A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books 5.25-8.109

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Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
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The first systematic analysis of the process of initial convergence and subsequent divergence in Eurasian state formation.


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The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome
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New work from the most outstanding scholars of literacy in antiquity.


Homer's Cosmic Fabrication

Choice and Design in the Iliad
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Hardback, Oct 2008
ISBN13: 9780195341072ISBN10: 0195341074
Reveals important features of the Iliad that the paradigm of "oral poetry" has avoided and cannot account for.


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