History

ISBN: 9780859898379
Published by : The Exeter Press
This volume examines the mythologizing of procreation and sex in the traditions surrounding the figure of Alexander the Great. Accordingly, it comprises both treatments of the narratives spun around his own siring and birth on the one hand, and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859898386
Published by : The Exeter Press
This volume examines the mythologizing of procreation and sex in the traditions surrounding the figure of Alexander the Great. Accordingly, it comprises both treatments of the narratives spun around his own siring and birth on the one hand, and... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674055889
Published by : Harvard University Press
Readers of Herodotuss Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. But Herodotus draws our attention to other types of signs too, beginning with human speech itself as a coded system that c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199218158
Published by : Oxford University Press
This is the first book in a five-volume series that has the ambitious aim of exploring representations of the past from earliest times to the present day, and ranges all over the world. Distinguished scholars from a variety of fields here consi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848841611
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
The battle of Actium in 31 BC, in which Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, was the last significant naval encounter in the ancient Mediterranean world. However, before the dominance of Rome was complete, battles at sea w... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521111409
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Much is known, of course, about the workings of democracy in fifth-century Athens and its key political figures, but the experiences of the ordinary people who were participants in this process are less well documented. Anna Missiou here examin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521128766
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Much is known, of course, about the workings of democracy in fifth-century Athens and its key political figures, but the experiences of the ordinary people who were participants in this process are less well documented. Anna Missiou here examin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781441120502
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
The aim of this volume is to explore memory and identity in ancient societies. We are what we remember is the striking thesis of the Nobel laureate Eric R Kandel, and this holds equally true for ancient societies as modern ones. How did the soc... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781441111517
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
It is the Athens of Pericles, or of Demosthenes, that has ignited the imagination of modern scholars, rather than the city's later history in the Hellenistic period. Studies have tended to disparage the city's position at this time, virtually ... .... Learn More