A Brief History of Ancient Greece by Sarah B Pomeroy

A Brief History of Ancient Greece by Sarah B Pomeroy

In this concise historical survey of Ancient Greece, leading authorities on the classical world offer a lively and up-to-date account of Greek civilization and history in all its complexity and variety, covering the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era, while integrating the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history.

Sarah B. Pomeroy is Distinguished Professor of Classics and History, Emerita, at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of Women's History and has changed the paradigm in the field of Classical Studies. Her many publications about Greek and Roman women and ancient history include Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity; Women in Hellenistic Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra; Xenophon Oeconomicus: A Social and Historical Commentary; Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece: Representations and Realities; Spartan Women; The Murder of Regilla. A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity; and Pythagorean Women: Their Lives and Their Writing. Her books have been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, and Chinese. Professor Pomeroy has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is an Honorary Fellow of St. Hilda's College, the University of Oxford, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, and has lectured all over the world, from Alexandria to Australia. She wrote this book for her seven grandchildren.

Jeyaraney Kathirithamby was a Rhodes Visiting Fellow and is an entomologist at the Department of Zoology and St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford. She is the world authority on the entomophagous parasitoid Strepsiptera and has traveled to Asia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Europe, and North and South America for collection of material. She has published over 100 scientific papers, and in collaboration with her husband, Malcolm Davies, she has written a book, Greek Insects.

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ISBN 13	9780199981557
ISBN 10	0199981558
Title	A Brief History of Ancient Greece
Author	Sarah B Pomeroy
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2013-11-01
Number of pages	416
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