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The Life of Alexander the Great
Random House Publishing Group 2004; US$ 9.95In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father?s empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, ful?lling the soothsayer Aristander?s prediction that the new king ?should perform acts so important and glorious as... more...
Rhetoric of Manhood
University of California Press 2005; US$ 15.95The concept of manhood was immensely important in ancient Athens, shaping its political, social, legal, and ethical systems. This book, a groundbreaking study of manhood in fourth-century Athens, is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of notions about masculinity found in the Attic orators, who represent one of the most important sources... more...
Modern Greece
Bloomsbury Publishing 2004; US$ 120.95The glorious, classical legacy of Greece is universally revered. But this legacy has come at a price. How will Greece ever move beyond its ties with the past? Is there such a thing as modern Greece? This book is the first to present an alternative cultural history of Greece. Beginning with the growth of Greece as a nation-state through to the present,... more...
Ancient Greece
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 49.95In this revised and updated edition of a definitive collection of source material, Matthew Dillon and Lynda Garland present a wide range of documents on Greek social and political history from 800 to 399 BC, from all over the Greek World. Ancient Greece includes: source material on political developments in Greece, including colonization in... more...
Money and the Early Greek Mind
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 35.00How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. more...
Tools of the Ancient Greeks
Nomad Press 2006; US$ 13.95Children will learn all about different civilizations and inventions?the way they changed history, their evolution over centuries, and their influence on modern times?through the activities and anecdotes provided in this interactive series. Kids discover the origin of ancient Greek theories, such as anatomy, geography, and democracy, and the ways... more...
Paideia : The Ideals of Greek Culture Volume III
Oxford University Press 1986; US$ 36.00Werner Jaeger's classic three-volume work, originally published in 1939, is now available in paperback. Paideia, the shaping of Greek character through a union of civilization, tradition, literature, and philosophy is the basis for Jaeger's evaluation of Hellenic culture. Volume I describes the foundation, growth, and crisis of Greek culture during... more...
Pausanias
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 34.99A 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...
Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 37.00Darien Shanske analyzes the difficult language and structure of Thucydides History. more...









