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The Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt
by Naphtali Lewis
This is a reprint of Naphtali Lewis' important book on the uses of papyrus records reconstructing life in ancient Egypt. Published in 1986, the first edition of Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt complemented `Life in Egypt under Roman Rule' (reprinted in 1999 as `Classics in Papyrology 1') by providing a perspective on the earlier period. The author presents a series of portraits, describing the lives of inhabitants ranging from the grand (like the ...
Paperback. Price GB £14.95
Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece
by Lynette Mitchell
This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism was a body of narratives that expressed, defined and limited the community of the Hellenes and gave it political substance. Yet Panhellenic narratives also responded to other needs of the community, in particular serving to locate the Hellenes in time and space. Thus one of the chief Panhellenic ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Hellenistic Democracies: Freedom, Independence and Political Procedure in Some East Greek City-States
by Susanne Carlsson
In the hellenistic period the Greek city-states are thought to have lost their independence and thereby also their possibilities of democratic government. This study shows that interstate relations among the Greek cities of coastal Asia Minor were active. Measures were taken to solve conflicts and to strengthen ties of friendship among cities, but the cities did not refrain from claiming their rights vis-à-vis each other and even waging ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00
The Royal Palace Institution in the First Millennium BC: Regional Development and Cultural Interchange between East and West
edited by Inge Nielsen
The first millennium BC saw two great powers embracing the East-West divide: the Achaemenid and Hellenistic empires. These 18 papers examine how their powerful new kings created palatial institutions suitable to reign subjugated lands with old monarchic traditions. The royal palace, both the building and the institution, is therefore used as a means of examining a range of topics including the relationship between the conquered and conqueror, ...
Paperback. Price GB £22.95
Antigonus II Gonatas
by Janice J. Gabbert
A concise political biography of Antigonus Gonatas who assumed the title of King of Macedonia in 283 BC and reigned for more than forty years. Although there are no official archives or surviving narrative of events, using chance remarks in later sources, and contemporary epigraphical evidence, primarily Athenian inscriptions, Gabbert suceeds in building a picture of the career of Gonatas, a learned, pragmatic man who inspite of turbulent ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.95
Hardback. Price GB £70.00
Hellenistic Palaces: Tradition and Renewal
by Inge Nielsen
This book analyses the evidence for the architectural form and function of the palaces of the Hellenistic period, including governor's and private palaces. Nielsen begins by examining the models on which Hellenisitc builders may have drawn, for example ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.50
Hellenistic Civilization
Chamoux, F
A well-written authoritative introduction to the Hellenistic civilisation from Alexander's accession in 336BC to the Battle of Actium in 31BC. The chapters combine a review of key events with an overview of political history, political and cultural institutions, of kingdoms and cities and the interaction of different polities within Alexander's empire. In particular Chamoux looks at Greek influences within the Hellenistic civilisation and their ...
Paperback. Price GB £26.99
Hardback. Price GB £95.00
Kulte und Kultur der Dekapolis
by Achtim Lichtenberger
This substantial study of late Hellenistic and Roman cult and culture in the cities of the Decapolis is based on the detailed analysis of numismatic, archaeological and epigraphic evdience. As a whole this material provides invaluable evidence for the ...
Hardback. Price GB £135.00
The Oxford Illustrated History of Greece and the Hellenistic World
by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin and Oswyn Murray
First published as The Oxford History of the Classical World in 1986, the Greek and Roman volumes have now been reissued as separate paperbacks. The sixteen inter-disciplinary and comprehensive contributions, each written by an expert in that ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.00
Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age
by Antonia Tripolitis
A general introduction and overview of religious beliefs and practices from the time of Alexander the Great to the development of Christianity in the 4th century AD. Tripolitis explores the various mystery cults, philosophies and ideologies that people ...
Paperback. Price GB £11.99
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