Ancient history Books
iUniverse Time Frames and Taboo Data A history of mankinds misdirected beliefs A History of Mankinds Misdirected Beliefs
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iUniverse The Ghost in the Gospels The True Story of How Jesus Died and How We All Missed It for 2000 Years
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iUniverse Once Upon an Island
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iUniverse Spare Me the Details A Short History of Western Civilization
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iUniverse HOW ROME FELL A READABLE ACCOUNT OF GIBBONS DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
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iUniverse In Defense of Nature The History Nobody Told You About
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iUniverse Atlantis The Origin of a Legend
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iUniverse MegaTsunami The True Story of the Hebrew Exodus from Egypt
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iUniverse Time Frames and Taboo Data A history of mankinds misdirected beliefs
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iUniverse Ancient Macedonians Differences Between The Ancient Macedonians and The Ancient Greeks
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Beowulf Books The Mathisen Corollary Connecting a Global Flood with the Mystery of Mankinds Ancient Past
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp From Rivets and Rails Recipes of a Railroad Boarding House Cookbook
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Armenian Cililization Armenian Civilization Stone to Middle Ages
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Mervyn Nel Postcard From Maribor
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Manticore Press Rigorism
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Hopscotch Studio Magdala
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Indigo Dragon Innovations Pty Ltd The Path of Shadows Chthonic Gods Oneiromancy Necromancy in Ancient Greece
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Indigo Dragon Innovations Pty Ltd IndoEuropean Mythology and Religion
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Imperium Press Iliad Imperium Press
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Presbyterian Publishing Corporation A Biblical History of Israel Second Edition
Book SynopsisFor over a decade, A Biblical History of Israel has gathered praise and criticism for its unapologetic approach to reconstructing the historical landscape of ancient Israel through a biblical lens. In this much-anticipated second edition, the authors reassert that the Old Testament should...Trade Review"The history of Israel and the relevance of the biblical testimony to understanding it continue to be contested areas. Building on the work of their previous edition by clarifying points of dispute and updating their discussion, Provan, Long, and Longman offer a thoughtful and well-reasoned argument in favor of giving serious attention to the Bible's own testimony. A crucial element of this must therefore be a careful reading of the text itself, one that takes seriously its own forms and agenda, because only when this is done can the Bible's testimony be evaluated. One of the real strengths of this work is the way in which it integrates careful exegesis with its wider discussion of historiography and history. This discussion is irenic and well-informed, showing that all our sources for Israel's history need to be interrogated for their testimony. The result is a volume that is epistemologically and methodologically sophisticated and yet accessible to a wider readership and which presents a strong case for making use of the Bible in understanding Israel's history. This should be a standard work for years to come." -David G. Firth, Lecturer in Old Testament and Director of Studies, St. John's College in Nottingham, England "A sober, disciplined, well-reasoned response to the so-called minimalists who have dominated recent discussion of the history of ancient Israel. A Biblical History correctly insists that the 'historical reliability' of ancient texts largely depends on which testimonies to trust. The consequence is that the skepticism that has long dominated Old Testament discussion can no longer claim a privileged position-either epistemologically or morally-but in fact is an ideological advocacy. This book will need to be taken seriously and will be welcomed by all those who engage such issues of the historicity of the biblical text." -Walter Brueggemann, William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Last Toltec King
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rape in Antiquity
Book SynopsisA collection of 12 original essays providing an overview of how Greeks and Romans perceived the phenomenon of rape. Using the numerous references to rape in Greek legal speeches, comedy, tragedy, visual art and myth, the perceived victims and degree of seriousness of rape is assessed.Trade Review'... provides a rare and sensitive understanding of rape in the ancient world' Nick Kochan, Financial Times
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila
Book SynopsisE.A. Thompson was the author of, among other works, 'The Early Germans' (1965), 'The Goths in Spain' (1969), 'Romans and Barbarians' (1982) and 'Saint Germanus of Auxerre and the End of Roman Britain' (1984).Trade Review'"The Visigoths in the Time of Ulfila" remains one of the best books ever written on the history of any barbarian group of the Roman era. The present edition will allow a new generation of readers to discover as much for themselves.' Michael Kulikowski
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Interpreting the Athenian Empire
Book SynopsisJohn Ma is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UKNikolaos Papazarkadas is Assistant Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley, USARobert Parker is Wykeham Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford, UK
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Latrinae et foricae Toilets in the Roman World
Book SynopsisBarry Hobson was a GP until he retired and undertook a degree and Research Masters degree in Archaeology at the University of Bradford, UK. He has spent twelve seasons working at Pompeii and has travelled extensively looking for evidence of Roman toilets.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Reading Ancient Slavery
Book SynopsisRichard Alston is Professor of Roman History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.Edith Hall is Research Professor at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.Laura Proffitt is Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Costume in Greek Tragedy
Book SynopsisRosie Wyles is Leverhulme Research Fellow, University of Nottingham.Trade ReviewThis introductory study is highly informative and is not restricted to costume alone but handles various issues relating to general theater topics. It is a well-focused monograph that attempts to furnish answers to various vexing questions that deal with costume. -- Marios Philippides, University of Massachusetts Amherst * New England Classical Journal *The first extended study of its kind in half a century, Rosie Wyles' Costume in Greek Tragedy synthesizes and in many areas advances scholarly discussion of fifth-century Greek tragic costume. With attention to detail, Wyles mines deeply the well-worked visual and verbal evidence, offering interpretations which take both theatrical semiotics and reception theory into account ... Costume in Greek Tragedy gives a crucial and complex component of Attic drama the modern, book-length study it deserves. -- Al Duncan, University of Utah * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Xlibris Corporation The Shining Ones An Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Egyptian Civilization
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Xlibris Corporation The Shores of Wisdom
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Xlibris Corporation The Shores of Wisdom
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DK Imperial China
Book SynopsisExplore the long and rich history of China's great dynasties.From the clans and legends of prehistory to the last Qing emperor, this book brings China's imperial history to life through its pivotal events, political forces, and powerful people, in a stunning collaboration between British and Chinese publishing houses.Covering more than 5,000 years of history and featuring images of artifacts not previously seen outside of China, this definitive visual guide will captivate readers with the key events that shaped Chinese history and laid the foundations of the modern nation. Starting with prehistory and early humans, Imperial China sets the scene for the arrival of China's first dynasty and reveals how the warring states of early China gave birth to the emperor-led dynasties - and China's long imperial age. With illuminating features on important historical figures, cultural achievements, and philosophy - such as the rise of Confucianism and the silk and teaTrade Review“This reasonably priced illustrated book deserves display.” —Booklist
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Byzantium in the Popular Imagination
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Redhook Kaikeyi
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AuthorHouse The Pillars of the Temple
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Springer Agora Academy and the Conduct of Philosophy
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Springer The Emotions in Hellenistic Philosophy
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers Ancient Israel and Ancient Greece
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Essays Ancient and Modern
Trade ReviewThis collection of essays is the work of a man whom one would like to have as a friend. It deserves to have a great success. -- Jasper Griffin New York Review of Books 1989Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I. The Ancient WorldChapter 1. Greek Literature & SocietyChapter 2. The Greek PolisPart II. The Modern WorldChapter 3. Survivals & TransformationsChapter 4. On Poets & PoetryChapter 5. From Madrid to the Garden of the Finzi-Contini
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service The Criminal Law of Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisGrouping offenses functionally into five chapters, she examines crimes committed for gain, crimes involving violence, sexual offenses, offenses against the state, and offenses against the due ordering of society.Trade ReviewThis is a short book for Roman lawyers in a hurry, with punchy chapters outlining the various criminal offenses that the Roman law recognized. The point of the book is chiefly to outline what the law was; procedure and punishment are dealt with summarily. The substantive law is reconstructed by economically leavening material from books forty-seven and -eight of the Digest with other legal and literary evidence. -- J. E. Lendon Classical Journal Robinson's book is most welcome. Bryn Mawr Classical Review Robinson discusses the framework within which the law operated and the nature of criminal responsibility. She looks particularly at the criminal law in Rome as it was established in the Late Republic under Sulla's system of standing jury-courts. Law and Social Inquiry
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Birth Death and Motherhood in Classical Greece
Book SynopsisShe draws relevant details from cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries, labor scenes depicted on tombstones, Aristophanic comedy, andPlatonic philosophy.Trade ReviewDemand's book brings welcome light to the problems that pregnant women are likely to have faced in Greek antiquity, and to the ways in which a male-dominated society sought to understand and manage women's necessary role in procreation. Classical Review There is much here to provoke thought and not least because the author believes that male control of female reproductivity was woven inextricably into the institutions of the polis. Greece and Rome A wide-ranging and general account, using written and visual evidence to focus, above all, on women as child-bearers, brought up and socialized through rituals to bear children for the family and the state, in patterns of early and frequent childbirth which were, contradictorily, damaging to their and their children's health or survival. -- Nick Fisher Times Literary Supplement
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Financing the Athenian Fleet Public Taxation and Social Relations
Book SynopsisHe concludes with a discussion of the broader implications of the relationship between Athens' democracy and its wealthiest citizens.Trade ReviewA very valuable book. Gabrielsen offers a comprehensive and careful investigation of the trierarchy which goes beyond the reconstruction of fiscals and military realia to place the institution in its social context. Greece and Rome All will appreciate the significance of Gabrielsen's book, for he has demonstrated, more clearly than his predecessors in the study of the trierarchy, the delicate balance between the state and the 'private sector' in this supreme military installation. -- Mark Munn American Historical Review 1996Table of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: The Establishment of the Institution1. The Origin of the TrierarchyPart II: Qualifications for the Trierarchy2. Qualifications by Wealth3. Appointment4. ExemptionsPart III: Financial Responsibilities5. The Crew6. The Ship7. The EquipmentPart IV: Institutional Transformation8. The ReformsEpilogueAppendix: Standard EquipmentNotesBibliographyIndex
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co David Remembered Kingship and National Identity in Ancient Israel
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