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Great Moments in Greek Archaeology
by Vasileios Petrakos  Publisher Comments This beautifully illustrated book offers a wide-ranging overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece. The contributors--a veritable who's who of the most venerable names in Greek archaeology--include both those who...
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The Complete Greek Temples
by Tony Spawforth Publisher Comments Presents an illustrated survey of Greek temples. From the debated origins of the temple in the Greek dark ages to its transformation at the end of antiquity, this book summarizes the thinking. It is illustrated with photographs, maps, plans and...
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Pots & Plays: Interactions Between Tragedy and Greek Vase-Painting of the Fourth Century B.C.
by Taplin Publisher Comments This interdisciplinary study opens up a fascinating interaction between art and theater. It shows how the mythological vase-paintings of fourth-century B.C. Greeks, especially those settled in southern Italy, are more meaningful for those who had seen...
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Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis
by Robin Franci Rhodes Publisher Comments Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis focuses on the architectural complex that is generally considered to be one of the outstanding achievements of Western civilization. Though the buildings and sculpture of the Acropolis, erected over the...
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Mycenaean World
by John Chadwick Publisher Comments An extensively illustrated general account of Greece in the 14th and 13th centuries B.C., as reconstructed from contemporary documents and archives by a leading world authority who presents a vivid picture of a long-obscure era....
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Attic Script: A Survey
by Henry R. Immerwahr Publisher Comments This study places the inscriptions found on Athenian vases in the context of the early development of writing in Athens. Focusing on the period from the invention of the alphabet in the 8th century B.C. to the early 4th century B.C., when the local...
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Morgantina Studies Volume 3
by Ninina Cuomo Caprio Publisher Comments The kilns at Morgantina, site of the well-known excavations in central Sicily, are an outstanding example of multiple potters' workshops in use during the late Hellenistic period. In fully documenting these ten kilns, excavated between 1955 and 1963...
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The Discoveries in Crete and Their Bearing on the History of Ancient Civilization
by Ronald M Burrows Publisher Comments Archeological discoveries in Crete are put into a theoretical historical context. Selected contents: Palace of Knossos and the sea power of Minos; The beginnings of Minoan civilization; Egyptian chronology and the date of the middle Minoan periods; The...
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A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World
by David Sacks Publisher Comments More than four thousand years ago, a warrior people invaded the rugged hills and fertile plains of the Balkan Peninsula. These people were the ancient Greeks, and their legacy to modern global society is immense. The Greeks invented democracy, narrative...
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Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture #6: Urban Relocation in Archaic and Classical Greece: Flight and Consolidation
by Nancy H Demand Book News Annotation Demand (history, Indiana U.) examines the causes for the phenomenon of relocation during the archaic and classical periods, in which dozens of Greek cities moved from one site to another. She also investigates how the Greeks made the relocated cities...
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Nemea: A Guide to the Site & Museum
by Stephen G Miller Publisher Comments In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of...
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Greece
by Mikhail Rostovtzeff Publisher Comments Greece is a companion volume to the paperback edition of Rome, and with it comprises the greater part of Rostovzeff's major work, A History of the Ancient World. From the appearance of prehistoric Aegean settlements, through the rise of the city states...
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Aspects of Genre & Type in Pre-modern LI
by Bert Roest Synopsis This collection of studies is the result of a series of seminars organised by COMERS in 1996. The theme of generic problems has led to a variety of disciplines (Ancient Oriental, Classical, Medieval, Arabic, Middle Dutch), of textual types (fables...
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Tomb of Agamemnon
by Cathy Gere Publisher Comments Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer's King Agamemnon, still stands in a remote corner of mainland Greece. Revered in antiquity as the pagan world's most tangible connection to the heroes of the Trojan War, Mycenae leapt into the headlines in the late...
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Arthur Evans & the Palace at Minos
by Ann Brown
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Ancient Greek Terracottas
by Vafapoulou Richardso
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Archaeology and the Emergence of Greece
by A M Snodgrass
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The gold of Troy :searching for Homer's fabled city
by Vladimir Tolstikov
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Basic Reference Guides Series #18: The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Topography and Architecture
by Bookidis Nancy
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The ancient Olympic Games
by Judith Swaddling
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