Anton Powell is Director of the Classical Press of Wales, and an internationally recognized authority on Sparta, Athens, and the Roman Revolution. He founded the International Sparta Seminar, and co-edited a succession of collective volumes which have contributed to the revival and reshaping of Spartan studies. Powell is the author of Athens and Sparta, Third Edition, and editor of Classical Sparta, Sparta at War, and Sparta: The Body Politic, among others.
31 Ebooks par Anton Powell
Anton Powell: A Companion to Sparta
The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to …
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Anton Powell: A Companion to Sparta
The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to …
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€283.99
Anton Powell: Hindsight in Greek and Roman History
Nine new studies here explore, and reconstruct, determinant episodes of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman history. The authors argue that hindsight – especially in modern works – has falsified the past, b …
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€87.30
Stephen Hodkinson & Stephen Hodkinson: Sparta
The history of Sparta is increasingly seen as important, not only for its own sake but also for understanding Athenian literature and the political history of numerous Greek states. Traditional appro …
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€45.11
Anton Powell: Virgil the Partisan
Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil’s three poems, it politely confronts the mo …
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€109.14
Stephen Hodkinson & Stephen Hodkinson: Sparta
This is the 7th volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series begun in 1989 by Anton Powell with Stephen Hodkinson. The volume is both thematic and eclectic. Ephraim David and Yoann Le …
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€109.13
Anton Powell & Anton Powell: Lost Memoirs of Augustus
Augustus’ Memoirs, written probably in the mid 20s BC, might have been one of the most revealing texts of Roman history – had they survived. Far longer than his surviving Res Gestae, the Memoirs seem …
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€102.44
Stephen Hodkinson & Stephen Hodkinson: Sparta and War
Ten new essays from a distinguished international cast treat Sparta’s most famous area of activity. The results are challenging. Among the contributors, Thomas Figueira explores the paradox that Spar …
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€108.84
Philip Hardie & Philip Hardie: Ancient Lives of Virgil
The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for …
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€51.35
Katerina Meidani & Katerina Meidani: ‘The Eyesore of Aigina’
Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others — whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans — saw Athens f …
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€102.51
Paul Cartledge & Paul Cartledge: Greek Superpower
Greeks – in later times – saw Athens as ‘the Hellas of Hellas’, but in the classical period many Athenians thought otherwise. Athens might be a school of Hellas, but the school of Hellas was Sparta. …
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€77.20
Anton Powell: Greek World
Studying from the Mycenean to the late Hellenistic period, this work includes new articles by twenty-seven specialists of ancient Greece, and presents an examination of the Greek cultures of mainland …
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€63.98
Stephen Hodkinson & Anton Powell: Shadow of Sparta
In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by mor …
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€96.44
Anton Powell: The Greek World
Studying from the Mycenean to the late Hellenistic period, this work includes new articles by twenty-seven specialists of ancient Greece, and presents an examination of the Greek cultures of mainland …
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€59.13
Anton Powell: The Greek World
Studying from the Mycenean to the late Hellenistic period, this work includes new articles by twenty-seven specialists of ancient Greece, and presents an examination of the Greek cultures of mainland …
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€59.17
Stephen Hodkinson & Anton Powell: Shadow of Sparta
In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by mor …
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€62.77
Stephen Hodkinson & Anton Powell: Shadow of Sparta
In the past twenty years the study of Sparta has come of age. Images prevalent earlier in the 20th century, of Spartans as hearty good fellows or scarlet-cloaked automata, have been superseded by mor …
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€62.13
Anton Powell: Euripides, Women and Sexuality
Euripides » interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his wor …
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€68.60
Anton Powell: Euripides, Women and Sexuality
Euripides » interest in the psychology and social position of women is well known. Of the great Greek playwrights, he most directly reflects contemporary philosophical and social debates, and his wor …
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€68.47
Anton Powell: Athens and Sparta
Athens and Sparta is an essential textbook for the study of Greek history. Providing a comprehensive account of the two key Greek powers in the years after 478 BC, it charts the rise of Athens from c …
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€48.29
Anton Powell: Athens and Sparta
Athens and Sparta is an essential textbook for the study of Greek history. Providing a comprehensive account of the two key Greek powers in the years after 478 BC, it charts the rise of Athens from c …
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€48.69
Anton Powell: Classical Sparta (Routledge Revivals)
This collection, first published in 1989, investigates aspects of the Spartan polity which have often been overlooked or underestimated. Viewed at least until the Renaissance as the epitome of classi …
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€64.31
Anton Powell: Classical Sparta (Routledge Revivals)
This collection, first published in 1989, investigates aspects of the Spartan polity which have often been overlooked or underestimated. Viewed at least until the Renaissance as the epitome of classi …
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€63.99
Anton Powell & Anton Powell: Xenophon and Sparta
Xenophon has for long, and understandably, enjoyed a privileged position as a reliable source on Sparta. Commander of a grand military expedition of Sparta’s devising, and a dependent of Sparta’s inf …
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€78.78
Guillaume de’ ‘Meritens de Villeneuve & Guillaume de’ ‘Meritens de Villeneuve: Coins of the Roman Revolution, 49 BC-AD 14
Coins of the best-known Roman revolutionary era allow rival pretenders to speak to us directly. After the deaths of Caesar and Cicero (in 44 and 43 BC) hardly one word has been reliably transmitted t …
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€79.35
Jean Ducat & Jean Ducat: Thucydides and Sparta
Thucydides is widely seen as the most dispassionate and reliable contemporary source for the history of classical Sparta. But, compared with partisan authors such as Xenophon and Plutarch, his inform …
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€79.60
Anton Powell & Anton Powell: Sextus Pompeius
The son of Pompey the Great cast a long shadow. Acclaimed by the Roman populace in his lifetime, his traditional virtues and military successes put to shame his civil-war rival Octavian. After his de …
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€81.74
Stephen Hodkinson & Stephen Hodkinson: Sparta
The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the ‘second city’ of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on w …
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€96.88
Anton Powell: Athens and Sparta
Athens and Sparta has established itself as a handbook to the main topics of Greek history in the classical period. It deals not only with the established areas of political history, but also with so …
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€41.17
Anton Powell: Athens and Sparta
Athens and Sparta has established itself as a handbook to the main topics of Greek history in the classical period. It deals not only with the established areas of political history, but also with so …
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€41.07
Vassiliki Pothou & Anton Powell: Das antike Sparta
Die Sparta-Rezeption, sowohl während der Antike als auch im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, steht im Fokus dieses Bandes. In einem ersten Abschnitt stellen die Autoren die Frage nach der Identität der spart …
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