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TRAC 2014
Oxbow Books 2015; US$ 17.50This volume contains a selection of papers presented at TRAC 2014, as well as some invited contributions. In keeping with the aims of TRAC, several papers make make innovative use of interdisciplinary theory: in humanistic geography, philosophy and archaeology; social psychology; and the cognitive science of religion in the study of Roman monuments,... more...
Byzantium: A Very Short Introduction
OUP Oxford 2015; US$ 7.99From the fourth to the fifteenth century AD the Byzantine Empire flourished as a powerful economic, cultural, and military force, whose influence stretched from Spain to Egypt. Peter Sarris explores the fusion of Greek and Roman civilization at the heart of the Byzantine Empire, and charts its struggle for survival against external challenges. more...
Berenice II Euergetis
Palgrave Macmillan 2015; US$ 90.00Berenice II Euergetis (267-6-221 BCE), the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (Libya) and wife of King Ptolemy III of Egypt, was queen at an important juncture in Hellenistic history. This collection of four essays focuses on aspects of chronology, genealogy and marital practices, royal ideology and queenship. more...
Berenice II Euergetis
Palgrave Macmillan 2015; US$ 90.00Berenice II Euergetis (267-6-221 BCE), the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (Libya) and wife of King Ptolemy III of Egypt, was queen at an important juncture in Hellenistic history. This collection of four essays focuses on aspects of chronology, genealogy and marital practices, royal ideology and queenship. more...
Aristophanes and Alcibiades
De Gruyter 2015; US$ 112.00The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades’ paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that “masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi , so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked” is hardly ever invoked.... more...
Ancient Greece A History
Waverley Books 2015; US$ 3.99Ancient Greece A History examines Greek art, literature and philosophy, with a focus on tragedy, art, philosophy, sculpture and the glorious architecture of classical Greece. In this history, the author wished to show the inner life of Ancient Greece, and captures the spirit of the country and its achievements. Cotterill leads the reader through the... more...
L'harmonie des Sirènes du pythagorisme ancien à Platon
De Gruyter 2015; US$ 126.00Begleitend zu den Editionsbänden der Reihe Traditio Praesocratica , in der Texte frühgriechischer Naturphilosophen in kritischer Ausgabe mit Übersetzung erscheinen, werden in der Reihe Studia Praesocratica Kommentare, Monographien und Sammelbände zur frühgriechischen Philosophie und ihrer Doxographie veröffentlicht. more...
Hellenistic Lives
OUP Oxford 2016; US$ 10.99These ten Lives trace the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Plutarch's biographies of eminent politicians, rulers, and soldiers combine vivid portraits with a wealth of historical information. more...
Pausanias
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 46.99Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias... more...
A Small Greek World
Oxford University Press 2011; US$ 30.99Should we admire the Greeks for having created their civilization in spite of, or because of, the enormous distances separating their independent communities? The book claims it was a network-dynamics of Small World formation that rapidly foreshortened Mediterranean spaces, thus allowing the flows of civilizational content and self-aware notions of... more...