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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900587900Author Ingo GildenhardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Institute of Classical StudiesPublisher Institute of Classical Studies

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The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern literature. Despite the prominence of law and justice in...

Jon D. Mikalson examines how Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek philosophers described, interpreted, criticized, and utilized the components and concepts of the religion of the people of their time - practices such as sacrifice, prayer,...

During the three centuries from 800 to 500 B.C., the Greek world evolved from a primitive society--both culturally and economically--to one whose artistic products dominated all Mediterranean markets, supported by a wide overseas trade. In the following...

Pompeius Trogus, a Romanized Gaul living in the age of Augustus, wrote a forty-four book universal history (The Philippic History) of the non-Roman Mediterranean world. This work was later abbreviated by M. Junianus Justinus. Alexander the Great's life...

This book collects together ten contributions by leading scholars in the field of Alexander studies which represent the most advanced scholarship in this area. They span the gamut between historical reconstruction and historiographical research, and...

Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders...

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Olynthus, one of the best-preserved ancient Greek cities, was excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, revealing more than a hundred houses and their exceptionally complete contents. In this copiously illustrated book, Nicholas Cahill analyzes this...

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This informative and enjoyable book surveys many aspects of the personal and emotional lives and belief systems of the ancient Greeks, focusing on such issues as familial life, religious piety, and ethnic identity. This work explores various aspects of...

"Fowler's . . . own insights are apparent throughout, and they seem to distill the personal appreciation and understanding of a scholar who has devoted much of her career to both contemplating and enjoying Hellenistic poetry. . . . [This book] would...

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 inscriptions, the accompanying...

This original and lively book explores Greek ideas about health and disease and their influence on Greek thought. Fundamental issues such as causation and responsibility, purification and pollution, mind-body relations and gender differences, authority...

The writings of Herodotus, historian, observer, and delightful storyteller, have long been favorites among teachers and students of the Greek language. The selections in this book were chosen, says the editor, "to carry out in a single volume the...

The writings of Herodotus, historian, observer, and delightful storyteller, have long been favorites among teachers and students of the Greek language. The selections in this book will provide reading in the second year for the student who has begun his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006313653Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 172g

In this groundbreaking work, Elizabeth Donnelly Carney examines the role of royal women in the Macedonian Argead dynasty from the sixth century B.C. to 168 B.C. Women were excluded from the exercise of power in most of the Hellenic world. However, Carney...

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...

In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view...

This book describes the history and daily life of the Spartans.Book InformationISBN 9780313249556Author Humfrey MichellFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Greek ethnography is commonly believed to have developed in conjunction with the wider sense of Greek identity that emerged during the Greeks' "encounter with the barbarian"-Achaemenid Persia-during the late sixth to early fifth centuries BC...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891305729Author Martin OstwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams) 190g

The British School at Athens admitted its first student in 1886. The subsequent thirty years saw a shift towards scientific and professional archaeology. The School developed a number of major projects: the Cyprus Exploration Fund; Megalopolis; Phylakopi...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999071441Author Ajith KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Argead Star LLCPublisher Argead Star LLCWeight(grams) 140g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006313431Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 186g

The Greek writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and history in the late fifth century B.C. Six of his professional legal speeches are included in this new edition, both for their intrinsic interest and for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692659427Author Christopher P ShelineFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint SheliniPublisher SheliniWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282698Author William Scott FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 207Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 481g

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...

The human race has been curious about all the surrounding phenomenon of nature, since its beginning. Based on the level of the information and intellect possess by the people of era, there have been a number of stories and descriptive, which account for...

Herodotus' Histories is a fascinating account of the interactions between the Greeks and their powerful Near-Eastern neighbours. In it he explores the long-term causes for the Persian invasions of Greece in the early fifth century BCE, a momentous event...

Norma Thompson opens a new angle of political vision in this imaginative and engaging interpretation of Herodotus' History. She claims for the "father of history" a position in the canon of political thought, finding modern validity in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013292576Author Howard (translator) GaskillFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams)...