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Griechische Frühgeschichte bis 500 v. Chr.
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 12.94Hauptbeschreibung Die minoische Kultur auf Kreta und die mykenische Zivilisation in Griechenland bildeten die beiden ersten Hochkulturen auf europäischem Boden. In einem einzigartigen historischen Prozess entwickelte sich hier im 2. Jahrtausend v.Chr. eine ägäische Großmacht, die bis heute zum Urbild und Grundmuster aller demokratischen Staatswesen... more...
Dividing the Spoils
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 21.99Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances, and mass slaughter on battlefield after battlefield.... more...
Lysimachus
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 148.00Although shortlived, Lysimachus' Hellespontine empire foreshadowed those of Pergamum and Byzantium. Lund's book sets his actions significantly within the context of the volatile early Hellenistic world and views them as part of a continuum of imperial rule in Asia minor. She challenges the assumption that he was a vicious, but ultimately incompetent... more...
Antigonus II Gonatas
Routledge 1997; US$ 44.95Janice J. Gabbert portrays the eventful life of this enigmatic king in a lively and engaging manner. Her aim is to trace the political career of a man about whose life almost no official records survive. more...
The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 149.99The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable them to pursue their own research by introducing the primary resources and exploring... more...
The Regime of Demetrius of Phalerum in Athens, 317-307 BCE
BRILL 2009; US$ 154.00This work draws upon a close re-examination of the literary and epigraphic evidence to offer new understandings of Athenian history during the decade-long rule (317-307 BCE) of the accomplished Peripatetic scholar and renowned legislator, Demetrius of Phalerum. more...
Ghost on the Throne
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.00Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity. The story of Alexander?s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and consequential saga of the empire?s collapse remains... more...
The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of Ipsos to the Death of Kleopatra VII
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 35.00Greek and Roman history has largely been reconstructed from the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, and other major authors who are today well represented in English translations. But much equally valuable documentary material is buried in insc more...
Rome Enters the Greek East
Wiley 2009; US$ 145.95This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to Syria by the 180s BC. Applies modern political theory to ancient Mediterranean history, taking a Realist approach to its analysis of Roman involvement... more...
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