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 The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of
the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or …

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 …

This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens.
In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a …

Greek ethnography is commonly believed to have developed in conjunction with the wider
sense of Greek identity that emerged during the Greeks'" encounter with the barbarian" …

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 …

Homer the Preclassic considers the development of the Homeric poems-in particular the
Iliad and Odyssey-during the time when they were still part of the oral tradition. Gregory …