Greece category: 2003 books
Voices at Work
Women, Performance, and Labor in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In ancient Greece, women's daily lives were occupied by various forms of labor. These experiences of work have largely been forgotten. Andromache Karanika has examined Greek poetry for depictions of women working and has discovered evidence of their lamentations and work songs. Voices at Work explores...
Children of the Greek Civil War
Refugees and the Politics of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, thirty-eight thousand children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece. The Greek Communist Party relocated half of them to orphanages in Eastern Europe, while their adversaries in the national government placed the rest in...
Warfare in Ancient Greece
Arms and Armour from the Heroes of Homer to Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2004
In this first comprehensive study of Ancient Greek warfare for over 35 years, Tim Everson discusses clearly and thoroughly the background, weapons and tactics of the ancient Greeks. He describes the weapons, armour, helmets, chariots and other military equipment used in from c. 1550 to 150 BC and...
Before and After Alexander
The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
In the arc of western history, Ancient Greece is at the apex, owing to its grandeur, its culture, and an intellectual renaissance to rival that of Europe. So important is Greece to history that figures such as Plato and Socrates are still household names, and the works of Homer are regularly adapted...
The Staff of Oedipus
Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient...
by Nigel McGilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps.
Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece.
"Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.
Cities Called Athens
Studies Honoring John McK. Camp II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume...
by Iain Spence
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars. Read how warfare evolved during the centuries in ancient Greece from rudimentary,...
by Nigel McGilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps.
Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece.
"Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.
Ancient Perspectives
Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as...
by David Randall-MacIver
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
In 1921, author David Randall-MacIver moved to Rome in order to focus on Italian archaeology, the result of which is this is this fascinating and detailed study of the history of the Etruscans, first published in 1927.
The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful, wealthy...
by Nigel McGilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps. Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece. "Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.
by Nigel McGilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps. Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece.
"Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.
Heroic Offerings
The Terracotta Plaques from the Spartan Sanctuary of Agamemnon and Kassandra
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Heroic Offerings sheds light on the study of religion in Sparta, one of Greece’s most powerful city-states and the long-term rival of Athens. Sparta’s history is well known, but its archaeology has been much less satisfactorily explored. Through the comprehensive study of a distinctive class...