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Greek History

By: Robin Osborne,University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow and Tutor Robin Osborne

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Greek History

By: Robin Osborne,University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow and Tutor Robin Osborne

An accessible introduction for first year undergraduates to Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age (c.1200 BC) to the Roman conquest of Greece in the second century BC.

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Routledge

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1134371888

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9781134371884

Archaic and Classical Greek Art

By: Robin Osborne

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Archaic and Classical Greek Art

By: Robin Osborne

Explores the art of ancient Greece and its relationship to the world in which it was produced.

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270

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0192842021

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9780192842022

Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC

By: Robin Osborne

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Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC

By: Robin Osborne

Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of our literary evidence for archaic Greece reported only what later writers wanted to tell, and so was subject to systematic selection and distortion. This book offers a narrative which acknowledges the later traditions, as traditions, but insists that we must primarily confront the contemporary evidence, which is in large part archaeological and art historical, and must make sense of it in its own terms. In this second edition, as well as updating the text to take account of recent scholarship and re-ordering, Robin Osborne has addressed more explicitly the weaknesses and unsustainable interpretations which the first edition chose merely to pass over. He now spells out why this book features no ‘rise of the polis’ and no ‘colonization’, and why the treatment of Greek settlement abroad is necessarily spread over various chapters. Students and teachers alike will particularly appreciate the enhanced discussion of economic history and the more systematic treatment of issues of gender and sexuality.

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485

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Routledge

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1134104898

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9781134104895

Classical Greece, 500-323 BC

By: Robin Osborne

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Classical Greece, 500-323 BC

By: Robin Osborne

Concise, comprehensive, and authoritative, Classical Greece provides an analysis of the physical setting of and the archaic legacy to the classical city: its economy, its civic and religious institutions, the waging of war between cities, the occurrence and ancient analysis of conflict within the city, and the private life of the citizen.

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285

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Oxford University Press

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019873154X

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9780198731542

Athens and Athenian Democracy

By: Robin Osborne

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Athens and Athenian Democracy

By: Robin Osborne

This book constructs a distinctive view of classical Athens, a view which takes seriously the evidence of archaeology and of art history.

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483

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Cambridge University Press

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0521844215

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9780521844215

Greek History: The Basics

By: Robin Osborne

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Greek History: The Basics

By: Robin Osborne

Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome. With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece’s ancient history, the book covers the key topics, approaches and issues at the heart of Greek History, including: • The invention of politics and the rise of democracy • The central role played by the Greek city • The insights from cultural, political, demographic and economic history • The benefits and pitfalls of working with different types of sources. Featuring maps, illustrations, a timeline and annotated guides to further reading, this book is an engaging and authoritative introduction for students of Ancient Greek History.

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245

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Routledge

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131769015X

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9781317690153

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, Volume II

Athens and Attica

By: ROBIN. OSBORNE,Robin Osborne

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, Volume II

Athens and Attica

By: ROBIN. OSBORNE,Robin Osborne

This book introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Athens in the period from 800-500 BCE. Following the standard arrangement of the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World series, author Robin Osborne deals successively with the sources; environmental setting; material culture (settlement pattern, burial customs, ceramic production); political, legal, and diplomatic history; economy and demography; social and religious customs; and cultural history (including history of sculpture) of archaic Athens. He provides not only a full and up-to-date guide to all these various aspects of Athenian history and archaeology, but also an integrated history which shows how all the different aspects intersect. Osborne guides the reader through an exciting story of the way in which the territory of Attica was re-occupied after the collapse of Bronze Age civilization, how Athens emerged as the dominant settlement, how the claims of family, place, and wealth were played out against one another, and how the Athenians came to place themselves both in relation to the wider Greek world and in relation to the gods. The account is illustrated with abundant maps and halftone images that bring the world of Athens to life. The political and cultural achievements of classical Athens (democracy, tragedy, the Parthenon and its sculpture) rested upon the foundations created in the archaic period, but Osborne shows that archaic Athens did not merely provide foundations for what came later but offered a fascinating history and culture of its own.

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457

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Oxford University Press

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0197644422

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9780197644423

The Transformation of Athens

Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece

By: Robin Osborne

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The Transformation of Athens

Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece

By: Robin Osborne

How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth century. Did Greek potters have a different world to see—or did they come to see the world differently? In this lavishly illustrated and engagingly written book, Robin Osborne argues that these remarkable changes are the best evidence for the shifting nature of classical Greek culture. Osborne examines the thousands of surviving Athenian red-figure pots painted between 520 and 440 BC and describes the changing depictions of soldiers and athletes, drinking parties and religious occasions, sexual relations, and scenes of daily life. He shows that it was not changes in each activity that determined how the world was shown, but changes in values and aesthetics. By demonstrating that changes in artistic style involve choices about what aspects of the world we decide to represent as well as how to represent them, this book rewrites the history of Greek art. By showing that Greeks came to see the world differently over the span of less than a century, it reassesses the history of classical Greece and of Athenian democracy. And by questioning whether art reflects or produces social and political change, it provokes a fresh examination of the role of images in an ever-evolving world.

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306

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Princeton University Press

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0691177678

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9780691177670

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

Volume IV: Cyrene to Metapontion

By: A G Leventis Senior Research Fellow Inaugural A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Emeritus Paul Cartledge,Paul Cartledge,Paul Christesen,William R Kenan Professor of Ancient Greek History Paul Christesen

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

Volume IV: Cyrene to Metapontion

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social practices. The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World offers twenty-one detailed studies of key sites from across the Greek world between c. 750 and c. 480 BCE--a crucial period when much of what is now seen as distinctive about Greek culture emerged. All the studies in this seven-volume series use the same structure and methodology so that readers can easily compare a wide range of Greek communities. The series thus offers a new and unique resource for the study of ancient Greece that will transform how we study and think about a crucial era in ancient Greek history. Volume IV contains detailed and up-to-date studies of Cyrene, Delphi, Macedonia, Massalia, and Metapontion.

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865

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Oxford University Press

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0199383553

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9780199383559

The History Written on the Classical Greek Body

By: Robin Osborne

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The History Written on the Classical Greek Body

By: Robin Osborne

Shows that history written on the basis of texts alone creates a misleading picture of classical Greece.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107003202

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9781107003200

Demos

The Discovery of Classical Attika

By: Robin Osborne

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Demos

The Discovery of Classical Attika

By: Robin Osborne

Demos is a study of a classical city-state, providing an integrated account which gives due attention to the countryside as well as urban areas of a polis.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521267765

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9780521267762

The Tail of the Big Prawn

How Ballina's Icon was Re-born

By: Robin Osborne

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The Tail of the Big Prawn

How Ballina's Icon was Re-born

By: Robin Osborne

No Australian road trip would be complete without visiting some of the 'Big Things'... Coffs Harbour's Big Banana, Bundaberg's Big Rum Bottle, or the Big Captain Cook in Cairns - there are nearly 200 Bigs, and still counting. Ballina's Big Prawn was built in 1990 to celebrate the local prawning industry. It perched atop a complex that included a Viennese restaurant, a fish shop and a petrol station. It had internal stairs leading up to its perspex eyes. In 2010 the complex closed and the Big Prawn lapsed into disrepair. When it was threatened with being dismantled it attracted 10,000 Facebook friends. Then it was saved by Bunnings, moved down the road to a new site, and given a costly face (and tail) lift. Local author Robin Osborne has a special relationship with the Big Prawn, having written the only other book about it - Tessa and the Big Prawn - back in its early days. Now he reveals how the Big Prawn felt in its low moments, and how happy it is with its new life"--Back cover.

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Greek History

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Archaic and Classical Greek Art

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Athens and Athenian Democracy

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Greek History: The Basics

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World, Volume II

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The Transformation of Athens

The Transformation of Athens

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The History Written on the Classical Greek Body

The History Written on the Classical Greek Body

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Demos

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The Tail of the Big Prawn

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