Salamis 480 BC

the naval campaign that saved Greece

Ill. Peter Dennis. In 480 BC, the Greek and Persian fleets met in a battle in the strait between Attica and the island of Salamis. Although outnumbered, the Greeks delivered a crushing victory that ended the Persian threat to Greece. This book draws on the ...

Athens-Sparta

contribution to the research on the history and archaeology of the two city-states

Organized in conjunction with the Onassis Cultural Center's groundbreaking exhibition Athens-Sparta, the International Conference explored the archaeological and historical elements of the ancient relationship and conflict between the rival city-states, and provided insight into the artistic development of the Attic and Laconic cultures. Particular ...

The symptom and the subject

the emergence of the physical body in Ancient Greece

"The Symptom and the Subject" takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of ...

Ancient Greece

social and historical documents from archaic times to the death of Alexander The Great

The field of Byzantine jewellery (4th-15th centuries) is a rapidly expanding one and a large amount of important research has been conducted within the last ten years, both by scholars on the continent and in America. The intention of the conference, and subsequently the volume ...

When the Gods were born

Greek cosmogonies and the Near East

Ancient Greece has for too long been studied in isolation from its Near Eastern neighbors. And the ancient Near East itself has for too long been seen as an undifferentiated cultural monolith. Classics and Near Eastern Studies, in our modern universities, continue to be separated ...

La civilización griega

los orígenes de nuestra cultura

La presente obra pretende ser un acercamiento a la evolución histórica de uno de los pueblos más destacados y originales de la Antigüedad. Entre los griegos nacieron la filosofía, el teatro, la historia como ciencia, el sistema político que conocemos como democracia, el amor a ...

The Cattle of the sun

cows and culture in the world of the Ancient Greeks

Though Greece is traditionally seen as an agrarian society, cattle were essential to Greek communal life, through religious sacrifice and dietary consumption. Cattle were also pivotal in mythology: gods and heroes stole cattle, expected sacrifices of cattle, and punished those who failed to provide them ...

Architecture of Monoan Crete

constructing identity the Aegean Bronze Age

Ever since Sir Arthur Evans first excavated at the site of the Palace at Knossos in the early twentieth century, scholars and visitors have been drawn to the architecture of Bronze Age Crete. Much of the attraction comes from the geographical and historical uniqueness of ...

Carthaginian Warrior 264-146 B.C.

Il. Steve Noon. By the outbreak of the First Carthaginian War, Carthage controlled the whole coast of northern Africa. At first, the core of the Carthaginian armies was made up of armed citizens, backed by levies from tributary allies and foreign mercenaries. Later, the mercenaries ...

Alexander the Great an his Empire

a short introduction

This is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets ...

From Solon to Socrates

greek history and civilization during the 6th and 5th centuries B.C.

"From Solon to Socrates" is a magisterial narrative introduction to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of political, economic, military ...

Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman World

Ed. Richard J.A. Talbert. It accompanies CD-ROM.Great format with illustrations. In 99 full-color maps spread over 175 pages, the "Barrington Atlas" recreates the entire world of the Greeks and Romans from the British Isles to the Indian subcontinent and deep into North Africa ...

Viaje a la Grecia Antigua

Prol. José Francisco Yvars; Trad. Carmen Artal. Esta obra, traducida por vez primera al español, ha sido valorada con unánime entusiasmo por la crítica y el público a lo largo de más de cincuenta años. Desde el palacio del rey Minos en la isla de ...

Ancient Greek cults

a guide

Using archaeological, epigraphic, and literary sources; and incorporating current scholarly theories, this volume will serve as an excellent companion to any introduction to Greek mythology, showing a side of the Greek gods to which most students are rarely exposed. Detailed enough to be used as ...

Historia del espíritu griego

Trad. Manuel Sacristán. Wilhelm Nestle nos introduce en la literatura, el mito y la filosofía griega en un recorrido que va de Homero a Luciano. El mundo griego, creador del primer racionalismo occidental, fue profunda e imaginativamente consciente del poder, el misterio y el peligro ...

Mystic cults in Magna Graecia

Eds. Giovanni Casadio, Patricia A. Johnston. In Vergil's Aeneid, the poet implies that those who have been initiated into mystery cults enjoy a blessed situation both in life and after death. This collection of essays brings new insight to the study of mystic cults ...

The classical tradition

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus' sirens to an ambulance's? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by ...

The battle of Marathon

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book, bound to ...

Light and darkness in Ancient Greek myth and religion

Eds. Menelaos Christipoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza, Olga Levaniouk. Light and darkness played an important role beyond the division of time in ancient Greek myth and religion; the contributors to Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion consider its function on both the individual ...

Pharmakon

Plato, drug culture, and identity in Ancient Athens

"Beginning from the most thorough review of classical intoxicants, Michael A. Rinella applies his findings in detail to many Platonic texts. His results certainly have great significance for students of Plato, but also for the history of medicine and of classical civilization generally. It is ...