Greek History & Culture Books

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21. Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World

    By John Muir

    Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

    From the first ‘deadly signs’ scratched on a wooden tablet instructing the recipient to kill the one who delivered it, to the letters of St Paul to the early Church, this book examines the range of letter writing in the Ancient Greek world. Containing extensive translated examples from both life...

    Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
22. Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives

    New Critical Perspectives

    Edited by David Dodd, Christopher A. Faraone

    Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wedding and adolescent haircutting rituals to initiatory motifs or structures in Greek myth, comedy and...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
23. Money, Labour and Land

    Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece

    Edited by Paul Cartledge, Edward E. Cohen, Lin Foxhall

    The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
24. Constantine

    History, Historiography and Legend

    Edited by Samuel N. C. Lieu, Dominic Montserrat

    Constantine examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical problems surrounding them, the varied...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
25. Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z

    By W. Geoffrey Arnott

    Series: Ancient World from A to Z

    Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. W. Geoffrey Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies....

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
26. Collected Papers on Alexander the Great

    By Ernst Badian

    Professor Ernst Badian (1925-2011) was one of the most influential Alexander historians of the twentieth century. His first articles on the subject appeared in 1958, and he continued for a full fifty years to reshape scholarly perception of the reign of Alexander the Great. A steady output of...

    Published March 5th 2012 by Routledge
27. 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 Walker examines all the major elements of the city's success. One of the key factors explored is Eretria's role as a pioneer coloniser in both the...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
28. 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 as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious...

    Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
29. The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revivals)

    An Historical Perspective, A.D. 330-1453

    By Robert Byron

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron’s work...

    Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
30. Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean

    Edited by Irad Malkin, Christy Constantakopoulou, Katerina Panagopoulou

    How useful is the concept of "network" for historical studies and the ancient world in particular? Using theoretical models of social network analysis, this book illuminates aspects of the economic, social, religious, and political history of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Bringing together...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge