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Greece & Greeks

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Samothracian Connections: Essays in Honor of James R. McCredie
edited by Olga Palagia and Bonna D. Wescoat
This volume of sixteen papers is dedicated to James R. McCredie in celebration of his outstanding contribution to the excavation and study of the sanctuary of the Great Gods on the Greek island of Samothrace. The papers focus mainly on the art and archaeology of Samothrace, while two contributions discuss Alexandria in Egypt and Florina in Macedonia, two areas that were closely connected with Samothrace in antiquity. The volume covers the latest ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00


Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World
edited by Peter Schultz and Ralf von den Hoff
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, Katherine Schwab, Justin St. P. Walsh, Hilda Westervelt and Lorenz Winkler-Horacek. The contents are divided into four sections - I. Structure and Ornament ; II. Technique and Agency ; III. Myth and ...
Hardback. Price US$80.00


The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture
edited by Kostis Kourelis
Between 1900 and 1915, a quarter of the working-age male Greek population immigrated to the United States, Canada, and Australia. This profound demographic phenomenon left an indelible mark on Greek society, but also created new diasporic communities in the host countries. Greek immigration is a phenomenon of modern trans-nationalism that shares features with other migration stories despite its unique ethnic manifestations. Xenitia, as a ...
Paperback. Price US$15.00


Corolla Cosmo Rodewald
edited by Nicholas Sekunda
Cosmo Rodewald, who died in 2002, was Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Manchester University. Corolla Cosmo Rodewald is a collection of historical essays on the Greek and Roman world written by former colleagues, pupils and admirers of Cosmo, and intended as a gesture to honour the memory of a great man. 192p (Akanthina 2007)
Hardback. Price US$90.00


The Greeks Beyond the Aegean: From Marseilles to Bactria
edited by Vassos Karageorghis
There are some phenomena in the history of the world, which have left an everlasting impact on the development of civilization, beneficial or otherwise. Today, when we say the words democracy, philosophy, ideology, theatre, music, we recall one of the above phenomena, the Greek heritage of Europe and the whole world. In the realm of philosophical thought, science, literature, art and architecture the Greeks have left their mark. Greek heritage, ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price US$24.00, Our Price US$12.00


Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern. Proceedings of the Conference held in Sparta, organised by the British School at Athens, the University of Nottingham, the Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and the 5th Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities 17-20 March 2005
edited by W.G. Cavanagh, C. Gallou and M. Georgiadis
This conference celebrated 100 years since the beginning of work in Laconia by the British School at Athens. It aimed to carry forward from that original work a broad spirit of enquiry - the research of those early scholars ranged over every aspect of the archaeology, epigraphy, history, architecture and art history of the region. What has changed over the century since is the even greater internationalisation of the scholarly enterprise, and the ...
Hardback. Price US$194.00


Greece
by Othon Tsounakos, edited by Maria Koursi
This guide aims to be a strong incentive to the inquisitive voyager to Greece. Its purpose is to give, with the assistance of carefully selected photographs of the best quality, a basic outline of the directions which the traveller should follow in roaming the land, or more simply still, what not to miss. 255p, 272 illus. (Ekdotike Athenon 2007)
Paperback. Price US$30.00


Physis and Nomos: Power, Justice and the Agonistical Ideal of Life in High Classicism, July 4-12, 2004 (Symposium Philosophiae Antiquae Quartum Atheniense)
edited by Apostolos Pierris
This collection of papers revolves around the crucial physis-nomos controvesy - the laws of nature versus man-made conventions. 425p (Institute for Philosophical Research Conference Series 4, Institute for Philosophical Research 2007)
Paperback. Price US$70.00


Spartan Education: Youth and society in the Classical Period
by Jean Ducat
Jean Ducat is the leading French authority on Classical Sparta. Here is what is likely to be seen as his magnum opus. Ducat systematically collects, translates and evaluates the sources - famous and obscure alike - for Spartan education. He deploys his familiar combination of good judgment and uncompromising recognition of the limits to our knowledge, while drawing at times on aspects of French structuralism. This book is likely to become the ...
Hardback. Price US$100.00


The Greeks in the East
edited by A Villing
Based on papers presented at the twenty-first British Museum Classical Colloquium in December 1997, this volume presents important research on Greek activity and influence in the east, with some papers having been brought up to date for publication. (BMP Research Paper 157, British Museum Press 2005)
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