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Sparta's Second Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 446-418 B.C.

Rahe Paul Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300242621, Yale University Press, September 2020
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In a continuation of his multivolume series on ancient Sparta, Paul Rahe narrates the second stage in the six-decades-long, epic struggle between Sparta and Athens that first erupted some seventeen years after their joint victory in the Persian Wars....

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Ancient World

Story of Greece and Rome

Spawforth Tony

ISBN: PB: 9780300251647, ISBN: HB: 9780300217117, Yale University Press, February 2020
392 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 27 colour illus., 5 maps

The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Sp...

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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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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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Spartan Regime Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300219012, Yale University Press, September 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history. For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civi...

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Ancient World

Savage Energies Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

Burkert Walter

ISBN: PB: 9780226100432, ISBN: HB: 9780226080857, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face...

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History of Art

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Sicily Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome

Lyons Claire, Bennett Michael, Marconi Clemente

ISBN: HB: 9781606061336, Getty Publications, March 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 144 colour illus., 23 black&white illus., 1 map

This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. I...

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Ancient World

Shock of the Ancient Literature and History in Early Modern France

Norman Larry F.

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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History of Art

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Secrets of Pompeii Everyday Life in Ancient Rome

Albentiis Emidio de

ISBN: HB: 9780892369416, Getty Publications, September 2009
200 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 170 colour illus., maps

This title presents a lavishly illustrated and fascinating exploration of the art, architecture, and archaeology of one of the world's best preserved Roman cities. The remains of the ancient city of Pompeii, frozen in time following the tragic erupti...

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