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Found 6 from your keywords: subject="Greece"
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Medicine and practical ethics in Galen
Xenophontos, Sophia A.,

Offering the first authoritative analysis of Galen's psychological and ethical works alongside a large number of technical tracts, both medical and philosophical, this book provides a new framework through which we can comprehend Galen's role as a practical ethicist - an aspect of his intellectual profile that has been little understood until now

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ISBN/ISSN
9781009247795
Collation
xv, 300 pages
Series Title
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Call Number
610.938 XEN m
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Ancient divination and experience
Murphy, Lindsay G. DriedigerEidinow, Eshter

The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes to scholarship on ancient divinatory practices. It analyses previous and current research, arguing that while this predominantly functionalist work reveals important socio-political dimensions of divination, it also runs the risk of obscuring from view the very people, ideologies, and experiences that scholars seek to unde…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780198844549
Collation
ix, 285p.
Series Title
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Call Number
203.2 ANC a
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A people's history of the second world war
DonnyGluckstein

A People's History of the Second World War unearths the fascinating history of the war as fought 'from below'. Until now, the vast majority of historical accounts have focussed on the conflict between the Allied and Axis powers for imperialist mastery. Donny Gluckstein shows that in fact between 1939 and 1945 two distinct wars were fought – one ‘from above’ and one ‘from below’. Using…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781849647205
Collation
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
Series Title
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Call Number
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That Greece might still be free; : the Philhellenes in the War of Independence
Clair, William StBeaton, Roderick

When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. The Philhellenes, whether they set out to recreate the Athens of Pericles, start a new crusade, or make money out of a war, all felt that Greece had unique claim on the sym…

Edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9781906924027
Collation
xi, 419p. ; ill.
Series Title
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Call Number
949.506 CLA t
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Horos : ancient boundaries and the ecology of stone
Potter, Thea

In Horos, Thea Potter explores the complex relationship between classical philosophy and the 'horos', a stone that Athenians erected to mark the boundaries of their marketplace, their gravestones, their roads and their private property. Potter weaves this history into a meditation on the ancient philosophical concept of horos, the foundational project of determination and definition, arguing th…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781800642683
Collation
xxxiii, 311p.
Series Title
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Call Number
B188 POT h
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Societies in transition in early Greece : an archaeological history
Knodell, Alex R.

Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of Mycenaean civilization, through the "Dark Age," and up to the emergence of city-states in the Archaic period. This period saw the growth and decline of varied political systems and the development of networks that would …

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ISBN/ISSN
9780520380547
Collation
XV, 363 p.
Series Title
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Call Number
930.16 KNO s