The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City, Paperback - Nicole Loraux

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...

Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games - Michael Llewellyn

Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relativel...

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages - Geraldine Heng

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

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

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

There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "e...

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...

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

Reducere. In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only beg...

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,...

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...

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...

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

Reducere. From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' ...

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

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): WacquantNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 177 x 216 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Jeevan V...

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

Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City - Alexander Parmington

A code-cracking mission to decipher the hidden truths and histories of our greatest invention - the art of writing.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s...

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 ...

Reducere. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard s ``The Inv...

Reducere. From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood This debut work by...

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

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 ...

``This is a book with a meaning and a force and a message.`` --Italo Calvino``A marvellous writer `` --Roberto SavianoFour days of rain trigger str...

Reducere. 2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in th...