Athens

Reducere. Scholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provi...

About 24, 000 figurines and fragments have been found on Acrocorinth, and this study greatly increases our understanding of the way in which this a...

A detailed study of how Aristophanes manipulates traditional narratives of important religious experiences (oracles, healings, epiphanies) to engag...

The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens...

Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag AGAuthor(s): Vasileios I AnastasiadisNumber of pages: 239Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 212 x 156 x 17Cover type: P...

Reducere. Evoking two of the most famous battles of the Ancient World--the Battle of Marathon and the Last Stand at Thermopylae--The Gates of Athens is a bra...

Based on records from Nikolaos Balanos' dismantling and reerection of the temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis (between 1935 and 1939), ...

Reducere. For Danielle Allen, punishment is more a window onto democratic Athens' fundamental values than simply a set of official practices. From imprisonme...

The power of the court to overturn a law or decree--called judicial review--is a critical feature of modern democracies. Contemporary American judg...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionThis bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient worl...

Named for a goddess, epicenter of the first democracy, birthplace of tragic and comic theatre, locus of the major philosophical schools, artistical...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Nathan T. ArringtonIllustration(s): 138 b/w illus., 16 color illus. (8-page insert)Number of pages:...

Reducere. Pandemics can come in waves--like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age...

DescriptionHow remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek cultureWhy did soldiers stop fighting, athl...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

Classical Athens boasted one of the most impressive flowerings of civilisation ever known, with original and influential achievements in literature...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Joshua BillingsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 31Cover type: Hard...

Fifty years before its golden age, Athens was just another city-state in Sparta's shadow. David Stuttard tells the story of the father and son who ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

This book examines the oratorical appeals deployed in assembly speeches to understand the wide range of thinking and feeling that determined Atheni...

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition; ancient philosophers new evide...

Athens and Sparta were the two leading powers in the Classical Greek world. They represented two opposite systems of social organization, whose dif...

In 2006, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens celebrates seventy five years of archaeological work in the Athenian Agora, the civic c...

Theater outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy - Kathryn Bosher

In his day, John Wesley offered important insights on how to obtain knowledge of God that bears fruit in our own times. This title shows, Wesley's ...

Reducere. This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450-404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Pelopon...

Reducere. How does the funeral oration relate to democracy in ancient Greece? How did the death of an individual citizen-soldier become an occasion to praise...

A new narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s)...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Thoroughly researched narrative blends the political, diplomatic and religious aspects with the strategy and tactics.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books L...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This spellbinding, ground-breaking translation reenergises Aeschylus' enduring saga of split loyalties, bloody sacrifice and the efforts to bring p...

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the ...

This new collection of Aristotle's political writings provides the student with all the necessary materials for a full understanding of his work as...

DescriptionYou'll never fall into a tourist trap when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the place...

Reducere. Rude Talk in Athens is brave, brilliant, and incredibly funny. There are loads of very specific characters, including Mark himself. It's the Mark H...

Reducere. "Kagan, faithful to his lifelong fascination with Pericles . . . gives us an accessible and invaluable account of his life and deeds."--Allan Bloom...

Reducere. Mission: Mistletoe is the second story in The Military Child Chronicles. This series was created to serve as a resource and tool for military famil...

DescriptionFor two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the mod...

Offering an understanding of politics in fifth-century Athens, this title constructs models of Athenian political groupings to explain the rise of ...

The story of the modest city-state that would become the birthplace of democracy

Is democracy a force for good or something much more dangerous?

Reducere. When the body of a boy from one of Greece's most prominent families turns up in a dumpster in one of Athens' worst neighborhoods, Chief Inspector A...

Reducere. GREECE TRAVEL GUIDE- Athens, Santorini, MykonosYou Get 3 Manuscripts in one book Athens, Santorini and Mykonos are 3 of the most famous destination...

Reducere. In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard cha...

Reducere. Opa It's Athens, Greece KeeKee, the world traveling kitty, lands for another exciting adventure. Join KeeKee as she explores one of the oldest citi...

Reducere. DescriptionA Story Untold was born in a classroom in Clarke Central High School in 1971. An 18-year-old Michael Thurmond was a member of the first ...

Published in the year that The Olympics returns to Athens, this is the illuminating story of the making of the modern games, the multinational grou...

Reducere. Mission: My First PCS, is the first story in the series, The Military Child Chronicles. The series was written to serve as a tool for military fami...

Reducere. DescriptionGhosts of Athens blends the historical with the haunted for more than thirty locations in the Classic City. First, the history of each l...

Reducere. In April 1998, legendary southern jam band Widespread Panic held a free open-air record release show in downtown Athens, Georgia, its homebase. No ...

Walk in the steps of Socrates, test the acoustics of the amphitheater of Epidavros, and set sail for Santorini: with Rick Steves, Greece is yours t...

DescriptionThis new edition of Bradt's Greece: The Peloponnese with Athens, Delphi and Kythira remains the only dedicated guidebook to the southern...

Reducere. DescriptionA new history of the world's most embattled ideaToday, democracy is the world's only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has b...

The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancien...

Get to know the most atmospheric open-air cinemas and drawn up walks around Athen's neighborhoods - one a leafy suburb, another by the sea. Think o...

Reducere. Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of GreeceThis full page picture book will make a great home coffee table decor accessory or as a...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Chris DeRoseIllustration(s): Plus one 16-page black-and-white photograph insertNumber of pages: 352Publicati...

- The ultimate insider's guide to Athens- Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides- Part of the international...

Reducere. When an Albanian husband and wife are found dead in their home, Inspector Costas Haritos, a veteran junta-trained homicide detective on the Athens ...

Discover a different side of Athens with this new guide. The 'Soul of' collection is a new approach to the art of travelling that consists of vagab...

A guide to a journey back in time to ancient Athens in 432 bc. It describes various places to stay and shop, what to do, and what to avoid. It is s...

1. Requiem for Willy Loman (Death of a Salesman) Eleni Karaindrou, Jan Garbarek, Camerata Orchestra & Alexandros Myrat 3: 58 2. Eternity Theme (Ete...

Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has appeared as Shakespeare's most pr...

DescriptionIn 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a genera...

Frances Wright was an author, a feminist, a humanist, a naturalist philosopher and--like her friend Thomas Jefferson--a disciple of Epicurus. In th...

A new narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s)...

Reducere. Soak up the sun, dance till dawn, hike through wild forests, or explore Greek history: Escape to the Mediterranean with Moon Greek Islands & Athens...

'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to fe...