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| 1. |  | Title: The messiah before Jesus: the suffering servant of the Dead Sea scrolls Author: Knohl, Israel Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Jewish Studies | Christianity Publisher's Description: In a work that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives startling evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus who is described as the "Suffering Servant" in recently published fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Messiah bef . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Making modern mothers: ethics and family planning in urban Greece Author: Paxson, Heather 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Anthropology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper indi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Warfare and agriculture in classical Greece Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient History | Classical Politics | Agriculture Publisher's Description: The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents Author: Hubbard, Thomas K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | Classics | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Covering an extensive period - from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century b.c.e. to Gre . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of death Author: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethics | Sociology | Sociology | Ethics | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Athenian democracy in transition: Attic letter-cutters of 340 to 290 B.C  Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Archaeology Publisher's Description: Furthering his masterful new approach to classifying and interpreting epigraphical data presented in Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. , Stephen V. Tracy has produced a masterful study of the inscriptions from the time of King Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Demosthenes, and Demetrios. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Author: Tandy, David W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Classical History | Economics and Business | Anthropology | Politics Publisher's Description: The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry pla . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The school of history: Athens in the age of Socrates Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: An archaeology of Greece: the present state and future scope of a discipline Author: Snodgrass, Anthony M Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | European History Publisher's Description: Classical archaeology probably enjoys a wider appeal than any other branch of classical or archaeological studies. As an intellectual and academic discipline, however, its esteem has not matched its popularity. Here, Anthony Snodgrass argues that classical archaeology has a rare potential in the who . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The reign of the phallus: sexual politics in ancient Athens Author: Keuls, Eva C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | History | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: At once daring and authoritative, this book offers a profusely illustrated history of sexual politics in ancient Athens.The phallus was pictured everywhere in ancient Athens: painted on vases, sculpted in marble, held aloft in gigantic form in public processions, and shown in stage comedies. This ob . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The concept of neutrality in classical Greece Author: Bauslaugh, Robert A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Law | Classical History Publisher's Description: Looking at Classical warfare from the perspective of the non-belligerents, Robert A. Bauslaugh brings together the scattered evidence testifying to neutral behavior among the Greek city-states and their non-Greek neighbors. Were the Argives of 480/479 B.C. really "Medizers," as many have accused, or . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The other Greeks: the family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | European History Publisher's Description: For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the Greek city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture as the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. This passionate book leads us outside the city walls to the countryside, where the vast majority . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: From popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law: law, society, and politics in fifth-century Athens Author: Ostwald, Martin 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Hesiod's Ascra Author: Edwards, Anthony T Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Literature and Language | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In Works and Days, one of the two long poems that have come down to us from Hesiod, the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. In this book, Anthony T. Edwards extracts from the poem a picture of the social structur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Religion in Hellenistic Athens Author: Mikalson, Jon D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Author: Fornara, Charles W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: By the mid fifth century B.C., Athens had become the most powerful city-state in Greece: a rich democracy led by Pericles that boldly gained control of an empire. Athens's strength under Pericles was the result of a complex interaction of events from the time of Cleisthenes. Fornara and Samons unrav . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The art of living: Socratic reflections from Plato to Foucault Author: Nehamas, Alexander 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Literature and Language | Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Literature Publisher's Description: For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an "art of living." This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of all stripes kept returning to Socrates as a mod . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Hegemony to empire: the development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C Author: Kallet-Marx, Robert Morstein Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: In one of the most important contributions to the study of Roman imperialism to appear in recent years, Robert Kallet-Marx argues for a less simplistic, more fluid understanding of the evolution of Roman power in the Balkans, Greece, and Asia Minor. He distinguishes between hegemony - the ability of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The Greeks and the irrational Author: Dodds, E. R. (Eric Robertson) 1893- Published: University of California Press, 1962 Subjects: Classics Similar Items |