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Stephen Fry,

Odyssee

Der krönende Abschluss der Mythos-Tetralogie: Die berühmteste Heldengeschichte aller ZeitenTroja ist gefallen. Nach zehn Jahren Krieg lockt für die Griechen endlich die Heimat. Während Agamemnon zu Hause …

Annette Haug

Die antike Stadt als Gefühlsraum

Ziel des Buches ist es, die stadtrömische Liebeselegie mit Properz und Ovid, die Epigramme Martials sowie pompejanische Liebes- und Sexgraffiti daraufhin zu befragen, wie sie den Zusammenhang von städtisc…

Andrew Bayliss

Sparta

For thousands of years, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has been famed as the ultimate warrior society, an enduring symbol of masculine bravery, austerity, and toughness. But who were the Spartans,…

New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese

This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political histo…

Richard Calis

The Discovery of Ottoman Greece

The surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe's foremost authority on Ottoman Greece, shedding new light on the place of Greek culture and religion in the Western imagin…

Reviel Netz

Why the Ancient Greeks Matter

The ancient Greeks were exceptional and they were consequential. This innovative, engrossingly written book addresses head-on the problematic question of the Greek Miracle. It will appeal to anyone intere…

Irisanya Moon

Pantheon: The Greeks

Experience Greek magic and ritual from its history to its mythology.As part of a series exploring different religious traditions and beliefs in the ancient world, Pantheon: The Greeks covers the basics of…

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Greek Historiography

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error …

Giovanni Parmeggiani

Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography

"Through a careful study of the surviving fragmentary evidence, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the lost Histories of the fourth-century B.C. Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, the first, acco…

Eric H. Cline

The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction

Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has…

John O Hyland

Persia's Greek Campaigns

The wars between the Achaemenid Persian kings and the Greek city-states (c. 499-449 BCE)--especially Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE)--are often remembered as foundational events in Greek history,…

Michael Loy

Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece

"A new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological material from over 100 years, employing experimental modelling t…

Dora Vassilikou,

Mycenaean Civilization

The Bronze Age of Greece was unknown until the end of the 19th century, when Heinrich Schliemann's excavations stunned the world by bringing to light the glamour of Mycenaean elite society. This book, by …

Stephen Crimi

Hermes Runs the Game

Hermes Runs the Game views the covid operation in terms of the Archaic Greek animal sacrifice, inverted, moving from the depths of ritual child sacrifice to the light of the ancient mystery traditions.

Susan Deacy,

The Greek Gods and Their Worlds

Discover the Worlds of the Greek GodsFor centuries, the Greek gods have captivated the imagination of readers with their complex personalities and timeless myths. The Greek Gods and Their Worlds offers a …

Alan J Ross

In Praise of Constantius

In Praise of Constantiusargues that prominent pagan orators in Late Antiquity used the performance of speeches of praise to control and respond to significant shifts in their own careers and in imperial p…

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy offers thirty essays by leading international scholars consolidating the scholarly gains of recent decades, highlighting the innovation and creativity of Hell…

Joseph Lalibela Meets Vibronics & The Mafia & Fluxy Band

Ancient Breeze

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social…