Classical Scholarship in Translation – serie
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Mycenaean Civilization
Inbunden, 2026
3007 kr
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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 one of Greece's most distinguished archaeologists, provides a complete introduction to …
What is Religion?
European Thought from Antiquity to the Present
Inbunden, 2026
364 kr
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How should we explain differences in religious belief and practice? Philippe Borgeaud's ambitious intellectual history tells the story of how reflection on religious phenomena emerged, throughout the centuries, in European consciousness and scholarship. Christianity in particular, as Borgeaud …
The Greeks and Their Histories
Myth, History, and Society
Häftad, 2025
448 kr
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In this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on 'intentional history', which he defines as a history in the self-understanding of social groups and communities - connected to a corresponding understanding of the other - which is …
Platonism
A Concise History from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2023
511 kr
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The task of philosophy, the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once wrote, is to 'overturn Platonism'. This might be true, if only we could define what Platonism is. In this clear and accessible book Mauro Bonazzi provides the first comprehensive introduction to ancient Platonism. He begins his …
The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Häftad, 2026
679 kr
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From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: …
Roman Republic and Political Culture
German Scholarship in Translation
Av Amy Russell, Hans Beck
Inbunden, 2025
1693 kr
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This volume makes available in English translation for the first time a series of hugely influential articles about Roman Republican politics which were all originally published in German. They represent a school of thought that has long been in dialogue with Anglophone research but has not always …
The Early Christians
From the Beginnings to Constantine
Inbunden, 2023
573 kr
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The early Christians were by no means a homogeneous group, let alone a church. This is the fascinating story of the beliefs, practices and experience of individual Christians of antiquity, their relationships to Jewish tradition and the wider Roman world, and the shockwaves they caused among their …
Choral Tragedy
Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual
Häftad, 2025
447 kr
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Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, …
The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Inbunden, 2024
1509 kr
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From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: …
Athens, 403 BC
A Democracy in Crisis?
Av Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard
Inbunden, 2025
708 kr
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At the end of the fifth century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens' shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commission of thirty Athenians abolished the democratic institutions that for a century had governed the political life of the city and precipitated a …
Japan and Ancient Greece
Culture and Possession
Av Michael Lucken, Phillip Mitsis
Inbunden, 2026
1372 kr
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Japan and ancient Greece. Placed side by side, these two concepts give the impression of something very strange, a sort of chimera - half Apollo, half samurai; half Venus, half geisha - set on a ground that is at once white and blue like the Cyclades, dark green and vermillion like Shintō shrines. …
The Hera of Zeus
Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse
Av Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Gabriella Pironti
Häftad, 2023
606 kr
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The goddess Hera is represented in mythology as an irascible wife and imperfect mother in the face of a frivolous Zeus. Beginning with the Iliad, many narrative traditions depict her wrath, the infidelities of her royal husband and the persecutions to which she subjects his illegitimate offspring. …
The Hera of Zeus
Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse
Av Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Gabriella Pironti
Inbunden, 2022
1677 kr
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The goddess Hera is represented in mythology as an irascible wife and imperfect mother in the face of a frivolous Zeus. Beginning with the Iliad, many narrative traditions depict her wrath, the infidelities of her royal husband and the persecutions to which she subjects his illegitimate offspring. …
Choral Tragedy
Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual
Inbunden, 2024
1610 kr
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Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, …
The Greeks and Their Histories
Myth, History, and Society
Inbunden, 2022
1559 kr
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In this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on 'intentional history', which he defines as a history in the self-understanding of social groups and communities - connected to a corresponding understanding of the other - which is …
