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Sparta and War

Ten new essays from a distinguished international cast treat Sparta's most famous area of activity....

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The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge

A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mighti...

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The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity

Ever since the International Monetary Fund’s first bailout of Greece’s sinking economy in 2010, the...

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Riot in Alexandria : Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities

This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ran...

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Summoned to the Roman Courts : Famous Trials from Antiquity

Summoned to the Roman Courts is the first work by Detlef Liebs, an internationally recognized expert...

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Ancient Libraries

The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive...

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Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: eit...

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The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought

The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in a...

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Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens

Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participati...

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Scylla: Myth, Metaphor, Paradox

What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the do...

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Ancient Greek Music

This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practic...

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The Tyranny of Greece over Germany: A Study of the Influence Exercised by Greek Art and Poetry over the Great German Writers of the 18th ,19th and 20th centuries

Originally published in 1935, this book provides a study of the powerful influence exercised by Anci...

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Homer the Preclassic

Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the Iliad and Odys...

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The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths

The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories—from myths a...

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Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome

Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existin...

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