Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece 080784473X, 9780807844731

Ancient Greece and American Conservatism: Classical Influence on the Modern Right 9781350985308, 9781786733948

“US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they use

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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 9781978807150

What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin B

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Black Athena: Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 9780813564418

Winner of the American Book Award, 1990. Could Greek philosophy be rooted in Egyptian thought? Is it possible that the P

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Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780191079849, 9780198767114, 0191079847

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Beyond Greece and Rome: Reading the Ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe (Classical Presences) [Illustrated] 9780198767114, 0198767110

Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to ass

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Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome 9780755624300, 9781784530761

Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: 'inventor' of the discipline of geography as it is known today. There

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Human and Animal in Ancient Greece: Empathy and Encounter in Classical Literature 9781350986749, 9781786731197

Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had sign

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Diplomacy in Ancient Greece

Just like today, the major events of antiquity were often secretly decided behind closed doors. This indepth study of an

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Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis: Ancient and Modern Stories of the Self (Classical Presences) 9780199656677, 0199656673

Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his

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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

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