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Xenophon: Symposium
edited by A.J. Bowen
This Symposium has lived so much in the shadow of the famous one by Plato, that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred years. Yet it gives the only alternative view of Socrates and has a wit and vigour of its own which paints a picture of a Greek society that makes it a document of prime historical importance. 160p (Aris & Phillips 1999)
Paperback. Price GB £18.00
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The Games at Athens
by Jenifer Neils, Stephen Tracy
This new Athenian Agora Picture Book is 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 in the ...
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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 about democracy. Democracy had shown itself to be a coherent political ideology and a successful institutional system. The aristocratic Athenian critics of democracy, therefore, sought to demonstrate that ...
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Inside the City in the Greek World
edited by Sara Owen and Laura Preston
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, exploring some of the ways in which people lived in, perceived and modified their built ...
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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, ...
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Classical Athens: A Place in History
by Alexandra Villing
This tour of the classical city of Athens takes the reader from the Acropolis to the theatre, from the political, civic and commercial centres, to the harbour and surrounding countryside. Rather than describing the areas and their buildings, it provides the historical and social background to the different parts of the city giving some idea of what life might have been like in Athens. This is not an aid to navigating around the city, there are no ...
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Selected Papers in Greek and Near Eastern History
by David M. Lewis, edited by P. J. Rhodes
A selection of David Lewis's papers, four previously unpublished, gathered from a variety of journals. They illustrate the range of his work on Greek and Near Eastern history and his particular expertise in dealing with inscriptions, ostraka and coins. There is also a complete bibliography of his published works. 400p (Cambridge UP 1997)
Hardback. Price GB £19.95