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The Triumph Of The Meek: Why Early Christianity Succeeded
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Author: Michael WalshBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row., 1986Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical analysis The Triumph Of The Meek: Why Early...
The Catacombs: Rediscovered Monuments Of Early Christianity
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Author: J StevensonBinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work, The Catacombs: Rediscovered Monuments Of...
The Life And Times Of Cleopatra
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Author: Carlo Maria FranzeroBinding: PaperbackPublished: HERON BOOKS, 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling historical biography The Life And Times...
Passages From Antiquity To Feudalism
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Author: Perry AndersonBinding: PaperbackPublished: -Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis seminal work of historical scholarship chronicles the profound transformations that...
The Vedas: Harmony, Meditation And Fulfilment
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Author: Jeanine MillerBinding: HardbackPublished: -Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe illuminating work The Vedas: Harmony, Meditation And Fulfilment presents an insightful journey into ancient Indian wisdom, illuminating the...
Pharsalia: Dramatic Episodes Of The Civil Wars
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Author: LucanBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis epic poem vividly chronicles the brutal civil war that tore apart the Roman Republic,...
The Biblical Theology Of Saint Irenaeus
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Author: John LawsonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Epworth Press, 1948Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Reading copy with minimal markings in grey lead. This distinguished...
The Trial Of Jesus Of Nazareth
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Author: S. G. F. BrandonBinding: HardbackPublished: DORSET PRESS, 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis scholarly work meticulously chronicles the historical and theological complexities surrounding one of...
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates,
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of...
How to Win a Roman Chariot Race: Lives, Legends and Treasures from the
Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology and philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, using her expert eye to unearth unexpected gems, glittering fragments and...
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the
The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains...
The Old Straight Track
A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside. A beautiful new edition...
Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind
Bestselling author Harry Sidebottom takes readers on a thrilling journey through a day in the life of the best-known figure of the ancient world- the Roman gladiator Bestselling author Harry...
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and deliberately extinguished the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to...
Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe
A brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been misrepresented and co-opted over centuries for political, nation-building ends. By Professor Janina Ramirez, bestselling historian and author of FEMINA...
Landscapes and Desire: Revealing Britain's Sexually Inspired Sites
From Stonehenge and Avebury to 18th-century pleasure gardens, some surprising Victorian outbreaks and the 20th century's landscapes of desire, Cathy Tuck shows how the natural cycle of fertility has been...
First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army
This is a unique book to accompany an extraordinary new exhibition of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th centuries, the Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of...
Egypt After the Pharaohs
The 1000 years between Alexander the Great's invasion in 332 BC and the Arab conquest in AD 642 was a period of enormous change in the history of Egypt. The...
Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living
A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served...
The Making of Late Antiquity
Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society in the second, third, and fourth centuries. Brown interprets the changes in social patterns and religious thought, breaking away from conventional...
Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World
The era of late antiquity-from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth-was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade...
Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art
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The wall paintings and reliefs of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record a continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems...
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
The ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia has fascinated scholars and visitors alike since its rediscovery in the mid-19th century. All are wonderstruck by the beauty and multiplicity of the...
The City in the Greek and Roman World
The city for the Greeks and Romans was of paramount importance for their political, religious, and social life, Jnd this book provides an engaging study of both the differing concepts...
Art, Artefacts and Chronology in Classical Archaeology
The study of art history and archaeology depends substantially on dates which are given to artefacts and works of art. Very few students, however, have an understanding of matters of...
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of
In this rich and engaging book, Leonard Barkan tells the full cultural story of the emergence into daylight of the artworks of antiquity that had lain beneath Roman ground for...
The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France
The extraordinary richness of ancient Rome was a recurring inspiration to writers, artists, scholars, and architects in sixteenth-century France. This engrossing book explores the ways in which the perception of...
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The book titled The Fall of the Roman Empire by the author Michael Grant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Rock Art of the Dreamtime: Images of Ancient Australia
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This study takes readers on a journey through prehistory, from enigmatic finger markings and handstencils, found in the limestone caverns to life-size paintings of Ancestral Beings in the tropical north....
The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in
In Renaissance Rome, ancient ruins were preserved as often as they were mined for their materials. Although the question of what to preserve and how continued to be subject to...
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism...
The English Settlements
The English Settlements is a masterly account of the Dark Ages in the light of evidence from literary sources, the relevant archaeological remains both in England and on the Continent,...
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
A journey around the archeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain by the award-winning author of It's All Greek to Me. Shortlisted for the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize, the Thwaites...
The Odyssey: Translated by Robert Fitzgerald
The best poetic version of The Odyssey to have appeared this century - Hugh Lloyd-Jones Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years....
Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
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The book titled Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt by the author Barbara Mertz. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...
Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Ancient Greek and Roman Law
Throughout the twelve essays that appear in Ex Oriente Lex, Raymond Westbrook convincingly argues that the influence of Mesopotamian legal traditions and thought did not stop at the shores of...
Theodosius II: Rethinking the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity
Theodosius II (AD 408-450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its...
The White Rock: An Exploration of the Inca Heartland
The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered over thousands of...
Unbound from Rome: Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, ca. 650-250 BCE
An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within and beyond Rome's ever-changing political boundaries Roman art and architecture is...
The Renaissance In Rome
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Continuing the tradition of the Everyman Art Series, combining learned yet accessible text with high-quality illustrations, detailing Rome's rich cultural history in the Renaissance, dominated bt Papal authority.
Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece
In addition to their famous gods and goddesses, the ancient Greeks also worshiped deceased human beings, including child and baby heroes. Although these heroes played an essential role in Greek...
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the
Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the "engineering pope" Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity...
The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society 400-1800
Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the great importance of road transport in the...
The Last Pagan Emperor: Julian the Apostate and the War against
Flavius Claudius Julianus was the last pagan to sit on the Roman imperial throne (361-363). Born in Constantinople in 331 or 332, Julian was raised as a Christian, but apostatized,...
Primitive Man As Philosopher
Primitive Man as Philosopher is influential anthropologist and ethnologist Paul Radin's enduringly relevant survey of an array of aboriginal cultures and belief systems, including those of the Winnebago, Oglala Sioux,...
Pindar's Poetics of Immortality
Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who...
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power
With its emphasis on the dynasty's concern for control of the sea - both the Mediterranean and the Red Sea - and the Nile, this book offers a new and...