How should we study the democracy of classical Athens? How, if at all, is it relevant to our own world with its different forms of democracy? Attitudes to Athenian democracy have always been affectd...

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Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, described by Sir Ronald Syme as 'the best that Tacitus ever wrote', covers the years AD 23-28, the pivotal period in the principate of the emperor Tiberius. Under the...

In the late Roman Republic, acts of wrongdoing against individuals were prosecuted in private courts, while the iudicia publica (literally "public courts") tried cases that involved harm to the...

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Charles W. Fornara's Herodotus: An Interpretative Essay (Oxford, 1971) was a landmark publication in the study of the great Greek historian. Well-known in particular for its main thesis that the...

Un monument consacre a la pensee hermetique du debut de notre ere. Apres une presentation des sciences occultes (t. I: astrologie, alchimie, magie), les deux autres volumes examinent plusieurs...

The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to...

Classical Landscape with The Ancient Greek City and its Countryside By Robin Osborne George Philip 1987 | 224 Pages | 159740537X; 0911378731 | PDF | 52 MB Frontmatter Acknowledgements Introduction 1...

What did citizenship really mean in classical Athens? It is conventionally understood as characterised by holding political office. Since only men could do so, only they were considered to be...

Ventures into Greek History is a collection of essays by seventeen international scholars dealing mainly with fourth-century Greek and Macedonian history and archaeology--especially the period of...

Esther Eidinow sets the published question tablets from the oracle at Dodona side by side with the binding-curse tablets from across the ancient Greek world, and explores what they can tell us about...

The gods of Homer's Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer's Divine Audience presents and explores a new...

In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empirical observations and arranging them systematically...

Sympathetic biography of the grandson of one of Alexander the Great's generals -- hammer of the Gauls, devotee of Pan, bane of Pyrrhus, and dark horse candidate for the throne of Macedon, Antigonos...

A History of the Archaic Greek World offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE. Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections,...

"Boyce is a, perhaps the, world authority on Zoroastrianism. . . . Prefaced by a 27-page introduction, this anthology contains selections which offer a complete picture of Zoroastrian belief, worship...

This book is the personal memoir of one of the most eminent classical scholars of his generation. the virtue of this absorbing book is the authors unflinching desire to present the whole truth as he...

Examining the Roman world from an unusual and illuminating angle, this volume explores the central period of the Roman empire from Julius Caesar to Marcus Aurelius. Martin Goodman focuses on the...

The common man in the Roman street is beginning at last to attract the attention he deserves from specialists;his active, noisy role in the politics of the late Republic has been restored to him and...