Greece & the Hellenistic World
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The Story of Myth [Hardback]
Sarah Iles Johnston (Author)
Regular Price: £36.95
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ISBN: 9780674185074
Published by : Harvard University Press
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 -
Antipater's Dynasty: Alexander the Great's Regent and his Successors [Hardback]
John D. Grainger (Author)
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ISBN: 9781526730886
Published by : Pen & Sword
Antipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon under Philip II and instrumental in the succession of Alexander III (the Great). Alexander entrusted Antipater with ruling Macedon in his long absence and he defeated the Spartans in 331 BC. After ... .... Learn More -
The Agora Bone Well [Paperback]
Maria A. Liston (Author); Susan I. Rotroff (Author); Lynn M. Snyder (Author)
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ISBN: 9780876615508
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Hesperia Supplement
Volume: 50
Even though Dorothy Thompson excavated the Agora Bone Well in 1938, the well and its remarkable finds have never been fully studied until now. Located outside the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora and dating to the second quarter of the 2nd c... .... Learn More -
Culture and Perspective at Times of Crisis: State Structures, Private Initiative and the Public Character of Heritage [Paperback]
Sophia Antoniadou (Editor); Giorgos Vavouranakis (Editor); Ioannis Poulios (Author); Pavlina Raouzaiou (Editor)
Regular Price: £40.00
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ISBN: 9781785708596
Published by : Oxbow Books
Culture and Perspective deals with a variety of key aspects concerning heritage management at times of crisis and specifically with the public character of cultural heritage. Special, but not exclusive emphasis, is on the case of Greece. ... .... Learn More -
Ptolemy I Soter: A Self-Made Man [Paperback]
Timothy Howe (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250428
Published by : Oxbow Books
As the founder of the longest-lasting of all the Hellenistic kingdoms, not only was Ptolemy I an able soldier and ruler, he was also an historian and, in Egyptian eyes, a living god. His own inclination and experience facilitated continuous acts o... .... Learn More -
Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity [Paperback]
Margarita Sánchez Romero (Editor); Rosa Cid López (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250381
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Childhood in the Past monograph
Motherhood and childhood are social and cultural constructions that have their origins in prehistoric times and are visible through Greek and Roman discourses in Antiquity. This volume explores various images of maternity and infancy, and the iden... .... Learn More -
The Pylos Regional Archaeological Project: A Retrospective [Paperback]
Jack L. Davis (Editor); John Bennet (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780876619681
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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 -
The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates [Paperback]
Peter E. Pormann (Editor)
Regular Price: £26.99
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ISBN: 9781107695849
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his re... .... Learn More -
Plutarch and the Persica [Hardback]
Eran Almagor (Author)
Regular Price: £85.00
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ISBN: 9780748645558
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
This book addresses two historical mysteries. The first is the content and character of the fourth century BCE Greek works on the Persian Achaemenid Empire treatises called the Persica. The second is the method of work of the second century CE bio... .... Learn More -
The Historical Greek Village [Hardback]
Brice L. Erickson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780876613085
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Lerna
Volume: 8
This volume presents the Protogeometric through Hellenistic material (ca. 970–175 B.C.) from ASCSA excavations conducted in the 1950s at Lerna in the Argolid, one of the most important prehistoric sites in Greece. The material derives from two mai... .... Learn More
