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... University Press 2020 Sofroniew Alexandra , Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome ( Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum , 2016 ), 160 pp. ...

...Victoria Wohl Holmes Brooke , The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 ), 392 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions...

...Susan Stephens Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 415 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II...

... the slave the object of cultic worship by both masters and slaves. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 slavery slave revolt ancient Greece slave culture hero cult conflict resolution Symposium: Peace by Other Means, Part 2 SLAVES, STORIES, AND CULTS...

...Richard Jenkyns Ross Iain , Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 ), 298 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...David Konstan Duke University Press 2007 A R T I C L E S ANGER, HATRED, AND GENOCIDE IN ANCIENT GREECE David Konstan Today, the slaughter of whole populations is regarded as an offense against human rights and against...

.... Zwicky's experimental deployment of polyphonic textual structures to render her conception of a patterned and resonant whole is, Hobbs argues, part of a tradition, going back to ancient Greece, of radical philosophers struggling to express themselves without pragmatic self-refutation. In particular, Hobbs...

... in Athenian Government ; Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought ; editions of Thucydides's Peloponnesian War and Herodotus's Histories (both with Walter Blanco); and The Plague of War: Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece . Isabelle Stengers received...

..., and instruments of torture, the hideous Fury, or Erinys under her original Greek title, still haunts the world’s imagination.1 The word Erinys is etymologically related to words meaning “anger” and “strife.” In ancient Greece, an Erinys in the singular, or Erinyes in the plural, could represent...

... available in the past that might be consulted as inspiration for the present and future. What might a historian of ancient Greece contribute? To cut to the chase: dêmokratia , a Greek coinage of the fifth century BCE, was both an ambiguous and an ambivalent term, not at all a bland, all-purpose...

..., coauthor, editor, or coeditor of some thirty books, translated into eleven languages, including Democracy: A Life ; Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities ; Thebes: Forgotten City of Ancient Greece ; After Thermopylae ; Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice ; Democritus and Atomistic...

... awarded by the president of Greece. His books include Democracy: A Life ; Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World ; After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars ; Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities ; Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece...

... in Ancient Greece . Edited by Shaw Brent D. and Saller Richard P. London : Chatto and Windus , 1981 ; New York : Viking , 1982 . [Editors’ preface, vii–viii; editors’ introduction, ix–xxvi; bibliography of Finley, 312–318.] Finley Moses I. “ Politics .” In The Legacy of Greece...

... Slaves Tell Tales, and Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece Ancient in Culture Popular of the Politics in Tell Episodes Other Slaves Tales, and and Greece Ancient in Expulsion of Politics The Democracy: and Ostracism, of Exile, author...

... and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany Medieval Late in Spirituality Female and Theology and Art in Medieval Evangelist Deified The Divine: Greece Ancient in Expulsion of Politics The Democracy: and Ostracism, ofExile, author the She is Arbor. Ann Forsdyke Sara Culture...

... Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), 160 pp. This book is pleasingly described by its author as a fun project. Essentially it is a picture book, with many excellent color photographs of objects from the Getty Museum in Malibu, supplemented with some material from...

.... Diplomacy is concerned with creating beliefs for the other party to hold, while espionage is concerned with ascertaining facts about the other side. Diplomacy as it was practiced in ancient Greece and Rome differs from its...

... for democracy. In some countries, of course (including modern Greece), voting is compulsory, although the sanctions for not voting are mild and, as in ancient Greece, not enforced with any regularity. Advances in technology should obviate the need for actually visiting a polling site on a given day. Claims...

... the Kamasutra ; Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana ; Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India ; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts ; Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities ; Other Peoples’ Myths: The Cave of Echoes...

... or unawareness of alternative modes of thought, as opposed to a history of arguments that took place within a given belief system, like the vigorous debates between Realists and Nominalists in the later Middle Ages. Ancient Greece offers an example of how such a history might be written. Popper suggested...