Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture)
by Anthony Kaldellis
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful state in the Mediterranean. It was also expanding economically, demographically, and, in time, intellectually as well. Yet this imperial project came to a crashing collapse fifty years later, when political disunity, fiscal misman...
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
Kavousi IIB (PREHISTORY MONOGRAPHS, #39)
by Leslie Preston Day and Kevin T. Glowacki
This is the second of three planned volumes in the final report on the cleaning and excavations at the Late Bronze Age site of Vronda near Kavousi in eastern Crete. It describes the excavation, stratigraphy, and architecture of the buildings on the slopes of the Vronda ridge: Building Complexes E, I-O-N, and L-M, Building F, and the pottery kiln, as well as areas excavated on the periphery that did not belong to any of these buildings. It also presents lists, catalogs, and images of artifacts an...
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...