Society & Culture
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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 -
Slave-Wives, Single Women and “Bastards” in the Ancient Greek World: Law and Economics Perspectives [Paperback]
Morris Silver (Author)
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ISBN: 9781785708633
Published by : Oxbow Books
Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important ... .... Learn More -
Touch and the Ancient Senses [Paperback]
Alex Purves (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781844658725
Published by : Routledge
Series: The Senses in Antiquity
Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as ... .... Learn More -
Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being: Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens [Hardback]
Claire Taylor (Author)
Regular Price: £75.00
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ISBN: 9780198786931
Published by : Oxford University Press
Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today. Reflecting contemporary ideas about labour, leisure, and good citizenship, the 'poor' were considered to be not only those w... .... Learn More -
The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World [Hardback]
Werner Riess (Editor); Garret G. Fagan (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780472119820
Published by : University of Michigan Press
What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing J... .... Learn More -
On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics: A Reinterpretation of the History of Biopower [Hardback]
Mika Ojakangas (Author)
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ISBN: 9781138659438
Published by : Routledge
This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas’s argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of population in the name of the security and happiness of t... .... Learn More -
The Panathenaic Games: Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 11-12, 2004 [Paperback]
Olga Palagia (Author); Alkestis Spetsieri-Choremi (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782979821
Published by : Oxbow Books
The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens (May 11-14, 2004) and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international as... .... Learn More -
Greek Music, Drama, Sport, and Fauna [Hardback]
Calum Maciver (Editor)
£70.00ISBN: 9780905205571
Published by : Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd
Volume: 4
PROFESSOR E. KERR BORTHWICK (1925–2008) studied Classics at Aberdeen University and at Christ’s College Cambridge before being appointed Lecturer, first at the University of Leeds and then, in 1955, at Edinburgh University, where he remained for t... .... Learn More -
Immigrant Women in Athens [Hardback]
Rebecca Kennedy (Author)
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ISBN: 9780415737869
Published by : Routledge
Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being 'sexually exploitable.' Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the 'cit... .... Learn More -
Structure, Image, Ornament: Architectural Sculpture in the Greek World [Paperback]
Peter Schultz (Editor); Ralf Von den Hoff (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782977391
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume presents the proceedings of a conference hosted by the American School of Classical Studies, Athens and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens in 2004. There are additional contributions from Patricia Butz, Robin Osborne, K... .... Learn More
