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  • Athens, Attica and the Megaridby Hans Rupprecht Goette

    Routledge 2001; US$ 44.95

    This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveller with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research. more...

  • City of Sokratesby J. W. Roberts

    Routledge 1998; US$ 40.95

    In this extensively updated second edition, including an up-dated index and bibliography, J. W. Roberts explores the main features of Athenian life in the latter half of the fifth century BC. more...

  • Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Spartaby Paul Cartledge; Antony Spawforth

    Routledge 2001; US$ 56.95

    This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth. more...

  • Athenian Politics c800-500 BCby G. R. Stanton

    Routledge 1990; US$ 41.95

    A critical approach to the sources of information on ancient Athenian politics presenting contemporary sources, later historical and biographical writings, archaeological evidence, inscriptions on stone, and papyri from Egypt. more...

  • Hellenistic and Roman Spartaby Paul Cartledge; Antony Spawforth

    Routledge 2001; US$ 41.95

    This original and compelling account of later Spartan history challenges the conventional misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status as a great power on the battlefield in 371 BC. more...

  • Archaic Eretriaby Keith G. Walker

    Routledge 2003; US$ 143.00

    The first detailed history of one of the most prosperous and important Greek cities of the pre-classical period. more...

  • Excavations at Nemea IIIby Robert C. Knapp; John D. Mac Isaac; Stephen G. Miller

    University of California Press 2005; US$ 135.00

    Since 1974 the University of California at Berkeley has been sponsoring extensive excavations at the Panhellenic athletic festival center of ancient Nemea in the modern Greek province of Korinthia. With its well-documented excavation and clear historical context, the site offers an excellent opportunity for investigation and analysis. This volume, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than three thousand legible coins from all over the ancient world that have been unearthed there. The coins, which are mostly bronze but show an unusually high proportion of silver, reflect the periods of greatest activity at the site?the late Archaic and Early Classical, the Early Hellenistic, the Early Christian,... more...

  • Miletosby Alan M. Greaves

    Taylor & Francis 2002; US$ 44.95

    This survey of the origins and development of Miletos from prehistory to its medieval decline focuses on the archaic era, when Miletos enjoyed its greatest influence and prosperity. Archaeological evidence is presented throughout, and useful case-studies explore a wide range of issues. more...

  • Demosthenes and His Timeby Raphael Sealey

    Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 135.00

    A study of the political history of Greece, particularly in relation to Athens, from 386 to 322 BC. more...

  • Pausaniasby Robert Pausanias; Susan E. Alcock; John F. Cherry; JaS Elsner

    Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 35.00

    A collection of specially commissioned essays addressing the most important travel book to survive from antiquity. Pausanias' "Guide to Greece" has for centuries been the key source for archaeologists and art historians researching the monuments and landscape of ancient Greece more...