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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | 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 |
| 6. |  | Title: Athens and Macedon: Attic letter-cutters of 300 to 229 B.C Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Archaeology | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know - or might know - about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | Title: Hellenistic constructs: essays in culture, history, and historiography Author: Cartledge, Paul Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The Hellenistic period (approximately the last three centuries B.C.), with its cultural complexities and enduring legacies, retains a lasting fascination today. Reflecting the vigor and productivity of scholarship directed at this period in the past decade, this collection of original essays is a wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Poetic garlands: Hellenistic epigrams in context Author: Gutzwiller, Kathryn J Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Comparative Literature | Literature Publisher's Description: Epigrams, the briefest of Greek poetic forms, had a strong appeal for readers of the Hellenistic period (323-31 B.C.). One of the most characteristic literary forms of the era, the epigram, unlike any other ancient or classical form of poetry, was not only composed for public recitation but was also . . . [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: Hellenistic philosophy of mind Author: Annas, Julia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Classical Philosophy | Philosophy | Rhetoric Publisher's Description: Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul - an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Restless dead: encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece Author: Johnston, Sarah Iles 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical Literature and Language | Intellectual History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Asylia: territorial inviolability in the Hellenistic world Author: Rigsby, Kent J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Politics | Classical History | Classical Religions | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly inscriptions and coin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The Hellenistic settlements in Europe, the islands, and Asia Minor Author: Cohen, Getzel M Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference wor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Hellenistic history and culture Author: Green, Peter 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A di . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Thundering Zeus: the making of Hellenistic Bactria Author: Holt, Frank Lee Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Archaeology | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: Thundering Zeus uses an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to resolve one of the greatest puzzles in all of Hellenistic history. This book explores the remarkable rise of a Greek-ruled kingdom in ancient Bactria (modern Afghanistan) during the third century B.C. Diodotus I and II, whose dynasty . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 20. |  | Title: In search of god the mother: the cult of Anatolian Cybele Author: Roller, Lynn E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | Ancient History | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Religion | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This book examines one of the most intriguing figures in the religious life of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Phrygian Mother Goddess, known to the Greeks and Romans as Cybele or Magna Mater, the Great Mother. Her cult was particularly prominent in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), and spread . . . [more] Similar Items |