"The Introduction to this Companion sets out the chronological and geographical frame as well as the main issues in the study of the ancient Greek economy. It is targeted at a readership with no prior knowledge of the ancient economy and emphasises the importance of understandin…
Previous research saw Diodorus as an author with modest intellect and a working technique of equal mediocrity, just capable enough of reconstructing forgotten historical works from the Hellenistic period. This study reveals a serious historiographer who brought an entirely origi…
During the period 360-146 B.C., the Greco-Roman world underwent the transition from independent city states and small regional powers to the large and potent empires of the Hellenistic age. The essays in this volume consider various aspects of this central political transformati…
Presents an examination of the lives, achievements, and influence of seminal figures in the history of ancient Greece.
Presents an examination of the lives, achievements, and influence of seminal figures in the history of ancient Greece.
Presents an examination of the lives, achievements, and influence of seminal figures in the history of ancient Greece.
Presents an examination of the lives, achievements, and influence of seminal figures in the history of ancient Greece.
Presents an examination of the lives, achievements, and influence of seminal figures in the history of ancient Greece.
C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of…
Explore la fascinante vida de los antiguos griegos hace 2,000 anos: desde sus hogares hasta sus dioses y mitos, y desde sus extraordinarios cientificos hasta sus primeros juegos olimpicos.
"The Complete Archaeology of Greece covers the incredible richness and variety of Greek culture and its central role in our understanding of European civilization, from the Palaeolithic era of 400,000 years ago to the early modern period. In a single volume, the field's traditio…
