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Amber and the Ancient World
ISBN: PB: 9781606060827, Getty Publications, December 2011
144 pp., 22.4x17.4 cm, 63 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
This title offers a fascinating look at the one of the ancient world's most prized substances. Amber has fascinated mankind since the Palaeolithic era. Through exquisite visual examples and vivid classical texts, this book examines the myths and lege...
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£18,99
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Battle of Marathon
ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...
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£17,00
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History of Trust in Ancient Greece
ISBN: HB: 9780226405094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm
An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at a...
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£47,00
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Iliad of Homer
ISBN: PB: 9780226470498, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
608 pp., 22x14 cm, 2 line illus.
"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation". For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation – the gold standard for generations of students and general re...
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£12,00
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Multiple Antiquities – Multiple Modernities Ancient Histories in Nineteenth Century European Cultures
ISBN: PB: 9783593391014, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, October 2011
450 pp., 21.2x14.2 cm
Antiquity, as the term has been understood and used over the centuries by scholars, political and religious figures, and ordinary citizens, is far from a single, monolithic concept. Rather than reflecting a stable, shared understanding about the past...
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£56,00
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Economic Origins of Roman Christianity
ISBN: HB: 9780226200026, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 tables, 1 line illus.
In the global marketplace of ideas, few realms spark as much conflict as religion. For millions of people, it is an integral part of everyday life, reflected by a widely divergent supply of practices and philosophical perspectives. Yet, historically,...
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£47,00
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Courtesans and Fishcakes The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
ISBN: PB: 9780226137438, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15 cm, 2 maps, 8 halftones
As any reader of the "Symposium" knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imbibed liberally without ever getting drunk. In other words, James Davidson writes, he ref...
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£24,00
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Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
ISBN: PB: 9780226289540, ISBN: HB: 9780226289533, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
288 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With "K...
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£13,50
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£35,50
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Shock of the Ancient Literature and History in Early Modern France
ISBN: HB: 9780226591483, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm
he cultural battle known as the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns served as a sly cover for more deeply opposed views about the value of literature and the arts. One of the most public controversies of early modern Europe, the Quarrel has most ofte...
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£47,00
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Ancient Oracles Making the Gods Speak
ISBN: HB: 9780300140422, Yale University Press, March 2011
224 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 30 black&white illus.
For more than a thousand years, Greeks in all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colourful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosop...
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£25,00
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