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Title:
The Greek world / edited by Anton Powell.
Author:
Powell, Anton.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Call Number:
DF78 .G744 1997
ISBN:
9780415170420
Physical Description:
xiv, 622 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
General Note:
Originally published in 1995.
Contents:
Linear B as a source for social history / J.T. Hooker -- The economics and politics of slavery at Athens / Robin Osborne -- Hybris, status and slavery / Nick Fisher -- Non-aristocratic elements in archaic poetry / Alan Griffiths -- The place of the poet in archaic society / Rosalind Thomas -- The Greek novel : towards a sociology of production and reception / J.R. Morgan -- Politics and the battlefield : ideology in Greek warfare / Hans van Wees -- Greek piracy / Philip de Souza -- Medical texts as a source for women's history / Helen King -- Women and bastardy in ancient Greece and the Hellenistic world / Daniel Ogden -- Athens' pretty face : anti-feminine rhetoric and fifth-century controversy over the Parthenon / Anton Powell -- Herodotus on Egyptian buildings : a test case / Alan B. Lloyd -- Beyond the polis : women and economic opportunity in early Ptolemaic Egypt / Jane Rowlandson -- Why Philip won / Earl McQueen -- The Greeks in the west and the Hellenization of Italy / Kathryn Lomas -- Rome in the Greek world : the significance of a name / Andrew Erskine -- Diet, diaita and dietetics / Elizabeth Craik -- Greek engineering : the case of Eupalinos' tunnel / T.E. Rihll and J.V. Tucker -- Barbers' shops and perfume shops : 'symposia without wine' / Sian Lewis -- Bionic statues / Nigel Spivey -- Greek sacrifice : forms and functions / A.M. Bowie -- Early Orphism / Robert Parker -- Order, interaction, authority : ways of looking at Greek religion / Emily Kearns -- Ionian inquiries : on understanding the Presocratic beginnings of science / Edward Hussey -- Law and society in Thucydides / Simon Swain -- Plato's objections to the sophists / T.H. Irwin -- Plato on women in the Laws / T.J. Saunders.
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