Athenian Democracy

By John Thorley

The fifth century BC witnessed not only the emergence of one of the first democracies, but also the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars. John Thorley...

Published September 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Greek History

By Robin Osborne

Robin Osborne's energetic and lively guidebook is the ideal introduction to the study of ancient Greece, from the end of the Bronze Age (c.1200BC) to...

Published May 20th 2004 by Routledge.

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Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History

By Neville Morley

Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history.

Showing readers how they...

Published May 20th 2004 by Routledge.

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Women's Influence on Classical Civilization

Edited by Eireann Marshall, Fiona Mchardy

Written by an international range of renowned academics, this volume explores how women in antiquity influenced aspects of culture normally though of as male.

Looking at...

Published April 22nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Athens: Its Rise and Fall

With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People

By Edward Bulwer Lytton Edited by Oswyn Murray

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside...

Published March 25th 2004 by Routledge.

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Archaic Eretria

A Political and Social History from the Earliest Times to 490 BC

By Keith G. Walker

This book presents for the first time a history of Eretria during the Archaic Era, the city's most notable period of political importance and Keith...

Published December 18th 2003 by Routledge.

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The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria

A Study in the Narrative of the 'Letter of Aristeas'

By Sylvie Honigman

The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek.
Long accepted...

Published October 16th 2003 by Routledge.

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Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z

By Mark Golden

Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z covers an extraordinarily wide range of Greek and Roman sporting activities.

Arranged in an easy-to-use dictionary format,...

Published September 25th 2003 by Routledge.

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Geometric Greece

900-700 BC

By J.N Coldstream

Professor Coldstream has now fully updated his comprehensive survey with a substantial new chapter on the abundant discoveries and developments made since the book's first...

Published August 28th 2003 by Routledge.

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Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion

By Matthew Dillon

It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it...

Published May 1st 2003 by Routledge.

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