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The south-eastern tip of continental Europe was a major focus of creative energy in the second half of the first millennium BC. As the bridgehead between Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean, the lands that corresponded to northern Greece, Bulgaria, and the European...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-11-21
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A History of Greece: 1300?30 BC, offers a comprehensive introduction to the foundational political history of Greece, from the late Mycenaean Age through to the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Hellenistic monarch of Egypt. Introduces textual and archaeological...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-20
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Iliad and The Odyssey + Homer and His Age” contains 2 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Iliad and the Odyssey are two epic poems written by Homer around the 9th...
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e-artnow
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Drawing on recent scholarly advances and new evidence, Timothy Barnes offers a fresh and exciting study of Constantine and his life. First study of Constantine to make use of Kevin Wilkinson's re-dating of the poet Palladas to the reign of Constantine, disproving the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-13
Collection :
Blackwell Ancient Lives
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A Companion to Plutarch offers a broad survey of the famous historian and biographer; a coherent, comprehensive, and elegant presentation of Plutarch’s thought and influence Constitutes the first survey of its kind, a unified and accessible guide that offers a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-11-13
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these studies did not focus especially on children and childhood, but considered children in the larger context of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-12
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DANGEROUS DAYS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE is the first in a new adult series by Terry Deary, the author of the hugely bestselling Horrible Histories, popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and sharp wit, and among adults for engaging children...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-11-07
Collection :
Dangerous Days
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Rome and Judea in Transition is the first English-language book to study exclusively the first century and a half of Roman-Judean political relations (164–37 B.C.). It presents a comprehensive reassessment of the Late Republic's involvement in the Levant, the motives of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Pur essendo, fin dalle origini della comunità cristiana, oggetto di studi e riflessioni, l’apostolo Paolo, con i suoi viaggi e il suo insegnamento, non cessa di affascinare gli studiosi, credenti e non credenti. Il volume raccoglie i contributi offerti in occasione del...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-11-01
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How was it possible that Greeks often wrote their laws on the walls of their temples, but - in contrast to other ancient societies - never transformed these written civic laws into a religious law? Did it matter whether laws were inscribed in stone, clay, or on a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Classics in the Modern World brings together a collection of distinguished international contributors to discuss the features and implications of a 'democratic turn' in modern perceptions of ancient Greece and Rome. It examines how Greek and Roman material has been...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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This volume reconstructs the history of documentary practice in pharaonic Egypt from the early Old Kingdom to the major administrative changes imposed by the colonizing regimes of the Graeco-Roman period. Relating administrative and legal practice to the physical...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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This volume explores the amnesty which ended the civil war at Athens in 403 BC. Drawing upon ancient historians and speechwriters, together with the surviving inscriptions, it presents a new interpretation of the Athenian Amnesty in its original setting and in view of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already composed a tale of soldiers hiding Ali Baba-like in baskets to capture a besieged city. Shortly after the rise to power of the warrior pharaoh Ramesses II, Egyptian authors...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-25
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In this volume, Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, as opposed to other forms of communication and writing, the volume looks...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-24
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This volume explores the relationship between Thucydides and ancient Greek historiography, sociology, and culture. Presenting a new interpretation of the Peloponnesian War and its historian, it focuses on the role of emotions and ethics in the context of political...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-17
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Berenice II (c. 264-221 BCE), daughter of King Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, came to embody all the key religious, political, and artistic ideals of Ptolemaic Alexandria. Though she arrived there nearly friendless, with the taint of murder around...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-11
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In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and religious ritual...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-10
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What significance does the voice or projected persona in which a text is written have for our understanding of the meaning of that text? This volume explores the persona of the author in antiquity, from Homer to late antiquity, taking into account both Latin and Greek...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-04
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