Oikistes
Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World. Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham
Biographical note
Vanessa B. Gorman is Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of Miletos, the Ornament of Ionia. A History of the City to 400 B.C.E. (Michigan, 2001).
Eric W. Robinson is Assistant Professor of History and the Classics at Harvard University. He is the author of The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens (Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997).
Eric W. Robinson is Assistant Professor of History and the Classics at Harvard University. He is the author of The First Democracies: Early Popular Government Outside Athens (Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997).
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This book will be useful to professional scholars, academic libraries, students, and the educated public interested in ancient Greek and Roman history, philology, and archaeology
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