Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best-trained, -organized and most-feared warriors of the ancient world. The small state of Sparta, known to the Ancient Greeks as Lakedaimon, developed a unique warrior society that used serfs and non-citizens to do all of the manual work, leaving the free-born men of Sparta free to concentrate all of th...
Hecuba (The Greek Tragedy in New Translations) (BCP Greek Texts)
by Euripides
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Essai Sur La Legende d'Alexandre-Le-Grand Dans Les Romans Francais Du Xiie Siecle (Classic Reprint)
by Eugene Talbot
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.Charting Venus's origins in powerful ancient deities, Bettany demonstrates that Venus is far more complex than first meets the eye. Beginning in Cyprus, the goddess's mythical birthplace, Bettany decodes Venus's relationship to...
...by so intelligently and often penetratingly discussing patterns of language, Bond contributes much to the interpretation of this deeply disturbing and moving play.'___ The Times Educational Supplement .
Course Revision and Examination Preparation
by Lorna Hardwick, Chris Emlyn-Jones, Colin Cunningham, and J. Purkis
Athēnaiōn Politeia Aristotle on the Constitution of Athens (Classic Reprint)
by Aristotle Aristotle
Beiträge Zur Erklärung Des Thukydides (Classic Reprint)
by Franz Wolfgang Ullrich
The Ancient Greeks (Peoples of the Past)
by Sophie Descamps-Lequime and Denise Vernerey
The Three Theban Plays (Theban Plays) (Theban Plays of Sophocles - Antigone - Oedipus the King - Oedipus at Colonus)
by Sophocles, Robert Fagles, and Bernard M. W. Knox
The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge, the surge and majesty of hi...
Introduction Aux Lecons Sur l'Oedipe-Roi de Sophocle (Encre Marine)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The March of the Ten Thousand is one of the most famous military adventures in the ancient world. Its fearless army of Greek mercenaries marched through western Asia (modern Turkey and Iraq) in 401-399 B.C., their hopes and hardships recounted by Xenophon, the Athenian, an admiring pupil of Socrates. Xenophon's history of the Long March, or Anabasis, is a classic of Greek literature.In this book, twelve leading scholars explore the Anabasis, a deceptively simple and profoundly rich source of soc...
In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and "the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians." This view of the Athenians' misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Boeckh's 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian demos for s...