Sourcebook for all available inscriptions from the last real period of Athenian independence. Identifies the main letter-cutters and offers many new readings, redatings and interpretations.

Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B. C. (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

History

Tracy, Stephen V.

Ancient Civilizations

University of California Press

Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know―or might know―about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into an unsettled and obscure moment in antiquity.

Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C. (Volume 38) (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader, Stephen V. Tracy visits the fifth century B.C. to find out. Tracy compiles and translates the scattered, elusive primary sources relating to Pericles. He brings Athens's political atmosphere to life with archaeological evidence and the accounts of those close to Pericles, including Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch. Readers will discover Pericles as a formidable politician, a persuasive and inspiring orator, and a man full of human contradictions.

Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader

Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader, Stephen V. Tracy visits the fifth century B.C. to find out. Tracy compiles and translates the scattered, elusive primary sources relating to Pericles. He brings Athens's political atmosphere to life with archaeological evidence and the accounts of those close to Pericles, including Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Protagoras, Sophocles, Lysias, Xenophon, Plato, and Plutarch. Readers will discover Pericles as a formidable politician, a persuasive and inspiring orator, and a man full of human contradictions.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The Story of the Odyssey

Here Stephen Tracy offers a vivid, fast-paced narrative that serves as a reading guide to Homer's monumental epic. He not only provides translations of key passages and traces the evolution of major themes in the Odyssey, but also helps new readers to understand the artistry of one of the best tales ever told. Aimed at advanced readers as well, this book stresses an appreciation of how Homer has ordered his narrative, covering such topics as character interaction, family relationships, elements of poetic language, and the symbolic treatment of death, rebirth, growth, and knowledge. Given the controversy over the way the Odyssey was composed and handed down, Tracy concentrates on presenting the poem as a highly unified work. His analysis of the narrative structure reveals the epic to be arranged as a series of parallel journeys. The journey, seen here as a symbol of growth and self-knowledge, is among the major themes discussed in detail, along with the importance of women as overseers of life's journeys and the need for the sons of heroes to grow up worthy of their fathers.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

This book combines two functions, as a technical handbook for training epigraphists to recognize an individual mason’s hands, and a social study of a skilled artisan in Hellenistic Athens (referred to as “B”), a native of Salamis who worked in Athens and at Delphi. The methodology developed by the author to isolate 28 out of hundreds of inscriptions as the work of “B” represents a major step forward in the assigning of fragments to individual masons, previously a very impressionistic exercise.

The Lettering of an Athenian Mason (Hesperia Supplement)

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

This attractive book presents a general introduction to the Greater Panathenaia, the week-long religious and civic festival held at Athens every four years in honor of the city’s patron goddess, Athena. The highlight of the city’s festival calendar, with its musical, athletic, and equestrian contests, tribal events, processions, sacrifices, and other activities, the Greater Panathenaia involved all the residents of Athens; not just adult males but women, children, metics (resident aliens), foreigners, and even slaves. The facilities, administration, program events, prizes, and associated monuments are described.

The Games at Athens (Agora Picture Book)

Neils, Jenifer

For a century following the end of the Lamian War in 322 B.C.,  Athens' harbour at Pireus was almost constantly occupied by a  Macedonian garrison. The Macedonian presence dealt a crucial blow  to Athenian independence and Athenian democracy, initiating the  first in a long and intermittent series of foreign occupations. The  twenty-eight papers in this volume are based on an international  conference hosted by the University of Athens in May 2001, and  focus on various aspects of Athenian art, archaeology and history  in the century of Macedonian domination. They consider Athens'  new role as a political stepping stone for potential Successors  to the throne of Macedon - Cassander, Demetrios Poliorketes and  Antigonos Gonatas were each able to secure Macedonia by using  Athens as a power base - and the ways in which Athenian culture  was affected by the Macedonian presence. They contribute to the  ongoing debate about the reasons for the Macedonian ascendancy,  the degree of independence accorded Athens by their Macedonian  overlords, the third-century archon list, and changes in Athenian  art and architecture.

The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C.: Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001

Arts & Photography

Palagia, Olga

Oxbow Books

For a century following the end of the Lamian War in 322 B.C., Athens' harbour at Pireus was almost constantly occupied by a Macedonian garrison. The Macedonian presence dealt a crucial blow to Athenian independence and Athenian democracy, initiating the first in a long and intermittent series of foreign occupations. The twenty-eight papers in this volume are based on an international conference hosted by the University of Athens in May 2001, and focus on various aspects of Athenian art, archaeology and history in the century of Macedonian domination. They consider Athens' new role as a political stepping stone for potential Successors to the throne of Macedon - Cassander, Demetrios Poliorketes and Antigonos Gonatas were each able to secure Macedonia by using Athens as a power base - and the ways in which Athenian culture was affected by the Macedonian presence. They contribute to the ongoing debate about the reasons for the Macedonian ascendancy, the degree of independence accorded Athens by their Macedonian overlords, the third-century archon list, and changes in Athenian art and architecture.

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Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B. C. (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C. (Volume 38) (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader

Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader

The Story of the Odyssey

The Story of the Odyssey

The Lettering of an Athenian Mason (Hesperia Supplement)

The Games at Athens (Agora Picture Book)

The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C.: Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001

The Macedonians in Athens, 322-229 B.C.: Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001