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1. |  | Title: Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Author: Fornara, Charles W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical PoliticsPublisher'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 | 2. |  | Title: The school of history: Athens in the age of SocratesAuthor: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Classical PoliticsPublisher'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: Religion in Hellenistic Athens Author: Mikalson, Jon D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Ancient HistoryPublisher'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 | 4. |  | Title: From popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law: law, society, and politics in fifth-century AthensAuthor: Ostwald, Martin 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Classics | Classical History | Classical PoliticsPublisher'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 AthensAuthor: Keuls, Eva C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | History | Art and Architecture | Ancient HistoryPublisher'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: Warfare and agriculture in classical GreeceAuthor: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient History | Classical Politics | AgriculturePublisher'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 | 7. |  | Title: Athens and Macedon: Attic letter-cutters of 300 to 229 B.CAuthor: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Archaeology | Ancient HistoryPublisher'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 | 8. |  | Title: Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documentsAuthor: Hubbard, Thomas K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | Classics | GayLesbian and Bisexual StudiesPublisher'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 | 9. |  | Title: Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early GreeceAuthor: Tandy, David W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Classical History | Economics and Business | Anthropology | PoliticsPublisher'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 | 10. |  | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 11. |  | Title: Mother without child: contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Literature | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | American Literature | Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. |  | Title: Restless dead: encounters between the living and the dead in ancient GreeceAuthor: Johnston, Sarah Iles 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical Literature and Language | Intellectual History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher'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 | 13. |  | Title: The concept of neutrality in classical GreeceAuthor: Bauslaugh, Robert A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Law | Classical HistoryPublisher'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 | 14. |  | Title: The other Greeks: the family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilizationAuthor: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | European HistoryPublisher'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 | 15. |  | 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 | ArchaeologyPublisher'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 | 16. |  | Title: Our mother-tempers Author: Levy, Marion J. (Marion Joseph) 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of people we are. By the age of three, four, or five, virtually all children have learned to walk, talk, eat, sleep, control bodily functions, interact with othe . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: The defense of Attica: the Dema wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: The enigmatic three-mile-long Dema wall in the countryside outside ancient Athens has perplexed archaeologists and historians for decades. When was it built and what role did it play in Greek military history? In a tour de force of archaeological and historical argument, Mark H. Munn establishes the . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | Title: Hesiod's AscraAuthor: Edwards, Anthony T Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Literature and Language | Economics and BusinessPublisher'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 | 19. |  | Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient GreeceAuthor: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | PoetryPublisher'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 | 20. |  | Title: Making the invisible visible: a multicultural planning historyAuthor: Sandercock, Leonie 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Geography | Urban Studies | Sociology | Architecture | Physical AnthropologyPublisher's Description: The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that reveal hitherto invisible planning practices an . . . [more]Similar Items |
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