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The Origins of Ancient Greek Science

Blood—A Philosophical Study

by Michael Boylan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015

This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical writers in the ancient world, as well as to the philosophical and literary work of writers prior to the Hippocratic authors, produce an interesting story...
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Athens Transformed, 404-262 BC

From Popular Sovereignty to the Dominion of Wealth

by Phillip Harding
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015

During the heady, democratic days of the fifth and fourth centuries, the poorer members of Athenian society, the lower two classes of zeugitai and thetes, enjoyed an unprecedented dominance in both domestic and foreign politics. At home, the participatory nature of the constitution required their...
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Pax and the Politics of Peace

Republic to Principate

by Hannah Cornwell
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017

Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much greater discourse on the nature of power and how...
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by Bruno Currie
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016

What kind of allusion is possible in a poetry derived from a centuries-long oral tradition, and what kind of oral-derived poetry are the Homeric epics? Comparison of Homeric epic with South Slavic heroic song has suggested certain types of answers to these questions, yet the South Slavic paradigm...
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by E.E. Sikes
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

The Greek View of Poetry details critical theories and the appreciation of poetry by the ancient Greeks. Originally published in 1931, this text deals with a whole range of Greek critics from very early criticism to Longinus and his views on Homer in an attempt to provide a historical view of the importance of poetry to Greek society. This title will be of interest to students of Classics.
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Samothracian Connections

Essays in Honor of James R. McCredie

by Olga Palagia, Bonna Daix Wescoat
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010

This volume of sixteen papers is dedicated to James R. McCredie in celebration of his outstanding contribution to the excavation and study of the sanctuary of the Great Gods on the Greek island of Samothrace. The papers focus mainly on the art and archaeology of Samothrace, while two contributions...
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The Mystery Sphere of Athens

Is This Sphere the Only Remaining Relic of an Atlantean Era Civilization?

by Alan V. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

When is a mystery truly mysterious? This was the thought that ran through my puzzled mind, when I first saw the magic sphere of Helios, exhibited at the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. Why is this antiquity so terribly understated? Were the museum authorities trying to tell the visitor to move on...
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by Ancient Myths
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015

One of the most famous ancient Greek heroes was Theseus who was a son of the king of Athens. During the traveling his father lived in a small town - Tresa. There he married Tresen queen, but preferred not to take her with him because the relatives of Aegeus wanted to seize power and they were dangerous...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006

The economies of classical and Mediterranean antiquity are currently a battleground. Some scholars see them as lively and progressive, even proto-capitalist: others see them as static, embedded in social action and status relationships. Focusing on the central period of the Mediterranean 330-30 BC,...
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by Sir W. W. Tarn
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

‘Tarn’s Alexander the Great, first published in 1948, has become a classic and its importance for subsequent Alexander studies can hardly be exaggerated. Based on a lifetime’s work and elegantly and persuasively written, both volumes evoked immediate admiration—and very soon sharp reaction....
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by Sir W. W. Tarn
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

First published in 1930, this is a collection of essays by the noted classical scholar W. W. Tarn, originally delivered as Lees Knowles Lectures in Military History at Trinity College, Cambridge. Tarn draws on a range of sources to trace the history and development of warfare in the Hellenistic period,...
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Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture

The archaeology and science of kitchen pottery in the ancient mediterranean world

by Michela Spataro, Alexandra Villing
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015

The 23 papers presented here are the product of the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and approaches to the study of kitchen pottery between archaeologists, material scientists, historians and ethnoarchaeologists. They aim to set a vital but long-neglected category of evidence in its wider social,...
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by Sarah B. Pomeroy
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2002

This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, covering over a thousand years in the history of women from both the elite and lower classes. Classicist Sarah B. Pomeroy comprehensively analyzes ancient texts and archaeological evidence to construct the world of these elusive though much...
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Through the Pillars of Herakles

Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic

by Duane W. Roller
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century, Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean Roller chronicles a detailed account of the series...
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