Greece & the Hellenistic World
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The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man's Wealth Shaped the World [Paperback]
Frank L. Holt (Author)
Regular Price: £12.99
Special Price: £9.50
ISBN: 9780190866259
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture
War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions, sieges, massacres, annexations, and mass deportations all redistributed property with dramatic consequences for kings... .... Learn More -
Excavations at Nemea 4: The Shrine of Opheltes [Hardback]
Jorge J. Bravo (Author)
Regular Price: £193.00
Special Price: £140.00
ISBN: 9780520294929
Published by : University of California Press
The Sanctuary of Zeus at ancient Nemea has been a rich resource for archaeological investigation and analysis conducted by the University of California over the past forty years. The Sanctuary hosted one of the preeminent athletic festivals of anc... .... Learn More -
Feasting and Polis Institutions [Hardback]
Floris van den Eijnde (Editor); Josine Blok (Editor); Rolf Strootman (Editor)
Regular Price: £110.00
Special Price: £75.00
ISBN: 9789004356726
Published by : Brill
Feasting and commensality were vital to the great resilience of the polis, Greece’s most characteristic and enduring form of political organization. Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions reveals how feasts ... .... Learn More -
The Sanctuary of Athena at Sounion [Hardback]
Barbara A. Barletta (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780876619674
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Ancient Art and Architecture in Context
Volume: 4
The Temple of Athena at Sounion has long been recognized as one of the most unusual buildings in the architectural history of Greece. Its plan, with columns uniquely on the front and only one side, is unparalleled in the Greek world. Excavations o... .... Learn More -
The Language of Ruins: Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus [Hardback]
Patricia A. Rosenmeyer (Author)
Regular Price: £61.00
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9780190626310
Published by : Oxford University Press
A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with over 100 Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Home... .... Learn More -
Ancient Corinth: Site Guide (7th ed.) [Paperback]
Guy D. R. Sanders (Author); Jennifer Palinkas (Author); Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst (Author); James Herbst (Author)
£16.95ISBN: 9780876616611
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
This is the first official guidebook to the site of ancient Corinth published by the ASCSA in over 50 years, and it comes fully updated with the most current information, color photos, maps, and plans. It is an indispensable resource for the casua... .... Learn More -
Ancient Corinth: Site Guide (Modern Greek) [Paperback]
Guy D.R. Sanders (Author); Jennifer Palinkas (Author); Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst (Author); James Herbst (Author)
£16.95ISBN: 9789607067098
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
This is the first official guidebook to the site of ancient Corinth published by the ASCSA in over 50 years, and it comes fully updated with the most current information, color photos, maps, and plans. It is an indispensable resource for the casua... .... Learn More -
Landscapes of Dread in Classical Antiquity: Negative Emotion in Natural and Constructed Spaces [Hardback]
Debbie Felton (Editor)
Regular Price: £115.00
Special Price: £75.00
ISBN: 9781138104952
Published by : Routledge
Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical a... .... Learn More -
A Guide to Reading Herodotus' Histories [Hardback]
Sean Sheehan (Author)
Regular Price: £70.00
Special Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781474292672
Published by : Bloomsbury
Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the... .... Learn More -
The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power [Hardback]
Lauren Kinnee (Author)
Regular Price: £120.00
Special Price: £75.00
ISBN: 9780415788380
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power, Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a ho... .... Learn More
