Literature Recommendations

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General History

Ägypten, Griechenland, Rom. Abwehr und Berührung
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(Exhibition Catalogue), Frankfurt/ M. 2005, ISBN-10: 3-8030-1057-8
Athen in klassischer Zeit
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by Peter Funke, ISBN-10: 3-4064-4574-8
Athen und Sparta
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by Raimund Schulz, ISBN-10: 3-5341-5493-2
Der Aufstieg Athens
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by Ekschmitt, ISBN-10: 3-5700-2431-8
Der Mensch der griechischen Antike
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by Jean-Pierre Vernant (Hg.), ISBN-10: 3-8840-0405-0
Die grieschiche Klassik. Idee oder Wirklichkeit
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(Exhibition Catalogue), Mainz 2002
Geschichte des Hellenismus
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by Heinz Heinen, ISBN-10: 3-4064-8009-8
Geschichte Makedoniens
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by Malcolm Errington, Beck Verlag, ISBN-10: 3-4063-1412-0
Griechische Geschichte
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by Detlef Lotze, ISBN-10: 3-4064-5014-8
Leben im alten Griechenland
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by Sophie Royer, Catherine Salles, Francois Trassard, ISBN-10: 3-8062-1960-5
Lexikon der griechischen Welt
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by Guy Ratchet, ISBN-10: 3-4916-9050-1
Sklaverei in der Antike. Alltag und Schicksal der Unfreien
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by Leonhard Schumacher, ISBN-10: 3-4064-6574-9
Sparta
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by Ernst Baltrusch, ISBN-10: 3-4064-1883-x
Sparta
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by Lukas Thommen, ISBN-10: 3-4760-1964-0
Sparta
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by Karl-Wilhelm Welwei, ISBN-10: 3-6089-4016-2
The Greek World After Alexander 323-30 BC
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by Graham Shipley, ISBN-13: 978-0415046183
The Oxford History Of Greece & The Hellenistic World
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by John Boardman, ISBN-13: 978-0192801371
Trauma. Wund-Entstehung und Wund-Pflege im antiken Griechenland.
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by Stephanos Geroulanos and Rene Bridler, Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt. Band 56

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Biographies

Alexander der Große
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by Robin Lane Fox, ISBN-10: 3-6089-4078-2
Alexander der Große
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by Fischer-Fabian, ISBN-10: 3-4046-4152-3
Alexander in Indien
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by Johannes Hahn, ISBN-10: 3-7995-0607-1
Alexander the Great, Killer of Men - History's greatest Conqueror and the Makedonian Art of War
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by David J.Lonsdale, ISBN-10: 0-7867-1429-8
Philip of Macedon
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ISBN-10: 9-6021-3249-3
Philipp von Makedonien - Ein Königreich für Alexander
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by Andronikos, Cawkwell, Dell and Edson, Lübbe Verlag, ISBN-10: 3-7857-0295-7
Pyrrhus, King of Epirus
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by Petros E. Garoufalias, ISBN-13: 978-0905743134
The Generalship Of Alexander The Great
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by J.F.C. Fuller, Da Capo Press, ISBN-10: 0-3068-1330-0

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Catalogues of Finds and Excavations

Housing in New Halos: A Hellenistic Town in Thessaly, Greece
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by H.R Reinders and W. Prummel, ISBN-13: 978-9058095404
The Athenian Agora Volume XXXIII: Hellenistic Pottery: The Plain Wares
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by Susan I. Rotroff, ISBN-13: 978-0876612330
The Tomb of Lyson and Kallikles: A Painted Macedonian Tomb
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by Stella G Miller, ISBN-13: 978-3805311533
Werkzeug und Gerät aus Olympia
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by Thomas Völling, Holger Baitinger and Hermann Born, ISBN-13: 978-3110191479

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Daily Life

Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra
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by James Allan Evans, ISBN-13: 978-0806142555
Frauen in der Antike: Weibliche Lebenswelten von Sappho bis Theodora
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by Elke Hartmann, ISBN-13: 978-3406547553
Haus und Familie im antiken Griechenland
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by Winfried Schmitz, ISBN-13: 978-3486583762

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Food and Cooking

Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Sourcebook
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by John F. Donahue, ISBN-13: 978-1441133458
Food in the Ancient World from A to Z
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by Andrew Dalby, ISBN-13: 978-0415862790
Küchengeheimnisse der Antike
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by A.Dalby and S.Graininger, ISBN-10: 3-8818-9204-4
The Classical Cookbook
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by Andrew Dalby und Sally Grainger, ISBN-13: 978-1606061107

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Art and Culture

Kunst der Schale - Kultur des Trinkens
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(Exhibition Catalogue), München 1992, 2nd Edition
Studien zu alexandrinischer und großgriechischer Toreutik frühhellenistischer Zeit
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by Pfrommer Michael, ISBN/EAN: 978-3-7861-1433-8
Wie erkenne ich griechische Kunst der Antike
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by Dagmar Lutz, ISBN-10: 3-7630-2437-9

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Trade, Economics, and Finances

Antike Wirtschaft
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by Sitta Von Reden, ISBN-13: 978-3486597004
Money in Classical Antiquity
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by Sitta Von Reden, ISBN-13: 978-0521459525
The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources
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by Peter Thonemann, ISBN-13: 978-1107451759

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Fashion and Clothing

Die antike Stadt
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by Peter Connolly and Hazel Dodge, ISBN-10: 3-8290-1104-0
Kleidung in der Antike I: Griechen
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by Doris Schmidt, ISBN-10: 3-8711-6556-5
Mode im Antiken Griechenland
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by Anastasia Pekridou - Gorecki, C.H.Beck, ISBN-10: 3-3063-3908-5

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Military History

Alexanders Asienfeldzug bis zur Schlacht am Granikos
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by Bertram Kanstinger, Diplomica Band 20, ISBN-10: 3-8288-8830-5
Die Kriege der griechischen Antike
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by Victor Davis Hanson, ISBN-10: 3-8948-8140-2
Die Kriegskunst der Griechen und Römer
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by John Warry, Buch und Zeit Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Köln
From Sumer to Rome, The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies
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by Richard A. Gabriel and Karen S. Metz, Contributions in Military Studies, No. 108, Greenwood Press, 1991, ISBN-10: 0-3132-7645-5
Great Battles of the Hellenistic World
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by Joseph Pietrykowski, ISBN-13: 978-1848846883
Hellenistic and Roman Naval Warfare 336BC - 31BC
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by Dr. John D. Grainger, ISBN-13: 978-1848841611
Kriegsflotte und Seekriege der Antike
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by Manfred Beike, ISBN-10: 3-3270-0289-4
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- And Western Civilization
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by Barry S. Strauss, ISBN-10: 0-7432-4450-8
War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History
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by Angelos Chaniotis, ISBN-13: 978-0631226086
Warfare in the Classical World
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by John G. Warry, ISBN-10: 0-8061-2794-5

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Weapons and military Equipment

Der makedonische Schild
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by Liampi, Katerini, Bonn: Habelt 1998, ISBN 978-3-7749-2934-0
Die athenische Triere
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by John S. Morrison, John F. Coates, ISBN-10: 3-8053-1125-7
Die griechischen Armeen
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by Peter Connolly, ISBN-10: 3-7886-0181-7
Die Helme des Hephaistos: Handwerk und Technik griechischer Bronzen in Olympia
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by Born Hermann, ISBN-13: 978-3938832486
Griechische Söldner im Achaimenidenreich
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by Gunter F. Seibt, ISBN-10: 3-7749-1431-1
Hellenistische Helme
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by Petros Dintsis, ISBN-13: 978-8885007710
Krieger, Bauern, Bürger. Untersuchungen zu den Hopliten der archaischen und klassischen Zeit
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by Johann Peter Franz, ISBN-10: 3-6313-9128-5
Schildzeichen in der griechischen Vasenmalerei
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by Regina Attula, ISBN-10: 3-9335-9892-3
Schutz und Zier
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Antikenmuseum Basel and Sammlung Ludwig, ISBN-10: 3-9050-5704-2
The Ancient Greeks
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by Nicholas Sekunda, ISBN-10: 0-8504-5686-x
The Greeks at War. From Athens to Alexander
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by Philip de Souza, Waldemar Heckel, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, ISBN-10: 1-8417-6856-1
The Spartan Army
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by Nick Sekunda, Osprey Publishing, ISBN-10: 1-8553-2659-0
Thracian Peltasts and their influence on Greek Warfare
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by Jan G. P. Best
Wehr und Waffen im antiken Griechenland
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by A. M. Snodgrass, ISBN-10: 3-8053-0533-8

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Sources

Anabasis
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by Xenophon
Biography of Alexander
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by Plutarch
Curtius Rufus
Diodor
Histories
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by Herodot
Mechanike syntaxis
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by Philon of Byzantion
The campaigns of Alexander
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by Arrian
The Peleponnesian War
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by Thukydides