Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London: Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
About the Book Series
Initiated in 1993 as an extension of the activities of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London, this series covers all aspects of Greek culture and civilization. The volumes published to date present a broad range of topics from ancient to modern, including the papers of several international symposia held at KCL. Titles deal with the history of Alexandria, the image of Socrates across the centuries, the early years of El Greco, the making of modern Greece, Greek-Turkish relations in modern times, and the history of Greek photography. Volumes recently published or in preparation cover the reign of the 12th-century Byzantine emperor John II Komnenos, the politics behind Lord Byron’s intervention in the Greek Revolution in the 1820s and Greek art music since the early 19th century.
For further information about the series please contact Michael Greenwood at [email protected]
Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800-1200
1st Edition
Edited
By Lynda Garland
October 19, 2016
This volume brings together a group of international scholars, who explore many unusual aspects of the world of Byzantine women in the period 800-1200. The specific aim of this collection is to investigate the participation of women - non-imperial women in particular - in supposedly 'masculine' ...
Authority in Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Armstrong
March 18, 2013
Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities. Even though its significance ...
El Greco – The Cretan Years
1st Edition
By Nikolaos M. Panagiotakes, translated by John C. Davis
September 04, 2009
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 time he left Crete for Italy in 1567 at the age of twenty-six, already an accomplished professional painter. Nikolaos Panagiotakes provides a ...
Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Trapp
June 28, 2007
Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to ...
Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Trapp
June 28, 2007
Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity, vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to ...
Personification in the Greek World: From Antiquity to Byzantium
1st Edition
Edited
By Emma Stafford, Judith Herrin
October 21, 2005
Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), ...
The Greek Civil War: Essays on a Conflict of Exceptionalism and Silences
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Carabott, Thanasis D. Sfikas
April 23, 2004
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 combine the approaches of political and international history with the latest research into the social, economic, religious, cultural, ideological and ...
Alexandria, Real and Imagined
1st Edition
By Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk
March 28, 2004
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: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - ...