(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009461528)
Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But a great deal of other evidence survives from t...Loe edasi...
Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides. But a great deal of other evidence survives from t...Loe edasi...
Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard, Lorna Coing, Robin Osborne
Sari: Classical Scholarship in Translation
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009490962)
Tells the gripping stories of ten individuals, from Socrates to the priestess Lysimakhe and the former slave Gerys, to reassess the period when democracy was abolished in Classical Athens and then restored in 403 BC after a bitter civil war. This is...Loe edasi...
A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Oct-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197644423)
This book introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Athens in the period from 800-500 BCE. Following the standard arrangement of the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World series, author Robin Osborne deals successively with the s...Loe edasi...
A well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious...Loe edasi...
A well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious...Loe edasi...
A well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious...Loe edasi...
We tend to think of numbers as inherently objective and precise. Yet the diverse ways in which ancient Greeks used numbers illustrates that counting is actually shaped by context-specific and culturally-dependent choices: what should be counted and...Loe edasi...
This volume is both a companion to the editors Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, edited by Russell Mei...Loe edasi...
This wide-ranging investigation of the theorising about the divine that is implicit and explicit in the religious practices and literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greeks, shows that Greeks thought hard about what gods must be like and wh...Loe edasi...
This definitive assessment of the most famous twentieth-century ancient historian engages with his impact beyond as well as within the academy, analysing the means and nature of his impact, and telling how a scholar expelled from the United States fo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691177670)
How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek cultureWhy did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depict...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Nov-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199575473)
This volume is both a companion to the editors Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404-323 BC, and a successor to the later part of the Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century BC, edited by Russell Mei...Loe edasi...
Sources for Greek History with explanatory notes. Since the Second Edition of LACTOR 2 appeared 13 years ago there have been a number of other editions and discussions published. Taking advantage of these, Robin Osborne has made a number of i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107149267)
M. I. Finley (1912-86) was the most famous ancient historian of his generation. He was admired by his peers, and was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy. His unmistakable voice was familiar t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Aug-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107153479)
Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to th...Loe edasi...
There are plenty of dates and events in his succinct account of ancient Greece, says Osborne, but he emphasizes what he thinks real history is: how people relate to one another and to their environment over time. He argues that by appreciating how di...Loe edasi...
Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome.With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece’s ancient history, the book cov...Loe edasi...
This edition replaces Athenian Radical Democracy. It includes much material from that volume. In line with recent volumes it includes also more commentary and discussion. Material from the fourth century has been added to widen the scope of the volum...Loe edasi...
