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Creating a Hellenistic World
Andrew ErskineCurrent price €71.67Original price €84.32Alexander''s conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. Much of the territory that he seized would remain under the...
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Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece
Lynette MitchellCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhell...
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Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies
Christopher PellingCurrent price €31.88Original price €37.50Much of ancient history can only be written thanks to evidence supplied by Plutarch. His historical methods and qualities were for long subjected t...
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Plutarch''''s Lives: Parallelism and Purpose
Noreen HumbleCurrent price €65.35Original price €76.88Plutarch''''s Parallel Lives were written to compare famous Greeks and Romans. This most obvious aspect of their parallelism is frequently ignored...
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Praise and Blame in Roman Republican Rhetoric
Christopher B. R. SmithCurrent price €65.35Original price €76.88Cicero, and others in the Roman Republic, were masters of both invective and panegyric, two hugely important genres in ancient oratory, which influ...
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Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato''s Timaeus
Classical Press of WalesCurrent price €30.23Original price €32.50Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposed reason on necess...
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Reason and Necessity: Essays on Plato''s Timaeus
Classical Press of WalesCurrent price €30.23Original price €32.50Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposed reason on necess...
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Roman Perspectives: Studies in Political and Cultural History, from the First to the Fifth Century
John MatthewsCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99The fifteen papers in this volume discuss issues of Roman social, cultural and political history from the foundation of the Principate to the age o...
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Sparta in Modern Thought
Classical Press of WalesCurrent price €71.67Original price €84.32Images of ancient Sparta have had a major impact on Western thought. From the Renaissance to the French Revolution she was invoked by radical think...
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Sparta: Beyond the Mirage
Classical Press of WalesCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. Th...
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Sparta: Comparative Approaches
Stephen Hodkinson€84.32Both in antiquity and in modern scholarship, classical Sparta has typically been viewed as an exceptional society, different in many respects from ...
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The Ancient Lives of Virgil: Literary and Historical Studies
Classical Press of WalesCurrent price €78.12Original price €86.80The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern c...
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Through a Glass Darkly: Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Ancient Egypt
Classical Press of WalesCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Magic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as recent scholarship has increasingly made clear. In this volume, eminent int...
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Women''s Dress in the Ancient Greek World
Classical Press of WalesCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's hi...
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