Ivan M. Linforth ; Edited With An Introduction By Leonardo Tarán. Includes Bibliographies.

This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories. Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the...

Walter G. Englert. Revision Of The Author's Thesis (ph. D.)--stanford University, 1981. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. [193]-201.

Text: English (translation)Original Language: Greek

John Walter Jones. Reprint. Originally Published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1956. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.

Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the...

Ancient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international experts, examines the role and achievement of science and mathematics in Greek antiquity through...

In this classic study of the social and economic aspects of landcredit relationships in ancient Athens, first published in 1952, Moses Finley presents a systematic account of the guarantee aspects of credit. He examines the outward forms of credit...

Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems known as the Epic Cycle...

Reprint of the Edinburgh Univ. Press edition of 1969. The original is cited in BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The lives of these and many other men in the greatest...

Occasionally scandalous and always fascinating, a cornucopia of surprising and little-told yarns from the classical world.Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have...

Gábor Betegh presents the first systematic reconstruction and examination of the Derveni papyrus and analyzes its role in the intellectual milieu of its age. Found in 1962 near Thessaloniki among the remains of a funeral pyre, it is one of the earliest...