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The Shadow of Sparta
In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by more complex scholarly reactions. As interest has grown in the self-images projected by this most...
Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Euripides, Women and Sexuality
Euripides' interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his work is of great value as a source for social history.The important new studies in this volume explore...
Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Athens and Sparta
Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC, 2nd Edition
Athens and Sparta has established itself as a handbook to the main topics of Greek history in the classical period. It deals not only with the established areas of political history, but also with some of the most important aspects of Greek social history and historical methods to the main topics...
Published August 29th 2001 by Routledge
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The Greek World
Series: Routledge Worlds
Studying from the Mycenean to the late Hellenistic period, this work includes new articles by twenty-seven specialists of ancient Greece, and presents an examination of the Greek cultures of mainland Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt and Italy. With the chapters sharing the theme of social history, this...
Published September 3rd 1997 by Routledge
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Athens and Sparta
Constructing Greek Political and Social History from 478 BC
Athens and Sparta has established itself as a handbook to the main topics of Greek history in the classical period. It deals not only with the established areas of political history, but also with some of the most important aspects of Greek social history and historical methods to the main topics...
Published May 25th 1988 by Routledge
