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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515110693Author Claudia TierschFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904887433Author Catherine PerlesFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint British School at AthensPublisher British School at Athens

A pivotal skirmish involving nearly three hundred Athenian and Spartan ships toward the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Arginusae was at the time the largest naval battle ever fought between warring Greeks. It was a crucial win for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515106290Author Veit RosenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700165460Author Irmgard HeinFormat PaperbackPage Count 145Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

This book brings together, for the first time, tombstones of the 6th-1st centuries BC from the necropoleis of the Greek colonies of the whole western Black Sea area (modern-day Bulgaria and Romania). It studies monuments with relief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783938032510Author Julia WilkerFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Verlag-AntikePublisher Verlag-AntikeWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515112956Author Altay CoskunFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515103077Author Peter FunkeFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447066082Author Ruhr-Universit at BochumFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 961g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782251006086Author LibaniosFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Les Belles LettresPublisher Les Belles LettresWeight(grams) 3990g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782251006031Author Diodore de SicileFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Les Belles LettresPublisher Les Belles LettresWeight(grams) 590g

In the transformations of the Classical world from Alexander to the end of the Roman Empire, the politics of the Greek polis underwent crucial changes. Yet, the city retained a vibrant urban political culture. These essays explore that culture and seek...

The volume celebrates the 75th birthday of Prof. Jan Bouzek, one of the leading specialists in Mediterranean, Black Sea, Anatolian and European archaeology. The chapters, written by leading specialists who are friends and colleagues of the dedicatee,...

Linear B is the earliest form of writing used for Greek; it is a syllabic script which belongs to the second half of the second millennium BC and precedes the earliest alphabetic texts by at least four hundred years. The tablets written in this script...

This third volume of the Final Reports of the Thorikos Excavations (South Attica): Graffiti, Dipinti and Stamps contains 232 items. The aim of the study was to integrate this mainly epigraphical information into the chronology of the site. Therefore it...

In ancient cities, 'daily bread' was a subject of prayer. Grain-harvests could be fickle, but a regular supply was a matter of survival. Food-shortage could lead to social unrest, and long-term solutions required all kinds of political an institutional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788323321095Author Edward DabrowaFormat PaperbackPage Count 201Imprint ArcheobooksPublisher ArcheobooksWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935488248Author Katerina KopakaFormat HardbackPage Count 283Imprint AegaeumPublisher AegaeumWeight(grams) 1656g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700177913Author Florian RuppensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910589748Author Anton PowellFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Classical Press of WalesPublisher Classical Press of WalesWeight(grams) 816g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515103985Author Adam SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515110907Author Annika B KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447063012Author G R WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher Harrassowitz

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647920074Author AristotleFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Hackett Publishing CompanyPublisher Hackett Publishing Company

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415939461Author Laura K. McClureFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 499g

This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching...

In the two golden centuries that followed the death of Socrates, ancient philosophy underwent a tremendous transformation that culminated in the philosophical systematizations of Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic schools. Fundamental figures other...

Much like our own time, the ancient Greek world was constantly expanding and becoming more connected to global networks. The landscape was shaped by an ecology of city-states, local formations that were stitched into the wider Mediterranean world. While...

Jonathan M. Hall explores questions of ethnic and national identity in the context of ancient Greece in Hellenicity, drawing on an exceptionally wide range of evidence to determine when, how, why, and to what extent the Greeks conceived themselves as a...

There is no city in history more evocative than Troy. Since the famous poet Homer wrote his Iliad and Odyssey in the 8th century BC, many others have studied, reinterpreted, sung about and laid claim for themselves to the city, the war between the Greeks...

"Sociable Man", which celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, contains essays by leading classicists, ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour...

Xenophon has long been identified as a chief contemporary source, if not the chief source, for the history of classical Sparta. But his information has commonly been treated in restricted ways. Scholars who have studied Xenophon's oeuvre have tended to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905670871Author John NorthFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of LondonWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...

One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand developments...

Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation - convergence and divergence - with ideas of the Archaic Period. Prominent are the nature and possibility of divine justice, the influence of the gods on humans,...

Existing treatments of Peloponnesian history are fragmented by poleis and period. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of the political history of the entire Peloponnese from 371 to 146 BC, using both literary and epigraphic evidence. In the...

A Silent Place: Death in Mycenaean Lakonia is the first book-length systematic study of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) burial tradition in south-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, and the first to comprehensively present and discuss all Mycenaean tombs and funerary...

Greek Colonization in Local Context takes a fresh look at Greek colonies around Europe and Black Sea. The emphasis is on cultural interaction, transformation and the repercussions and local reactions to colonization in social, religious and cultural...

This is a highly original, interdisciplinary study of the archaic Greek word nomos and its family of words. Includes extracts from ancient sources, in both the original and English translation, to give us a new and complete understanding of nomos and its...