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The History Press Ltd Roads in Roman Britain
Book SynopsisThere has been a strong interest in Roman roads in Britain for centuries and a vast amount of information has been accumulated from observation and excavation. For the first time this new study analyses the data systematically and evaluates it from a highway engineering viewpoint. Hugh Davies not only provides an up-to-date account of the road system built by the Romans in Britain, he examines whether this information matches up with what we would expect of a transport system.Looking at the construction of the roads - their width, surface and drainage - as well as at their number, the author concludes that the Romans did indeed provide a high-quality service suited to the needs of civilians and soldiers alike. At the same time his study shows how the development of the road system fitted in with the layout of town plans and with the overall expansion of the province; on the whole the early military roads were constructed of lighter materials and by the end of the Roman period as many as ten layers of road surface can on occasions be detected. This accessible work, which includes a Gazetteer of some 400 Roman roads, will be welcomed by anyone interested in the Romans in Britain.
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The History Press Ltd Roman York
Book SynopsisThe great historic city of York owes its origins to the Roman army which built a fortress here on the banks of the River Ouse in AD 71. By the early third century York had also became the site of a major urban center and the capital of the northern half of Britain when what had been a single Roman province was divided into two. York's importance is reflected in the fact that two Roman emperors died in the city: Septimius Severus in the year 211, and Constantius I in 306, his son Constantine was then acclaimed emperor here by his father's troops. Roman York tells the story of the fortress and town from their foundation until the early fifth century when Britain ceased to be part of the Roman Empire. Particular emphasis is placed on the results of recent excavations and research which have added great deal to our knowledge and understanding of the people who lived in a place the Romans knew as Eboracum.
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The History Press Ltd The Isle of Thanet
Book SynopsisThe Isle of Thanet is located at the eastern tip of Kent and was once separated from the East Kent mainland by the Wantsum channel. With its unique position which made it part of a key trade route in the Romano-British period, the island has a long and diverse history. The Isle of Thanet explores that history from Prehistoric times up to the Norman Conquest, through the story of the rich and varied archaeological finds and a study of the key sites identified on the island, including Bronze Age Barrows, the Roman Minster Villa and Saxon monastic settlements. It also provides a historical study of the individuals and institutions that pioneered the exploration of archaeological sites on Thanet from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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The History Press Ltd Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors
Book SynopsisThis revised edition is an accumulation of two decades of research and fieldwork by the authors, and presents a comprehensive account of the little known prehistoric rock art within the North York Moors area.
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Kjv Word Study Reference Bible Hardcover Red
Book SynopsisThe KJV Word Study Reference Bible balances deep study of the biblical languages with clear application to help transform the way you live. Uncover a wealth of meaning in Scripture with more than 2000 Greek and Hebrew word studies.Bring the words of Scripture to life and discover the richness and significance of the original languages of the Word of God. The KJV Word Study Reference Bible includes in-text subheadings and 2,000 easy-to-use word studies with select Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek words explained in every chapter from Genesis to Revelation. By looking into these ancient texts, we are able to read scripture as it was originally written and passed on from generation to generation. In addition, this Bible’s Topic-by-Topic studies give a practical framework for understanding scripture, along with more hel
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Thomas Nelson Publishers KJV Word Study Reference Bible Bonded Leather
Book SynopsisThe KJV Word Study Reference Bible balances deep study of the biblical languages with clear application to help transform the way you live. Uncover a wealth of meaning in Scripture with more than 2000 Greek and Hebrew word studies.Bring the words of Scripture to life and discover the richness and significance of the original languages of the Word of God. The KJV Word Study Reference Bible includes in-text subheadings and 2,000 easy-to-use word studies with select Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek words explained in every chapter from Genesis to Revelation. By looking into these ancient texts, we are able to read scripture as it was originally written and passed on from generation to generation. In addition, this Bible’s Topic-by-Topic studies give a practical framework for understanding scripture, along with more hel
£56.25
Johns Hopkins University Press As Witnessed by Images The Trojan War Tradition
Book SynopsisLowenstam identifies a variety of images and interpretations-some regarded Achilles as a hero, others believed him to be a cruel bully-that reflect and directly respond to the ancient heroic tradition from which the Iliad and Odyssey evolved.Trade ReviewHighly recommended. Choice 2009 A thought-provoking book that also well illustrates the salient points of the author's argument. -- Peter A. Clayton Minerva 2009Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForeword, by T. H. carpenterIntroductionParadigms and the Role of PoetryChronologyPurposes and Methodology1. GreeceThe François VaseCorinthian PerspectivesTroilos and AchilleusExekiasSirensRansom of HektorFifth-century Portraits of Achilleus and OdysseusKabiric VasesConclusions2. Megale HellasTrojan TopicsThe Funeral of PatroklosThetis' Touch and an Embassy to AchilleusThe Dolon PainterThersitesLykaonConclusions3. EtruriaThe Monteleone di Spoleto ChariotThe First Pania PyxisThe Ambush of TroilosFifth-century MirrorsAchilleus' Immolation of Trojan YouthsThe Torre San Severo SarcophagusAftermath and ConclusionsConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Greece Rome and the Bill of Rights
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Taylor & Francis Studies on Constantinople
Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to the history, monuments and topography of Byzantine Constantinople, and includes two specially written pieces, as well as up-dates to the studies reprinted. Many of the articles deal with the imperial constructions of the first centuries of the Cityâs existence - for instance, the columns of Constantine and Justinian, the Mausoleum of the Holy Apostles and the churches of St Sophia, St John of Studius, and Sts Sergius and Bacchus - structures which provided the basic monumental framework around which Constantinople developed and its life was lived. In his reconstruction of these monuments and their history, Cyril Mango demonstrates how much can be achieved by combining the information gained from meticulous examination of the written sources, whether contemporary or from post-medieval travellers, with that provided by the surviving buildings themselves and the remains that have been excavated. Ce volume, vouà à lâhistoire, aux monuments et à la topographTable of ContentsContents: The development of Constantinople as an urban centre; Constantinopolitana; Constantine’s column; Constantine’s porphyry column and the chapel of St Constantine; Constantine’s mausoleum and the translation of relics (with addendum); Three imperial Byzantine sarcophagi discovered in 1750; A newly-discovered Byzantine imperial sarcophagus; The Fourteenth Region of Constantinople; Epigrammes honorifiques, statues et portraits à Byzance; The columns of Justinian and his successors; Justinian’s equestrian statue; The date of the Studius basilica at Istanbul; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus at Constantinople and the alleged tradition of octagonal palatine churches; The church of Sts Sergius and Bacchus once again; On the history of the templon and the martyrion of St Artemios at Constantinople; A 12th-century description of St Sophia; The conciliar edict of 1166; A Russian graffito in St Sophia, Constantinople; A note on Panagia Kamariotissa and some imperial foundations of the 10th and 11th centuries at Constantinople; The date of the Anonymous Russian Description of Constantinople; The work of M.I. Nomidis in the Vefa Kilise Camii, Istanbul (1937-38); Addenda; Index.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Iliad
Book SynopsisGripping. . . . Lombardo''s achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer''s dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic. Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"It is hard to overstate the attractions of this translation. In a rhythm sinewy and flexible, with language that is precise, lyrical and fresh, Lombardo's Iliad pulses with all the power and luminosity of the Greek. He shows extraordinary sensitivity to the images and aural effects of the ancient poem. There are brilliant touches on every page. . . . Altogether this is as good as Homer gets in English." —Richard P. Martin, Princeton University"The most daring, rapid and colloquial translation of Homer's Iliad that I know. [Lombardo's] taut and punchy verse conveys admirably and accurately the excitement and desperation of the battle, the urgency of the commanders, the occasional flashes of humor, the passion of Homer's narrative and the vivid and subtle humanity of his characters." —Richard Janko, University College, London"Lombardo's Iliad should be required for every History of Civilization class in America!" —David R. Wilson, Brigham Young University"[R]emarkably true to the centrality of performance in Homer, the varied pacing and tone, the clarity, speed, narrative drive, and moments of breathtaking beauty." —Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University"Homer has been well served in recent years by good translators. But this reviewer predicts that the dominant translation for the 21st century will be this masterful version by Stanley Lombardo. . . . In her extremely useful Introduction, Murnaghan lucidly summarizes and makes available for the student and general reader the results of complex scholarship on Homer, and she offers sensitive guidance for reading the Iliad as a work that documents the triumph of the human spirit and not merely as a war poem." —Leon Golden, CHOICE"Accessible as Lombardo's translation is, it is rendered even more so by the superb Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan, which provides a rich but lucid discussion of the classical context of the epic. This handsome, superbly done Iliad will be enjoyed by everyone. Highly recommended." —T. F. Merrill, Library Journal
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Caique Publishing Ltd John Henry Haynes A Photographer and
Book SynopsisVirtually unknown today, John Henry Haynes (1849-1910) may be regarded as the father of American archaeological photography. His travels took him from Athens to Istanbul and on to Mesopotamia. In this landmark study, now revised with additional unpublished photographs published for the first time, Robert G. Ousterhout assesses his unique blend of artistry and documentation. Although he had scant academic credentials and just a short training in ''aesthetic'' photography, John Henry Haynes broke new ground. In 1900 he uncovered an astounding cache of 23,000 cuneiform tablets that told us much of what we know about the Sumerian literary tradition. And with his discerning eye and artistic sensibility, he captured astonishing sights, many never photographed before, and many no longer in existence. Ultimately he was the victim of rivalry, snobbery and outright skulduggery and died ''broken in body and spirit''.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Early Life; Sailing to Assos: A Foothold in the East; Travels with a Camera: Anatolia, Syria and Mesopotamia; Baghdad and Beyond: The Unsung Hero of Nippur; An Eye for the Picturesque: The Photographer as Artist; Coda
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Robert Peterswald History of the World from the Back of a Boat
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Orpington Publishers Santorini Thira The Lost Island of Atlantis Put
Book SynopsisThe myth of how Poseidon, God of the sea, was given the island, and how the people angered him and he caused their deaths in the eruption. The Caldera and the Akrotiri Archaeological site. It is one of six 'Put It in Your Pocket series' on Greek islands.
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Orpington Publishers Corinth St Paul and the Goddess of Love All You
Book SynopsisThe temple of Aphrodite on Acrocorinth. Sr. Paul's time in Corinth - What did he knew about Aphrodite? The temple of Apollo. Sr. Paul's peltens to the Corinthians expressing his anxiety.
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Cambridge University Press The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria
Book SynopsisThe first sustained study of Hero, who is a key figure in the history of technology in antiquity and the early modern period. It also contributes much to the history of the book and to an understanding of the broader role of material texts in supporting technical and scientific investigation.
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Cambridge University Press Choral Tragedy
Book SynopsisRe-examines the chorus in Greek tragedy and argues for the fundamentally poetic and musical nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which it was performed.
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Cambridge University Press Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automata down to the figural assimilation between body parts and products of human craft in Greek and Roman medicine.
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Cambridge University Press The Lives of Ancient Villages
Book SynopsisOur conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity, and almost never as historical actors. This book is the first extended historical ethnography of an ancient village society, based on an extraordinarily rich body of funerary and propitiatory inscriptions from a remote upland region of Roman Asia Minor. Rural kinship structures and household forms are analysed in detail, as are the region''s demography, religious life, gender relations, class structure, normative standards and values. Roman north-east Lydia is perhaps the only non-urban society in the Greco-Roman world whose culture can be described at so fine-grained a level of detail: a world of tight-knit families, egalitarian values, hard agricultural labour, village solidarity, honour, piety and loveTable of Contents1. Hieradoumia; 2. Commemorative cultures; 3. Demography; 4. Kinship terminology; 5. Household forms; 6. The circulation of children; 7. Beyond the family; 8. Rural sanctuaries; 9. Village society; 10. City, village, kin-group.
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Cambridge University Press Poetry and Number in GraecoRoman Antiquity
Book SynopsisPoetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the less well-known isopsephic epigrams of Leonides of Alexandria and the anonymous arithmetical poems preserved in the Palatine Anthology, the book reveals the various roles that number played in ancient poetry. Focussing especially on counting and arithmetic, Max Leventhal demonstrates how the discussion, rejection or enacting of these two operations was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Practices of composing, reading, interpreting and critiquing poetry emerge in these texts as having a numerical component. The result is an illuminating new way of approaching Greek and Latin poetry and one that reaches across modern disciplinary divisions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Numbers Up; Part I. Counting and Criticism: 1. Callimachus and his Legacy; 2. Leonides of Alexandria's Isopsephic Epigrams; Part II. Arithmetic and Aesthetics: 3. Archimedes' Cattle Problem; 4. The Arithmetical Poems in A.P. 14; Conclusion: Summing Up Poetry.
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Cambridge University Press Roman Ionia
Book SynopsisHow did the cities of Ionia construct and express a distinct sense of Ionian identity under Roman rule? With the creation of the Roman province of Asia and the ever-growing incorporation of the Greeks into the Roman Empire, issues of identity gained new relevance and urgency for the Greek provincials. The Ionian cities are a special case as they, unlike many other cities in Asia Minor, were all old Greek poleis and could look back on a glorious tradition of great antiquity. Martin Hallmannsecker provides answers to this question using studies of the extant literary sources complemented with analyses of the rich epigraphic and numismatic material from the cities of Ionia. In doing so, he draws a more holistic and nuanced picture of the region and furthers understanding of Greek culture under the Roman Empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Mental geographies; 2. The Ionian Koinon; 3. Cults and myths; 4. Times and names; 5. The Ionic dialect; 6. Ionianness outside Ionia; Concluding remarks.
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Cambridge University Press Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of music at social recreations in antiquity, from private parties to festivals, demonstrating not only its diverse pleasures but also the various personal and social purposes it served.Table of ContentsGlossary of Musical Instruments; Introduction: The Topic and the Sources; 1. Sympotic Scenes and Songs; 2. The Gentleman's Lyre; 3. Hellenistic Evolutions; 4. Poets and Musicians at Upper-Class Greek Banquets; 5. Music and Elite Dining in the Roman Age; 6. Music at the Social Recreations of the Lower Classes; 7. Music at the Suppers and Feasts of the Jewish People; 8. Music at Christian Social Meals; 9. Purposes and Pleasures.
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Cambridge University Press Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman
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Cambridge University Press A Commentary on Ovids Metamorphoses Volume 1 General Introduction and Books 16
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Cambridge University Press A Commentary on Ovids Metamorphoses Volume 2 Books 712
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Cambridge University Press A Commentary on Ovids Metamorphoses Volume 3 Books 1315 and Indices
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Cambridge University Press An Archaeological Perspective on the History of
Book SynopsisThis volume represents an introduction to a new world-wide attempt to review the history of technology. It takes an explicit archaeological focus to the study of the history of technology and adopts a more explicit socially-embedded view of technology than has commonly been the case in mainstream histories of technology.Table of ContentsPreface; Setting the Scene; What is technology?; Earlier Approaches to the History of Technology; Varying Theoretical Approaches to the History of Technology; Cultural Logics and Materials; Spatial and Temporal Orders of Technology; How Does Technology Change?; Technology Transfer; Technological Choice and 'Intentionality'; Final Thoughts.
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Cambridge University Press Terence Andria
Book SynopsisAs the first play of the Terentian corpus, Andria has always attracted a special level of attention. It was the first Roman comedy produced after antiquity (at Florence in 1476) and the first translated into English, and it has inspired writers from Jonson and Dryden to Thornton Wilder. It provides an excellent introduction to Terence ''s particular style of comedy, noteworthy for its ambivalence in representing the perspectives of woman and slaves and its experiments with a secondary plot line. The commentary is designed both to help students with the basic linguistic and technical problems confronting inexperienced readers of Roman comedy and to open discussion of essential interpretive questions involving the play and its relation to the wider comic corpus, as well as the utility of comedy for furthering our understanding of the Roman world and its values.Trade Review'The Commentary is of a very high quality. In addition to ensuring that matters of dramaturgy are constantly and fully dealt with, changes of scene or act being notably well handled (there is a good example at [IV.i], lines 625–83) G. is alive to every nuance of Terence's Latinity and style … Any student who is called upon to work on this play will assuredly find all (s)he needs in this outstanding and authoritative edition.' Colin Leach, Classics for AllTable of ContentsIntroduction; P. Terenti Afri Andria; Commentary; Appendix I. Alternative Ending(s); Appendix II. The Greek Models; Appendix III. Cicero's Andria; Works Cited; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Athletes and Artists in the Roman Empire
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of the associations of athletes and artists in the Roman empire. They were active across the Mediterranean world and played a key role in Greek festival culture. Due to their cultural activities and court and social connections, they left a distinctive stamp on Greco-Roman elite culture.
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Cambridge University Press Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThe Mediterranean basin was a multicultural region with a great diversity of linguistic, religious, social and ethnic groups. This dynamic social and cultural landscape encouraged extensive contact and exchange among different communities. This book seeks to explain what happened when different ethnic, social, linguistic and religious groups, among others, came into contact with each other, especially in multiethnic commercial settlements located throughout the region. What means did they employ to mediate their interactions? How did each group construct distinct identities while interacting with others? What new identities came into existence because of these contacts? Professor Demetriou brings together several strands of scholarship that have emerged recently, especially ethnic, religious and Mediterranean studies. She reveals new aspects of identity construction in the region, examining the Mediterranean as a whole, and focuses not only on ethnic identity but also on other types of collective identities, such as civic, linguistic, religious and social.Trade Review'The strength of the book lies in its successful integration of archaeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence, together with an impressive command of the bibliography relevant to each of the sites … this is a very useful book that has the virtue of presenting clear and concise syntheses of five emporia throughout the Mediterranean and of identifying evident patterns between them, thereby advancing further our understanding of the nature of Greek settlements overseas.' sehepunkte.de'… this book will be a welcome addition for researchers interested in the Ancient Mediterranean and, in particular, in the role of trade and religion in the organization of multicultural spaces.' Meritxell Ferrer-Martín, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Emporion; 2. Gravisca; 3. Naukratis; 4. Pistiros; 5. Peiraieus; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Greek Declamation and the Roman Empire
Book SynopsisRe-evaluates a genre that was central to the Greek literature of the high Roman empire. Rejecting traditional conceptions of the genre as 'nostalgic', it explores the significance of Greek declamation's re-enactment of classical history for its own times and how it contributed to identity formation, social interaction and political discussion.
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Cambridge University Press Fate and the Hero in Virgils Aeneid
Book SynopsisExplores how Virgil's incorporation of Stoic thought on human responsibility and providential world fate into the Aeneid permits a reassessment of the characterisation and morality of the poem's gods and heroes. Of interest to both students and professional scholars.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Stoic world fate and Virgil's Aeneid; 2. Fate and the human responsibility of dido and Aeneas in Aeneid 4: a case study; 3. Stoic world fate and the gods of the Aeneid; 4. Stoic world fate and the humans of the Aeneid; 5. Stoic world fate and roman imperium in the Aeneid; Tragedy and didacticism; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Christianization of Knowledge in Late
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Cambridge University Press The Aztec Economy
Book SynopsisThe Aztec world was complex, hierarchical, and multifaceted, and was in a constant state of demographic growth, recoveries from natural disasters, political alignments and realignments, and aggressive military engagements. This Element provides a synthesis and updated examination of the Aztec economy (13251521 AD).Table of Contents1. Space and Time in the Aztec World; 2. Domestic Economy; 3. Institutional Economy; 4. Specialization; 5. Forms of Distribution and Commercialization; 6. Economic Development; 7. Future Directions; References.
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Cambridge University Press Tiberius to Nero
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of ContentsPart I. Sources: 1. Section A: The acts of the Arval brothers; 2. Section B: List of Consuls, AD 14 to 68; 3. Section C: Velleius Paterculus, History of Rome, 2.124-131; 4. Section D: Philo, Embassy to Gaius (selections); 5. Section E: Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 19.1-275; 6. Section F: Seneca, Apocolocyntosis; 7. Section G: Seneca, On Clemency (selections); 8. Section H: Octavia (selections); Part II. Themes: 9. Section J: Imperial family; 10. Section K: Rome and Italy; 11. Section L: Religion and imperial cult; 12. Section M: Administration of empire; 13. Section N: War and expansion; 14. Section P: Conspiracies, revolts and scandals; 15. Section Q: Popular entertainment; 16. Section R: Learning, literature, arts and culture; 17. Section S: Slaves and freedmen; 18. Section T: Tyranny; Panegyric or invective; 19. Section U: Upper Classes.
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Cambridge University Press The Persian Empire from Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of ContentsPart I. The Rise of Persia: 1. Cyrus I (1); 2. The inscriptions of Ariaramnes and Arsames (2-3); 3. Cyrus II (4-17); 4. Cambyses II (18-29); 5. Bardiya (30-42); Part II. The Persian Empire Under the First Three Achaemenid Kings: 6. Darius I (43-60); 7. Xerxes I (61-75); 8. Artaterxes I (76-93); Part III. The Organisation and Administration of the Persian Empire; Religion in the Empire: 9. Persian Kingship (94-122); 10. The Administration of the Empire (123-158); 11. Royal women (159-180); 12. Travel in the Empire (168-172); 13. Religion in the Empire (191-205).
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Cambridge University Press Dio
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Dio: Greek aristocrat and Roman politician; 2. Dio and the writing of history, c. A.D. 200; 3. The nature of Dio's history; 4. The purpose of Dio's history; 5. Conclusion: Dio's value as a historical source; 6. Cassius Dio, Roman History, Books 58-63: Selections; 7. Historical commentary.
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Cambridge University Press From the Gracchi to Sulla
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Brief Notes on the Sources and Authorities; 3. The Sources.
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Cambridge University Press The Culture of Athens
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Attica; 2. Society; 3. Civic life; 4. Education; 5. Religion; 6. The arts; 7. The sciences; 8. Philosophy; 9. Sport and recreation.
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Cambridge University Press Literary Sources for Roman Britain
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. From Caesar to Claudius (55 BC-AD 41); 2. The first century (AD 41-98); 3. The second century (AD 98-193); 4. Severus and the third century (AD 193-284); 5. Carausius and the fourth century (AD 284-410).
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Cambridge University Press The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
Book SynopsisWhat makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Julia Kindt unpacks ten ancient stories of marvelous mythical beings to explore bold new ways of thinking about humanity that reach from antiquity to the present and ultimately challenge our understanding of who we really are.Trade Review'Julia Kindt has found a miraculous new lens through which to scrutinise our oldest, most loved stories and find in them colours, shapes and qualities that we have never really seen before. Humankind's relationship with animals has been examined through archaeology, history and art, but never before, to my knowledge, through myth, legend and story. The insights that this absorbing and imaginative approach reveal are enthralling and profound. The stories are told with wit, imagination and sparkle; the animals who star in them brought wondrously to life.' Stephen Fry'Kindt's wide-ranging volume tackles a question seldom addressed in the ever-expanding literature of ancient animal studies: how do non-human animals make us human? Investigating this question through an examination of ten animals and animal types that appear in classical mythology and history and live on in recent literature and art, she offers fresh insights on issues central to ancient animal studies, including the nature of animal intellect and emotion, the ethical obligations of human beings toward other species, and the significance of hybridity and metamorphosis. Kindt's scrupulously researched yet highly readable text will prove informative and stimulating to classical scholars and non-specialists alike.' Stephen T. Newmyer, Duquesne University'In this beautifully written and timely book, Julia Kindt provides a fascinating account of how humans use real and imaginary animals to think about what it means to be human and an eloquent defence of the power of storytelling. With each of its chapters comparing classical and modern sources in innovative, accessible and engaging ways, The Trojan Horse and Other Stories is sure to start an important conversation about how the ancient world foreshadows our contemporary consideration of the human-animal relation.' Chris Danta, Australian National University'The stories from ancient Greece are foundational for all our imaginations – and they are some of the best and long-lasting stories we have! Julia Kindt is a wonderful guide to what they are, what they mean and how they have influenced us.' Simon Goldhill, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Sphinx (Sphinx aenigmatica); 2. Xanthus, Achilles' Speaking Horse (Equus eloquens); 3. The Lion of Androclus (Panthera leo philanthropus); 4. The Cyclops (Cyclops inhospitalis); 5. The Trojan Horse (Equus troianus); 6. The 'Trojan' Boar (Aper troianus ostentator); 7. The Political Bee (Apis politica); 8. The Socratic Gadfly (Haematopota oxyglotta socratis); 9. The Minotaur (Hybrida minotaurus); 10. The Shearwaters of Diomedea (Calonectris diomedea transformata); Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Industry Trade and the State in Ptolemaic Egypt
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Cambridge University Press Social Change across the End of the Aegean Bronze Age
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Cambridge University Press Reassessing the Peloponnesian War
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Cambridge University Press Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography
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Legare Street Press Chronological Tables of Greek History Accompanied
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Legare Street Press Greece Under the Romans a Historical View of the
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Legare Street Press Summary Outlines of the History of Rome microform
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LEGARE STREET PR The Greek View of Life
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