Exploring ancient Greece s history is spectacularly inspiring. This thoroughly researched and compelling narrative vividly presents an extraordinary insight into ancient Greece.... Lees meer.

Athletics represented an important institution through which the Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political position. Victory however had always involved the use of others such as charioteers jockeys and trainers and in the late archaic and... Lees meer.

The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation with commentary on the history institutions society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 BC - that is the period best known and... Lees meer.

A detailed survey of the inscriptions of Greece before 403 BC which attempts to construct a chronological system divided into 25 year periods similar to those used for Greek sculpture and pottery. This revised edition contains additional photographs of the most signif... Lees meer.

Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama this is the first concerted step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual a... Lees meer.

This book explores the persona of the artist in Archaic and Classical Greek art and literature. Guy Hedreen argues that artistic subjectivity first expressed in Athenian vase-painting of the sixth century BCE and intensively explored by Euphronios developed alongside... Lees meer.

This volume deals with the depictions of animal sacrifice from ancient Greece full catalogues of which are included. The relevant aspects of Greek sacrifice are studied on the basis of an analysis and interpretation of these representations combined with the pertinent... Lees meer.

This pivot compares mourning rituals in Archaic Classical Greece and Pre-Qin China to illustrate some of the principles and methods used in comparative studies. It focuses on three main aspects of mourning of the dead before burial lamentation mourners gestures an... Lees meer.

How and why did the Greek city-states come into being. The study of Greece in the Archaic period is changing due to new discoveries and interpretations. The 14 essays presented here explore many aspects of this rapidly changing world. The essays detail re-interpretatio... Lees meer.

Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama this is the first concerted step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual a... Lees meer.

A new approach to an old question - the relationship between myth and ritual. Barbara Kowalzig shows how choral performances of myth and ritual taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC helped to effect social and political change in... Lees meer.

This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism was a body of narratives that expressed defined and limited the community of the Hellenes and gave it political subs... Lees meer.

With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It l... Lees meer.

Athletics represented an important institution through which the Greek aristocracies sought to maintain their privileged political position. Victory however had always involved the use of others such as charioteers jockeys and trainers and in the late archaic and... Lees meer.

Recent research into the military history of ancient Greece has questioned the central role traditionally ascribed to the famous hoplite phalanx by historians and suggests that even as late as the Persian Wars of 480-479 BC Greek battles consisted essentially of open f... Lees meer.