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Akanthina
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Xenophon: Greece, Persia, and Beyond
edited by Bogdan Burliga
The importance of Xenophon as a historical source for the history of Greece in the classical period has long been recognised as an established fact. Many scholars also rightly judge him to be a priceless source of information about the Achemenid Empire and the nature of its relations with the Greeks. Given the amazing variety, and the value, of his literary output (the majority of them constitute the very beginning of a new literary genre), his ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.00
A Roman Miscellany: Essays in Honour of Anthony R. Birley on his Seventieth Birthday
edited by Hans Michael Schellenberg, Vera Elisabeth Hirschmann and Andreas Krieckhaus
Anthony R. Birley, a leading authority in the field of Roman prosopography and well known for his biographies of the emperors Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and Septimius Severus, was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester from 1974-1990 and at the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf from 1990 until retirement in 2002. Friends, colleagues and pupils have offered him A Roman Miscellany, on a rich variety of topics relating ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
The Army of the Bosporan Kingdom
by Mariusz Mielczarek, translated by Nicholas Sekunda
The edge of the Greek world was the northern shore of the Pontus Euxenius and the impact of the Black Sea was evident in the political, economic and cultural features of Bosporan society. The author uses evidence gathered from Bosporan tomb paintings, funerary stelai, terracotta figurines and representations on coins to demonstrate the interaction particularly between the Scythians and the Greeks (but also the Sindians and Maeotians) in ...
Hardback. Price GB £18.00
Cataphracti and Clibanari
by Mariusz Mielczarek
A fully documented study of the heavy armoured cavalry of the ancient world. The author reviews the ancient sources, discusses the tactics involved in the use of such cavalry, and then describes the arms and armour as used by the Parthians and Sassanians, the Seleucids, the Romans and Palmyrenes. An appendix considers also the Samaritan and Bosporan cavalry. 145p, 29 figs (Oficyna Naukowa, Poland 1993, revised Hb edition July 2004)
Paperback. Price GB £12.95
Corolla Cosmo Rodewald
edited by Nicholas Sekunda
Cosmo Rodewald, who died in 2002, was Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Manchester University. This collection of essays is offered by former colleagues, pupils and admirers of Cosmo, as a 'garland to his memory'. Their writings range across the Greek and Roman worlds: Xenophon the Rhetor (Anthony Keen), The Rein and the Spur, Theopomus and Ephorus (David Whitehead), The Episode of Sphodrias as a source for Spartan Social History ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00
Ergasteria: Works Presented to John Ellis Jones on His 80th Birthday
edited by Nicholas Sekunda
This volume is the fourth to appear in the monograph series 'Akanthina', published for the Institute of Archaeology of Gdansk University, Poland. As the title suggests, the volume, which was presented to John Ellis Jones on his 80th birthday, which fell on October 10th 2009, and consists of a collection of articles written by his friends, colleagues, pupils and admirers. The front cover is decorated with one of the dedicatee's more recent famous ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00
Hellenistic Infantry Reform in the 160s BC
by Nicholas Sekunda
Sekunda argues that in the 160s BC, the Ptolemaic and Seleucid infantry were reorganised to make them more successful and more competitive against the might of the Romans. This Romanisation of the military took the form of new tactics and changes in the organisation and in the equipment given to the soldier, with evidence coming from archaeological, literary, epigraphic and iconographic sources. Sekunda looks at the pre-Romanised organisation of ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00
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