A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources and divided into hundreds of quarreling states created one of the most remarkable civilizations. Comprehens... Details...

A Casebook on Roman Family Law (American Philological Association Classical Resources Series): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The Roman household (familia) was in many respects dramatically different from the modern family. From the early Roman Empire (30 B.C. to about A.D. 250) there survive many legal sources that describe Roman households, often in the most intimate detail. The... Details...

A Casebook on Roman Family Law (American Philological Association Classical Resources Series): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The Roman household (familia) was in many respects dramatically different from the modern family. From the early Roman Empire (30 B.C. to about A.D. 250) there survive many legal sources that describe Roman households, often in the most intimate detail. The... Details...

A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict (Classical Resources Series / American Philological Association #2): (Oxford University Press) Roger S. Bagnall, Columbia University: "Frier's Casebook is the perfect introduction to Roman legal reasoning. The student is led not to memorize doctrines but to participate in the process of developing principles to use in analyzing concrete situations. Both the achievements ... Details...

A Commentary on Herodotus: With Introduction and Appendixes (Commentary on Herodotus #2): (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Herodotus, referred to by Cicero and others as "the father of history," was the first to make the events of the past the subject of research and verification, and to relate their consequences to the present. In this commentary on Histories, an account of th... Details...

A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: From Áha, king of the 1st Dynasty at Memphis (2920 B.C.), to the vast complex of pleasure palaces at Zerukha this A-Z dictionary places more than 1,500 entries on the rich world of ancient Egypt right at the reader's fingertips. The first single-volume ref... Details...

A Dictionary of the Roman Empire: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The extraordinarily rich cultural legacy of the Roman world has had a profound affect world civilization. Roman achievements in architecture, law, politics, literature, war, and philosophy serve as the foundation of modern Western society. Now, for the firs... Details...

A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This is the long-awaited second volume of a magisterial commentary on the work of the historian Arrian. It deals in depth with a crucial period (329-326 BC) of the reign of Alexander the Great, discussing some of the earliest datable evidence for the histor... Details...

A Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander (Historical Commentary on Arrian's History of Alexander #I): (Oxford University Press) Details...

A History of Macedonia: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The history of Macedonia--the most remarkable of all monarchic states--is here presented from the death of Philip II through the state's loss of independence in 167 B.C. Recent discoveries about Macedonian arts and institutions have aided the authors in rec... Details...