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The Athenian Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 203

The Athenian Empire

The first book to illustrate and integrate coinage comprehensively as historical evidence for the Athenian empire.

Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24

Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Lisa Kallet-Marx redirects the approach to Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the whole work and scrutinizes other, chiefly epigraphic, evidence as well. Her comprehensive inspection of the Archaeology, Pentekontaetia, and history of the Archidamian War demonstrates that the role of financial resources is central to Thucydides' ideas about naval power and figures prominently in his speeches and narrative. The accumulation of chremata, or money, and its relationship to nautikon, or the fleet, provide a key for an...

Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides

This book greatly enhances our literary and historical appreciation of one of the most justly famous pieces of narrative writing from all classical antiquity, Thucydides' long and moving account of the Sicilian disaster of 415-413 BCE, and its (primarily Athenian) aftermath.

And Then the End Will Come
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

And Then the End Will Come

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-16
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This work examines a centuries-long intellectual tradition in the early Latin church linking the imagery associated with the opening of the Seven Seals of the Apocalypse with programs of ecclesiastical expansion and ascetic reform.

An Unwritten Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

An Unwritten Future

An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena. Jonathan Kirshner identifies the fundamental flaws of classical realism’s would-be successors and shows how this older, more nuanced and sophisticated method for studying world politics better explains the formative events of the past. Kirshner also reveals how this approach is ideally equipped to comprehend the vital questions of the present—such as the implications of China’s rise, the ways that social and economic change alter the balance of power and the natur...

The Oxford History of Historical Writing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 673

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-02-17
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five-volume series that explores representations of the past from the beginnings of writing to the present day and from all over the world. Volume I offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons.

Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Architecture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-07-01
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy The story of architecture is the story of humanity. The buildings we live in, from the humblest pre-historic huts to today's skyscrapers, reveal our priorities and ambitions, our family structures and power structures. And to an extent that hasn't been explored until now, architecture has been shaped in every era by our access to energy, from fire to farming to fossil fuels. In this ground-breaking history of world architecture, Barnabas Calder takes us on a dazzling tour of some of the most astonishing buildings of the past fifteen thousand years, from Uruk, via Ancient Rome and Victorian Liv...

Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC

Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC offers a new study of a canonical topic in ancient Greek history, the fifth-century BC Athenian empire. While previous studies have largely focused on Athens and Athenian narrative history, this book brings the Athenians' imperial subjects to centre stage.

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 801

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides

The Oxford Handbook of Thucydides contains newly commissioned essays on Thucydides as an historian, thinker, and writer. It also features chapters on Thucydides' intellectual context and ancient reception. The creative juxtaposition of historical, literary, philosophical, and reception studies allows for a better grasp of Thucydides' complex project and its intellectual context, while at the same time providing a comprehensive introduction to the author's ideas. The volume is organized into four sections of papers: History, Historiography, Political Theory, and Context and Reception. It therefore bridges traditionally divided disciplines. The authors engaged to write the forty chapters for t...

Nomodeiktes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 772

Nomodeiktes

Fascinating discussions of fifth-century Athens and its modern interpretation