Greece category: 2003 books
Unrivalled Influence
Women and Empire in Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium. Written by one of the world's foremost historians of the Byzantine millennium, this landmark book evokes the complex and exotic world of Byzantium's women, from empresses...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010
The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have been among the most important in the repertoire. This collection of essays by leading authorities in the fields of Classics,...
Philodemus on Rhetoric Books 1 and 2
Translation and Exegetical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Zen of Heraclitus
A quote book of Presocratic Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The Zen of Heraclitus presents the reader with 60 thought provoking quotes from twelve of the earliest writers in the Western philosophic tradition. As Faulkner explains in the introduction, the parallels between the ‘simple, transcendental wisdom’ of these ancient thinkers and the ‘personal...
by Ross Coburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
"I would give all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates." – Steve Jobs
Heraclitus of Ephesus was the first of the four Ancient Greek philosophers identified as being the greatest thinkers of their, and any era. He coined the term Lógos, or Reason as having particular...
Landscapes of Power
Selected Papers from the XV Oxford University Byzantine Society International Graduate Conference
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This volume contains selected papers from the XV International Graduate Conference, highlighting the latest scholarship from a new generation of Late Antique and Byzantine scholars from around the world. The theme of the conference explored the interaction between power and the natural and human environments...
Legion versus Phalanx
The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy. Until, that is, the Roman legion emerged...
Complete Ancient Greek
A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Ancient Greek, with Original Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Ancient Greek offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the writings of Socrates and Homer.
Structured around...
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West
Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 31 and 34
Greek Religion and Democracy and the Athenians
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 31 and 34 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:
Greek Religion by Athina Mitropoulos and Julietta Steinhauer
Democracy and the Athenians...
Two Studies on Pindar
edited by Arlette Neumann-Hartmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The late Bruce Karl Braswell worked on Pindar for decades. Besides many smaller contributions, his research resulted in fundamental commentaries on Pythian Four (1988), Nemean One (1992), and Nemean Nine (1998), and his last monograph, dedicated to Didymos of Alexandria and his ancient commentary...
Greek Nymphs
Myth, Cult, Lore
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2001
Greek Nymphs: Myths, Cult, Lore is the first comprehensive study of the nymph in the ancient Greek world. This well-illustrated book examines nymphs as both religious and mythopoetic figures, tracing their development and significance in Greek culture from Homer through the Hellenistic period. Drawing...
by Ancient Myths
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Ancient Myths are very popular nowadays. Children and elders all around the world love to read about Gods and heroic adventures and feats of well-known champions. Theseus is a son of Egeus. Strong, wise and noble he tries to help every Athens citizen. After the reunion with his father Theseus learned...