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Athenian Economy and Society
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 45.00In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first private banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself. Challenging the "primitivistic" view, in which bankers are merely pawnbrokers and money-changers, Cohen reveals that... more...
The Greeks and the New
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 28.00Casts new light on ancient Greeks' attitudes to novelty in order to change scholarly understanding of their history and culture. more...
From Democrats to Kings
Overlook 2010; US$ 19.99Michael Scott explores the dramatic and little-known story of how the ancient world was turned from a democracy into a monarchy in this superb example of popular history writing. more...
Peristyl und Polis
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 168.00Peristyle buildings that served public functions were a common feature of every Greek city. This is the first work to provide a comprehensive examination of this architectural form. It critically scrutinizes the reconstruction, dating, and interpretation of peristyle buildings. In addition, it addresses the reciprocal relationship between architecture... more...
Heronis quae feruntur stereometrica et de mensuris
De Gruyter 1976; US$ 112.00Opera Quae Supersunt Omnia, vol. V: Heronis quae feruntur Steriometrica et De Mensuris (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). more...
Understand Greek Civilization
Hodder & Stoughton 2012; Not AvailableAn exciting look at the Greeks and their world in all its rich variety. more...
Telling, Turning Moments in the Classical Political World
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 59.99Turning, Telling Moments in the Classical Political World examines developments in the classical political world which are both turning and telling moments. All the moments-from Theseus's founding of Athens to Augustus's establishment of the Principate-possess the double character of being turning points and revealing fundamental aspects of the ancient... more...
Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 182.00This volume provides linguistic background to the ancient authors and commentary on both epigraphic and literary dialect texts. By means of dialectally and chronologically arranged texts, translated and provided with running commentary, Gary Miller compares early authors against epigraphic records to facilitate an understanding of Homer, choral lyric,... more...
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 21.99In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated... more...









