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  • Londonwalks

    by Anton Powell ...
    London, a huge,sprawling metropolis, does not reveal itself to the casual visitor. To discover its diffuse wonders you must investigate its streets and squares on foot. Shunning major sights and typical tourist attractions, Londonwalks guides you through four of the most historic areas of the city's center, offering up bits of history, telling stories about unmarked houses and royal scandals, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to Sparta

    Edited by Anton Powell ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire.Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to all aspects of Sparta, a community recognised by contemporary cities as the greatest power in classical GreeceFeatures in-depth ... Read more

    $58.00 USD

  • Classical Sparta (Routledge Revivals)

    Techniques Behind Her Success

    by Anton Powell ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This collection, first published in 1989, investigates aspects of the Spartan politywhich have often been overlooked or underestimated. Viewed at least until the Renaissance as the epitome of classical virtues, Sparta has in the last two centuries suffered a rapid decline in reputation among liberal-minded scholars, repelled by many of the repressive measures employed by this remarkably successful ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Athens and Sparta

    Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC

    by Anton Powell ...
    Athens and Sparta is an essential textbook for the study of Greek history. Providing a comprehensive account of the two key Greek powers in the years after 478 BC, it charts the rise of Athens from city-state to empire after the devastation of the Persian Wars, and the increasing tensions with their rivals, Sparta, culminating in the Peloponnesian Wars. As well as the political history of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Turn Left at the Pub

    Twenty Walking Tours Through the British Countryside & Southwestern Wales

    by George W. Oakes, Anton Powell ...
    Turn Left at the Pub was first published in 1969 as a follow-up to the highly successful Turn Right at the Fountain by the same author, George Oakes. This fully updated edition features a wealth of brand new material by Anton Powell, author of Londonwalks, and takes the reader on leisurely yet educational strolls through some of the best town and country scenery that Britain has to offer. Oxford, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Shadow of Sparta

    Edited by Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell ...
    In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions. As interest has grown in the self-images projected by this most secretive of Greek cities, increasing attention has focused on how individual Greek writers from other ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Euripides, Women and Sexuality

    Edited by Anton Powell ...
    Euripides' interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his work is of great value as a source for social history. The important new studies in this volume explore Euripides' treatment of sexuality and Greek ideals of women's behaviour. Using a wide range of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Greek World

    Edited by Anton Powell ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    Studying from the Mycenean to the late Hellenistic period, this work includes new articles by twenty-seven specialists of ancient Greece, and presents an examination of the Greek cultures of mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and Italy.With the chapters sharing the theme of social history, this fascinating book focuses on women, the poor, and the slaves – all traditionally seen as beyond the ... Read more

    $70.99 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

  • The Classical Greeks

    by Michael Grant ...
    The story of the Athenian Golden Age by one of the world's pre-eminent classical historians.The Golden Age of ancient Greek city-state civilization lasted from 490 to 336 BC, the period between the first wars against Persia and Carthage and the accession of Alexander the Great. Never has there been such a multiplication of talents and genius within so limited a period and Michael Grant captures ... Read more

    $2.99 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 Oxford Handbook of Thucydides

    Edited by Ryan Balot, Sarah Forsdyke, Edith Foster ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides' complex project and its intellectual context, while at the same ... Read more

    $46.79 USD