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  • Sophocles and Alcibiades

    Athenian Politics in Ancient Greek Literature

    par Michael Vickers ...
    Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades ... En savoir plus

    $92.06 CAD

  • Phantom Trail

    Discovering Ancient America

    par Michael Vickers ...
    Traveling cross continent, the author explores several prominent, and many virtually "secret" sites of American antiquity. All relate to civilizations and cultures which preceded the arrival of the European-some, by many 1000s of years.While the focus is on the Great Valley of the Mississippi and the stupendous and mysterious Moundbuilders, the working context is modern America. And it is ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Pericles on Stage

    Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays

    par Michael Vickers ...
    Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds.In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens

    Religion and Politics During the Peloponnesian War

    par Alexander Rubel, Michael Vickers ...
    Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to the study of Greek ... En savoir plus

    $92.06 CAD

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  • Aristotle

    His Life and School

    par Carlo Natali ...
    The definitive account of Aristotle's life and schoolThis definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now translated, updated, and expanded for English readers, this concise chronological narrative is the most authoritative account of Aristotle's life and his ... En savoir plus

    $58.29 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon

    Modifié par Michael A. Flower ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion, the first dedicated to the philosopher and historian Xenophon of Athens, gives readers a sense of why he has held such a prominent place in literary and political culture from antiquity to the present and has been a favourite author of individuals as diverse as Machiavelli, Thomas Jefferson, and Leo Tolstoy. It also sets out the major problems and issues that are at stake in the ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Shadow of Sparta

    Modifié par Stephen Hodkinson, Anton Powell ...
    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 secretive of Greek cities, increasing attention has focused on how individual Greek writers from other ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy

    par Johanna Hanink ...
    Collections series Cambridge Classical Studies
    Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during the 'Lycurgan Era' (338–322 BC), a number of measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Socrates

    A Man for Our Times

    par Paul Johnson ...
    A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy.Socrates was undeniably one of the greatest thinkers of all time, yet he wrote nothing. Throughout his life, and indeed until his very last moment alive, Socrates fully embodied his philosophy in thought and deed. It is through the story of his life that we can fully grasp his powerful actions and ideas.In his highly ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Spartan Regime

    Its Character, Origins and Grand Strategy

    par Paul Anthony Rahe ...
    Collections series Yale Library of Military History
    "[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta's early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values." (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks)For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and ... En savoir plus

    $23.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Apology, Or; The Death Of Socrates (Mobi Classics)

    par Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator) ...
    (The) Apology (of Socrates) is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities". "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia") of speaking in defense of a cause or of one's beliefs or actions. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • On Greek Religion

    par Robert C.T. Parker ...
    Collections Livre 60 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    "There is something of a paradox about our access to ancient Greek religion. We know too much, and too little. The materials that bear on it far outreach an individual's capacity to assimilate: so many casual allusions in so many literary texts over more than a millennium, so many direct or indirect references in so many inscriptions from so many places in the Greek world, such an overwhelming ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD