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Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World
by David J. Phillips and David Pritchard
First launched at the time of the Athens Olympics, Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World has become a classic study in its field. The 15 illustrated chapters of this collection not only explore many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the rich programme of competitive festivals in democratic Athens but also the broader religious, social and political contexts in which sport and festival flourished in ancient Greece. The book shows ...
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Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this major study. The Greeks, rightly credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more eastern tradition of seclusion. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence. In sculpture and vase painting it demonstrates the presence of the veil, often covering the head, but also more unobtrusively folded back ...
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Sparta: The Body Politic
edited by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson
This is the 7th volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series begun in 1989 by Anton Powell with Stephen Hodkinson. The volume is both thematic and eclectic. Ephraim David and Yoann Le Tallec treat respectively the politics of nudity at Sparta and the role of athletes in forming the Spartan state. Nicolas Richer examines the significance of animals depicted in Lakonian art; Andrew Scott asks what Lakonian figured pottery reveals of ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

Sparta: Comparative Approaches
edited by Stephen Hodkinson
Both in antiquity and in modern scholarship, classical Sparta has typically been viewed as an exceptional society, different in many respects from other Greek city-states. This view has recently come under challenge from revisionist historians, led by Stephen Hodkinson. This is the first book devoted explicitly to this lively historical controversy. Historians from Britain, Europe and the USA present different sides of the argument, using a ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora
by Carol L. Lawton
The fifth-century B.C. poet Pindar remarked on the rich sculptural decoration of the Athenian Agora, and, indeed, over 3,500 pieces of various types of sculpture have been uncovered during its excavation. This full-color guide sheds new light on the marble industry in and around the Agora, including rich evidence for the sculptors' workshops, their tools and techniques. It discusses the works of both famous and anonymous artists. 32p, 51 col ...
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Women in the Athenian Agora
by Susan I. Rotroff and Robert D. Lamberton
Using evidence from the Athenian Agora the authors show how objects discovered during excavations provide a vivid picture of women's lives. The book is structured according to the social roles women played-as owners of property, companions (in and outside of marriage), participants in ritual, craftspeople, producers, and consumers. A final section moves from the ancient world to the modern, discussing the role of women as archaeologists in the ...
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The Athenian Citizen (Agora Picture Book 4)
by Mabel Lang
The artefacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a bestseller since it was first published almost 20 years ago. Showing how central tribal identity was to all aspects of civic life, the text guides the reader through the duties of citizenship - as soldier in times of war and as juror during the peace. The checks ...
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Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs
by Adrienne Mayor
The author is a well-respected classical folklorist whose technique of isolating seemingly fantastical legends and tracing them back to reality has worked well in her previous discussion of ancient attitudes to fossils. In this book she has tackled the very timely topic of biological and chemical warfare. Starting with Hercules' poison-tipped arrows, used against the Hydra, Adrienne Mayor discusses weapons by class. Ancient recipes for arrow ...
Paperback. Price GB £10.99
Hardback. Price GB £20.00

Competition in the Ancient World
edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

Athens-Sparta: Contributions to the Research on the History and Archaeology of the Two City-States
edited by Nikolaos Kaltsas
Organized in conjunction with the Onassis Cultural Center's groundbreaking exhibition Athens-Sparta, the International Conference explored the archaeological and historical elements of the ancient relationship and conflict between the rival city-states, and provided insight into the artistic development of the Attic and Laconic cultures. Particular to these proceedings is the inclusion of papers relating to the archaeology of Sparta and ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.00