Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World AD 50-250

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Hellenism and Empire explores Greek identity, politics, and culture in the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds

Athenian Religion: A History

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This book is an attempt to take seriously the cliche that Greek religion is an eminently social phenomenon. It differs from `Histories of Greek Religion' by focusing on a particular Greek city

A History of Greece to 322 B.C.

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This new edition of a well-known history of ancient Greece presents a modern interpretation of Greek ideas, culture, and history. Although the book's primary focus is on the political and military his...

Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece

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Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abo...

City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

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City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor examines the social and administrative transformation of Greek society within the early Roman empire, assessing the extent to which the numerous cha...

Spartan Women

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This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, covering over a thousand years in the history of women from both the elite and lower classes. Classicist Sarah B. Pomeroy comprehensively an...

The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World

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The idea of an entity called Greece is a modern one, which a Thracian of Homer's time or an Athenian of the age of Pericles would not have recognized. Ancient Greek politics

Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America

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The early twentieth century was marked by massive migration of southern Europeans to the United States. Transatlantic Subjects views this diaspora through the lens of Greek migrant life to reveal the...

Bentham's Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary

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At the end of the eighteenth century, Jeremy Bentham devised a scheme for a prison that he called the panopticon. It soon became an obsession. For twenty years he tried to build

The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens

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'a brilliant introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a major reinterpretation of the goals and effects of their thought. Engagingly written, this eminently accessible account deserves...

Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Cult, Performance, Politics

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This volume brings together essays by archaeologists, historians, and literary scholars in a comprehensive examination of the Greek archaic age. A time of dramatic and revolutionary change when many o...

The Aristocratic Temper of Greek Civilization

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A timely reassessment of the vital social, cultural, and political role of the aristocrat in Greek society, this book by distinguished historian Chester G. Starr provides a concise portrait of the upp...

The Historian's Craft in the Age of Herodotus

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Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens Oxford Classical Monographs

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Peter Liddel offers a fresh approach to the old problem of the nature of individual liberty in ancient Athens. He draws extensively on oratorical and epigraphical evidence from the late fourth century

Operating Large Scale Membrane Bioreactors for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Paperback

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Stochastic Modelling of Drinking Water Treatment in Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment Paperback

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Silver Biotic Ligand Model Blm - Refinement Of An Acute Blm For Silver Phase 2 Paperback

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Silver Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) - Refinement Of An Acute BLM For Silver Phase 2 (Paperback)

Elimination Of Micro-organisms By Water Treatment Processes Paperback

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Elimination Of Micro-organisms By Water Treatment Processes (Paperback)