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All of ancient Athens displayed a combination of the linear ... expensive jewelry, and cheap clothing, which he never changed, winter or summer. Athenians mocked Hippodamus for his eccentricities ...
Women in ancient Greece are the subject of much interest to scholars ... some of our questions about women's physical appearance, specifically their clothing, throughout Greek history. Archaeological ...
In ancient Sparta, Athens and many other Greek city states ... magistrates was to make sure women didn't spend too much on clothing, to assure proper and uniform attire at religious festivals ...
At Prawfsblawg, legal scholar Paul Gowder has an insightful post on some of the reasons why the study of ancient Athenian democracy is relevant to modern debates about law and politics.
The researchers' first step was converting the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) database—the largest digital collection of ancient Greek inscriptions—into machine-actionable text they called ...