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When is a mystery truly mysterious? This was the thought that ran through my puzzled mind, when I first saw the magic sphere of Helios, exhibited at the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. Why is this a……続きを見る

In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopot……続きを見る

This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary……続きを見る

Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging f……続きを見る

This absorbing book explores the possibility that the Atlantis story represents a distortion of a number of myths and legends already present in the ancient Greece and Egypt of the time. Putting mor……続きを見る

Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This vol……続きを見る

Love is immeasurable On an isolated cape high above a churning sea, a mysterious young woman of enchanting beauty enters a lonely temple. Lulled there by inconceivable desire, it is a clandestine me……続きを見る

Θέλετε να ανακαλύψετε τους πολιτιστικούς και φυσικούς θησαυρούς ενός πολύ ιδιαίτερου μέρους της Ελλάδας από έναν ειδικό; Αυτό είναι το βιβλίο για σας! (Αναζητήστε και τα άλλα βιβλία της σειράς) Θα δ……続きを見る

The ancient Greeks invented written law. Yet, in contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, ref……続きを見る

Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality is a controversial book that lays bare the meanings Greeks gave to sex. Contrary to the romantic idealization of sex dominating our culture, the Greeks saw ……続きを見る

Com uma escrita rigorosa mas simples, Malaco abre a possibilidade de uma melhor compreensão do desenho irregular das cidades por meio do estudo do casario de Atenas Clássica. Revela a forma urbana e……続きを見る

Ένα νησί. Δύο αληθινοί ήρωες. Μια μεγάλη αγάπη. Μια αληθινή ιστορία που κόβει την ανάσα. Η ζωή παίζει πολλά παιχνίδια. Οι άνθρωποι ακόμα περισσότερα. Εν μέσω του βίαιου Ελληνικού εμφυλίου, ένα από τ……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Aus dem……続きを見る

King Darius gave Myrcinus that is on the river Strymon, in the land of Thrace, to Histiæus, lord of Miletus, for a reward; for Histiæus had done him good service in his warfare against the Scythians……続きを見る

In the history of the Greeks the centre of interest lies, not in their peninsula, but in the coasts and islands of the Aegean sea, which collectively formed the very heart of Hellas. It was not till……続きを見る

THE story of Greece began long, long ago in a strange wonderland of beauty. Woods and winds, fields and rivers, each had a pathway which led upward and onward into the beautiful land. Sometimes inde……続きを見る

The Assyrian Empire is in some respects unique in history. Despite the proverbial tendency of history to repeat itself, there has been no duplication of the tragic history of this wonderful body pol……続きを見る

The history of Greece goes back to the time when people did not know how to write, and kept no record of what was happening around them. For a long while the stories told by parents to their childre……続きを見る

Alepotrypa Cave at Diros Bay, Lakonia, Greece, is a massive karstic formation of consecutive chambers ending at a lake. The cave was excavated by G. Papathanassopoulos from 1970 to 2006. In conjunct……続きを見る

This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2019-21 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction……続きを見る

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 His……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

Uma certa localização, uma determinada orientação e um conjunto de características internas a uma construção são mostrados, não como meras decorrências de uma certa forma de sociabilidade e governo,……続きを見る

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 playe……続きを見る

La Grèce contemporaine, pamphlet historique, par Edmond About (1851). - Edmond About avait passé trois années (1848-1851) à l'École d'Athènes et, beaucoup moins occupé du passé que du présent, il en……続きを見る

IT began in Ionia. It may in truth have been a reawakening. But if this be so (and it is entirely probable), it was after so long and deep a slumber that scarcely even dreams were remembered. The Io……続きを見る

Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled ……続きを見る

Most of the great changes in the world's history come about gradually and wise men can see them coming, for it is very hard to run counter to the nature of average men, and all great advances and de……続きを見る

Tasos Dourountakis was born in the small village of Gerani, Chania, Crete in 1940, just a few months before the invasion of the Battle of Crete. The first sounds he remembers hearing from those dark……続きを見る

The Servian commentaries on Vergil are doubly distinguished: they are among the very few ancient commentaries on classical Latin texts to survive essentially intact; and they exist in two radically ……続きを見る