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The Games at Athens
by Jenifer Neils, Stephen Tracy
A general introduction to the Greater Panathenaia, the week-long religious and civic festival held at Athens every four years in honor of the city's patron goddess Athena. The highlight of the city's festival calendar, with its musical, athletic, and equestrian contests, tribal events, processions, sacrifices and other activities, the Greater Panathenaia involved all the residents of Athens-not just adult males but also women, children, metics ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$4.95, Our Price US$1.00

Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L Boegehold
edited by Geoffrey W Bakewell and James P Sickinger
These thirty essays were presented to Alan L Boegehold, a distinguished philologist and an inspirational teacher, on the occasion of his retirement and his seventy-fifth birthday. The contributions fall into two categories, each one reflecting Boegehold's diverse interests in classical studies: the first section includes essays on literary and philosophical topics, several of which pick up on the theme of "gestures"; the second section is ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$100.00, Our Price US$19.98

Rollenbilder in der athenischen Demokratie: Medien, Gruppen, Räume im politischen und sozialen System
edited by Christian Mann, Matthias Haake, and Ralf von den Hoff
English summary: This conference volume includes eight essays on archaeology and ancient history with a joint investigative horizon: the complex fabric of role models in classical Athens. With the emergence of democracy, the political space was strengthened and formulated a guiding principle of the equality of all citizens (with rigorous exclusion of women and metics), but existed alongside traditional social structures, stored away with ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00

The Greek World under Ottoman and Western Domination: 15th-19th Centuries
edited by Dimitris Arvanitakis and Paschalis M. Kitromilides
The conference on "The Greek World under Ottoman and Western Domination: 15th-19th Centuries," held at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York, on April 29, 2006, took place in conjunction with an exhibition on the same theme.

The aim of the conference was to explore the multiple realities formed in Greek lands over the years between two crucial chronological termini: 1453 and 1821/1830. These dates may have been established as milestones ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$20.00, Our Price US$16.00

Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule
by Josiah Ober
By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy, Ober argues that the tradition of political theorising that arose in Athens in the late fifth and fourth centuries, came about as a result of a debate amongst intellectuals concerning how a non-elite people could rule themselves so efficiently, as was the case in democratic Athens. He offers fresh readings of the political works of Thucydides, Plato and Artistotle, placing them ...
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Inside the City in the Greek World
edited by Sara Owen and Laura Preston
The first in a new series from the University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology, the publication of the papers presented in this volume marks an important step in the study of ancient cities. Despite having long been a focus of archaeological investigation and analysis, until relatively recently they have tended to be described rather than analysed. These eleven papers concentrate on analysing ancient urban centres from within, ...
Paperback. Price US$56.00

Scholars, Travels, Archives: Greek History and Culture through the British School at Athens
edited by M. Llewellyn Smith, P.M. Kitromilides, and E. Calligas
The British School at Athens is renowned for its discoveries in Bronze Age and Classical archaeology. This book reveals for the first time that in parallel with this story of archaeology and the classics, another theme runs persistently through the history of the School from its foundation in 1886. This is the contribution of British scholars to the study of Byzantine and modern Greek culture, art and architecture, anthropology, geography, ...

Avengers of Blood: Homicide in Athenian Law and Custom from Draco to Demosthenes
by David D. Phillips
In 621/0 B.C., the Athenians appointed Draco as their first lawgiver. His homicide laws, which alone survived the general recension of Athenian law by Solon (594/3 B.C.), remained in force down through the Classical period. This book traces the development of Athenian legal and social responses to homicide from the legislation of Draco to the time of the orator Demosthenes (d. 322 B.C.), with particular attention to the Athenian institution of ...
Hardback. Price US$89.00

Classical Athens: A Place in History
by Alexandra Villing
This book is an introduction to the city of Athens, its history and its monuments. Its focus is 5th century Athens, the time of the city's heyday. The influence and importance of the city during this period reverberates through the centuries to the present day. As one of the dominant powers in the Mediterranean, Athens became the archetypal Classical city, and its monuments and temples stand as a testament to the glory of the city and its people. ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$18.95, Our Price US$6.98

Xenophon: Greece, Persia, and Beyond
edited by Bogdan Burliga
The importance of Xenophon as a historical source for the history of Greece in the classical period has long been recognised as an established fact. Many scholars also rightly judge him to be a priceless source of information about the Achemenid Empire and the nature of its relations with the Greeks. Given the amazing variety, and the value, of his literary output (the majority of them constitute the very beginning of a new literary genre), his ...
Paperback. Price US$30.00