Greece category: 2003 books
by David Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The Law of Ancient Athens contains the principal literary and epigraphical sources, in English, for Athenian law in the Archaic and Classical periods, from the first known historical trial (late seventh century) to the fall of the democracy in 322 BCE.
This accessible and important volume is...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The ancient Greeks invented written law. Yet, in contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, reflecting the daily realities of managing society. To understand Greek law, then, requires looking into...
by Homer,Andrew Lang
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The Iliad and the Odyssey are two epic poems written by Homer around the 9th century BC. They are two of the oldest recorded written works in history. The Iliad deals with a ten-year war between the Greeks and Trojans, called the Siege of Troy. It centers around Achilles, the great Greek hero who...
Peasant-Citizen and Slave
The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically...
Roman and Greek History
Essays for Students and Seekers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Why does history fascinate us and why, in particular, does ancient Greek and Roman history seem to have such a powerful hold on our modern psyches? Is it the huge and heroic characters, like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, who strut across the stage with such ruthless aplomb or is it the fact...
Die Lola-Montez-Story
Wie Bayerns König Ludwig I. von einer Tänzerin aus Irland gestürzt wurde
Language: German
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Lola Montez stürzte Bayern 1848 in die größte Krise seiner Geschichte: Der 60-jährige König Ludwig I. war der erotischen Ausstrahlung der 25-jährigen Hochstaplerin aus Irland so verfallen, dass er die gesamte Bevölkerung gegen sich aufbrachte, seine Regierung zum Rücktritt zwang, Lola zur...
Gaius Julius Caesar
Aufstieg und Fall eines römischen Politikers. Biografie
Language: German
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Die Autorin spürt dem Leben und Wirken des G. Julius Caesar nach. Sie zeigt die Taten des römischen Feldherren und Staatsmannes im Zusammenhang mit den sozialen und politischen Gegebenheiten dieser Zeit. Gleichzeitig versucht sie, aus dem Überlieferten Rückschlüsse über Caesars Leben im Kreise...
The Roman Empire
Fall of the West; Survival of the East
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
The Western Roman Empire collapsed more than 1500 years ago, while the Eastern Roman Empire survived for almost a thousand more years. When the west collapsed, no one questioned why. It was simply the way things were. Than about 500 years ago scholars begin to question just why the west should fail...
Oh My Gods
A Modern Retelling of Greek and Roman Myths
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
From acclaimed writer and scholar Philip Freeman, a contemporary retelling of classic Greek and Roman mythology.
The Greek and Roman myths have never died out; in fact they are as relevant today as ever in their sharp observations about human nature. For thousands of years they have inspired...
History: The Secrets of Ancient Civilizations and Great Empires that Shaped Modern World
World History & Ancient Civilizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
History
The Secrets of Ancient Civilizations and Great Empires that Shaped Modern World
Curious on the past and how it still influences the present and perhaps even the future? Interested on the role those ancient civilizations played in shaping the world, as we now know it? Ready to...
Slavery
Antiquity and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" is perhaps the most famous phrase of all in the American Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson's momentous words are closely related to the French concept of "liberté, égalité, fraternityé"; and both ideas incarnate a notion...
Ancient Dynasties
The Families that Ruled the Classical World, circa 1000 BC to AD 750
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns,...
by A L Frothingham
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
A description of the lost and recovered city of Priene as the ruins were excavated at the end of the 19th century.
Byzantine Imperial Guardsmen 925–1025
The Tághmata and Imperial Guard
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The hundred-year period ending in 1025, from the reign of the Emperor Constantine VII to that of Basil II 'the Bulgar-Slayer', encompassed the last great era of Byzantine aggression and dominance in the Near East and Balkans. During that time, a succession of soldier-emperors hallenged and defeated...