The Greek Civil War

Thanasis D Sfikas

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Half a century after the civil war which tore apart Greek society in the 1940s, the essays in this volume look back to examine the crisis. They bring ... Lees meer

Authority in Byzantium

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state acros... Lees meer

Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present: Visions and Realities

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 19
• This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings toget... Lees meer

Personification in the Greek World

Judith Herrin

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural pheno... Lees meer

Music, Language and Identity in Greece

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• The national element in music has been the subject of important studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost exclusively to the... Lees meer

Digenes Akrites

Roderick Beaton, David Ricks

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Called variously the 'Byzantine epic', the 'epic of Modern Greece', an 'epic-romance' and 'romance', the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its redisc... Lees meer

Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 18
• 'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only t... Lees meer

Byzantium and the Modern Greek Identity

David Ricks, Paul Magdalino

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Perhaps because of the fact that modern Greece is, through the Orthodox Church, inextricably linked with the Byzantine heritage, the precise meaning o... Lees meer

Greek Medical Literature and Its Readers

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 20
• This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and ski... Lees meer

The Making of Modern Greece

David Ricks

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Every Greek and every friend of the country knows the date 1821, when the banner of revolution was raised against the empire of the Ottoman Turks, and... Lees meer

Digenes Akrites

Roderick Beaton, David Ricks

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Called variously the 'Byzantine epic', the 'epic of Modern Greece', an 'epic-romance' and 'romance', the poem of Digenes Akrites has, since its redisc... Lees meer

When Greeks and Turks Meet

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 15
• The relationship between the history, culture and peoples of Greece, Turkey and Cyprus is often reduced to an equation which defines one side in oppos... Lees meer

Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already... Lees meer

Greek Eyes on Europe

John Muir

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• This is the first complete English translation of a lively travelogue written by Andronikos aka Nikandros Noukios, a Greek from Corfu, who accompanied... Lees meer

Alexandria, Real and Imagined

Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: ... Lees meer

Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already... Lees meer

El Greco - The Cretan Years

Nikolaos M Panagiotakes, Translated By John C Davis

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• Exploring all the available sources, this study, which until now was only available in Greek, presents us with an account of El Greco's life up to the... Lees meer

John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 17
• The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118-1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us muc... Lees meer

Music, Language and Identity in Greece

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• The national element in music has been the subject of important studies, yet the scholarly framework has remained restricted almost exclusively to the... Lees meer

Camera Graeca

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 16
• While written sources on the history of Greece have been studied extensively, no systematic attempt has been made to examine photography as an importa... Lees meer

John II Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 17
• The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118-1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us muc... Lees meer

Cyprus from Colonialism to the Present

• Paperback | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll
• This volume is published in honour of the acclaimed work of Robert Holland, historian of the British Empire and the Mediterranean, and it brings toget... Lees meer

Byron

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 18
• 'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only t... Lees meer

Camera Graeca

• Hardcover | Engels | Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's Coll | nr. 16
• While written sources on the history of Greece have been studied extensively, no systematic attempt has been made to examine photography as an importa... Lees meer