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ISBN: 052158907X, 9780521589079
Authors: Barry B. Powell,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: alphabet, greek, origin, homer
Pages: 308
Published: 1996-10-28
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 50.00 USD
What caused the invention of the Greek alphabet? Who did it, and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing systems to the ......
Authors: Barry B. Powell,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: alphabet, greek, origin, homer
Pages: 308
Published: 1996-10-28
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 50.00 USD
What caused the invention of the Greek alphabet? Who did it, and why? The purpose of this challenging book is to inquire systematically into the historical causes that underlay the radical shift from earlier and less efficient writing systems to the ......
ISBN: 055431665X, 9780554316659
Authors: Thucydides,
Publisher: Bibliolife
Keywords: war, peloponnesian, history
Pages: 560
Published: 2008-08-18
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 45.99 USD
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ......
Authors: Thucydides,
Publisher: Bibliolife
Keywords: war, peloponnesian, history
Pages: 560
Published: 2008-08-18
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 45.99 USD
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ......
ISBN: 0500270481, 9780500270486
Authors: Karl Kerenyi, carl Kerenyi,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: greeks, gods
Pages: 304
Published: 1980-01-17
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 18.95 USD
Drawing on a wealth of sources, from Hesiod to Pausanias and from the Orphic Hymns to Proclus, Professor Kerényi provides a clear and scholarly exposition of all the most important Greek myths.After a brief introduct......
Authors: Karl Kerenyi, carl Kerenyi,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: greeks, gods
Pages: 304
Published: 1980-01-17
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 18.95 USD
Drawing on a wealth of sources, from Hesiod to Pausanias and from the Orphic Hymns to Proclus, Professor Kerényi provides a clear and scholarly exposition of all the most important Greek myths.After a brief introduct......
ISBN: 0801866561, 9780801866562
Authors: Judith M. Barringer,
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: greece, ancient, hunt
Pages: 312
Published: 2002-01-04
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 59.00 USD
Hunting and its imagery continued to play a significant role in archaic and classical Greece long after hunting had ceased being a necessity for survival in everyday life. Drawing on vase paintings, sculpture, inscriptions, and other literary evid......
Authors: Judith M. Barringer,
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: greece, ancient, hunt
Pages: 312
Published: 2002-01-04
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 59.00 USD
Hunting and its imagery continued to play a significant role in archaic and classical Greece long after hunting had ceased being a necessity for survival in everyday life. Drawing on vase paintings, sculpture, inscriptions, and other literary evid......
ISBN: 0199233381, 9780199233380
Authors: Paul Cartledge,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: cities, eleven, history, greece, ancient
Pages: 176
Published: 2010-02-13
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 19.95 USD
The contribution of the ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizable without the formative influence of ancient Greek mode......
Authors: Paul Cartledge,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: cities, eleven, history, greece, ancient
Pages: 176
Published: 2010-02-13
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 19.95 USD
The contribution of the ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. In the worlds of art, architecture, myth, literature, and philosophy, the world we live in would be unrecognizable without the formative influence of ancient Greek mode......
ISBN: 0826212980, 9780826212986
Authors: Eric Voegelin,
Publisher: University Of Missouri
Keywords: plato
Pages: 288
Published: 2000-08-01
Category: Greece, Europe, History,
List Price: 24.95 USD
Once again available in paperback, Plato is the first half of Eric Voegelin's Plato and Aristotle, the third volume of his five-volume Order and History, which has been hailed throughout the Western world as a monumental ......
Authors: Eric Voegelin,
Publisher: University Of Missouri
Keywords: plato
Pages: 288
Published: 2000-08-01
Category: Greece, Europe, History,
List Price: 24.95 USD
Once again available in paperback, Plato is the first half of Eric Voegelin's Plato and Aristotle, the third volume of his five-volume Order and History, which has been hailed throughout the Western world as a monumental ......
ISBN: 0520260090, 9780520260092
Authors: Victor Davis Hanson, john Keegan,
Publisher: University Of California Press
Keywords: greece, new, preface, classical, battle, way, war, infantry, western
Pages: 320
Published: 2009-04-01
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 24.95 USD
The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambu......
Authors: Victor Davis Hanson, john Keegan,
Publisher: University Of California Press
Keywords: greece, new, preface, classical, battle, way, war, infantry, western
Pages: 320
Published: 2009-04-01
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 24.95 USD
The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of Western warfare, the decisive infantry battle. Instead of ambu......
ISBN: 0198152310, 9780198152316
Authors: Simon Swain,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: greek, world, power, classicism, empire, language, hellenism
Pages: 512
Published: 1998-06-11
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 85.00 USD
Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the em......
Authors: Simon Swain,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Usa
Keywords: greek, world, power, classicism, empire, language, hellenism
Pages: 512
Published: 1998-06-11
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 85.00 USD
Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the em......
ISBN: 0876615280, 9780876615287
Authors: D. A. Amyx, patricia Lawrence,
Publisher: American School Of Classical Studies
Keywords: hesperia, supplement, painting, vase, archaic, corinthian, studies
Pages: 172
Published: 1996-11-21
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 65.00 USD
Two important contributions to Greek pottery studies. Aftermath, by D. A. Amyx, is a catalogue of material supplementing his work in Corinth VII.2 but found after the cutoff of 1969 or omitted for some other reason. This article and Corinth......
Authors: D. A. Amyx, patricia Lawrence,
Publisher: American School Of Classical Studies
Keywords: hesperia, supplement, painting, vase, archaic, corinthian, studies
Pages: 172
Published: 1996-11-21
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 65.00 USD
Two important contributions to Greek pottery studies. Aftermath, by D. A. Amyx, is a catalogue of material supplementing his work in Corinth VII.2 but found after the cutoff of 1969 or omitted for some other reason. This article and Corinth......
ISBN: 0521147530, 9780521147538
Authors: H. D. Westlake,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: thucydides, individuals
Pages: 336
Published: 2010-06-24
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 28.99 USD
A study of the intellectual and moral qualities of twelve of the most important figures in Thucydides' History, six Athenian and six Spartan. Professor Westlake has a double purpose: he aims to extend our understanding of the motives and actions of t......
Authors: H. D. Westlake,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: thucydides, individuals
Pages: 336
Published: 2010-06-24
Category: Greece, Ancient, History,
List Price: 28.99 USD
A study of the intellectual and moral qualities of twelve of the most important figures in Thucydides' History, six Athenian and six Spartan. Professor Westlake has a double purpose: he aims to extend our understanding of the motives and actions of t......