Volume 17 / Number 4

1975

On The Cover: Arcesilaus II, King of Cyrene, detail on the interior of a wine cup made in Laconia around 560 BC; today in the Bibliotheque Nationale.

Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: Donald White

Archaic Cyrene and the Cult of Demeter and Persephone

The rapid outward movement of the ancient Greeks from their mainland homes between the 10th and 6th centuries B.C., first […]

Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: Tamara Stech Wheeler, Robert Maddin and James D. Muhly

The last twenty years have seen an increase in scientific studies of archaeological materials resulting from the desire for greater […]

Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: David S. Reese

“There were giants in the earth in those days…” Genesis 6:4 During the Pleistocene epoch of pre-history (three million to […]

Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: Alfred Friendly

In the past two years British archaeologists have discovered and in some part deciphered more than 240 fragments of 1st […]

Vol. 17 / No. 4

By: Karen S. Rubinson

The Greek historian Herodotus (490/480-425 B.C.], in his History of the Persian Wars, included an excursus on the ethnography of […]