Thracian Coin: Chersonese Silver Half Drachm
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The Thracians inhabited what is today Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, and parts of Turkey. Herodotus referred to them as one of the most numerous and powerful civilizations in the world, and they would have been considerably more threatening to the Greeks had they been a united people. However, the Thracians were splintered into many tribes that only occasionally formed short-lived, dominant states. Accordingly, they were largely overlooked by historians for centuries, although recent findings of ...click for details
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Greek Attic Black-Figure Lekythos
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The lekythos is a form of Greek pottery that was used as a personal container for oils or perfumes. The Greeks used olive oil for personal hygeine -- after hard exercise at the gymnasium, a wealthy man would pour a thin layer of oil on his skin and scrape it and the sweat off with a curved piece of metal called a strigil. This would remove the oil and the sweat, leaving the man (relatively) clean and moisturized. While ornate lekythos are commonly found as funerary objects, the small, portable s ...click for details
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Choice Greek Gnathian Olpe / Mug
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The Greek system of inheritance that passed all wealth to the oldest son was the driving force behind hundreds of years of Greek colonization. Sons without inheritances were forced to seek their riches through trade and ingenuity, and Greek merchants spread across the Mediterranean in search of wealth. Some of the most successful colonies and trading posts sprang up in Magna Graecia, the pre-Roman name for Southern Italy. Among these were the colonies of Apulia, for whom the creation and export ...click for details
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Rare Greek Coin of Kassander, AE 18
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Kassander, who reigned from 319-305 B.C., was the son of Antipater. Antipater had been left in charge of Macedon while Alexander the Great left on conquests, but he barely outlived Alexander and died in 319 B.C. He was succeeded by his son Kassander, who was infamous for his cruelty. In 311 B.C., Kassander executed Alexander's widow Roxana and his young son, Alexander IV to secure his rule over the country. In 309, he declared himself king, but Macedon's power had already faded with the ...click for details
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Nice Greek Gnathian Oinochoe
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The Greek system of inheritance that passed all wealth to the oldest son was the driving force behind hundreds of years of Greek colonization. Sons without inheritances were forced to seek their riches through trade and ingenuity, and Greek merchants spread across the Mediterranean in search of wealth. Some of the most successful colonies and trading posts sprang up in Magna Graecia, the pre-Roman name for Southern Italy. Among these were the colonies of Apulia, for whom the creation and export ...click for details
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Great Greek Gnathian Skyphos
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The Greek system of inheritance that passed all wealth to the oldest son was the driving force behind hundreds of years of Greek colonization. Sons without inheritances were forced to seek their riches through trade and ingenuity, and Greek merchants spread across the Mediterranean in search of wealth. Some of the most successful colonies and trading posts sprang up in Magna Graecia, the pre-Roman name for Southern Italy. Among these were the colonies of Apulia, for whom the creation and export ...click for details
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Stunning Greek Bail Amphora from Campania
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The system of Greek inheritance that passed all wealth and possessions to the oldest son was a driving force behind Greek colonization for centuries. For many, the only chance at wealth and success lie in the outside world, and Greek trading colonies sprang up around the Mediterranean as a result. One early trading colony was Campania in Italy, founded in the 7th Century B.C. Called Posiedonia by the Greeks, this colony formed a larger area known as Magna Graecia to future historians. Despite ov ...click for details
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Gorgeous Greek Corinthian Alabastron
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Ancient Corinth was a Greek city-state in the southern mainland of Greece. While not as prominent a figure in textbooks as Athens or Sparta, Corinth played a major rule in most conflicts in Greek history. Most notably, when Persia attempted to invade Greece in the fifth century B.C., Corinth was chosen as the headquarters of the Hellenic League, an alliance of oftentimes rival Greek city-states formed to resist the invasion. Most importantly, the Corinthians took part in the major battle of Sal ...click for details
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