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The Greek world
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The Greek world

Author: Anton Powell; NetLibrary, Inc.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Edition/Format: eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Electronic books.
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Anton Powell; NetLibrary, Inc.
ISBN: 0203042166 9780203042168
OCLC Number: 52295939
Description: xiv, 622 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Anton Powell.

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