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  • Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens

    Religion and Politics During the Peloponnesian War

    by Alexander Rubel, Michael Vickers ...
    Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to the study of Greek ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • The Spartan Regime

    Its Character, Origins and Grand Strategy

    by Paul Anthony Rahe ...
    Series series Yale Library of Military History
    "[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta's early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values." (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks)For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Greek Religion

    by Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Series Book 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "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 than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Aristotle

    His Life and School

    by Carlo Natali ...
    The definitive account of Aristotle's life and schoolThis definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Democracy

    A Life

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy", yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • The Greeks

    A Portrait of Self and Others

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks and their achievements in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly objective historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Gymnasium of Virtue

    Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta

    by Nigel M. Kennell ...
    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    The Gymnasium of Virtue is the first book devoted exclusively to the study of education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of “primitive” customs not found elsewhere in Greece. He argues instead that later political and cultural movements ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Companion to Archaic Greece

    Edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub, Hans van Wees ...
    Series Book 194 - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A systematic survey of archaic Greek society and culture which introduces the reader to a wide range of new approaches to the period.The first comprehensive and accessible survey of developments in the study of archaic GreecePlaces Greek society of c.750-480 BCE in its chronological and geographical contextGives equal emphasis to established topics such as tyranny and political reform and newer ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • Epigraphy and the Greek Historian

    Edited by Craig Cooper ...
    Series Book 47 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Epigraphy is a method of inferring and analyzing historical data by means of inscriptions found on ancient artifacts such as stones, coins, and statues. It has proven indispensable for archaeologists and classicists, and has considerable potential for the study of ancient history at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Epigraphy and the Greek Historian is a collection of essays that explore ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Herodotus: Histories Book V

    by Herodotus ...
    Series Book 5 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led to the ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the early Roman Empire. Of concern throughout are three ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Pericles of Athens

    by Vincent Azoulay ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    The definitive biography of the legendary "first citizen of Athens"Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama, poetry, oratory, and architecture. ... Read more

    $41.79 USD