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This is the first book-length treatment of supplication, an important social practice in ancient Mediterranean civilizations. Despite the importance of supplication, it has received little attention, and no previous study has explored so many aspects of the practice. Naiden investigates the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Cicero: Add a description of this character.
- Gould
- Caesar
- Zeus: In Greek mythology, Zeus is the "Father of Gods and men" who rules the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father rules the family. He is the god of sky and thunder.
- Agamemnon: The son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.
- Clytemnestra: The wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. She was a femme fatale who murdered her husband, Agamemnon and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom he had taken as war prize following the sack of Troy.
- Iphigenia: Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Sacrificed by her father to the god Artemis.
- Orestes: Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
- Helen of Troy: Queen of Sparta and wife of Menelaus. The most beautiful woman in the world and cause of the Trojan War.
- Menelaus: King of Sparta and husband of Helen.
- Oedipus
- Paris: Trojan prince, brother of Hector. His stealing of Helen precipitated the Trojan War.
- Hector: Trojan prince and the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War.
- Apollo: In Greek mythology, Apollo is the god of light and the sun, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, music, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.
- Aeneas
- Priam: King of Troy. Husband of Hecuba and father of Hector, Paris and Cassandra.
- Hecuba: Queen of Troy. Wife of Priam and mother of Hector, Paris and Cassandra.
- Diomedes: Greek hero of the Trojan War. King of Argos, he is regarded alongside Ajax as one of the best warriors of all the Greek warriors.
- Artemis: In Greek mythology, Artemis was often described as the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.
- Livy
- Metellus Pius
- Leodes
- Gregory
- Aeschin
- Antony
- Telemachus
- Theseus
- Themistocles
- Alexander
- Rigsby
- Rhodes
- Tiberius
- Polyaen
- Virgil
- Lycaon
- Thetis
- Clodius
- Aristotle
- Paus
- Curt
- Medea
- Crotty
- Hansen
- R. Parker
- Vercingetorix
- Gamauf
- Ostwald
- Antipater
- Caligula
- Euripides: Greek playwright.
- Sophocles: Greek playwright.
Setting & Locations edit
- Troy: Ancient and mythical city/state located on the northwest coast of present day Turkey. It is best known for being the setting of the Trojan War described in the Greek mythology and especially in the Iliad.
- Athens
- Rome
- Sparta
- Greece
- Ephesus
- Egypt
- Burkert
- Taenarus
- Tegea
- Syracuse
- Cyrene
- Thebes
- Messenia
- Persia
- Jerusalem
- Heracles
- Macedon
- Calauria
- Tiresias
- Attica
- Samos
- Samothrace
- Colonus
- Italy
- Gaul
- Arcadia
- Plataea
- Sicily
- Israel
- Seneca
- Ulp
- Asia
- Lindos
- Epidaurus
Authors & Contributors edit
- F. S. Naiden (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 394
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