Persians in the Greek Imagination
by Margaret Miller Abstract: The rendering of Persians in Attic vase-painting provides one of the great apparent exceptions to the general principle of ‘no historical subjects’ in Greek art. In the period of the…
by Margaret Miller Abstract: The rendering of Persians in Attic vase-painting provides one of the great apparent exceptions to the general principle of ‘no historical subjects’ in Greek art. In the period of the…
By Charolette Dunn, Pat Wheatley Abstract: Demetrius the Besieger is a historical and historiographical biography of Demetrius Poliorcetes ‘The Besieger of Cities’ (336–282 BC), an outstanding, yet enigmatic figure who…
Edited by Claire Holleran and April Pudsey Book Description: Through a series of case studies this book demonstrates the wide-ranging impact of demographic dynamics on social, economic and political structures in the…
By Emily Baragwanath Abstract: Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and was also critical to their interpretation in…
By Edith Foster Abstract: Edith Foster compares Thucydides’ narrative explanations and descriptions of the Peloponnesian War in Books One and Two of the History with the arguments about warfare and war materials…
By Edith Hall Abstract: Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian’ world.…
By Vivienne Gray Abstract: Gray’s approach to the Hellenica, most problematic of historiographical texts, organises close reading of long translated excerpts into three large sections on Xenophon’s three narrative…
By Erich S. Gruen Abstract: This book collects twenty two previously published essays and one new one by Erich S. Gruen who has written extensively on the literature and history of early Judaism and the experience of…