History

ISBN: 9780521843317
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book presents a detailed study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period (480323 BC), focusing on examples outside Athens. It has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic governments established themselves in ancien... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521760447
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Athenian age of democracy stretched from the beginning of the fifth century to the last decades of the fourth, but around the time of Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War at the end of the fifth century, the city twice saw the temporary ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199573929
Published by : Oxford University Press
As Robin Waterfield writes in the introduction to this learned but engaging work, 'historians of imperialism simply skip from Alexander to Rome; I aim to set the record straight.' The period between Alexander's death in 323 BC, after conquering... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199647002
Published by : Oxford University Press
As Robin Waterfield writes in the introduction to this learned but engaging work, 'historians of imperialism simply skip from Alexander to Rome; I aim to set the record straight.' The period between Alexander's death in 323 BC, after conquering... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715639429
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
The expansion of Rome's empire dominates Polybius' Histories. As a non-Roman writing in Rome, however his attitude to Roman imperialism is complex and ambivalent. Baronowski first surveys Polybius' contemporaries, setting out what other histori... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781853997426
Published by : Bristol Classical Press
A Greek doctor serving at the court of the Persian king Artaxerxes II in the fifth century BC, Ctesias met travellers and visitors from the far eastern reaches of the Persian Empire, merchants from along the Silk Road and Indians from near the ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199562329
Published by : Oxford University Press
Much work on Greek tragedy in recent years has focused on its political relevance and relationship to the city of Athens where it enjoyed its most sustained flourishing. This collection of essays by a wide variety of distinguished scholars furt... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199734818
Published by : Oxford University Press
Ancient Greek civilization emerged just when the Greeks were splitting apart from each other, settling on shores as far away from the Greek mainland as the Black Sea and the Iberian Peninsula. This was a diaspora without a homeland, since there... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195375183
Published by : Oxford University Press
'Freedom' was the rallying cry of the Greek resistance to the Persian invasion in the early fifth century BC. This notion, however, had a lengthy and rather varied afterlife, as Sviatoslav Dmitriev explains. Ideas of freedom and democracy were ... .... Learn More