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Euripides: Suppliant Women [Hardback]
James Morwood (Author)
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ISBN: 9780856687792
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
A group of Argive women has come to Eleusis to ask King Theseus and his city of Athens to bring about the burial of their sons who are being denied it by their Theban conquerors. Theseus is confronted with a challenge which at first he declines... .... Learn More -
Euripides: Suppliant Women [Paperback]
James Morwood (Author)
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ISBN: 9780856687846
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
A group of Argive women has come to Eleusis to ask King Theseus and his city of Athens to bring about the burial of their sons who are being denied it by their Theban conquerors. Theseus is confronted with a challenge which at first he declines... .... Learn More -
Civic Rites: Democracy and Religion in Ancient Athens [Paperback]
Nancy Evans (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520262034
Published by : University of California Press
This book makes a strong case for the importance of religious practices in Classical Athens, showing how thoroughly ritual was integrated into the city's democratic institutions and civic life. To this end Nancy Evans takes an in depth look at ... .... Learn More -
Plutarch: Malice of Herodotos [Hardback]
A. J. Bowen (Author)
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ISBN: 9780856685682
Published by : Aris & Phillips
Series: Classical Texts
The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch... .... Learn More -
Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece [Paperback]
Anthony Snodgrass (Author)
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ISBN: 9780801473548
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
"The papers in this book presume to stray across the traditional boundaries with the domains of prehistorians, ancient historians, and literary critics. . . . It had been regarded as somehow out of order for Classical archaeologists to meddle with... .... Learn More -
The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity [Hardback]
Frances B. Titchener (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520210295
Published by : University of California Press
This book seeks to study 'the interaction between human life and the literary and plastic arts'. The sixteen contributors to this book not only cite examples of this interaction, but study the influence of art on life and society, and vice vers... .... Learn More -
Ancient History [Paperback]
George Rawlinson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780760773581
Published by : Barnes & Noble
Originally published in 1869 this book is full of the spirit of the heroic age of archaeology, and was written to make the recent discoveries in Egypt and the Near East available to a wider audience. Accordingly the book does not subordinate th... .... Learn More -
Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens [Paperback]
Robert Garland (Author)
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ISBN: 9780715634486
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
What sort of people were able to grab the attention of the public in the ancient world? How was celebrity achieved? What methods did people use to achieve it? Robert Garland turns the spotlight on the careers of some of the most successful and ... .... Learn More -
Attalos, Athens and the Akropolis: The Pergamene "Little Barbarians" and their Roman and Renaissance Legacy [Hardback]
Andrew Stewart (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521831635
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Discovered in Rome in 1514, the "Little Barbarians" are a group of Roman copies, in marble, of gianys, Amazons, Persians and Gauls, now scattered among museum collections in five European cities. The pieces are brought together herre as Andrew ... .... Learn More -
Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC [Hardback]
John Buckler (Author); Hans Beck (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521837057
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The short fourth century is notoriously complex; warfare was endemic, but there is no framework as easy as the Peloponnesian war to shoehorn the ever fluctuating alliances between, and hegemony of, the various city states. This excellent study ... .... Learn More