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The importance of cultural contacts in the East Mediterranean has long been recognized and is the focus of ongoing international research. Fieldwork in the Aegean, Egypt, Cyprus, and the Levant continues to add to our understanding of the nature of this...

Witty nicknames, crude jokes, public nudity and lavish monuments, all of these things distinguished Greek courtesans from respectable citizen women in ancient Greece. Although prostitutes appear as early as archaic Greek lyric poetry, our fullest...

From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance...

In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931745284Author Steven E. SidebothamFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLAPublisher Cotsen Institute of...

Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others - whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans - saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many...

Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In just over a generation, his northern Greek state of Macedon rose to control the whole of the vast Persian Empire. It was the legacy of his father, Philip, that launched Alexander on a...

What makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and...

Alexander's Heirs offers a narrative account of the approximately forty years following the death of Alexander the Great, during which his generals vied for control of his vast empire, and through their conflicts and politics ultimately created the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474462358Author Amy LatherFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome's celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths,...

"Burstein's The Essential Greek Historians is an excellent collection of texts representing the development of historiography in the ancient Greek world. Each text is presented in an engaging and readable translation, with an insightful introduction...

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...

Our Beloved Polites assembles a large number of studies presented in honour of one of the most remarkable historians of ancient Greece, Professor P. J. Rhodes, to celebrate his life and the splendidly scholarly work which has been and will continue to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076017Author Bettany HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 484gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882514021Author Cyndy ShearerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Greenleaf PressPublisher Greenleaf PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 273mm * 214mm...

The large-scale, formal consumption of huge quantities of food and drink is a feature of many societies, but extracting evidence for feasting from the archaeological record has, until recently, been problematic. Now new techniques of scientific analysis...

Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century,...

In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very...

Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology." Here, Claude Calame mounts a powerful critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail. He argues...

Winner, Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, 2003Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly...

From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and...

Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE challenges the often-romanticised view of the prostitute as an urbane and liberated courtesan by examining the social and economic realities of the sex industry in Greco-Roman culture...

This first focused analysis of veterans' experiences in ancient Greece offers a fresh, "bottom-up" perspective on important military and political aspects of early Hellenistic history. Runner-up, PROSE Award, Classics and Ancient History, 2013From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638231134Author Will DurantFormat HardbackPage Count 828Imprint WWW.Snowballpublishing.comPublisher WWW.Snowballpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many minted in the city but others brought from Athens's far-flung commercial contacts. In addition to the mostly bronze and copper coins themselves, a building that may have served as...

"There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984989Author Anthony EverittFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905125296Author Keith HopwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Classical Press of WalesPublisher Classical Press of WalesWeight(grams)...

How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In...

The third edition of Ancient Greek Civilization is a concise, engaging introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece from the Minoan civilization to the age of the Roman Empire. * Explores the evolution and development of Greek art,...

Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audience. This edition, The Greco-Persian Wars, taps our knowledge of the Persian Empire and its...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529926194Author Emily HauserImprint Transworld DigitalPublisher Transworld Publishers Ltd

From the Battle of Marathon to the Minotaur, from the Acropolis to Aristotle, from Theseus to the Theban hegemony, from slavery to Sparta, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece is a fascinating fully illustrated reference work, spanning both political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032014876Author Anna KouremenosImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

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The first volume to connect legal institutions and court arguments in a series of close readings of selected speeches from the Attic Orators

In recent decades the study of the ancient economy and ancient warfare have both been transformed by ground-breaking new studies and methodological approaches. Offering a selection of cutting-edge research on the interlocked themes of economics and war,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472133604Author Ruth ScodelFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University of Michigan PressPublisher University of Michigan PressWeight(grams) 454g