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This book addresses the material devices used to represent and manipulate numerical concepts. Fingers, tallies, tokens, and written notations, invented in both ancestral and contemporary societies, explain what numbers are, why they are the way they are, and how we get them.
This book offers a fresh reading of Aristotle's Politics by employing a definition of nature many commentators have rejected: the internal source of movement. It... Læs mere
The Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. This... Læs mere
Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's Greek is not difficult, but his ideas have generated considerable... Læs mere
The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus' epic ten year journey home after the end of the Trojan War of the Iliad. Its epic sweep has gripped generations of readers.
This study examines economic ties between Catuvellaunia and the Roman... Læs mere
This book uses zooarchaeology to examine animal sacrifice in Greek... Læs mere
This volume explores how precious materials shaped power, identity and... Læs mere
This volume examines ritual in the Roman world through small finds, depositional practices and temple sites, showing how diverse, evolving... Læs mere
A new assessment of the ancient Athenian economy relying on fresh documentary evidence
Through detailed case studies of sixth-century architecture, Harnessing Divinity argues that Buddhist halls in... Læs mere