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41. The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature

    By Holly Blackford

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E. T. A. Hoffmann...

    Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
42. Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity

    Environment and Culture

    Edited by John Salmon, Graham Shipley

    Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society

    Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity shows how today's environmental and ecological concerns can help illuminate our study of the ancient world. The contributors consider how the Greeks and Romans perceived their natural world, and how their perceptions affected society....

    Published July 10th 2011 by Routledge
43. Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece

    Edited by Eleni Fournaraki, Zinon Papakonstantinou

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their...

    Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
44. Perikles and his Circle

    By Anthony Podlecki

    Perikles, the creator of the reputation of Classical Athens was an enigmatic figure. This book traces Perikles' development from a somewhat hesitant, though left-leaning politician, to a mature statesman fully committed to expanding Athens' maritime empire and using the material benefits of that...

    Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge
45. Greek Tragedy

    By H.D.F. Kitto

    Series: Routledge Classics

    'Two things give Kitto's classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English.' - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UK Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from...

    Published March 22nd 2011 by Routledge
46. The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece

    Edited by Lynette G. Mitchell, P.J. Rhodes

    The Greek polis has been arousing interest as a subject for study for a long time, but recent approaches have shown that it is a subject on which there are still important questions to be asked and worthwhile things to be said.This book contains a selection of essays which embody the results of the...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
47. Fathers and Sons in Athens

    Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War

    By Barry Strauss

    As history's first democracy, classical Athens invited political discourse. The Athenians, however could not completely separate the politicals from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict, from patricide to murdering one's son, was a major public as well as a private theme. In a fascinating...

    Published January 30th 2011 by Routledge
48. The Greek World 479–323 BC

    4th Edition

    By Simon Hornblower

    Series: The Routledge History of the Ancient World

    The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In...

    Published January 27th 2011 by Routledge
49. Strabo of Amasia

    A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome

    By Daniela Dueck

    Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation of the man and his life in English. It emphasises the place and importance of Strabo's Geography and...

    Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
50. Antigonus II Gonatas

    A Political Biography

    By Janice J. Gabbert

    Antigonus Gonatas assumed the title of King of Macedonia in 283 BC; he became the undisputed ruler of Macedonia in 276 BC and reigned for more than forty years. Blunt, honest and tenacious, Antigonus won not only Macedonia, but also its people. Pragmatic and occasionally ruthless, he was a...

    Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge