The Reinvention of History
Author: Donald Kagan
Donald Kagan's magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War is recognised as a landmark of classical scholarship. Now Kagan - one of the most respected classical historians in the world - turns his attention from one of ... |
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Author: Neil Smith
The voyage of Jason and the Argonauts and their hunt for the Golden Fleece is one of the most enduringly popular of all of the Ancient Greek heroic myths. Accepting the quest in order to regain his kingdom, Jason assembl ... |
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Author: Richard T. Neer
In this wide-ranging study, Richard Neer offers a new way to understand the epoch-making sculpture of classical Greece. Working at the intersection of art history, archaeology, literature, and aesthetics, he reveals a pe ... |
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Aspekte Der Darstellung, Der Struktur Und Der Sprache in Pindars Dichtung
Author: Maria Vrysa
In thisvolume scholars from Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Canada, Switzerland and the USA present articles on the performance, compositional technique and language in the choral works of Pindar. |
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A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics
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Elitenbildung Und Elitarer Konsum Von Der Mykenischen Palastzeit Bis Zur Homerischen Epoche. Akten Des Internationalen Kongresses Vom 3. Bis 5. Februar 2005 in Salzburg
Author: Eva Alram-Stern & Georg Nightingale
The topic of the congress anthology Keimelion is the consumer behaviour of the Aegean elite population, including strategies such as conspicuous consumption, through the period of the Mycenaean palace states to the post- ... |
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Author: Duncan B. Campbell
Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best trained, organized a ... |
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Author: James William Stanfield
A photographer and history enthusiast tours the archaeological site of the ancient Minoan civilization - Knossos - on Crete. This is primarily a book of color digital photographs, but provides brief prose for the current ... |
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Author: James Renshaw
"In Search of the Greeks" is a lively and informative introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrated with over a hundred photographs, drawings, maps and plans, ... |
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Author: Euripides
"The Electra of Euripides has the distinction of being, perhaps, the best abused, and, one might add, not the best understood, of ancient tragedies. "A singular monument of poetical, or rather unpoetical perversity; " "t ... |
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An Illustrated Account of Classical Greek Buildings, Sculptures and Paintings, Shown in 200 Glorious Photographs and Drawings
Author: Nigel Rodgers
This title offer an illustrated account of classical Greek buildings, sculptures and paintings, that are shown in 200 glorious photographs and drawings. It includes an authoritative exploration of ancient Greek civilizat ... |
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Ancient History from Inscriptions
Author: John Bodel
Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the ... |
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Author: John Dillery
With an examination into Xenophon's longer historical works, the "Hellenica" and the "Anabasis", Dillery considers how far these texts reflect the Greek intellectual world of the fourth and fifth centuries B.C., rather t ... |
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Documents in Finance, Religion and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.
Author: Maureen B. Cavanaugh
Eleusis and Athens offers a new text and detailed commentary on two account-inventories for a major panhellenic sanctuary (Demeter) during the final decade of the fifth century BC. In addition to the publication of inscr ... |
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Author: Mary R. Lefkowitz & Guy MacLean Rogers
In this collection of 20 essays, scholars in a broad range of disciplines confront the claims made by Martin Bernal in "Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization". In that work, Bernal proposed a radi ... |
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Author: R.M. Cook
Greek Painted Pottery has been used by classics and classical archaeology students for some thirty years. It thoroughly examines all painted pottery styles from the Protogeometric to the Hellenistic period from all area ... |
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Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece
Author: Helen King
In ancient Greece, gynaecology originated in the myth of the first woman Pandora, whose beautiful appearance was seen to cover her dangerous "insides". This book demonstrates how ancient Greek healers read the signs offe ... |
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Author: Kenneth John Atchity
Scholarly commentary on the nuances of Greek writing fills library shelves, even entire libraries. Yet nothing can take the place of the documents themselves. The Classical Greek Reader marks an exciting departure from t ... |
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A Sourcebook
Author: Michael M. Sage
This study assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the Greek experience of war. The author has carefully selected key texts, many of them not previously available in English, an ... |
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