Greece & the Hellenistic World
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Civic Priests: Cult Personnel in Athens [Hardback]
Marietta Horster (Author);Anja Klockner (Author)
£110.00ISBN: 9783110258073
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
Using the abundant documentation and material record from post-classical Athens as a case study, the essays in this volume explore the ways in which the roles of priests and priestesses were constructed in social and political terms. The approa... .... Learn More -
Art and Archaeology of the Greek World [Hardback]
Richard Neer (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780500051665
Published by : Thames and Hudson
This beautifully produced book is a real tour de force, providing a comprehensive overview to the art of the Greek world in its entirety from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era. Richard Neer takes an archaeological as well as art-historical ... .... Learn More -
A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics [Paperback]
Neil Faulkner (Author)
£14.99ISBN: 9780300159073
Published by : Yale University Press
Written in the style of a modern travel guide, Neil Faulkner here provides a light-hearted, but informative introduction to the ancient Olympics, bringing to life all of the sights and smells of the games. As well as describing the events thems... .... Learn More -
Highways, Byways and Road Systems in the Pre-modern World [Hardback]
Susan Alcock (Author);John Bodel (Author);Richard J. A. Talbert (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780470674253
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This volume presents a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of overland transport and communication networks across premodern cultures. Featuring contributions from an international team of scholars, these readings delve deeply... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Greek Art [Hardback]
Dimitris Plantzos (Author);Tyler Jo Smith (Author)
£235.00ISBN: 9781405186049
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This well illustrated two-volume set offers a comprehensive, authoritative account of the development of Greek art through the 1st millennium BC. While there is no shortage of introductory handbooks on Greek art the current publication takes a ... .... Learn More -
The Sacred Law of Andania: A New Text with Commentary [Hardback]
Laura Gawlinski (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9783110267570
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
The inscribed text referred to as the sacred law of Andania contains almost 200 lines of regulations about a mystery festival and the sanctuary in which it took place. This examination of the inscription includes a new and accurate edition of i... .... Learn More -
From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt [Hardback]
Andrew Monson (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781107014411
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book gives a structured account of Egypt's transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule by identifying key relationships between ecology, land tenure, taxation, administration and politics. It introduces theoretical perspectives from the social... .... Learn More -
Inscribed Athenian Laws and Decrees 352/ 1-322/ 1 BC: Epigraphical Essays [Hardback]
Stephen Lambert (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9789004209312
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book collects eighteen previously published papers which make contributions to the study of the inscribed laws and decrees of the city of Athens, 352/1-322/1 BC. The papers, which are based on fresh comprehensive autopsy of the stones and s... .... Learn More -
Die republikanischen Otiumvillen von Tivoli [Hardback]
Martin Tombragel (Author); Martin Tombrägel (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9783895008757
Published by : Reichert Verlag
Series: palilia
Volume: 25
The territory of the rural Latin town of Tibur (Tivoli) constituted one of the most important sites of Roman villa culture in the Republican period. In the summertime, Roman senators were attracted by the cool atmosphere of the Tiburtine slope... .... Learn More -
The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC [Paperback]
J.G. Manning (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780691156385
Published by : Princeton University Press
This new history of Hellenistic Egypt does not, like many others provide a political narrative, but instead a detailed analysis of Ptolemaic institutions, looking at the nature and development of the state and the exercise of power, as well as... .... Learn More

