Overview :Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have sha... Read More
Overview :The idea of circumnavigation suggested by the title of this volume of essays presented to one of the world's leading Classical archaeologist... Read More
Overview :This is an innovative exploration of the arts of antiquity, beginning with the earliest European cave paintings and continuing right up to t... Read More
Overview :John Boardman examines a wealth of art and artifacts as well as literary sources to reveal the remarkable influence of Greek culture on peop... Read More
Overview :Here Boardman sketches that history but goes on to explore many other matters that make the study so fruitful. He describes the processes of... Read More
Overview :John Boardman, one of the best known and acknowledged scholars of the classical Greek world, has updated his definitive survey of its arts, ... Read More
Overview :Looks at the development of sculptures, reliefs, and friezes in fifth century B.C. Greece and assesses this period's importance in art histo... Read More
Overview :The first section of this volume examines the Persian empire, the regions it comprised, and its expansion under Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes. I... Read More
Overview :By examining the links and interactions between elements of a system, systems thinking is becoming increasingly relevant when dealing with g... Read More
Overview :For most people there is no more satisfying expression of Greek art than its sculpture. It was the first, the only ancient art to break free... Read More
Overview :In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. This authoritative and compelling work tells the story o... Read More