University of California Press, 1999. — 486 p. — ISBN-13 978-0520208681. The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann gained this status as an archaeological hero partly by...
Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2010. — 400 p. The Archaeological Museum of Thebes is among those repositories that shelter with affection and splendour the tangible and venerable evidence of the life and cultural creation of the distant past from various Greek regions. Thebes, the third hegemonic power of ancient Greece, made a catalytic contribution to the...
Routledge, 2022. — 436 p. — ISBN-13 9781032010427. Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE. Constantius’ reign is characterised by a series of political and cultural upheavals and is rightly viewed as a time of significant change in the history of the fourth century. Constantius initially shared power with his brothers,...
Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2014. — 329 p. "Kerameikos, this once-great Attic deme on the northwest outskirts of Athens, was not only the location of the most important historical cemetery between Prehistoric and Byzantine times and the msjor production site for Attica's renowned vases. It is also the place that confirms and conveys whatever is loftiest...
University of Iowa Press, USA, 1987. — 298 p. — ISBN-13 978-0877451686. Prehistorians who work outside the islands should note that The Cyclades in the Bronze Age, designed as a handbook for students. It will be welcomed by Aegean prehis- torians as a convenient overview of the results of both recent and previous research, while the author's broad knowledge of things Cycladic...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 336 p. — ISBN-13 978-0691210476. A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world The memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient era, Olympia was renowned for far more than its athletic...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022. — 312 p. — ISBN-13 978-0812253610. Between 1348 and 1350, Jews throughout Europe were accused of having caused the spread of the Black Death by poisoning the wells from which the entire population drank. Hundreds if not thousands were executed from Aragon and southern France into the eastern regions of the German-speaking lands. But if...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 82 p. — ISBN-13 978-1530729401. Our fascination with ancient Egypt actually extends back to the dynastic periods itself. Royal family members and key princes during some New Kingdom eras were very interested in the mysterious and storied history of their home land and worked to preserve monuments, stories, temples, etc. When...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 594 p. — ISBN-13 978-1107062832. A History of World Egyptology is a ground-breaking reference work that traces the study of ancient Egypt. Spanning 150 years and global in purview, it enlarges our understanding of how and why people have looked, and continue to look, into humankind's distant past through the lens of the enduring allure of...
Eisenbrauns, 2016. — 510 p. — ISBN-13 978-1575064277. Ancient Israel is widely regarded as having been set apart from the nations, representing a unique sociopolitical entity in the ancient world. United by a common tribal identity and a commitment to worshiping the God who delivered them from Egypt exclusively, the Israelites established an egalitarian community that stood in...
Eisenbrauns, 2016. — 510 p. — ISBN-13 978-1575064277. Ancient Israel is widely regarded as having been set apart from the nations, representing a unique sociopolitical entity in the ancient world. United by a common tribal identity and a commitment to worshiping the God who delivered them from Egypt exclusively, the Israelites established an egalitarian community that stood in...
Routledge, 2019. — 368 p. — ISBN-13 978-0415811880. This book offers an up-to-date academic synthesis of the Aegean islands from the earliest Palaeolithic period through to the demise of the Mycenaean civilization in the Late Bronze III period. The book integrates new findings and theoretical approaches whilst, at the same time, allowing readers to contextualize their...
Brill, 2021. — 272 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 122). — ISBN 13 978-90-04-46158-1. The aim of this book is to provide new insights on the multi-faceted topic of the relationships between ancient Greece and ancient Anatolia before the Classical era. This is a rapidly evolving field of enquiry, thanks to the recent advances in our understanding of the...
Routledge, 2021. — 452 p. — ISBN-13 978-1138343726. From ancient Egypt to Imperial Rome, from Greek medicine to early Christianity, this volume examines how human bodily fluids influenced ideas about gender, sexuality, politics, emotions, and morality, and how those ideas shaped later European thought. Comprising 24 chapters across seven key themes―language, gender, eroticism,...
Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2020. — 436 p. — ISBN-13 978-1-61491-053-4. Charles Breasted. Reprint of the Charles Scribner's Sons 1943 edition, with new foreword, photographs, and maps. Pioneer to the Past tells the intensely human, often poignantly moving story of the brilliant career of James Henry Breasted, one of the greatest Egyptologists and archaeologists America has...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 214 p. — ISBN-13 978-0521707343. Egyptologists, art historians, philologists, and anthropological archaeologists have long worked side by side in Egypt, but they often fail to understand one another's approaches. This book aims to introduce students to the archaeological side of the study of ancient Egypt and to bridge the gap between...
J. B. Lippincott & Co, USA, 1969. — 238 p. — ISBN-13 978-1112902925. SEARCH FOR SYBARIS is not only about locating the city, but with the city itself. The author paints a picture of the city and the Greek colonists who founded and inhabited it. For over 200 years, from 720 to 510 B.C., Sybaris was the wealthiest and most voluptuous of the Greek cities.
Routledge, 2023. — 318 p. — ISBN-13 978-1032335407. This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches. The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of social and political organisation,...
Routledge, 2023. — 318 p. — ISBN-13 978-1032335407. This volume substantiates the island of Cyprus as an important player in the history of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, and presents new theoretical and analytical approaches. The Cypriot Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Bronze Age are characterised by an increasing complexity of social and political organisation,...
Yale University Press, 2001. — 352 p. — ISBN13: 978-0300101515. In this definitive book, prominent archaeologist John M. Camp presents an up-to-date survey of the monuments of ancient Athens and Attica to create a complete archaeological tour of the area. Camp’s lavishly illustrated work will appeal not only to scholars and students of Greek civilization but also to visitors...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 46 p. — ISBN-13 978-1724273666. In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world. Never a man to sit on his hands or rest upon his laurels, Alexander began planning his future campaigns, which may have included attempts to subdue the Arabian Peninsula or make another incursion into India. But fate had other plans for...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 280 p. — ISBN-13 978-1526766120. The importance of war gods and their myths to the Romans and their psyche – their worth as the sons of Mars. This book redresses the relative lack of work published on the role of war in classical myth and legend. At the same time it debunks the popular view that the Romans had little mythology of their own and...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 624 p. — ISBN-13 978-1643138756. A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and...
Коллективная монография, Cambridge University Press , 2014, 2278 pp, ISBN13: 978-0521119931 The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings of written history, which in some areas started only two centuries...
Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2006. — 373 p. This beautiful hardcover book by Rosina Colonia includes photographs of the archaeological exhibits of the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, with additional photographs of the archaeological site of Delphi and its monuments. Colonia also provides brief descriptions of the exhibits and sites.
Oxford University Press, 1973. — 543 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198131656. A study of the Troad, the region in which Troy was situated, based on the author's fieldwork between 1960 and 1969. Using ancient sources, accounts of more recent travellers, maps and archaeological surveys, Cook presents an account of patterns of habitation in the area from ancient times to the present day.
Oxford University Press, 1973. — 543 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198131656. A study of the Troad, the region in which Troy was situated, based on the author's fieldwork between 1960 and 1969. Using ancient sources, accounts of more recent travellers, maps and archaeological surveys, Cook presents an account of patterns of habitation in the area from ancient times to the present day.
Fontana Press, 1998. — 400 p. — ISBN-13 978-0006863434. A brilliantly entertaining and innovative history of the ancient Athenians’ consuming passions for food, wine and sex. Sex, shopping and fish-madness, Athenian style. This fascinating book reveals that the ancient Athenians were supreme hedonists. Their society was driven by an insatiable lust for culinary delights –...
Random House Group, USA, 2009. — 832 p. — ISBN-13 978-0375505164. For nearly two thousand years, historians have treated the subject of homosexuality in ancient Greece with apology, embarrassment, or outright denial. Now classics scholar James Davidson offers a brilliant, unblushing exploration of the passion that permeated Greek civilization. Using homosexuality as a lens,...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 294 p. — ISBN-13 978-0198700500. This volume covers the history of the British Isles from the Vikings to the Norman conquest. Seven chapters contributed by an international team of leading historians cover key themes of this period such as monarchies and other political structures, economic developments, the Christianization of society, and...
Harpercollins, 1985. — 222 p. — ISBN-13 978-0060153762. A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.
Athens: Benaki Museum, 1997. — 622 p. — ISBN-13 978-9608452510. This book, edited by Dionisis Fotopoulos with texts by Angelos Delivorrias, constitutes a journey in pictures to the Greece of the Benaki Museum. The rich illustrations in the book show a large part of the wealth of the Museum s collections, while the informative accompanying texts give the reader-viewer a better...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2019. — 621 p. — ISBN13: 978-1938770159. This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age--ca. 1200 BCE--to the Archaic period, when Athens became the largest city of the Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in...
Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2005. — 413 p. The Archaeological Museum of Heraclion, one of the most significant Greek museums, with the largest number of visitors, was established one hundred years ago under the name of “Cretan Museum” for the purpose of storing and exhibiting archaeological treasures from all over the island.
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. — 222 p. — (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 63). — ISBN-13 978-1789694024. Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean is devoted to the viticulture of two settlements, Antiochia ad Cragum and Delos, using results stemming from surface survey and excavation to assess their potential integration within the now...
Athens: John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2016. — 323 p. Thera is a place that attracts and will continue to attract the interest of the whole world. The stentorious beauty of its volcanic landscape is the obvious reason. However, its cultural reserves of global ambit will constitute a diachronic pole of attraction for the initiated aficianodo of a civilization that...
Paris : Univers Poche, 2003. — 1041 p. — ISBN13: 978-2020603874. Le livre d'Édouard Will constitue en réalité bien plus qu'une histoire uniquement politique : on y trouve aussi bien une histoire des relations extérieures des royautés hellénistiques que l'analyse de l'activité économique, mais également une histoire des institutions des États grecs, ainsi qu'un cadre...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 1168 p. — ISBN-13 978-0190234188. The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany, and part of modern Switzerland), a mix of Gallo-Roman inhabitants and...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 248 p. — ISBN-13 978-1526155788. In the 660s BC softback Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of Sais declared independence from the Assyrian Empire, and in a few short years succeeded in bringing about the reunification of Egypt. The Saites...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 248 p. — ISBN-13 978-1526155788. In the 660s BC softback Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of Sais declared independence from the Assyrian Empire, and in a few short years succeeded in bringing about the reunification of Egypt. The Saites...
Royal Historical Society, 1986. — 656 p. — ISBN-13 978-0861931064. The Handbook of British Chronology is acknowledged as the authoritative and indispensable record of all holders of major offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the fifth century to the late twentieth century. The third edition (which first appeared in 1986) is now available from Cambridge...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 368 p. — ISBN-13 978-0199653102. Almost every great figure in nineteenth-century Britain, from Thomas Carlyle to William Gladstone to Charles Darwin, read histories of ancient Egypt and argued about their content. Egypt became a focal point in disputes over the nature of human origins, the patterns underlying human history, the status and...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 275 p. — ISBN-13 978-1108477550. The Dioscuri first appeared at the Battle of Lake Regillus in 496 BC to save the new Republic. Receiving a temple in the Forum in gratitude, the gods continued to play an important role in Roman life for centuries and took on new responsibilities as the needs of the society evolved. Protectors of elite...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 213 p. — ISBN-13 978-3030676377. This book critically explores the development of radical criminological thought through the social, political and cultural history of three periods in Ancient Greece: the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Greco-Roman periods. It follows on from the previous volume which examined concepts of law, legitimacy,...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 195 p. — ISBN-13 978-3030069117. This book critically explores the development of radical criminology through a range of written Ancient Greek works including epic and lyrical poetry, drama and philosophy, across different chapters. It traces the development of political power and the concepts of law, legitimacy, crime, justice and deviance...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 941 p. — ISBN13: 978-0521200912. The second volume describes the formation, in the sixth century BC, of the earliest multi-national empire, its administration, its confrontation with Greece, and its eventual dissolution under the impact of Alexander's conquest of Iran in 331 BC. This was a time of great importance in the history of the entire...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 376 p. — ISBN-13 978-1526746757. Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns, similarities and...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 521 p. — ISBN-13 978-1526746757. Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns, similarities and...
Pen and Sword History, 2023. — 256 p. — ISBN-13 978-1399090179. The second volume of this ground-breaking trilogy covers the reigns of Ptolemy II, III, IV, V and VI, who between them reigned for a century. Ptolemy III's rule brought the acquisition of Cyrenaica (through marriage) and territorial gains in Syria, the Aegean, Asia Minor and Thrace due to unexpected military...
Bristol Classical Press, 2006. — 224 p. — ISBN-13 978-0715634356. For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local gods, and were made famous by classical Greek authors. Yet...