The Spartan legend has inspired and captivated subsequent generations with evidence of its legacy found in both the Roman and British Empires. The Spartans are our ancestors, every bit as much as the Athenians. But while Athens promoted democracy, individualism, culture and society, their great rivals Sparta embodied militarism, totalitarianism, segregation and brutal repression. As ruthless as they were self-sacrificing, their devastatingly successful war rituals made the Spartans the ultimate...
Chapters in the History and Civilization of Ancient Megara
by Ernest Leslie Highbarger
Handbuch Der Alten Geographie, Aus Den Quellen Bearbeitet, Vol. 2
by Albert Forbiger
Bis Zur Schlacht Bei Pydna (168 V. Chr.) (Sammlung Goeschen, #19)
by Franz Altheim
JJP Supplement 18 (2013) Journal of Juristic Papyrology (JJP Supplements, #18)
by Adam Izdebski
A Rural Economy in Transition deals with one of the most important periods in the history of Europe and the Middle East - the transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. In his monograph, Adam Izdebski focuses on the economic history of Anatolia between the fifth and ninth centuries AD, a period which has traditionally posed great challenges to the historian. Because there are very few written sources from which a detailed economic and rural history of the period might be constructed, A. Izdeb...
Mediterranee Ruptures Et Continuites (Travaux de la Maison de L'Orient, #37)
Storia Civile del Regno Di Sicilia, Vol. 1
by Giovanni Evangelista Di-Blasi
Horos Dios draws on a wide variety of literary and archaeological evidence to argue that an Archaic horos inscription and other rock cuttings on the northeast slope of the Hill of the Nymphs in Athens are remnants of a shrine of Zeus Meilichios, a popular god of purification worshipped widely in Athens, Attica, and the greater Greek world.
Author John uses Homer's epics, the Iliad and Odyssey, as the foundation for his research. Composed around 2,700 years ago, these provided the Western world with the foundations of their literature and education. Yet despite their enormous influence on our culture, some scholars today doubt that Homer even existed. John's discovery adds a new and unexpected degree of integrity to Homer's descriptions of the Trojan landscape and presents knowledge that has been hidden from the world for over 2,50...
Periode de l'amphictyonie attico-delienne (Inscriptions de Delos)
by J Coupry
Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods from B.C. 146 to A.D. 1100 V2
by Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles
Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders as well as by sports enthusiasts is only very partially understood. This volume takes modern Greece as a case-study and explores, in depth, issues related to the reception and use of classical a...
