities; but also the territorial extension of the federations usually does not exceed that of the major cities….

Whether or not he really belonged to the royal family, he soon had all of Macedonia in his hands. And since the Romans, distracted by the Third Punic War, who were fighting at the time, at first sent only a few forces against him, he won over them a victory (149), which consolidated his authority…

According to justinshoes, the defeat of Thermopylae, which forced Antiochus, weakly helped by the allies, to fall back to Asia (191), left the Aetolians alone in the face of Roman excessive power. Philip took advantage of it to try to regain part of what he had lost in Thessaly and the surrounding regions, and the…

In the autumn of 200, consul Galba started the Second Macedonian War by landing his legions in the Roman possessions of today’s Albania. Immediately after, his successful invasion of Macedonia caused the Aetolians, breaking the peace with Philip, to return to the Roman alliance (199). Macedonian symmetry had remained neutral, but neutrality, benevolent at first…

According to healthvv, the defeat of the Romans at Cannae induced Philip to make an alliance with Hannibal, and certainly Rome must have appeared to Philip much more dangerous than Carthage and it seemed to him a vital interest for Macedonia to snatch Corcira and the possessions beyond the Adriatic from it. But to fight…

Meanwhile, in the long and varied group of poets that follow one another after the collapse of the epic, from the century. VII to VI a. There are clear signs of an important crisis: namely, the difficulty of reconciling poetic inspiration with the changed conditions of culture, with the progress of spiritual consciousness, especially in…

Greece is a state of southern Europe, including the lower part of the Balkan Peninsula, the archipelagos of the Ionian and Aegean and the island of Crete. It borders to the NW with Albania, to the North with the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgariaand to the East with Turkey ; it is washed to the West by the Ionian Sea, to the East by the Aegean….