Past Perfect: Among the Vulgarians
Archaeology Odyssey
Archaeology Odyssey takes the reader on a journey through the classical world as seen through the eyes of the top archaeologists in the discipline. Written with you in mind, the experts explain the latest in classical research in a way that is accessible to the general public. Read the complete series today!
Field Notes
Origins: Taking Count
Editors’ Page: Ransoming Iraqi Artifacts
Vase Painters—The Cast
The Antiphon Painter, a pupil of the cup painter Onesimos, began working for the great painter-potter Euphronios shortly after 500 B.C. His favorite subjects are party-goers and athletes.
Douris was one of the painters whom Euphronios brought to his workshop when he shifted from painting to potting. Douris soon became a partner of the potter Python, painting genre scenes of symposiasts, athletes and youths, as well as grand treatments of mythological stories.
Male Fantasies
“Look on My Works”
You barely notice him in the cacophony of the modern city. Austere, stiffly formal, he is either too large or too small, slightly ridiculous amid Cairo’s dissonant traffic.
Who’s Who
Conquerors of Samarkand
Sogdians (650 B.C.): The first occupiers of Samarkand may have been an Iranian people called the Sogdians, who later, from the third to the eighth century A.D., controlled much of what is present-day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
Persians (550 B.C.): The Achaemenid king Cyrus II conquered a territory that extended from the Aegean to Central Asia, where he made Samarkand an administrative center.
Old Samarkand
Traveling the Silk Road
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