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Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the actual people who produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-22
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Unlike works inherited from Greek or Roman Antiquity, writings from Mesopotamian civilization all come from excavations. Assyriologists work with clay tablets engraved with cuneiform characters. They piece together fragments of texts and organize them chronologically...
Editeur :
Collège de France
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2017-12-19
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the actual people who produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-15
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2019 PROSE Award finalist in the Classics category!A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity examines the social and cultural landscape of the Late Antique Mediterranean. The text offers a picture of everyday life as it was lived in the spaces around and between...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-12-13
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Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World
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What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by Professor John Marincola, contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world.The study of history was invented in the classical...
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Penguin
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2017-12-07
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Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople Written by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-12-06
Collection :
Blackwell History of the Ancient World
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This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of the intra-urban distribution of high-status goods, and their production or role as a marker of the nature of the settlements known as royal cities of New Kingdom Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC).
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OUP Oxford
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2017-12-01
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This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of the intra-urban distribution of high-status goods, and their production or role as a marker of the nature of the settlements known as royal cities of New Kingdom Egypt (c.1550-1069 BC).
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-01
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The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive introduction to...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-10-18
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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This deluxe edition of the world's most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-bordered pages. Since its original publication in 1942, Edith...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2017-09-26
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One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-20
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The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination. But where did Atlantis come from, what was it like, and where did it go to?Atlantis was first introduced by the...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2017-09-14
Collection :
Brief Histories
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The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii-from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE-and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire. Eric E. Poehler, an authority on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-12
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Die Krise der römischen Republik in der Zeit zwischen den Gracchen und Caesar (133–48 v. Chr.) gehört zu den großen Themen der internationalen Althistorie. Helmuth Schneiders Ansatz ist bestimmt von dem Versuch, den politischen Wandel und die Etablierung einer auf...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2017-08-30
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This unique collection of essays contains a synthesis of recent works by distinguished archaeologists and historians in their field, illuminating extensive research in the Southern Gaul and on the territory of the Greek city of Marseille.Investigating the occupation of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-07-31
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The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts. Here he pairs Romulus, mythical founder of Rome, with...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-07-25
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Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much greater discourse on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-13
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Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much greater discourse on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-04
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Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-07-04
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What is the social role of images and architecture in a pre-modern society? How were they used to create adequate environments for specific profane and ritual activities? In which ways did they interact with each other? These and other crucial issues on the social...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2017-07-03
Collection :
AEGIS
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