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Coin Hoards and Hoarding in the Roman World presents fourteen chapters from an interdisciplinary group of Roman numismatists, historians, and archaeologists, discussing coin hoarding in the Roman Empire from c. 30 BC to AD 400. The book illustrates the range of research...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-04
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No public action of the Roman state, the populus Romanus, at home or at war, was to be carried out without prior permission from Iuppiter Optimus Maximus. Permission was obtained, in a procedure known as auspices, by the magistrate in charge of the intended...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-28
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No public action of the Roman state, the populus Romanus, at home or at war, was to be carried out without prior permission from Iuppiter Optimus Maximus. Permission was obtained, in a procedure known as auspices, by the magistrate in charge of the intended...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-28
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An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great FloodA long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He advised one of his...
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Penguin
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2022-07-26
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Richly illustrated with citations from ancient authors, the book Sparta introduces the reader to the universe of a polis which in the fifth and fourth century BC was a Greek superpower. Part I describes Sparta’s political institutions and mechanisms of governance, the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-07-15
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The first work to lay out Roman strategic thinking from its start under Augustus until its final demise in 476 CE
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 bc) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years—an impressive number by...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-07-04
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This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states, formed after Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-26
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, and considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians called themselves...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-05
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Prisons in Ancient Mesopotamia explores the earliest historical evidence related to imprisonment in the history of the world. While many historical investigations into prisons have revolved around the important question of punishment, this work moves beyond that more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-05
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Greek and Roman Slaveries Slavery was foundational toGreek and Roman societies, affecting nearly all of their economic, social, political, and cultural practices.Greek and Roman Slaveries offers a rich collection of literary, epigraphic, papyrological, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-04-20
Collection :
Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History
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THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes of Asia, and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. At the heart of the Empire was...
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Wildfire
Parution :
2022-04-14
ePub
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Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-14
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Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later European...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-31
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Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-24
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, and considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians called themselves...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-24
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An essential companion to the most relevant works of Michel de Montaigne Essays: The Philosophy Classic delivers a carefully curated collection of thought-provoking works by sixteenth-century thinker Michel De Montaigne. Exploring topics as diverse as politics, poetry,...
Editeur :
Capstone
Parution :
2022-03-14
Collection :
Capstone Classics
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Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-10
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I risultati degli scavi condotti durante 120 anni da archeologi russi e ucraini nei siti delle antiche colonie greche del Mar Nero settentrionale, come anche sporadiche scoperte fortuite fatte negli stessi luoghi, costi-tuiscono un immenso materiale per ricerche su vari...
Editeur :
École française d'Athènes
Parution :
2022-03-02
Collection :
Suppléments du BCH
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