# Civilization and Culture of the Greeks and Romans **URL:** https://www.textkit.com/c/textkit-community/civilization-and-culture-of-the-greeks-and-romans/21.md [Latest](https://www.textkit.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://www.textkit.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://www.textkit.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Civilization and Culture of the Greeks and Romans category](https://www.textkit.com/t/about-the-civilization-and-culture-of-the-greeks-and-romans-category/24)
**Author:** [@system](https://www.textkit.com/u/system)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 19, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/about-the-civilization-and-culture-of-the-greeks-and-romans-category/24 "2013-03-19T14:12:03Z")
The Civilization and Culture of the Greeks and Romans --- ## [Beh-Hur translation project](https://www.textkit.com/t/beh-hur-translation-project/13729)
**Author:** [@bedwere](https://www.textkit.com/u/bedwere)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [September 21, 2026, 1:02pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/beh-hur-translation-project/13729 "2026-09-21T13:02:29Z")
Greetings! I would like to resurrect and double an old idea of mine: translating a comic book not only into Latin but now also into Greek. This is the candidate: Ben-Hur Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated #11 Howeve… --- ## [The Odyssey in the movies](https://www.textkit.com/t/the-odyssey-in-the-movies/31011)
**Author:** [@Paul\_Derouda](https://www.textkit.com/u/Paul_Derouda)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2026, 10:45pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/the-odyssey-in-the-movies/31011 "2026-07-27T22:45:42Z")
We’re going to get two very different movie adaptations of the Odyssey in a short time. I saw Uberto Pasolini’s The Return last spring, from a blu ray disc in my home theater, as the film was never shown in movie theater… --- ## [Culture of Ancient Greece?](https://www.textkit.com/t/culture-of-ancient-greece/30832)
**Author:** [@Lukas](https://www.textkit.com/u/Lukas)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [October 29, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/culture-of-ancient-greece/30832 "2025-10-29T02:37:52Z")
I am looking for a good book that concentrates on culture, rather than politics, of Ancient Greece. Anybody have recommendations? --- ## [latin spoken today](https://www.textkit.com/t/latin-spoken-today/19961)
**Author:** [@josephuspaulus](https://www.textkit.com/u/josephuspaulus)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 8, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/latin-spoken-today/19961 "2025-08-08T18:09:21Z")
Good morning everyone.I would like to recommend you a video of a Braziliam priest who speaks only in latin,very good.Just do a search on youtube with the name:Literae christianae - podcast. --- ## [Great Books Seminar Fall 2025 - Heavy on Greek & Latin Authors](https://www.textkit.com/t/great-books-seminar-fall-2025-heavy-on-greek-latin-authors/30823)
**Author:** [@MaverickNH](https://www.textkit.com/u/MaverickNH)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/great-books-seminar-fall-2025-heavy-on-greek-latin-authors/30823 "2025-08-06T22:52:50Z")
Just alerting folks to a new Great Book seminar series starting this Fall 2025, that includes many Greek & Latin authors during the first years (Year 1 shown below). Monthly seminars at 3pm or 8pm US eastern time. https… --- ## [Memory Palaces of Byzantinum](https://www.textkit.com/t/memory-palaces-of-byzantinum/16031)
**Author:** [@mahasacham](https://www.textkit.com/u/mahasacham)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 20, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/memory-palaces-of-byzantinum/16031 "2025-07-20T11:19:24Z")
I have been researching the use of memory palaces in medieval Europe and was wondering if there was any sort of corresponding tradition of memory palaces in the byzantine world. If so are there any treatises or popular a… --- ## [CLIIA--LIIA News](https://www.textkit.com/t/cliia-liia-news/30731)
**Author:** [@njmolinari](https://www.textkit.com/u/njmolinari)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/cliia-liia-news/30731 "2025-06-21T17:46:35Z")
Dear Friends, I have been absent for a long time as I diligently prepared my materials for the Acheloos reference, now carrying the title The Literature, Inscriptions, and Iconography of Achelous. I have great news: I … --- ## [The Histories - Herodotus: A 12-week Seminar (Starting 12 May 2025)](https://www.textkit.com/t/the-histories-herodotus-a-12-week-seminar-starting-12-may-2025/30592)
**Author:** [@MaverickNH](https://www.textkit.com/u/MaverickNH)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/the-histories-herodotus-a-12-week-seminar-starting-12-may-2025/30592 "2025-05-05T15:03:18Z")
Just passing this along for those interested: Contact Mark Cwik mark@gbgd.org Herodotus’ History of the Persian Wars Monday afternoons, 2:00pm – 4:15pm London time 12 weeks, 12 May – 04 Aug (no meeting 14 July) 300GB… --- ## [Launch announcement: "Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary"](https://www.textkit.com/t/launch-announcement-illustrated-companion-to-the-latin-dictionary/20942)
**Author:** [@Carolus\_Raeticus](https://www.textkit.com/u/Carolus_Raeticus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/launch-announcement-illustrated-companion-to-the-latin-dictionary/20942 "2024-11-16T15:34:40Z")
Salvete, the Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, with a complete transcription of the 1849-edition of Anthony Rich’s Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon as its initial content, ha… --- ## [Daremberg & Saglio: Relaunch](https://www.textkit.com/t/daremberg-saglio-relaunch/20922)
**Author:** [@Carolus\_Raeticus](https://www.textkit.com/u/Carolus_Raeticus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/daremberg-saglio-relaunch/20922 "2024-11-08T16:23:57Z")
Salvete, I am happy to report that the French Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines by Daremberg & Saglio has experienced a relaunch (on October 25, 2024). The style is mostly the same, but what matters most … --- ## [Dictionary of Roman concepts](https://www.textkit.com/t/dictionary-of-roman-concepts/20865)
**Author:** [@lupusinfabula](https://www.textkit.com/u/lupusinfabula)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [October 3, 2024, 3:37am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/dictionary-of-roman-concepts/20865 "2024-10-03T03:37:26Z")
Is there such a thing? Where concepts such as virtures (similar to this https://www2.hawaii.edu/~lanning/maximus.html or ideas in the political sphere such as this: https://historyaffairs.com/understand-titles-of-rom… --- ## [Reading Plato's Symposium, in the late 1950s, in English translation, a brief memoir](https://www.textkit.com/t/reading-platos-symposium-in-the-late-1950s-in-english-translation-a-brief-memoir/20828)
**Author:** [@hlawson38](https://www.textkit.com/u/hlawson38)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/reading-platos-symposium-in-the-late-1950s-in-english-translation-a-brief-memoir/20828 "2024-07-27T20:44:03Z")
I absolutely did not get the pro-man-on-boy-love propaganda in the speeches. I don’t know if it was because of my naivety, or because the English was bowdlerized. Of course I did understand the bawdy homosexual banter … --- ## [Bookstores in Paris?](https://www.textkit.com/t/bookstores-in-paris/19796)
**Author:** [@Paul\_Derouda](https://www.textkit.com/u/Paul_Derouda)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/bookstores-in-paris/19796 "2024-06-11T17:54:52Z")
I’m on a trip to Paris for a few days more. This might have been discussed quite recently, but I can’t find it. Can you recommend any bookstores with classics? Calepinus, which has been praised on Textkit, is no more, or… --- ## [Senatorial Families](https://www.textkit.com/t/senatorial-families/20490)
**Author:** [@HarryStoatall](https://www.textkit.com/u/HarryStoatall)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2024, 7:56pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/senatorial-families/20490 "2024-01-04T19:56:19Z")
Can anyone recommend a good book or three about the history of the Roman senatorial families? I’ve tried searching online, but I’m getting nowhere. Maybe my search terms are off-beam, or maybe there are no works quite so… --- ## [coins of Helike](https://www.textkit.com/t/coins-of-helike/20564)
**Author:** [@Jean\_Putmans](https://www.textkit.com/u/Jean_Putmans)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2023, 8:26am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/coins-of-helike/20564 "2023-12-31T08:26:49Z")
Of the lost city of Helike (Ελικη) there are remained also two coins (pictures: https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/peloponnesos/achaia/helike/Traite\_831.jpg and https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Bronze-coin-of-He… --- ## [Proto-"Pizza" from Pompeii](https://www.textkit.com/t/proto-pizza-from-pompeii/20180)
**Author:** [@AmyOfRome](https://www.textkit.com/u/AmyOfRome)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/proto-pizza-from-pompeii/20180 "2023-10-14T19:23:08Z")
Sadly, it’s not pizza, it’s focaccia, but I keep seeing headlines calling it pizza anyway because of a new fresco found in Pompeii. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/world/europe/pizza-mural-pompeii.html Still, this m… --- ## [Your favourite place in the classical world](https://www.textkit.com/t/your-favourite-place-in-the-classical-world/20370)
**Author:** [@klewlis](https://www.textkit.com/u/klewlis)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2023, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/your-favourite-place-in-the-classical-world/20370 "2023-10-04T13:56:35Z")
This is just a point of idle thought and curiosity as I drink my morning coffee and browse the boards. Last year I did the digital nomad thing for a bit and was able to spend time in Italy, Türkiye, and Greece (“only” A… --- ## [Pedestal with inscription](https://www.textkit.com/t/pedestal-with-inscription/20172)
**Author:** [@will.dawe](https://www.textkit.com/u/will.dawe)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 20, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/pedestal-with-inscription/20172 "2023-09-20T09:58:15Z")
This year I went to Uzbekistan (i.e. Bactria) and saw this pedestal in a local museum. The collection was made by grand duke Nicholas Konstantinovich, probably during his travel to Italy in the late XIX century. Corpu… --- ## [Counterfactuals in Herodotus](https://www.textkit.com/t/counterfactuals-in-herodotus/19290)
**Author:** [@bcrowell](https://www.textkit.com/u/bcrowell)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [July 5, 2023, 6:02am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/counterfactuals-in-herodotus/19290 "2023-07-05T06:02:57Z")
Herodotus is known for having made various statements that are counterfactual or seem so. For example, googling turns up https://listverse.com/2015/04/08/10-historical-facts-that-herodotus-got-hilariously-wrong/ , which … --- ## ['Medea in mid-air: how Syracuse’s Greek theatre keeps the classics alive'](https://www.textkit.com/t/medea-in-mid-air-how-syracuse-s-greek-theatre-keeps-the-classics-alive/19998)
**Author:** [@truks](https://www.textkit.com/u/truks)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2023, 12:07pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/medea-in-mid-air-how-syracuse-s-greek-theatre-keeps-the-classics-alive/19998 "2023-05-27T12:07:56Z")
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/may/16/medea-syracuse-greek-theatre-keeps-classic-drama-alive-prometheus --- ## [JUICE: Latin goes to Space](https://www.textkit.com/t/juice-latin-goes-to-space/19889)
**Author:** [@Carolus\_Raeticus](https://www.textkit.com/u/Carolus_Raeticus)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2023, 1:56am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/juice-latin-goes-to-space/19889 "2023-04-13T01:56:29Z")
Salvete! Today I stumbled upon an article, according to which part of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius is used in a commemorative plaque on ESA’s space probe Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (“Juice”), the original Latin text, mind… --- ## [Rome: A Virtual Tour of the Ancient City](https://www.textkit.com/t/rome-a-virtual-tour-of-the-ancient-city/17887)
**Author:** [@seneca2008](https://www.textkit.com/u/seneca2008)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [March 12, 2023, 10:47am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/rome-a-virtual-tour-of-the-ancient-city/17887 "2023-03-12T10:47:02Z")
The University of Nottingham is running an on line course about the history and archaeology of Rome. This is the introductory blurb: "Take a guided tour around ancient Rome with expert Professor Matthew Nicholls, using … --- ## [Eromenoi and cockerels](https://www.textkit.com/t/eromenoi-and-cockerels/19666)
**Author:** [@markcmueller](https://www.textkit.com/u/markcmueller)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 18, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/eromenoi-and-cockerels/19666 "2023-02-18T15:47:26Z")
I’m reading Plato’s Symposium along with Dover’s Greek Homosexuality. I have always wondered what the eromenoi did with the cockerels they got as gifts. Was meat a luxury? I assume that the eromenoi were generally fai… --- ## [Resources on Roman warfare?](https://www.textkit.com/t/resources-on-roman-warfare/19658)
**Author:** [@truks](https://www.textkit.com/u/truks)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2023, 2:27pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/resources-on-roman-warfare/19658 "2023-01-18T14:27:37Z")
Can anyone recommend any general resources on Roman warfare? I’m reading Tacitus’ account of the year of the four emperors and sometimes find myself at a loss when he’s describing skirmishes and battles. Anything linki… --- ## [Your favorite books about (not by) the Greeks and Romans?](https://www.textkit.com/t/your-favorite-books-about-not-by-the-greeks-and-romans/17837)
**Author:** [@bjrn](https://www.textkit.com/u/bjrn)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [January 10, 2023, 1:50am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/your-favorite-books-about-not-by-the-greeks-and-romans/17837 "2023-01-10T01:50:58Z")
What are your favorite books about the Greeks and Romans and their culture? Not books written by them - a natural question on a forum focused on language learning - but about them (and to limit the scope of the question,… --- ## [List of known lost Greek works](https://www.textkit.com/t/list-of-known-lost-greek-works/19201)
**Author:** [@hellenist](https://www.textkit.com/u/hellenist)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 31, 2022, 12:53pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/list-of-known-lost-greek-works/19201 "2022-12-31T12:53:50Z")
I am just wondering if anybody is aware of a reasonably comprehensive catalogue of known lost Greek works, e.g. when it comes to the extant texts and fragments there are corpora like that of the TLG, Diorisis, Author/Wor… --- ## [Terminalia, the end of the old Roman year](https://www.textkit.com/t/terminalia-the-end-of-the-old-roman-year/19505)
**Author:** [@JairoAmaral](https://www.textkit.com/u/JairoAmaral)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/terminalia-the-end-of-the-old-roman-year/19505 "2022-12-04T04:38:46Z")
Hi! I’m researching about the origins of the Terminalia, 23 February, a festival said to be related to the end of the old Roman calendar. But that seems to be a dead end. Every source I found either only mentions that, … --- ## [Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue](https://www.textkit.com/t/hipparchus-star-catalogue/19398)
**Author:** [@jeidsath](https://www.textkit.com/u/jeidsath)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 21, 2022, 7:50am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/hipparchus-star-catalogue/19398 "2022-10-21T07:50:40Z")
New evidence for Hipparchus’ Star Catalogue revealed by multispectral imaging Abstract New evidence for ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus’ lost Star Catalogue has come to light thanks to multispectral imaging of a p… --- ## [Bullae, Lunulae, and Glossopetrae](https://www.textkit.com/t/bullae-lunulae-and-glossopetrae/19301)
**Author:** [@AmyOfRome](https://www.textkit.com/u/AmyOfRome)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/bullae-lunulae-and-glossopetrae/19301 "2022-09-06T01:42:38Z")
Working on some texts/videos in Latin about these but some stuff I’ve gathered in the meantime, unfinished. Note that the images are my recreated versions but you can google for originals, original bullae (for richer kid… [Next page](https://www.textkit.com/c/textkit-community/civilization-and-culture-of-the-greeks-and-romans/21.md?page=1)