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The Presocratics
The origins both of modern science and modern philosophy lie in Greek civilization of the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. It was then that a series of thinkers, usually known as "the …
Sophocles' Electra
Sophocles' Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception. Its nuanced treatment of matricidal revenge with all the questions it raises; its compelling depictions of …
Prisse d'Avennes. Egyptian Art
A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Théodore-Émile Prisse d’Avennes (1807–1879) is famed as one of …
The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor
This is the first complete translation into English (or any other modern language) of the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (d.818), which covers the period AD 284-813 and is one …
The Spartans
The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields …
The Lower Palaeolithic of the Mahgreb
Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt
Nefertiti’s current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was actively written out of history soon after her own …
Phantom Byzantium
How the West appropriated aspects of the eastern Roman empire while portraying it as inferior. Unveiling the ideological foundations of Byzantine studies, Phantom Byzantium is a …
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century
Volume II of the 'The Oxford History of the British Empire' examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic …
Zenon Von Kition