Greek and Russian icons

What gives beauty such fascinating power? Why is beauty so easy to recognize but so hard to define? Across cultures and continents and over the centuries the standards of beauty ha...

Culture and Customs of Russiais a splendid introduction to the largest country in the world. This timely volume gives the scope of the country from earliest history through the bre...

Illuminating an understudied avenue of classical reception in the performing arts, this book considers how the long artistic collaboration between one of the greatest dancers and c...

Chapter 2, “Imitating the Queen of Troy,” explores responses to Greek tragic women in Kyd’s Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare and Peele’s Titus Andronicus, two early revenge tragedie...

Abstract City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor examines the social and administrative transformation of Greek society within the early Roman empire,...

Abstract The Ruble is a political history of Russian money from Catherine the Great to Vladimir Lenin. It traces the evolution of the Russian state and society throu...