In today's cosmopolitan world, ethnic and national identity has assumed an ever-increasing
importance. But how is this identity formed, and how does it change over time? With …

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 …

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Troy linked Greece and Rome. It was once the subject of the greatest of Greek poems and
the mother city of the Romans. It gave the Romans a place in the mythical past of the Greeks …

Following Oliver Dickinson's successful The Aegean Bronze Age, this textbook is a synthesis
of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth …

This book assumes some knowledge of Greek and of Homer. After introductory chapters on
the poet of the Iliad's date and homeland, the poetic traditions known to him, the way in …

What kind of allusion is possible in a poetry derived from a centuries-long oral tradition, and
what kind of oral-derived poetry are the Homeric epics? Comparison of Homeric epic with …

By systematically confronting Greek tradition of the Heroic Age with the evidence of both
linguistics and archaeology, Margalit Finkelberg proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of …

Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the
early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an …

This book provides students and scholars of classical literature with a practical guide to
modern literary theory and criticism. Using a clear and concise approach, it navigates …