One side of a base for a kouros

We all expect that is it possible to recognize the age to which a work of art belongs. We expect those who know anything about painting to be able to tell the difference between a seventeenth-century portrait and an eighteenth-century portrait...

The Iliad is a celebration of war that inaugurates the distinctive military tradition within Greek culture. Hesiod’s Works and Days is a poetic treatise on agriculture that marks in a more business-like way the launch of the other essentially Greek tradition, that of economically productive competition. If Strife on the battlefield is an unpleasant necessity, Strife in the fields and the marketplace is beneficial only in its stimulating effect...