Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war fleet. This income strea…
The Oxford classical dictionary
by Hornblower, Simon, Eidinow, Esther, Spawforth, Antony
"Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary offers entries on all aspects of the classical world. With reception and anthropology as new focus areas and numerous new entries, it is an essential reference work for students, scholars, and tea…
The Oxford classical dictionary
The Oxford classical dictionary
The Oxford classical dictionary
Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary of antiquity offers over 6,700 entries on all aspects of the classical world, with reception and anthropology as new focus areas. Additional subject areas are politics, government, and the economy;…
The Oxford classical dictionary
Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary of antiquity offers over 6,700 entries on all aspects of the classical world, with reception and anthropology as new focus areas. Additional subject areas are politics, government, and the economy;…
"For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Ea…
Waffen/Militaria - Eisen - Grab/Gräbefeld.
This book deals with the changing nature of the goddess Ishtar/Astarte/Aphrodite, who was widely revered in the ancient West Asia and the Mediterranean world and was known by different names. Although the three names are often closely related, their mutual relation has not yet b…
"Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to do the complexity of a phe…
