Classical antiquity (also the classical era, classical period or classical age) is the period of cultural history between the 8th century BC and the 6th century AD centred on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known as the Greco-Roman world.It is the period in which both Greek and Roman societies flourished and …

After a neo-Attic original of the Hellenistic era.) In Greek and Roman mythology , the Palladium or Palladion (Greek Παλλάδιον (Palladion), Latin Palladium ) [1] was a cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend, the wooden statue ( xoanon ) of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes ...

It looks at slavery’s origins; definitions of slavery and how it differs from other forms of subordination and exploitation; how American slavery differed from slavery in classical antiquity, African society, medieval Europe, and Islamic societies; the evolution of American slavery in the colonial, revolutionary, early national, and ...