Trefferliste "Ancient Greece" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Carol Atack

Plato

A new reading of Plato's philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens.Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on…

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…

Jeremy Swist

Julian Augustus

This book argues that Julian's self-construction, in his writings, embraces the identities of a statesman and soldier more than of a philosopher, of a Roman more than a Greek, and of a mere human rather t…

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…

A Cultural History of Medicine in Antiquity

Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor. This volume, covering a period from …

Worlds of Byzantium

"Privileging culture and language over politics, this book offers an expanded understanding of what it means to study the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods, one that explicitl…

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…

Dora Vassilikou,

Mycenaean Civilization

"The first English edition of a complete introduction to Mycenaean life and archaeology by one of Greece's most distinguished archaeologists, the Greek editions of which have been widely acclaimed. D…

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.

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…

James Bradley Wells

Honeyvoiced

"This new translation of Pindar's songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in order to represent the beauty of his language for a modern audience as closely a…

Aratus,

The Sky Is Our Song

"An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heavens, the Phaenomena of Aratus--dating from around 270 BCE--was widely known ac…

Naomi Scott

Jokes in Greek Comedy

In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and shows that far from being mere surface-level phenomena, jokes in Greek comedy are in f…

The 'Satyrica' of Petronius

This book presents a formal critical edition and English translation of the Satyrica of Petronius.

David A Guenther

The Siege of Tyre

The Siege of Tyre: Alexander the Great and the Gateway to Empire by David A. Guenther is the first book-length treatment of this critical and fascinating campaign, featuring catapults, triremes, religious…

Looking at Hippolytus

Examination of Euripides' Hippolytusby leading academics which is accompanied by an English translation by an expert in Greek drama.

Hellenistic Literature and Culture

A collection of essays on Hellenistic poetry and the ancient novel presented to Susan A. Stephens on her retirement