MU Libraries New Books: History - Greece

About the new book list

5/22/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Greek and Roman festivals : content, meaning, and practice / edited by J. Rasmus Brandt and Jon W. Iddeng. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: DF123 .G74 2012

The symposion in ancient Greek society and thought / Fiona Hobden. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

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Book Description

Broadens our understanding of the symposion by focusing on how ancient Greeks thought about and thought with the drinking party. Examines the rhetorical dynamics of symposia in a range of literature and art, thereby revealing its centrality to conversations on identity, ethics, politics, history and philosophy.

Call #: DF100 .H65 2013

Thucydides between history and literature / edited by Antonis Tsakmakis and Melina Tamiolaki. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: DF229.T6 T55 2012

Vanishing acts on ancient Greek amulets : from oral performance to visual design / Christopher A. Faraone. (5/22/2013)

5/22/2013

Call #: DF129 .F37 2012

Athens, Thrace, and the shaping of Athenian leadership / Matthew A. Sears. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DF285 .S39 2013

Kosmos : jewellery, adornment and textiles in the Aegean Bronze Age / edited by Marie-Louise Nosch and Robert Laffineur. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: DF10 .A33 33

Margins and metropolis : authority across the Byzantine Empire / Judith Herrin. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DF531 .H47 2013

Thucydides and Herodotus / edited by Edith Foster and Donald Lateiner. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: DF211 .T48 2012

Alexander the Great : a reader / [edited by] Ian Worthington. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DF234 .A486 2012

Groupes et associations dans les cités grecques : (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. - IIe siècle apr. J.-C.) : actes de la table ronde de Paris, INHA, 19-20 juin 2009 / édités par Pierre Fröhlich et Patrice Hamon. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: DF78 .G768 2013

Land and privilege in Byzantium : the institution of pronoia / Mark C. Bartusis. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: DF632 .B37 2012

Early Thermos : new excavations 1992-2003 / I.A. Papapostolou. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: DF11 .A71 ar.277

Space and society in the Greek and Roman worlds / Michael Scott. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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Book Description

Employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence in order to demonstrate the many different ways in which spatial analysis can illuminate our understanding of Greek and Roman society and the ways in which these societies thought of, and interacted with, the spaces they occupied and created.

Call #: DF78 .S36 2013

L'hellénisme d'époque romaine : nouveaux documents, nouvelles approches, Ier s. a. C-IIIe s. p. C. Actes du colloque international à la mémoire de Louis Robert, Paris, 7-8 juillet 2000 / édités par Simone Follet. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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Call #: DF239 .C65 2000

Perspectives on ancient Greece : papers in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens / edited by Ann-Louise Schallin. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DF78 .P47 2013

Settlement and social trends in the Argolid and the Methana Peninsula, 1200-900 BC / Katie Lantzas. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: DF261.A65 L36 2012