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The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T C W Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues, including society, economy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-09-21
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The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T C W Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues, including society, economy,...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-09-20
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This work examines a test case for the relationship between the polis and the Hellenistic empire focusing specifically on the interaction between Antiochos III and the cities of Western Asia Minor (226-188 BC). Such a study is possible thanks to a rich epigraphical...
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OUP Oxford
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2000-03-10
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Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander
`I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-11-05
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In this collection of new essays, an international group of experts explores the significance of reciprocity (the principle and practice of voluntary requital, of benefit for benefit or harm for harm) in ancient Greek culture. Reciprocity has been seen as an important...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-05-28
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Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he...
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OUP Oxford
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1998-03-05
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This book draws on a wide range of evidence to study the history of Athens from 386 to 322 B.C. Taking a sympathetic view of the Second Athenian League, Sealey focuses on the career of Demosthenes to provide important insights into Athenian politics and policies....
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Oxford University Press
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1993-03-18
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This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular, it examines how myths encode thoughts on ritual, the code of the warrior, marriage, and politics. Combining traditional historical and literary criticism...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-03-21
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During the three centuries from 800 to 500 B.C., the Greek world evolved from a primitive society--both culturally and economically--to one whose artistic products dominated all Mediterranean markets, supported by a wide overseas trade. In the following two centuries...
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Oxford University Press
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1986-02-20
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An intense drama, in some passages lacerating, Aeschylus' “Suppliant Maidens” takes us on a journey where the echo of supplications resonates with the force of pain that only a war can cause. The daughters of Danaus, fugitives seeking asylum, amid the flames of war and...
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Cactus
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2024-11-05
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The city of Thebes is besieged by seven valiant warriors, each armed with his own ardor and ambition. But it is not just a war of swords and shields: beneath the surface of battle lies the inexorable design of fate, orchestrated by divine forces that test men's courage...
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Cactus
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2024-11-05
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With “Persians”, Aeschylus transports us to a time when the glory of an empire falters under the weight of its own ambitions. In this drama the echo of lost battles resounds within the ancient walls of Susa, as the once valiant and feared Persian soldiers mourn the...
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Cactus
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2024-11-05
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In the icy embrace of an unforgiving nature, Prometheus, the rebellious titan, stands against the will of the gods, chained and condemned to a fate of eternal suffering.In this powerful tragedy, Aeschylus paints a fresco of defiance, where heroism meets divine vengeance...
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Cactus
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2024-11-05
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Aeschylus, often considered the “father of tragedy,” represents a fundamental pillar not only of Hellenic culture but of the entire Western tradition. His work is distinguished by thematic depth, psychological complexity of characters and formal innovation that enriched...
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Cactus
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2024-11-05
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Into the dark folds of human destiny, Aeschylus, undisputed master of Greek tragedy, leads us through the tormented events of “Libation Bearers,” the second part of the Oresteia. The scene opens on a mystery shrouded in the shadows of the past, where vengeance and...
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Cactus
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2024-11-05
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Called upon to judge a painful affair bordering on the unspeakable, the Eumenides, guardians of destiny and divine law, delve into a tapestry of moral conflict, where blood calls for blood and the shadows of the past mingle with the aspirations of an unknown future. In...
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Cactus
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2024-11-05
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Agamemnon, ruler of the polis of Argos, on leaving for the Trojan War had no favorable winds, so to propitiate himself to the gods he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia, a maiden of exceptional beauty. The winds then had begun to be propitious and the fleet had been...
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Cactus
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2024-11-03
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Dopo la guerra che ha visto protagonisti i propri fratelli, Antigone si trova di fronte a una scelta impossibile: onorare la memoria di Polinice, colpevole secondo il re Creonte, o rispettare il decreto che proibisce la sepoltura del suo corpo. Mossa da un amore...
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Cactus
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2024-10-29
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Nell'Aiace, Sofocle ci trasporta sin dentro il profondo dell'animo umano, esplorando l'onore, la follia e la vendetta come, al contempo, dimensioni della vita umana e strumenti di disumanizzazione. La storia si concentra sul leggendario guerriero Aiace, eroe della...
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Cactus
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2024-10-29
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Dramma meno noto fra quelli di Sofocle, ma pari in statura all'Edipo re o all'Antigone, l'Edipo a Colono esplora i temi della redenzione, dell'identità e del peso del passato. Ambientata nella tranquilla città di Colono, nei pressi di Atene, la tragedia ci mostra Edipo,...
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Cactus
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2024-10-29
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