History
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Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC [Hardback]
John D. Grainger (Author)
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ISBN: 9781473863750
Published by : Pen & Sword
Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the Greek cities and Roman Italy. But for most of that period neither of these republican areas was central to events. For the crucial centuries b... .... Learn More -
Antiquity Matters [Hardback]
Frederic Raphael (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300215373
Published by : Yale University Press
A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes
This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has ... .... Learn More -
The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art [Hardback]
S. Rebecca Martin (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812249088
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these acc... .... Learn More -
Women at War in the Classical World [Hardback]
Paul Chrystal (Author)
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ISBN: 9781473856608
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Paul Chrystal has written the first full length study of women and warfare in the Graeco Roman world. Although the conduct of war was generally monopolized by men, there were plenty of exceptions with women directly involved in its direction and e... .... Learn More -
After Alexander: The Time of the Diadochi (323-281 BC) [Paperback]
Edward M. Anson (Editor); Victor Alonso Troncoso (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785705120
Published by : Oxbow Books
When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC without a chosen successor he left behind a huge empire and ushered in a turbulent period, as his generals fought for control of vast territories. The time of the Successors (Diadochi) is usually defined as ... .... Learn More -
Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East [Paperback]
Jim Roy (Editor); Colin Adams (Editor)
£32.00ISBN: 9781785705502
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Leicester Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
Volume: 10
This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient ... .... Learn More -
The Cities of Pamphylia [Paperback]
John D. Grainger (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842173343
Published by : Oxbow Books
Pamphylia, in modern Turkey, was a Greek country from the early Iron Age until the Middle Ages. In that land there were nine cities which can be described more or less as Greek, and this book is an investigation of their history. This was a lan... .... Learn More -
Amphora Stamps from Thasos [Hardback]
Chavdar Tzochev (Author)
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ISBN: 9780876612378
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Athenian Agora
Volume: 37
Ancient Thasos was renowned for its wine, which was heavily exported in ceramic amphoras across the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Once a principal market in this trade, the Athenian Agora is now home to one of the largest collections of... .... Learn More -
Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC [Paperback]
Anton Powell (Author)
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ISBN: 9781138778467
Published by : Routledge
Beginning in 478 BC when `the city of Athens was in ruins', Anton Powell presents an excellent, well-written account of 5th-century Greek history and society. Powell presents much of the ancient source material, with analysis and comment, along... .... Learn More -
Pyrrhus of Epirus [Paperback]
Jeff Champion (Author)
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ISBN: 9781473886643
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Pyrrhus was born into the royal house of Epirus, northwest Greece, but his mother was forced to flee into exile to protect his life when he was a mere infant. Yet he prospered in troubled times and rose from a refugee to a king. Always an adventur... .... Learn More
