Greece & the Hellenistic World
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Moral Awareness in Greek Tragedy [Hardback]
£75.00ISBN: 9780199659753
Beginning with a definition of morality and examining the implications of analysing the moral performance of fictional characters, Lawrence considers concepts of the self and the problem of autonomy and personal responsibility in ... .... Learn More -
Archaeological Survey and the City [Paperback]
Paul Johnson (Editor); Martin Millett (Editor)
£36.00ISBN: 9781842175095
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE MUSEUM OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY MONOGRAPHS
Volume: 2
In the past 30 years archaeological field survey has become central to the practice of Classical Archaeology. During this time, approaches have developed from the systematic collection of artefacts to include the routine deployment of various ... .... Learn More -
Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd - 7th Century AD [Paperback]
Anastasia Lazaridou (Editor)
£19.00ISBN: 9780981966625
Published by : Hellenic Museums Shop
The vibrant and complex life of the eastern Mediterranean during a time of reinvention and renewal is the subject of the exhibition Transition to Christianity and this accompanying catalogue, which explore a period of extraordinary creativity a... .... Learn More -
The Construction of Value in the Ancient World [Hardback]
John K. Papadopoulos (Editor); Gary Urton (Editor)
£58.00ISBN: 9781931745901
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. John K. Papadopoulos and Gary Urton's The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing... .... Learn More -
Herakles [Paperback]
Emma Stafford (Author)
£20.99ISBN: 9780415300681
Published by : Routledge Ltd
The latest in Routledge's Gods and heroes of the ancient world series, this book tackles the most complex of all Graeco-Roman deities, both God and hero, and with a highly developed series of legends surrounding his birth, deeds, madness and d... .... Learn More -
The Temple of Athene at Assos [Hardback]
Bonna Daix Wescoat (Author)
£110.00ISBN: 9780198143826
Published by : Oxford University Press
This volume presents a comprehensive investigation of one of the most unusual archaic Greek temples. The Temple of Athena at Assos, in modern Turkey, was built in a city that had no prior monumental tradition in either architecture or sculpture... .... Learn More -
Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry [Hardback]
Oivind Andersen (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780521194976
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book sets out to disentangle the complex chronology of early Greek epic poetry, which includes Homer, Hesiod, hymns and catalogues. The preserved corpus of these texts is characterized by a rather uniform language and many recurring themes... .... Learn More -
Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage [Hardback]
William E Metcalf (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780195305746
Published by : Oxford University Press
This handbook aims to make the findings of numismatists available to the academic community at large, providing a systematic overview of the major coinages of the Classical world. Its chapters cover a vast geography and chronology, beginning w... .... Learn More -
Families in the Greco-Roman World [Hardback]
Ray Laurence (Author);Agneta Stromberg (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781441139276
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
The family has been recognised in the ancient world as the key social institution on which both society and the state are based. However, in the pre-Classical and Classical world the family was constructed in dissimilar ways and provides the me... .... Learn More -
Interpreting the images on Greek vases: an introduction [Paperback]
Klaus Junker (Author)
£17.99ISBN: 9780521720076
Published by : Cambridge University Press
From the age of Homer until late antiquity the culture of ancient Greece and Rome was permeated by images of Greek myths. Gods and heroes were represented as statues, on vase and wall paintings, on temples, on sarcophagi as well as in other med... .... Learn More