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The Spartans
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A compelling narrative exploring the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, told by the world's leading expert. The narrative also details the lives of such illustrious and mythmaking figures as Lycurgus, King Leonidas, Helen of Troy (and Sparta), and Lysander. Illustrations. Maps.
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece
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Sumptuously illustrated in colour and packed with fascinating information, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece is now available for the first time in a revised paperback edition. Offering fresh interpretations of classical Greek culture, the book devotes as much attention to social, economic, sexual and intellectual aspects as to ...
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Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past
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In time to coincide with the release of the motion picture directed by Oliver Stone comes a biography on the infamous Macedonian king and conqueror. Author Cartledge is academic consultant on the forthcoming Discovery Channel documentary "Becoming Alexander."
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Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World
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In this brilliant examination of one of civilizations greatest stands, Cartledge illuminates how the confrontation between a huge army and a small group of defenders in 480 B.C. changed the way that generations would come to think about courage, combat, and death.
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The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
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A compelling narrative exploring the culture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": the Spartans of ancient Greece, told by the world's leading expert. The narrative also details the lives of such illustrious and mythmaking figures as Lycurgus, King Leonidas, Helen of Troy (and Sparta), and Lysander. Illustrations. Maps.
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Alexander: Destiny and Myth
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Claude Mosse, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator), Professor Paul Cartledge (Foreword by)
Few figures from history have aroused as much admiration as Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king who, between 334 and 323 B.C., conquered the immense Persian Empire, led his army as far as India, and transformed the known world. Even in antiquity, he was an almost mythical hero, and over the centuries he has been remembered as the paragon of ...
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Sparta and Lakonia: A Regional History 1300-362 BC
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Sparta is one of the best-documented states of ancient Greece. Its political and social systems have fascinated and perplexed generations of classical scholars, as well as having a powerful influence on European civilization to this day. In this fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking study, Paul Cartledge uncovers the realities ...
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Memories of Odysseus: Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece
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Francois Hartog, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator), Professor Paul Cartledge (Foreword by)
The conception of the Other has long been a problem for philosophers. Emmanuel Levinas, best known for his attention to the issue argued that the voyages of Odysseus represent the very nature of Western philosophy : "His adventure in the world is nothing but a return to his native land, a complacency with the Same, a misrecognition of the Other." ...
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Democritus: Democritus and Atomistic Politics
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The Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher': ourown age's 'prophet of quark' : throughout modern philosophical traditions, Democritushas been a man little known beyond his labels. Yet if the image of the cheerful ironist understates his true seriousness, that of father of modern nuclear physics - though by no means entirely unfounded - loses sight of ...
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Spartan Reflections
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The complex and distinctive Spartan tradition has been a prominent theme in western thinking from antiquity to today. Sparta is also one of a handful of ancient Greek cities with enough existing evidence for historians to create a realistic social portrait. Over the past quarter-century Paul Cartledge has established himself as the leading ...
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Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice
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Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the early Roman Empire ...
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Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures
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Nino Luraghi (Editor), Susan Alcock (Editor), Professor Paul Cartledge (Contributions by)
The name "Helots" evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labour that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the functions that slaves carried out elsewhere in the Greek world, allowing their masters the leisure to be full-time warriors. Yet, despite their crucial ...
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Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises
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Xenophon, Robin H Waterfield (Translator), Professor Paul Cartledge (Introduction by)
One of Socrates' Athenian disciples in his youth, Xenophon (c. 498-354 bc) fought as a mercenary commander in Cyrus the Younger's campaign to seize the Persian throne, and later wrote a wide range of works on history, politics and philosophy. These six treatises offer his informed insights into the nature of leadership. In the dialogue between the ...
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Religion in the Ancient Greek
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Louise Bruit Zaidman, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Professor Paul Cartledge (Translator)
This book is a translation into English of La religion grecque by Louise Bruit Zaidman and Pauline Schmitt Pantel, described by Dr Simon Price as 'an excellent book, by far the best introduction to the subject in any language'. It is the purpose of the book to consider how religious beliefs and cultic rituals were given expression in the world of ...
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Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
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Professor Paul Cartledge, Antony Spawforth
In this new edition, Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth have taken account of recent finds and scholarship to revise and update their authoritative overview of later Spartan history, and of the social, political, economic and cultural changes in the Spartan community. This original and compelling account is especially significant in challenging ...
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Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens
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Professor Paul Cartledge (Editor), Paul Millett (Editor), Sitta Von Reden (Editor)
'Kosmos' is the word the ancient Greeks used for human social order. It has therefore a special application to the Greeks' peculiar social and political unit of communal life that they called the 'polis'. Of the many hundreds of such units in classical Greece the best documented and the most complex was democratic Athens. The purpose of this ...
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Greeks
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Written by one of the world's leading experts on Greek history, the story of classical Greece's rise and fall is told through the eyes of her heroes--the men and women who forged the basic principles of Western civilization. Accompanies the three-hour PBS series. of full-color illustrations.
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Hiero the Tyrant and Other Treatises: 6
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Xenophon, Robin A Waterfield (Translator), Professor Paul Cartledge (Notes by)
A collection of six works by Xenophon the Athenian aristocrat, offering informed insights into the nature and purposes of leadership, domestic economy, horsemanship and hunting. These essays offer an insight into the ancient world.
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A History of Greece: From the Time of Solon to 403 BC
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George Grote, Grote George, Professor Paul Cartledge (Editor)
George Grote - banker, M.P., a founder of London University - was a Victorian hero, accorded the final honour of burial in Westminster Abbey. But for historians of ancient Greece and students of ancient Greek philosophy, he is not merely a dead hero of the past but the living author of two multi-volume works that are still required reading more ...
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Hellenistic Culture and Society
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Professor Paul Cartledge (Editor), Erich S Gruen (Editor), Peter Garnsey (Editor)
This study of the Hellenistic period emphasizes the cultural interaction of Greek and non-Greek societies. It ranges over broad questions of comparative historiography, literature, religion and the roles of Athens, Rome and the Jews within the context of the Hellenistic world.
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Los Griegos. Encrucijada de La Civilizacisn
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Money, Labour and Land in Ancient Greece: Approaches to the Economics of Ancient Greece
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Professor Paul Cartledge (Editor), Edward E Cohen (Editor), Lin Foxhall (Editor)
The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage as these different starting points produce clashing ...
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Aristophanes and His Theatre of the Absurd
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This series explores the culture and achievement of the civilizations of Greece and Rome. It is designed specifically for students and teachers of classical civilization and ancient history, and provides a collection of guides on literature, history, art, values and social institutions.
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The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others
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This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks and their achievements in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the ...
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Hellenistic and Roman Sparta, a Tale of Two Cities
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This is a new account of Sparta over the eight centuries or so between her loss of 'great power' status in the second quarter of the fourth century BC and the temporary occupation of the late antique city by Alaric in AD 396. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of ancient history and classical studies.
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