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A comparative analysis of political websites and their users from seven Western democracies.Digital politics is shorthand for how internet technologies have fueled the complex …
"e;A fresh approach to the Greco-Persian wars focusing on Athens's evacuation, Persian occupation, and rebuilding . . . [a] compelling book."e; -John O. Hyland, Christopher …
Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific …
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Mark Golden's groundbreaking study of childhood in ancient Greece.First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens …
Love triangles and Pythagorean women.In Pythagorean Women, classical scholar Sarah B. Pomeroy discusses the groundbreaking principles that Pythagoras established for family life in …
In ancient times, the Roman games-that heady cocktail of mass slaughter, gladiatorial combat, and chariot racing-made strong political, social, and cultural statements.The Roman …
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and …
To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. Known as …
Achilles' death-by an arrow shot through the vulnerable heel of the otherwise invincible mythic hero-was as well known in antiquity as the rest of the history of the Trojan War. …
Purity Lost investigates the porous nature of social, political, and religious boundaries prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean-from the Black Sea to Egypt-during the Middle Ages. …