Greece & the Hellenistic World
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Greek Warriors: Hoplites and Heroes [Paperback]
Carolyn Willekes
£7.99ISBN: 9781612005157
Published by : Casemate UK
Series: Casemate Short History
Thermopylae, Marathon: though fought 2,500 years ago in Ancient Greece, the names of these battles are more familiar to many than battles fought in the last half-century, but our concept of the men who fought in these battles may be more a product... .... Learn More -
Essays on Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics [Hardback]
Robert Heinaman (Editor)
£95.00ISBN: 9780754663461
Published by : Routledge
Series: Ashgate Keeling Series in Ancient Philosophy
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Two major works on ethics have come down to us under Aristotle's name, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Eudemian Ethics, but, quite unjustifiably, the Eudemian Ethics has been largely neglected by students of ancient philosophy. This important colle... .... Learn More -
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The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report, Volume I: History of the Excavation, Amphoras, Pottery and Coins as Evidence for Dating [Hardback]
Susan W. Katsev (Editor); Laina W. Swiney (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781785707520
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: The Kyrenia Ship Final Excavation Report
Volume: 1
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The Kyrenia ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC and sunk off the north coast of Cyprus 294-291 BC, was excavated between 1967 and 1972 under the direction of Michael Katzev. The importance of this ship lies in the extraordinary state of ... .... Learn More -
Alexander the Great and Propaganda [Hardback]
Elizabeth Baynham (Editor); John Walsh (Editor)
£105.00ISBN: 9781138079106
Published by : Routledge
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Alexander the Great was one of the most pivotal and significant personages of the ancient Greco-Roman world. Alexander conquered much of the Persian Empire and his reign impacted upon peoples and cultures from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indus Ri... .... Learn More -
The Story of Myth [Hardback]
Sarah Iles Johnston (Author)
£32.95ISBN: 9780674185074
Published by : Harvard University Press
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Greek myths have long been admired as beautiful, thrilling stories but dismissed as serious objects of belief. For centuries scholars have held that Greek epics, tragedies, and the other compelling works handed down to us obscure the "real" myths ... .... Learn More -
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire [Hardback]
Paul J. Kosmin (Author)
£39.95ISBN: 9780674976931
Published by : Harvard University Press
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In this eye-opening book, Paul J. Kosmin explains how the Seleucid Empire's invention of a new kind of time-and the rebellions against this worldview-transformed the way we organize our thoughts about the past, present, and future. In the afterma... .... Learn More -
Achilles Unbound: Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics [Paperback]
Casey Due (Author)
£19.95ISBN: 9780674987364
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: Hellenic Studies Series
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Though Achilles the character is bound by fate and by narrative tradition, Achilles's poem, the Iliad, was never fixed and monolithic in antiquity-it was multiform. And the wider epic tradition, from which the Iliad emerged, was yet more multiform... .... Learn More -
Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment [Paperback]
William Brockliss (Author)
£20.95ISBN: 9780674987357
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: Hellenic Studies Series
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Responding to George Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets' use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their audiences' understanding of abstract concepts. In p... .... Learn More -
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: A Retrospective [Paperback]
Jack L. Davis (Editor); John Bennet (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9780876619681
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1990 to investigate the history of prehistoric and hist... .... Learn More
