AH 48 Non-theme Reading List

Here are some options for further reading for the non-theme articles in Ancient History 48:


Kelder (Bronze Age Cult Statues)

Collins, B.J. “A Statue for the Deity: Cult Images in Hittite Anatolia.” In Cult Image and Divine Representation in the Ancient Near East, N. Walls (ed.): 13–42. Boston: American School of Oriental Research, 2005. 


Güterbock, H.G., T. Kendall (1995), ‘A Hittite Silver Vessel in the Form of a Fist’, Carter, Jane, Sarah Morris (eds.), The Ages of Homer. A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule, Austin: University of Texas Press: 45-60. 


Koehl, R. Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta. Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press, 2006.  



Williams (Homicide in Ancient Athens) 

Harris, E.M. Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.  


MacDowell, D.M. The Law in Classical Athens. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978. 


Sealey, R. “The Athenian Courts for Homicide.” Classical Philology 78 (1983): 275–296. 



Lewis (Helots)

Hodkinson, D. Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2000.


Kennel, N. Spartans: A New History. Chichester: Blackwell Publishing, 2010.


Lewis, D.M. “Helots”, Oxford Classical Dictionary. – Open Access


Lewis, D.M. Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800146. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.


Lewis, D.M. “Did serfdom exist in Classical and Hellenistic Greece?” In Symposion 2022. Akten der Gesellschaft für griechische und hellenistische Rechtsgeschichte, P. Scheibelreiter (ed.): 225–252. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2023. – Open Access



Matanis (Indo-Greek Art)

Boardman, J. The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. 


Brancaccio, P. and Liu, X. “Dionysus and drama in the Buddhist art of Gandhara.” Journal of Global History 4 (2009): 219244.


Halkias, G. “When the Greeks Converted the Buddha: Asymmetrical Transfers of Knowledge in Indo-Greek Cultures”. In Religions and Trade: Religious Formation, P. Wick and V. Rabens (eds.): 65115. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 

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