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Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. Historians and ethnologists can pool a wealth of knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805056058Author Shalini VallepurFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

Explore the detailed and personal stories of real people living throughout the Hellenistic world In A Social and Cultural History of the Hellenistic World, author Gillian Ramsey Neugebauer paints a vivid picture of the men and women of the Hellenistic...

Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of...

Bronze Age Crete stands as one the most extensively explored parts of the world archaeologically, yet the island maintains an air of labyrinthian mystery. This book offers an authoritative introduction to the world of the Minoans, the first 'modern'...

Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have rarely been retold in English. It explores 'the incredible' as presented by little-known classical writers like Callimachus and...

'Our greatest living expert on Sparta' - Tom Holland, author of RubiconThe definitive account of the extraordinary people of Sparta. The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900587900Author Ingo GildenhardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Olynthus, an ancient city in northern Greece, was preserved in an exceptionally complete state after its abrupt sacking by Phillip II of Macedon in 348 B.C., and excavations in the 1920s and 1930s uncovered more than a hundred houses and their contents...

Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for these similarities and differences have been heavily debated, with attention focusing...

Frontiers of Pleasure calls into question a number of influential modern notions regarding aesthetics by going back to the very beginnings of aesthetic thought in Greece and raising critical issues regarding conceptions of how one responds to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282742Author John H Finley JrFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams)...

This is a paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a seminal conference held at Wellesley in 1990. Among the scholarly community, the book is generally regarded as the first critical...

In the ever-growing and evolving field of Digital Papyrology - intending both the set of electronic tools for papyrological research and a new way of representing our knowledge of the Greek papyri in digital environments - a focal current issue is the...

When a litigant initiated a lawsuit in Classical Athens, he submitted a written plaint to the relevant magistrate. This document contained his name, the name of the defendant, the legal procedure employed, and the specific violations of part of the law...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472133604Author Ruth ScodelFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the...

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)...

This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political history. The resurgence of interest in the Hellenistic...

Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality - each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination. This volume seeks to interrogate how rightly we may apply...

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who used Attic Greek. Bozia argues that...

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...

Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far as India, which led to Greek culture becoming...

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 9781803277714Author Eleni MarantouFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781118454794Author Stephen Dando-CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 1122g

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

Continuing the work of publishing the excavations at the site of Ayia Irini on the Cycladic island of Keos, this volume focuses on the architecture and stratigraphy of the site.Book InformationISBN 9781957454078Author David E. WilsonFormat...

Ancient Greece and Rome have long been considered the parents of Western civilisation. But the ancient world was a very wide one, of conversation, commerce and theft, sex, war and enslavement. It was this restless global contact that built the West. ...

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...

This second volume of Voegelin's magisterial Order and History, The World of the Polis, explores the ancient Greek symbolization of human reality. Taking us from the origins of Greek culture in the Pre-Homeric Cretan civilizations, through the Iliad and...

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 9788779345737Author Thomas M. BroganFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University Press

Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in private associations of the Greek and Roman world. As scholars have come to realise the number and diffusion of private associations in the ancient world, questions arise as to their wider social,...

A widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for destructive opulence. This volume demonstrates the scarcity of evidence for Sybarite luxury, and examines...

Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of...

Finding Italy explores the journey of the Romans' ancestor Aeneas and his fellow Trojans from their old home, Troy, to their new country, Italy, narrated in Vergil's epic poem Aeneid. K. F. B. Fletcher argues that a main narrative theme is patriotism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979975806Author Francesca SchironiFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint American Society of PapyrologistsPublisher American Society of Papyrologists

The Philebus is the only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes for the best or happiest life. It offers an extended psychological and epistemological investigation...