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  • - Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean
    by Irad Malkin
    £43.49 - 74.49

    This book claims it was a network-dynamics of Small World formation that rapidly foreshortened Mediterranean spaces, thus allowing the flows of civilizational content and self-aware notions of collective identity to overlap and proliferate.

  • - Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology
    by Giovanna (Assistant Professor in the Classics Department Ceserani
    £106.99

    Italy's Lost Greece reveals the untold story of the modern engagement with Magna Graecia, the region of ancient Greek settlement in South Italy, and provides a unique perspective on the humanist investment in the ancient past, the evolution of modern Hellenism, and the making of the discipline of classical archaeology.

  • - From Homer to Herodotus
    by Newcastle University) Skinner, Joseph E. (Lecturer in Ancient Greek History & Lecturer in Ancient Greek History
    £53.49 - 114.49

    The Invention of Greek Ethnography offers a fresh approach to the origins and development of ethnographic thought, Greek identity, and narrative history.

  • - Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire
    by Nigel Nicholson
    £95.99

    By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.

  • by Virginia M. (Assistant Professor of Classics Lewis
    £82.99

    This book argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE, and it contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.

  • - A Social and Economic History
    by University of British Columbia) De Angelis, Franco (Associate Professor of Greek History and Archaeology & Associate Professor of Greek History and Archaeology
    £39.99 - 109.49

    Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that paralleled and differed from their homeland. Since the nineteenth century explanations for this have been heavily debated. This book is the first to gather the historical and archaeological evidence and to deploy it to test the various historical models proposed.

  • by Kathryn A. Morgan
    £109.49

    This book situates Pindar's victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse within the tumultuous context of Syracuse and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It combines exploration of the material and musical culture of Hieron's Syracuse with literary analysis to demonstrate how Pindar's poetry manipulates epinician form to effect political legitimation.

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