This book brings together information that is currently scattered across an ever-growing number of journals. Written by experts, each with years of experienc...

Errors are possible in any activity. Including translations from foreign languages. Especially when translating from ancient Greek, which is not particularly...

The writings of ancient historians and geographers sometimes mention animals that are impossible or almost impossible to identify. These are not necessarily ...

Images of characters on the very famous ancient cup of Arcesilaus are accompanied by inscriptions. These are the so-called “speaking names”. The term is used...

There are many animals depicted on the Arcesilaus cup, one of the most famous examples of ancient Greek painted pottery. Despite some convention, their speci...

Some statements of ancient authors in translations look so meaningless that they make one doubt the adequacy of these ancient authors. Like, for example, the...

A comprehensive analysis of ancient texts and non-written sources, taking into account the indirect information contained in them, made it possible to reliab...

It is widely accepted that the iconography and composition of Arcesilaus' cup was modeled on weighing scenes found in Egyptian funerary art. However, less at...

The ancient Greek colonization of Cyrenaica in the 7th century BC began when settlers from the island of Thera (modern Santorini), on the recommendation of t...

In 1899, Jean-Marc Côté, a French commercial artist, was commissioned to create illustrations for a series of cigarette cards to coincide with celebrations h...