Ancient Greece & Rome - Page 3

Zeus and Hera: Archetypal Image of Father, Husband, and Wife

What did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if the...

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Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life

No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity a...

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Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens

A new perspective on ancient Athens at the height of its powers, reinterpreting the city’s suppo...

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Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the p...

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The Odyssey

With his Odyssey, best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn has created a momentous new w...

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An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity

In Late Antiquity (ca. 200–600 CE), the world was alive with unseen forces—divine agents who influen...

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The Roman World War: From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide

The succession of civil wars that plagued the last years of the Roman Republic has often been portra...

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Pausanias of Sparta: From Victor to Traitor

The story of Pausanias, the general who defeated the Persians invading Greece and changed the course...

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The Materiality of Diplomacy in the Hellenistic-Roman Mediterranean: Gifts, Bribes, Offerings

Studies the diplomatic and cultural implications of the exchange of symbolic objects in the ancient...

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Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean

A 'luminous' new history of the Mediterranean telling the interweaving stories of five forgotten anc...

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After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Science News Favorite Book of the Year A Federalist No...

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The Lives of the Caesars

The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, and to rule as a Caesar was to stand as an actor upo...

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Europe: A New History

What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or s...

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Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It

THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLERAward-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an...

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Olympia: A Cultural History

A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and...

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