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The archaeology of Cyprus : recent developments
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ISBN: 0815550391 9780815550396 Year: 1975 Publisher: Park Ridge Noyes Press

Festivals and legends : the formation of Greek cities in the light of public ritual
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ISBN: 0802059880 9786612039935 1282039938 1442674857 9780802059888 Year: 1996 Volume: 31 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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War was a constant activity, almost a staple livelihood, in the cities of ancient Greece, and many public festivals served to promote and celebrate war. They entailed reunions of the whole community, often at the new year, for enrolling citizens or conducting games. Noel Robertson focuses on such festivals in Athens, Aprta, Argos, and two smaller centres, in order to reconstruct the social conditions reflected in the festival programs and settings.He begins with a close analysis of the extant evidence, bringing together for the first time the many small, scattered indications in familiar sources. He uses in addition new epigraphic and archaeological evidence which has recently come to light at Athens.Since ritual is by definition unchanging, public festivals can disclose earlier stages of social organization. Robertson also shows how the festivals gave rise, by way of aetiology (explanatory tales or legends), to some persistent misconceptions about the past.


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Religion and reconciliation in Greek cities : the sacred laws of Selinus and Cyrene
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ISBN: 0190453133 0199742006 9780199742004 9780195394009 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Two Greek cities which in their time were leading states in the Mediterranean world, Selinus in Sicily and Cyrene in Libya, set up inscriptions of the kind called sacred laws, but regulating worship on a larger scale than elsewhere - Selinus in the mid fifth century B.C., Cyrene in the late fourth. In different ways, the content and the format of both inscriptions are so unusual that they have baffled understanding. At Selinus, a large lead tablet with two columns of writing upside down to each other is thought to be a remedy for homicide pollution arising from civil strife, but most of it rem


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Festivals and Legends
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ISBN: 9781442674851 Year: 1992 Publisher: Toronto

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Nemesis : the history of a social and religious idea in early Greece
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Year: 1971 Publisher: Ann Arbor (Mich.) : University microfilms,

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NEMESIS, the history of a social and religious idea in early Greece.
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Year: 1977 Publisher: Ann Arbor University Microfilms

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Religion and reconciliation in Greek cities : the sacred laws of Selinus and Cyrene
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ISBN: 9780195394009 0195394003 Year: 2010 Volume: 54 Publisher: London Oxford University Press

Plant disease : A natural history
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ISBN: 0002200759 Year: 1999 Publisher: London HarperCollins

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From dearth to plenty : the modern revolution in food production
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ISBN: 0511752466 0521403227 0521041953 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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During the fifty-year period from 1936-86 the modern agricultural revolution occurred, in which, for the first time, science was properly harnessed to the improvement in agricultural productivity. The authors of this 1995 book quantify this improvement and identify the work of scientists which was seminal to the scientific and technological advances on which the revolution was founded. The topics covered include the advances in animal nutrition (in which the late Kenneth Blaxter was an acknowledged pioneer), animal and plant breeding, soil fertility, weed, pest, and disease control, veterinary medicine, engineering (including innovations in tractor design by Harry Ferguson), and statistical measurement. In addition, this book describes how these innovations were integrated into the practical business of food production and discusses the importance of the Government in setting the scene for scientific advance.

From dearth to plenty
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ISBN: 9780511752469 9780521403221 9780521041959 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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