Greece & the Hellenistic World

ISBN: 9783515103442
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
The book presents research mostly done by younger Russian scholars of ancient history to a readership that does not speak and read the Russian language. The articles cover a wide range of time and topics: Greek history from the archaic far into th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783777420349
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Series: Athenaia
Volume: 6
Norms and Regionalisms Files of the International Colloquium at the German Archaeological Institute, Athens Department. 20 – 21 November 2009. Ideas about the design of Greek gave precincts of the classical period are nowadays profoundly influence... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515103985
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Recent research into the military history of ancient Greece has questioned the central role traditionally ascribed to the famous hoplite phalanx by historians and suggests that even as late as the Persian Wars of 480-479 BC, Greek battles consiste... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515101264
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Historia - Einzelschriften
Volume: 224
The author explores one of the most important (and so far neglected) topics of Hellenism: the official epithets of kings and relatives (with reference even to the whole royal titulature and to unofficial epithets and nicknames), in the wider conte... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783777470412
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Series: Athenaia
Volume: 3
Neue Funde archaischer Plastik aus griechischen Heiligtümern und Nekropolen An astonishing number of new discoveries of archaic sculptures has come to light over the course of the last two decades. A symposium held jointly by the University of At... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781908343697
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
King Agamemnon is long dead and his killers rule at Argos. Orestes returns from exile to avenge his father by killing his mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. His vengeance will release his sister Electra from oppression... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783805346023
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
Already during his lifetime Alexander the Great was a "superstar". Without apparent effort he reached the unattainable and moved with his army to the end of the known world. Who was this man, who came from a small kingdom and became ruler of the e... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842175125
Published by : Oxbow Books
When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a huge empire and ushered in a turbulent period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories. The time of the Successors (Diadochi) is us... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515103114
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien
Volume: 54
Molossia is perhaps most famous as the kingdom of the third-century warlord Pyrrhus. The Inscriptions of Dodona and A New History of Molossia re-examines the non-oracular stone and bronze inscriptions, re-dating some of the most important to the t... .... Learn More