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Orpheus
Overlook 2012; US$ 12.99The captivating "history" of the figure of Orpheus, his enduring legacy as the force and muse of creation itself. For at least two and a half millennia, the figure of Orpheus has haunted humanity. Half-man, half-god, musician, magician, theologian, poet, and lover, his story never leaves us. He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing... more...
Essays in Ancient and Modern Historiography
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 25.00Arnaldo Momigliano was one of the foremost classical historiographers of the twentieth century. This collection of twenty-one carefully selected essays is remarkable both in the depth of its scholarship and the breadth of its subjects. Moving with ease across the centuries, Momigliano supplements powerful readings of writers in the Greek, Jewish,... more...
Geschichte und Personen bei Thukydides
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 112.00Book eight of Thucydides deals with the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) after the disaster of the Sicilian expedition (413 BC), and thus with a phase in which the war seems to dissolve into a maze of individual actions. In spite of this, his description of events exercises a strange fascination on the reader, as long as one is prepared to confront the... more...
Divining the Etruscan World
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00The first complete English translation of the Brontoscopic Calendar, providing an understanding of Etruscan Iron Age society as revealed through the ancient text. more...
Pharmakon
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 38.99Pharmakon traces the emergence of an ethical discourse in ancient Greece, one centered on states of psychological ecstasy. In the dialogues of Plato, philosophy is itself characterized as a pharmakon, one superior to a large number of rival occupations, each of which laid claim to their powers being derived from, connected with, or likened to, a... more...
Macedonian Armies after Alexander 323-168 BC
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC threw the Macedonians into confusion; there was no capable heir, and no clear successor among the senior figures in Alexander?s circle. Initial attempts to preserve the unity of Alexander?s conquests gave way to a period of bloody and prolonged warfare. For well over a century the largely mercenary armies... more...
Plato's Dialectic on Woman
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato?s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting the view of texts written more than two thousand years... more...
Greek Warfare
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 58.00This book brings together reference material and primary-source documents concerning the most important people, places, events, and technologies of Classical Greek warfare in one easy-to-use volume?an invaluable resource for students, educators, and general readers interested in this compelling subject. more...
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 49.95How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democracy. Since elite Greek intellectuals tended to assume... more...
Eastern Mediterranean Metallurgy in the Second Millennium BC
Oxbow Books 2012; US$ 60.00James D. Muhly is a distinguished scholar with a special interest in ancient metallurgy who has dedicated much of his research to Cypriot archaeology. His work on the metallurgy of ancient Cyprus endorses the true importance of the island as a copper producing region, as well as a pioneer in the development and spread of metallurgy and metalwork in... more...









