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OECD economic surveys : Greece.
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ISBN: 9264162577 Year: 1990 Volume: 1990/1 Publisher: Paris, France : Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development,

Nemea : a guide to the site and museum.
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ISBN: 0520065905 Year: 1990 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press


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Schipper, zeil de haven binnen, alles is al verkocht : handel en transport in de Oudheid.
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ISBN: 9026310552 Year: 1990 Publisher: Baarn Ambo

Symploke : das Uebergreifen der römischen Expansion auf den griechischen Osten : Untersuchungen zur römischen Aussenpolitik am Ende des 3. Jahrhunderts V.Chr.
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ISBN: 3515055258 9783515055253 Year: 1990 Volume: 54 Publisher: Wiesbaden Stuttgart Steiner

Alexander to actium : the historical evolution of the hellenistic age
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ISBN: 0520056116 0520914147 9780520056114 Year: 1990 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berkeley Los Angeles University of California press

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The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements and reception through the lens of a single critical mind. Alexander to Actium was conceived and written to fill that gap.In this monumental work, Peter Green-noted scholar, writer, and critic-breaks with the traditional practice of dividing the Hellenistic world into discrete, repetitious studies of Seleucids, Ptolemies, Antigonids, and Attalids. He instead treats these successor kingdoms as a single, evolving, interrelated continuum. The result clarifies the political picture as never before. With the help of over 200 illustrations, Green surveys every significant aspect of Hellenistic cultural development, from mathematics to medicine, from philosophy to religion, from literature to the visual arts.Green offers a particularly trenchant analysis of what has been seen as the conscious dissemination in the East of Hellenistic culture, and finds it largely a myth fueled by Victorian scholars seeking justification for a no longer morally respectable imperialism. His work leaves us with a final impression of the Hellenistic Age as a world with haunting and disturbing resemblances to our own. This lively, personal survey of a period as colorful as it is complex will fascinate the general reader no less than students and scholars.


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The aesthetics of the Greek banquet
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ISBN: 0691035954 9781400861156 1400861152 9780691035956 0691604053 9780691604053 Year: 1990 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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In deepening our understanding of the symposium in ancient Greece, this book embodies the wit and play of the images it explains: those decorating Athenian drinking vessels from the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. The vases used at banquets often depict the actual drinkers who commissioned their production and convey the flowing together of wine, poetry, music, games, flirtation, and other elements that formed the complex structure of the banquet itself. A close reading of the objects handled by drinkers in the images reveals various metaphors, particularly that of wine as sea, all expressing a wide range of attitudes toward an ambiguous substance that brings cheer but may also cause harm.Not only does this work offer an anthropological view of ancient Greece, but it explores a precise iconographic system. In so doing it will encourage and enrich further reflection on the role of the image in a given culture.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Modern Greece : nationalism and nationality.
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ISBN: 9607061004 9789607061003 Year: 1990 Publisher: Athens Eliamep

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