http://blog.oup.com/2009/09/ancient-greece/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:04:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2009/09/ancient-greece/comment-page-1/#comment-156686 Malcolm White Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:42:57 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5488#comment-156686 Dear Professor Cartledge, I have recently passed my MA course with the OU on Slavery in Classical Athens, I wish to persue the same subject in Minoan Crete, I have several obvious books. Can you help me please with any suggestions for 'must see' reading. My Tutor was Dr Caroline Hamilton, who suggested that I might contact experts for help. Yours respectfully Malcolm White Dear Professor Cartledge,
I have recently passed my MA course with the OU on Slavery in Classical Athens, I wish to persue the same subject in Minoan Crete, I have several obvious books. Can you help me please with any suggestions for ‘must see’ reading. My Tutor was Dr Caroline Hamilton, who suggested that I might contact experts for help.
Yours respectfully
Malcolm White

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2009/09/ancient-greece/comment-page-1/#comment-154066 No peace for a Cambridge Classics don : OUPblog Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:28:54 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5488#comment-154066 [...] Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Clare College, Cambridge. His new book, Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities, provides a highly original introduction to ancient Greece that takes the city as its starting point. He uses the history of eleven cities – out of over a thousand – to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek history. In the original post below, Professor Cartledge talks about the recent publicity surrounding his claim that the ancient Greeks introduced the grape-vine and viticulture to what is today’s South of France. [...] [...] Paul Cartledge is A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Clare College, Cambridge. His new book, Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities, provides a highly original introduction to ancient Greece that takes the city as its starting point. He uses the history of eleven cities – out of over a thousand – to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek history. In the original post below, Professor Cartledge talks about the recent publicity surrounding his claim that the ancient Greeks introduced the grape-vine and viticulture to what is today’s South of France. [...]

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