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The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome were its only 'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites. Other societies,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-07-12
Format(s) : PDF
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This volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus' Histories, the Greek historian's account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a series of grand expeditions against Greece itself. Focusing on his presentation of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-31
Format(s) : PDF
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This volume explores the spatial framework of Herodotus' Histories, the Greek historian's account of Persian imperialism in the sixth and fifth century BC and its culmination in a series of grand expeditions against Greece itself. Focusing on his presentation of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-31
Format(s) : ePub
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This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the classical world. By treating both Greek and Latin texts, it offers an innovative and wide-ranging discussion of the poetic representation of social occasions. The discourses associated...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-05-25
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature and art. They also provided a fertile source of symbols and stories in...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-10
Format(s) : PDF
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Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature and art. They also provided a fertile source of symbols and stories in...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-05-10
Format(s) : ePub
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Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections in numbers far exceeding those of any other form of building. That they played a vital role in the operation of the city, and indeed in the very...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-03-22
Format(s) : ePub
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Charles W. Fornara's Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971) was a landmark publication in the study of the great Greek historian. Well-known in particular for its main thesis that the Histories should be read against the background of the Atheno-Peloponnesian...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-03-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Citizenship is a major feature of contemporary national and international politics, but rather than being a modern phenomenon it is in fact a legacy of ancient Greece. The concept of membership of a community and participation in its social and political life first...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-03-15
Format(s) : ePub
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Citizenship is a major feature of contemporary national and international politics, but rather than being a modern phenomenon it is in fact a legacy of ancient Greece. The concept of membership of a community and participation in its social and political life first...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-03-09
Format(s) : PDF
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Charles W. Fornara's Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971) was a landmark publication in the study of the great Greek historian. Well-known in particular for its main thesis that the Histories should be read against the background of the Atheno-Peloponnesian...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-03-08
Format(s) : PDF
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Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections in numbers far exceeding those of any other form of building. That they played a vital role in the operation of the city, and indeed in the very...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-03-02
Format(s) : PDF
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In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens and the political thought which it produced. However, while Athenian civic life and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-01-19
Format(s) : ePub
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In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens and the political thought which it produced. However, while Athenian civic life and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-01-12
Format(s) : PDF
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Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-10-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2017-10-18
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much greater discourse on...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-07-13
Format(s) : ePub
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Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much greater discourse on...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-07-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-07-04
Format(s) : ePub
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Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-06-30
Format(s) : PDF
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