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Jill Dudley relates the various myths regarding the founding of the Olympic Games. She takes the reader around the main buildings on the site where the athletes took their vows, and the victors were crowned before the cult statue of the supreme god Zeus...

A radical new interpretation of the meaning and purposes of one of the world's most iconic buildings. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture and its highest ideals. It was understood to honour the...

A comprehensive re-examination of all the literary and epigraphic evidence, old and new, relating to the nature of Athenian imperialism in the fifth century BC.Book InformationISBN 9780198148432Author Russell MeiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint...

A literary cabinet of curiosities.Aelian's Historical Miscellany is a pleasurable example of light reading for Romans of the early third century. Offering engaging anecdotes about historical figures, retellings of legendary events, and enjoyable...

The first unabridged translation into American English, and the first to take into account the wealth of Thucydidean scholarship of the last half of the twentieth century, Steven Lattimore's translation sets a new standard for accuracy and reliability...

Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views on erotic experience and sexual ethics. The Sleep of Reason brings...

This collection of 12 original essays provides an overview of how Greeks and Romans perceived the phenomenon of rape. Using the numerous references to rape in Greek legal speeches, comedy, tragedy, visual art and myth, the authors assess the degree of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615341245Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Ezreads Publications, LLCPublisher Ezreads Publications, LLCWeight(grams) 168g

On 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab. Alexander the Great’s death in Babylon that fateful day in June 323 BC triggered an...

A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803277493Author Maria G. SpathiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 726g

Re-evaluates the Athenian Reconciliation Agreement of 403 BCE, its historical causes and its legal legacy.

Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city’s...

Athens' decision to invade Sicily in 415 BCE ), and articles for The William and Mary Quarterly, American Quarterly, and American Heritage Magazine marked an important turning point in its war with Sparta, which led ultimately to Athens' defeat and the...

The A to Z of Ancient Greek Warfare strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars. Read how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772884813Author Jane FejferFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788772880532Author Kristian JeppesenFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977659852Author Nikolaos KaltsasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (US)Publisher Alexander S. Onassis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934309681Author Ronald WallenfelsFormat HardbackPage Count 287Imprint CDL PressPublisher CDL PressWeight(grams) 1247g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063377097Author Natalie HaynesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 399g

Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism - gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679763864Author Robin Lane FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 456gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Despite ongoing interest in Middle Assyrian glyptic art, the publications of Middle Assyrian seals and seal impressions from excavated sites in the Near East are very rare. The book is the first to offer a comprehensive study on the seal corpus from an...

Death to Tyrants! is the first comprehensive study of ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation--laws that explicitly gave individuals incentives to "kill a tyrant." David Teegarden demonstrates that the ancient Greeks promulgated these laws to harness...

One of the most popular areas of ancient history is war in the Greek world. The number of books, articles, web pages and blogs on every conceivable aspect of war in ancient Greece is endless, and continues to grow. So why add to the pile? Wars &...

Covering material as diverse as curse tablets, coins, tattoos, and legal decrees, Deborah Steiner explores the reception of writing in archaic and classical Greece. She moves beyond questions concerning ancient literacy and the origins of the Greek...

Household Interests is one of the first books to explore in-depth the nature of the Greek household (oikos) in classical Athens. Whereas the oikos traditionally has been defined as the household of the nuclear family in Greece, Cheryl Anne Cox reveals it...

Herodotus, the 'Father of History', is infamously known for having employed elements more akin to mythological tales than to unvarnished 'truth' in translating his historical research into narrative form. While these narratives provide valuable source...

This volume provides a complete translation of, and historical and historiographical commentary on, the lives of the ten Attic orators written by Pseudo-Plutarch, Photius, and the Suda. Assessing these works as important historical sources for the...

Classical Greek consistently uses epitedeumata to signify 'way of life' or even 'everyday habits', but always refers to practices that are deliberately pursued, not traditions and customs that are passively carried on. In this volume, an international...

The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the...

Thucydidean Themes is a collection of seventeen essays by Simon Hornblower on the great fifth-century BC Greek historian Thucydides; but other ancient Greek historians, notably Herodotus, also feature. The chapters are arranged thematically, in three...

In 1993 the world celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, whose polis - or citizen state - is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. In an age when democracy has apparently triumphed following the collapse...

The source and nature of earliest speech and civilization are puzzles which have intrigued people for many centuries. This study explores ancient Greek views on the source and nature of the world's first society and first language. Two of the book's...

Greek text with introduction and commentaryBook InformationISBN 9780198720980Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 187mm * 122mm * 10mm

Sharing with the Gods examines one of the most ubiquitous yet little studied aspects of ancient Greek religion, the offering of so-called 'first-fruits' (aparchai) and 'tithes' (dekatai), from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic. While most existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198318323Author ThucydidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm)...

Theopompus of Chios was one of the most important ancient Greek historians of the fourth century BC. Although his work has survived only in fragments - as quotations and paraphrases in later writers - these are still a rich and vital source of...

The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece elucidates the main steps and ways in which the slogan of freedom emerged and developed into the fundamental principle of Greek diplomacy and politics, long before the Romans appropriated and...

In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to reinterpret courage as a specifically democratic virtue. Ranging from Thucydides and Aristophanes to the Greek...