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Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Methods

Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Methods

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Greek Mythology

Greek Mythology

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The Birth of Athenian Democracy

The Birth of Athenian Democracy

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Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners

Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners

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In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

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'Never less than compelling ... She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review'Starts with an erupting volcano - and...
The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story and a mischievous feminist retelling of Chaucer's tale, a funny, seductive and bold page-turning novel

The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story and a mischievous

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In the middle ages, a poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to...
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women

Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's

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'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A superb...
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII

Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017 Born into nobility and married into the royal family, Catherine Howard was attended every waking hour - secrets were impossible...
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that

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You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient...
Celtic Goddesses and Their Spells: Discover Your Inner Goddess Through These Amazing Divinities

Celtic Goddesses and Their Spells: Discover Your Inner Goddess Through

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The Celtic goddesses and druids were legendary beings. Now these heavenly spirits have personal relationships with us in everything we do. All females are divinely attuned to goddesses from birth...
Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax

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Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor...
The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles That Saved Democracy

The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic

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The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of democracy, fought off the mighty Persian Empire. This is the story of the three epic battles--Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis--that...
Etruscans, The

Etruscans, The

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This volume accompanies Palazzo Grassi's exhibition on the Etruscans. It contains 20 chapters by prominent scholars on diverse topics such as Etruscan city building, language, slavery and trade. Illustrations display...
Plantagenet Princes: Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

Plantagenet Princes: Sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II

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When Count Henry of Anjou and his formidable wife Eleanor of Aquitaine became king and queen of England, they amassed an empire stretching 1,000 miles from the Pyrenees to the...
Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical

Greek Gems and Finger Rings: Early Bronze Age to Late Classical

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The miniaturist art of gem engraving is the least familiar of the major arts of ancient Greece, yet we know it to have been practiced by the greatest artists. This...
Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace

Insurrection: Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and the Pilgrimage of Grace

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Autumn 1536. Both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn are dead. Henry VIII has married Jane Seymour, and still awaits his longed-for male heir. Disaffected conservatives in England may have...
Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction

Cleopatra: Fact and Fiction

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Cleopatra is one of the greatest romantic figures in history, the queen of Egypt whose beauty and allure is legendary. We think we know her story, but our image of...
Roman Military Disasters

Roman Military Disasters

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There is a tendency when dealing with world superpowers to focus on their successes. After all, these are what made them superpowers in the first place. However, reverses and disasters...
Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia - An Environmental-Archaeological Study

Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia - An Environmental-

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In Origins of Agriculture in Western Central Asia, archaeologist David R. Harris addresses questions of when, how, and why agriculture and settled village life began east of the Caspian Sea....
Sparta: Unfit for Empire

Sparta: Unfit for Empire

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The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might have been secure. As...
Ten Gifts of the Demiurge: Proclus on Plato's Timaeus

Ten Gifts of the Demiurge: Proclus on Plato's Timaeus

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Proclus' commentary on Plato's "Timaeus" is perhaps the most important surviving Neoplatonic commentary. In it Proclus contemplates nature's mysterious origins and at the same time employs the deductive rigour required...
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization

A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts

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The ancient Greeks were a wonderful people. They gave us democracy, drama, and philosophy, and many forms of art and branches of science would be inconceivable without their influence. And...
The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases

The Colors of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases

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Between June and September 2006, the J. Paul Getty Museum hosted a groundbreaking exhibition of ancient Athenian vases made using techniques other than the well-known black- and red-figure styles."The Colors...
The Middle Bronze Age IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report, AASOR 62

The Middle Bronze Age IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report, AASOR 62

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Includes 164 b/w figures and 18 tables. Gesher is a small Middle Bronze Age IIA cemetery site located in the central Jordan Valley in Israel. Initial excavations in 1986-1987 indicated...
Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 8: Meroitic Remains from Qustul Cemetery Q, Ballana Cemetery B, and a Ballana Settlement

Excavations Between Abu Simbel and the Sudan Frontier, Part 8:

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This volume, the fifth to publish the results of Seele's two seasons of excavations in Nubia, presents Meroitic materials from two large cemeteries and a small settlement at the southern...
Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics (Texts 137-223)

Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 3.1: Sources on Physics

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This volume forms part of the large international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh and others. Together with volumes comprising the text and translations,...
Romanization in the Time of Augustus

Romanization in the Time of Augustus

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During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion,...
Battles of Ancient China

Battles of Ancient China

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In the field of military history as in so many others, the Chinese have often been both admired and seen as something utterly mysterious and inscrutable. Chris Peers illuminates the...
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris

Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris

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Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been blighted in youth are brought together for mutual salvation and for the healing...
Roman Conquests: Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia

Roman Conquests: Asia Minor, Syria and Armenia

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While conquering Greece and Macedonia the Romans defeated an intervention by the Seleucid Empire, the most powerful of the Hellenistic states founded by Alexander the Great's successors. Soon Roman armies...
Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored: Reading Plato's Phaedrus and Writing the Soul

Ordinary Oblivion and the Self Unmoored: Reading Plato's Phaedrus and

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Rapp begins with a question posed by the poet Theodore Roethke: "Should we say that the self, once perceived, becomes a soul?" Through her examination of Plato's Phaedrus and her...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go

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Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
Attila the Hun

Attila the Hun

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A gripping account of how and why the legendary 'scourge of God' was able to inscribe his legacy into the annals of military history.One of the most powerful men in...
The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the Trucial States and United Arab Emirates 1951-1980

The Military and Police Forces of the Gulf States: Volume 1 the

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This book provides an overview of the military forces, and their antecedents, of the Arabian Gulf States. Most were British Protected States, resulting in their armed forces being heavily influenced...
Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek

Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European

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This book investigates how semivowels were realized in Indo-European and in early Greek. More specifically, it examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what...
The Crisis of Rome: The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of Marius

The Crisis of Rome: The Jugurthine and Northern Wars and the Rise of

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In the later 2nd century BC, after a period of rapid expansion and conquest, the Roman Republic found itself in crisis. In North Africa her armies were already bogged down...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire

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A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age

1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age

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The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nations--France; the nascent United States;...
Boudica's Last Stand: Britain's Revolt against Rome AD 60-61

Boudica's Last Stand: Britain's Revolt against Rome AD 60-61

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In 61 AD, Roman rule in Britain was threatened by a bloody revolt led by one of the most iconic figures in British history. Legend dictates that Boudica destroyed three...
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great

The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great

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From the editor of the widely praised Landmark series comes The Landmark Arrian- The Campaigns of Alexander, the account from classical Greece of the conquests of the greatest military leader...
Athenian Potters and Painters III

Athenian Potters and Painters III

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Athenian Potters and Painters III presents a rich mass of new material on Greek vases, including finds from excavations at the Kerameikos in Athens and Despotiko in the Cyclades. Some...
Sinews of Empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and Beyond

Sinews of Empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and Beyond

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A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance,...
Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad

Socratic Virtue: Making the Best of the Neither-Good-Nor-Bad

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Socrates was not a moral philosopher. Instead he was a theorist who showed how human desire and human knowledge complement one another in the pursuit of human happiness. His theory...
Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East

Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East

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In 53BC the Proconsul Marcus Crassus and 36,000 of his legionaries were crushed by the Parthians at Carrhae in what is now eastern Turkey. Crassus' defeat and death and the...
The Island of Seven Cities: The Discovery of a Lost Chinese Settlement in North America

The Island of Seven Cities: The Discovery of a Lost Chinese Settlement

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"The Island of Seven Cities" unveils the first tangible proof that the Chinese settled in the New World before Columbus. In the summer of 2003, architect Paul Chiasson decided to...
Sparta: Unfit for Empire

Sparta: Unfit for Empire

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The end of the Peloponnesian War saw Sparta emerge as the dominant power in the Greek world. Had she used this position wisely her hegemony might have been secure. As...
The Book of the Pharaohs

The Book of the Pharaohs

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The names of ancient Egyptian kings such as Cheops, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II have become part of popular culture. Yet, for all the tombs and statuary that have survived over...
The Roman Way

The Roman Way

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In this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides...