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  • Greeks on Greekness

    Viewing the Greek Past under the Roman Empire

    Edited by David Konstan, Suzanne Saïd ...
    Series Book 29 - Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements
    Karl Marx observed that ‘just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves... they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service’. While the Greek east under Roman rule was not revolutionary, perhaps, in the sense that Marx had in mind, it was engaged in creating something that had not previously existed, in part just through the millennia-long involvement with its own ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Greek Literature

    by Suzanne Said, Monique Trede ...
    A Short History of Greek Literature provides a concise yet comprehensive survey of Greek literature - from Christian authors - over twelve centuries, from Homer's epics to the rich range of authors surviving from the imperial period up to Justinian. The book is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the extraordinary creativity of the archaic and classical age, when the major ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

    Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray ...
    A comprehensive view of the ancient Greek world, its history and its achievements. The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast--it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the visual arts to military strategy and science. This authoritative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the ... Read more

    $12.99 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

    $46.99 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

  • The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens

    A Tale of Two Statues

    by Vincent Azoulay, Janet Lloyd ...
    This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. Representing the murderers of the tyrant Hipparchus in full action, these statues erected on the Agora of Athens have been in turn worshipped, outraged, and imitated. They have known hours of glory and moments of hardships, which have transformed them into true icons of ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus

    Edited by Carolyn Dewald, John Marincola ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Herodotus' Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known world and much beyond, and it culminates in a detailed account of the Persian Wars of the early fifth century BC. Moreover, research has shown that Herodotus is a sophisticated and at times even ironic narrator, and a pioneer and serious practitioner of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch

    by Raffaella Cribiore ...
    This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent of pagan religion and a friend of the emperor Julian, but also taught leaders of the early Christian church like St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great. Raffaella Cribiore examines Libanius's ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Herodotus: Histories Book VI

    Edited by Simon Hornblower, Christopher Pelling ...
    Series Book 6 - Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Book VI of the Histories is one of Herodotus' most varied books, beginning with the final collapse of the Ionian Revolt and moving on to the Athenian triumph at Marathon (490 BC); it also includes fascinating material on Sparta, full of court intrigue and culminating in Kleomenes' grisly death, and there is comedy too, with Alkmeon's cramming clothes, boots, and even cheeks with gold dust, then ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Dionysus and Politics

    Constructing Authority in the Graeco-Roman World

    Edited by Filip Doroszewski, Dariusz Karłowicz ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    This volume presents an essential but underestimated role that Dionysus played in Greek and Roman political thought. Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, the volume covers the period from archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire.The reader can observe how ideas and political themes rooted in Greek classical thought were continued, adapted and developed over the course of history. The ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic

    Edited by William A. Johnson, Daniel S. Richter ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of classics and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. The present handbook ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World

    by Yun Lee Too ...
    In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity ... Read more

    $140.39 USD