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Dogs in Athenian Sculpture and Vase Painting of the Archaic and Classical Periods
Having earned the title of 'man's best friend' through their millennia-long relationship with humans, dogs have been constantly present in human life. The great number of textual …
Night's Black Agents
The supernatural lore of Ancient Greece and Rome is vividly brought to life in these pages.The literature of Classical antiquity bristles with horrible witches, mysterious wizards, …
Gallipoli Sniper
'This is a well-researched, detailed and compelling story.' Defender Magazine Billy Sing was a small, dark man – and a deadly killer. When, as a member of the Australian Imperial …
Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and …
Les civilisations-meres et leurs enigmes
Les grandes civilisations ne naissent pas par hasard ou par magie. Elles sont filles de civilisations-meres, plus modestes en apparence, mais decisives car a l'origine de toute …
The Continuum Companion to Plato
This comprehensive reference guide includes over 140 entries on every aspect of Plato's thought. Plato, mathematician, philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, is, …
Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights
2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Classics Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European …
One Hundred Years of Homosexuality
Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these …
Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
Focusing on extant speeches from the Athenian Assembly, law, and Council in the fifth-fourth centuries BCE, these essays explore how speakers constructed or deconstructed …
Between Greece and Babylonia
This book argues for a new approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world. Despite the intense cross-cultural interactions which characterised the period after …
Greek Athletics in the Roman World
The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This …
Das archaische Kreta
Das vorliegende Buch ist eine Studie zur Institutionalisierung im fr hen Griechenland. Dieses Thema wird mit Blick auf das archaische Kreta behandelt, der wohl besten Fallstudie f …