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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...
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...
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...
The History of the Peloponnesian War
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 7.99Written by Thucydides around 400 AD, The History of the Peloponnesian War is a meticulous account by the Athenian general of the extended struggle that raged between Athens and Sparta for the better part of twenty years. Thucydides eschews the romance of heroics and dramatics and his precise and thorough account of the ill-fated conflict is one of... more...
Griechische Studien
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00In a broad sweep, the Greek Studies treat important moments in Greek history from its beginnings up to the 4th century BC. Working in collaboration with the Old Testament scholar Klaus Seybold from Basle, particular attention is paid first to the comparison with parallel developments in Israel/ Judaea in order to bring out what was characteristic of... more...
The Historiography of Landscape Research on Crete
Amsterdam University Press 2008; US$ 55.00This study aimed to construct a historiography of archaeological landscape research on the island of Crete and evaluate the knowledge acquired through different approaches of over more than a century's intense archaeological work. more...
Gods, Heroes and Tyrants
Algora Publishing 2009; US$ 32.95Early Greek history as found in the textbooks leaves spurious dark age gaps where the evidence fails to match historians' fixed ideas. Dramatic claims regarding everything from the Trojan War to the Mask of Agamemnon are argued in detail from both an archaeological and a literary perspective, unraveling historical conundrums... more...









