Pots and Pans of Classical Athens, Paperback - Lucy talcott

By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how...

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

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Wayne SumblerIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 168Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 16...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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Reducere. The classic study by Harvard's Talcott Parsons on social systems and the "theory of action, " as theorized and applied in a variety of settings, in...

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The alarming symptoms of Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome - sudden tics, OCD, and regressions in both learning ability and behavior ...

Reducere. The authoritative edition of Timon of Athens from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and g...

During a day we meet 24 ancient Athenians from all levels of society and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their com...

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

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

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 ...

After squandering his wealth with prodigal generosity, a rich Athenian gentleman finds himself deep in debt. Unshaken by the prospect of bankruptcy...

Reducere. The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian Leag...

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

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Reducere. DescriptionAs part of the Signet Classics Shakespeare Series edited by Sylvan Barnet of Tufts University, this edition includes commentaries on bot...

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. 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...

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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 ...

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...

Reducere. Most of us never try to cook our own Asian food at home since there's usually a plethora of dine-in or take-out options near our hometowns. Gone ar...

Adapted and illustrated to introduce children and students to the works of Shakespeare!

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 ...

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

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

They took her identity - they wanted her life - but they couldn't take her spirit. Classic crime from one of the greats of the Detection Club

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

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

Publisher: Blue Angel GalleryAuthor(s): Lucy (Lucy Cavendish) CavendishNumber of pages: 268Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 235 x 180 x 22Cover ty...

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 ...

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

Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished,...