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The World of Pompeii
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95This all embracing survey of Pompeii provides the most comprehensive survey of the region available. With contributions by well-known experts in the field, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also ? for the first time ? the buried surrounding cities of Campania. The World of Pompeii includes the latest understanding of the region, based on the... more...
Gewalt und Ästhetik
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 126.00Violence and the forms of its representation are a long neglected central element of Classical Greece. After reviewing the history of the 5th century BC with its intensive experience of violence, the studies in this volume examine the tension between violence and aesthetics in the fields of myth, cult, and literature with particular reference to tragedy... more...
Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 86.00Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns. more...
Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his World
BRILL 2008; US$ 221.00Ptolemy II Philadelphus, second Macedonian king of Egypt (282-246BC), captured intellectual high ground by founding the Alexandrian Library and Museum, and cemented celebrity status by bankrolling his courtesans' endeavours in Olympic chariot-racing. This book analyses a range of key aspects of Phiadelphus' world. more...
Griekse atleten in de Romeinse Keizertijd
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 70.50De Griekse atletiek bloeide als nooit tevoren onder het imperium Romanum. Gedurende de eerste eeuwen van de christelijke jaartelling werden in grote delen van het Middellandse Zeegebied ? in Italië, Griekenland, Klein-Azië, de Levant en Egypte ? talrijke sportwedstrijden georganiseerd waarbij hardlopers, boksers, worstelaars, pankratiasten en vijfkampers... more...
Finders Keepers
Little, Brown and Company 2010; US$ 11.99To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero--or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story--an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of... more...
Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries of the Ancient World
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 108.00This reference work describes the trial-and-error experiments, discoveries, and inventions of early humans who lived from before recorded history to the Middle Ages. Krebs travels through the ancient periods of Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica, to the classical Greek and Roman periods, and finally to the Christian era, providing students with the link... more...
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea , his fourth volume to explore ?the hinges of history,? Thomas Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining?and historically unassailable?journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. In the city-states of Athens and Sparta and throughout the Greek islands,... more...
The Goddess and the Bull
Free Press 2010; US$ 27.00Thousands of years before the pyramids were built in Egypt and the Trojan War was fought, a great civilization arose on the Anatolian plains. The Goddess and the Bull details the dramatic quest by archaeologists to unearth the buried secrets of human cultural evolution at this huge, spectacularly well-preserved 9,500-year-old village in Turkey.... more...
The History of Rome (Livy's Rome), Books 1 to 36
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99Livy's History of Rome was in demand from the publication of the first packet. Livy became so famous that a man from Cadiz travelled to Rome just to see him, and once he had seen, returned home. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. more...









