This book offers a clear and accessible narrative of the period between the Persian Wars and the wars of the early Hellenistic period, two nominal liberations of the region. The volume complements existing histories of Classical Greece.
By moving beyond the dominant perspectives on the Greek past, this edited volume shifts attention to the ways this past has been constructed, performed, (ab)used, Hellenized, canonized, and ultimately decolonized and re-imagined.
Written primarily for the adventurous reader with an interest in Art and Architecture, History and Mythology, Poetry and Philosophy - as an account of architectural beginnings revealed by recent archaeological discoveries, this book will ...
Polybius and his World honours F. W. Walbank's achievement by bringing together a number of leading scholars in the fields of Hellenistic historiography and history.
An ausgew hlten Beispielen erweist die Untersuchung den Zusammenhang zwischen einer ausgewogenen oder gar gleichen Verteilung des Landes oder seiner Ertr ge und dem inneren Frieden der St dte im griechischen Mutterland der archaischen ...
The essays are refreshingly free of ideological bias."--Richard Clogg, Oxford University "This collection of exciting essays discusses the tragedy of Greece in the wartime and postwar years.
This book, originally published in 1921, contains a collection of monographs on the history of the Balkans and Eastern Roman Empire, particularly after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.