Bristol Classical Press - Böcker

This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme which is the subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology. The archaeology of recent conflict is a fast-moving field of...

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This work describes how Euripides provides, in specific plays, a variety of original treatments of well-known views of his contemporaries, the Sophists. The emphasis is on Euripides as the creative virtuoso of dramatic ideas rather than as a philo...

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This book features over 13,000 ancient Greek verbs, analysed and annotated. Most previous studies of ancient slavery have grown out of historical and literary research. In the flood of books and papers on the subject, the archaeological evidence h...

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Tacitus's Germania has been an abiding interest for all who study the Roman world from a northern European perspective. Anderson's edition, first published in 1938, was designed to replace that of Furneaux and to take particular account of the lig...

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No area of Greek life was wholly untouched by religion, and a basic knowledge of this aspect of life is essential to anyone seeking a proper understanding of the classical world. In this engaging survey Robert Garland brings out the unique quality...

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'Wallis's book has all the virtues which one could require in a popular account of a difficult, ancient, or unfamiliar kind of philosophy. It is as clear as the subject matter admits, genuinely comprehensive, well documented ... and very well bala...

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Throughout the world, competing interest groups lay claim to the material remains of the past. Archaeologists, developers, indigenous 'first peoples' , looters, museum curators, national government officals, New Age worshippers, private collectors...

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Taken from the "QED" series of teach-yourself Latin articles published in the "Daily Telegraph" and the "Sunday Telegraph", this book aims to give its readers a basic knowledge of Latin in a short space of time. It co...

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"The Asclepius" is one of two philosophical books ascribed to the legendary sage of Ancient Egypt, Hermes Trismegistus, who was believed in classical and renaissance times to have lived shortly after Moses. The Greek original, lost since...

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What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans? This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It serves as an introduction to the great historians of the ancient ...

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This book sets a new agenda for ethical studies in mortuary investigation, adducing a series of case studies which can be used to understand the questions facing burial archaeology. Who owns the dead - not just their bodies but also their stories?...

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This dictionary provides a systematic analysis of Russian word derivations, describing the etymology of 1500 central words in the language. In the introduction, the author traces the development of Russian vocabulary and focuses on factors that ha...

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Philip was a genius of extraordinary versatility. Inheriting a kingdom near to collapse, he made Macedonia the greatest military power in the Western world and left to his son Alexander the strongest state in Eastern Europe. This book gives full a...

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Richard Sorabji here takes time as his central theme, exploring fundamental questions about its nature: Is it real or an aspect of consciousness? Did it begin along with the universe? Can anything escape from it? Does it come in atomic chunks? In ...

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The postwar years have radically altered the position of women in the German Democratic Republic. Women question the ways in which men and women relate to one another in the home and at work. This book offers an introduction to the key role played...

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A valuable collection of essays on Aristotle's metaphysics, by J.L. Akrill, Jacob Bernays, Jonathan Barnes, Norman Gulley, W.W. Fortenbaugh, Charles H. Kahn, Malcolm Schofield and Richard Sorabji. The collection is supplemented by an annotated bib...

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This book is now firmly established as the standard treatment of its subject. The history of comparative religion is traced in detail from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, in the work of scholars such as Max Muller and anthropologists - s...

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Hellenistic Philosophy is a thorough introduction to the three schools of philosophy which dominated the Hellenistic era: Stoicism, Epicureanism and Scepticism. It traces the main developments in Greek Philosophy during the period which runs from ...

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Abbott and Mansfield's primer, first published in the nineteenth century and many times reprinted, remains one of the best introductions to Greek grammar. This is the latest edition, containing both accidence and syntax.

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This classic Greek composition book has been in use thoroughout the world for over 100 years. It remains the standard middle school Grek manual. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Greek composition exercises. In the Appendix...

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This classic Latin composition book has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Latin composition exercises. All common words and constructions are included.Special vocabularie...

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This book provides the key for teachers using North and Hillard's classic text, Latin Prose Composition, which has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. The book provides the answers to the English to Latin composition exercises giv...

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This classic English-Greek vocabulary of phrases, first published in the nineteenth century, is based on the writings of Thucydides, Xenophon, Demosthenes and Plato. It is arranged by topic as follows: the world and nature; space and time; the hum...

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"Nothing could be more systematic or more complete." - The Spectator Meissner's Latin Phrase Book has long been the standard school guide to Latin idiom. Covering every sphere of activity known to the Romans, from domestic life to politi...

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Designed as an introduction to North and Hillard's Greek Prose Composition, this textbook presents simple vocabulary and elementary forms of sentence construction. It presents both English-Greek and Greek-English exercises for the beginner with si...

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Written specifically as an introduction to North and Hillard's Latin Prose Composition, this book presents the student with numerous exercises in Latin using a simple vocabulary and elementary forms of sentence construction. It includes both Engli...

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This is the invaluable teacher's key to the classic Greek Prose Composition - which has been in use throughout the world for over 100 years. It features brief lesson overviews followed by English to Greek composition exercises. The Appendix featur...

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