Product Description: The mechanisms at play in the process of exchange between British, French and German intellectual traditions as they attempt to engage with the study of Greek and Roman history are the focus of this unusual anthology. The book makes accessible frequently rare though significant documents which have been collected in the libraries of three countries, and includes introductions to works by authors such as Gibbon, Barthelemy and Droysen, translators' prefaces to their renderings of foreign texts, and periodical reviews...read more

A comprehensive, easy-to-use reference provides a detailed look at the history of this ancient culture through hundreds of A-to-Z entries, covering such topics as art, architecture, technology, and women's roles.

Product Description: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on Greek history by over a decade...read more

In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. Tracing the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire and its consolidation in the first two centuries AD, this book reproduces the text of the acclaimed Oxford History of the Classical World: Rome in a standard paperback form. Written by a team of specialist scholars, it includes chapters on social and political history, the Emperors, art and architecture, and the works of the leading Roman poets, historians, and philosophers. Retaining the original line drawings and maps, this edition contains a new eight-page plate section, specially selected by John Boardman.

Provides an overview of classical Greek history, literature, art, philosophy, architecture, religion, government, and daily life.

Provides an overview of classical Roman history, literature, art, philosophy, architecture, religion, government, and daily life.

A study of ancient Greek civilization by a nineteenth-century historian sheds new light on Greek culture and its influence and rejects the long-held myth of the Greek democratic state

Product Description: Demetri Porphyrios, Principal of Porphyrios Associates, is an international architect based in London, equally well known for his urban design, buildings and writings. The work presented here, all completed within the past five years, ranges from urban projects to office, institutional and college buildings and includes an extension to the old town of Spetses in Greece, a hotel resort in Mount Sinai, office buildings in Birmingham, U...read more

Alphabetically arranged entries provide a detailed look at the history of this ancient culture, covering such topics as art, architecture, technology, and women's roles.

Product Description: Over twenty papers from an international conference on the place of wine in ritual, culture and society in the Ancient World (including Near Eastern culture, Greek culture, Etruria and Italy, and Republican and Imperial Rome). The subject is approached from historical, archaeological, art historical and literary perspectives...read more

Product Description: From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world has established the foundations of our culture, as well as many of its enduring achievements...read more

Provides an overview of classical Greek and Roman history, literature, art, philosophy, architecture, religion, government, and daily life