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Irisanya Moon

Pantheon: The Greeks

As part of a series exploring different religious traditions and beliefs in the ancient world, Pantheon: The Greeks covers the basics of Greek mythology to ground readers and practitioners in history, myt…

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Greek Historiography

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error …

Eric H. Cline

The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction

Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has…

Giovanni Parmeggiani

Ephorus of Cyme and Greek Historiography

"Through a careful study of the surviving fragmentary evidence, Giovanni Parmeggiani throws new light on the lost Histories of the fourth-century B.C. Greek historian Ephorus of Cyme, the first, acco…

John O Hyland

Persia's Greek Campaigns

The wars between the Achaemenid Persian kings and the Greek city-states (c. 499-449 BCE)--especially Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE)--are often remembered as foundational events in Greek history,…

Michael Loy

Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece

"A new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological material from over 100 years, employing experimental modelling t…

Dora Vassilikou,

Mycenaean Civilization

The Bronze Age of Greece was unknown until the end of the 19th century, when Heinrich Schliemann's excavations stunned the world by bringing to light the glamour of Mycenaean elite society. This book, by …

Stephen Crimi

Hermes Runs the Game

Hermes Runs the Game views the covid operation in terms of the Archaic Greek animal sacrifice, inverted, moving from the depths of ritual child sacrifice to the light of the ancient mystery traditions.

Anthony Mcelligott

The Last Transport

**The deportation of 1,755 Jews from the islands of Rhodes and Cos in July 1944, shortly after the last deportation from Hungary, was the last transport to leave Greece for Auschwitz and brought to a clos…

Susan Deacy,

The Greek Gods and Their Worlds

Discover the Worlds of the Greek GodsFor centuries, the Greek gods have captivated the imagination of readers with their complex personalities and timeless myths. The Greek Gods and Their Worlds offers a …

Alan J Ross

In Praise of Constantius

In Praise of Constantiusargues that prominent pagan orators in Late Antiquity used the performance of speeches of praise to control and respond to significant shifts in their own careers and in imperial p…

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy offers thirty essays by leading international scholars consolidating the scholarly gains of recent decades, highlighting the innovation and creativity of Hell…

Joseph Lalibela Meets Vibronics & The Mafia & Fluxy Band

Ancient Breeze

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social…

Aratus,

The Sky Is Our Song

"An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heavens, the Phaenomena of Aratus--dating from around 270 BCE--was widely known ac…

David W F Stifler

Lucian and the Atticists

**This book focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian writer of the Greek language in the second century CE, and his engagement with contemporary debates regarding the form and register of language best sui…

The 'Satyrica' of Petronius

This book presents a formal critical edition and English translation of the Satyrica of Petronius.

Matthew Wright,

Euripides and Quotation Culture

"Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture. Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wrig…

Ancient Epigraphic Culture on the Aegean and Ionian Islands

Through a series of case-studies of nine Aegean and Ionian islands, the contributors examine the ancient epigraphic culture of each island's political, social and religious history from the archaic age un…