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Andrew Bayliss
Sparta

For thousands of years, the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta has been famed as the ultimate warrior society. The flowing crimson capes and bronze shields of Spartan warriors remain the enduring image of…

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Sarah C Murray
Heavy Metals

Study of the Late Bronze to Early Iron Age transition in the Aegean has bloomed since the 1980s. Heavy Metals adds to the increasingly rich intellectual milieu of work on this topic by reassessing an ofte…

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William Burghart
Pleonexia, the Abuse of Power, and the Downfall of Democracies in Ancient Greek Thought

From the collapse of governments in Thucydides' Histories to the moral dilemmas in Plato's Republic and the forecasts of the end of the Roman Republic in the works of Polybius and Diodorus Siculus, this v…

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Joseph Roisman
The Complex Friendships of Alexander the Great

A first-of-its-kind study of Alexander the Great that examines the diverse manifestations and pivotal role of friendship in his campaigns, decisions, and enduring legacy.Modern scholarship has illuminated…

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Anna Kouremenos, Frank Daubner
Hadrian and Hellenism

How does a Roman emperor secure permanent glory following the reign of Trajan, deemed Rome's greatest leader (optimus princeps )? For Hadrian (r. 117-38 CE), the answer lay not in military expansion, but …

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Generic Enrichment in Plutarch's Lives

This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of 'generic enrichment' in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. It examines the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutar…

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Crisis and Resilience in Ancient Greek Alliances

This is the first book to explore ancient Greek alliances in terms of both crisis and resilience, offering readers a deeper understanding of how such alliances were formed, dissolved and re-established.Th…

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Jean-Manuel Roubineau, Malcolm Debevoise
Fists of Glory

Fists of Glory provides a fascinating and intimate look at boxing from its origins in archaic Greece to its demise in late antiquity. Jean-Manuel Roubineau takes readers on a full sensory journey, replete…

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John J Winkler,
Rehearsals of Manhood

A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generationWhen John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a high…

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Animation and the Ancient World

The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the medium's popularity and its role as an access point t…

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Animation and the Ancient World

The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the medium's popularity and its role as an access point t…

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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,…

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Mark Daniels
The Classical World Bite-Sized

An entertaining and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history, covering the people, events, art, and mythology that have shaped the Western world. Perhaps more than any o…

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Mary Beard
Confronting the Classics

Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexand…

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Anne Duncan
Tyranny and Theater in the Ancient World

Exploring persistent connections between absolute rulers and dramatic performance in Greek and Roman drama and history, Anne Duncan offers the reader a comprehensive insight into the juxtaposition between…

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Benjamin Barnes Ferris
Cinematic Time in the Odyssey

This book explores Homer's Odyssey through Gilles Deleuze's philosophy and film theory, focusing on how time operates in the epic. Using Deleuze's concept of the "crystal image", which holds pas…

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Philip John Victor Davies
Standing Among the Spartans

Conformity, uniformity, institutionality, exceptionality - each of these terms encapsulates an aspect of the common perception of Sparta, both among scholars and in the popular imagination.This volume see…

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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…

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A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity

Ancient Greek and Roman burial, mourning, and commemoration practices may seem irrelevant in the digital age of instant and virtual communications and entertainment. The lives and deaths of ancient people…

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Patricia Marechal,
Crafting Race in Plato and Aristotle

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of ground-breaking work to recover historical views on marginalized identities and to incorporate these topics into historical narratives. Yet, there has be…

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