This study concludes that Greek women routinely wore the veil. The Greeks, popularly credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more Eastern ...

As historicalscholarship increasingly attends not just to text, but to context, theconsideration of colour - as an aspect of the material, artistic, literary,linguistic and ...

The Greek and Roman year were divided into festivals and games even more than our year is today. Politics and competition went together and the spectacle and even danger of ...

This book explores the representation of Persian monarchy and the court of the Achaemenid Great Kings from the point of view of the ancient Iranians themselves and through the ...

Alexander's conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. Much of the territory that he seized would remain under the control of Macedonian kings ...