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Ancient World

Dangerous Counsel Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece

Landauer Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226653792, ISBN: HB: 9780226654010, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an impo...

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Sparta's First Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

Rahe Paul Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300242614, Yale University Press, September 2019
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.

During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift o...

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Political Science

Athens A History of the World's First Democracy

Mitchell Thomas N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246605, Yale University Press, August 2019
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...

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Biography & Memoires

Brutus The Noble Conspirator

Tempest Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780300246643, Yale University Press, August 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 6 maps

Conspirator and assassin, philosopher and statesman, promoter of peace and commander in war, Marcus Brutus (ca. 85-42 BC) was a controversial and enigmatic man even to those who knew him. His leading role in the murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of...

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Conquest of Ruins The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome

Hell Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780226588193, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in "The Conquest of Ruins", what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginat...

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History of Art

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Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms From Pergamon to Rome

Hemingway Sean, Karoglou Kiki

ISBN: PB: 9781588396587, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2019
256 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Authored by internationally renowned scholars, the 20 essays written for this volume explore topics ranging from the influence of Hellenistic art in the ancient Roman world to the ongoing excavations at Pergamon. All aspects of Hellenistic art are di...

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History

Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire

Nummedal Tara

ISBN: PB: 9780226639727, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men – and occasionally women – who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors o...

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It's All Greek Borrowed Words and their Histories

Tulloch Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9781851245055, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2018
224 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse can also trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce? This b...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

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Studies of Homeric Greece

Bouzek Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...

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Enraged Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Anhalt Emily Katz

ISBN: PB: 9780300239966, ISBN: HB: 9780300217377, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's "Iliad", Euripides' "Hecuba", and Sophocles' "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed bef...

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