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  • Athens after the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals)
    Barry Strauss
    Athens after the Peloponnesian War, first published in 1986, undertakes a radically new investigation into the nature of Athenian political groups. The general model of ’faction’ provided by political anthropology provides an indispensable paradigm for the Athenian case. It offers a detailed demographic analysis, astute insight into political discourse, and is altogether one of...
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    104,54 €

  • Fathers and Sons in Athens
    Barry Strauss
    As history’s first democracy, classical Athens invited political discourse. The Athenians, however could not completely separate the politicals from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict, from patricide to murdering one’s son, was a major public as well as a private theme. In a fascinating historical reappraisal, the author explores the consequences, for Athens and us,...
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    104,11 €

  • Rowing Against the Current
    Barry Strauss
    In the midst of the standard dreary midlife crisis -- complete with wine tasting courses, yoga classes, and a failed attempt at a first novel -- a 40-year-old Barry Strauss falls unexpectedly and passionately in love with rowing, a sport in which a 27-year-old is a has been. Strauss, a classics professor, writes about the unanticipated delights of an affair that, like so many o...
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    12,20 €