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  • Studying Gender in Classical Antiquityby Lin Foxhall

    Cambridge University Press 2013; Not Available

    Up-to-date, theoretically informed historical survey of the practices and performance of gender in ancient Greece and Rome. more...

  • Greece and Mesopotamiaby Johannes Haubold

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 76.00

    Proposes an exciting new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. more...

  • Crisis Management during the Roman Republicby Gregory K. Golden

    Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 76.00

    This book provides a detailed examination of internal and external crises in the Roman Republic, illuminating the inner workings of the Republic. more...

  • Law and Society in the Age of Theoderic the Greatby Sean D. W. Lafferty

    Cambridge University Press 2013; Not Available

    Provides new insights into Rome's collapse, challenging long-held assumptions that Theoderic's reign was a golden age for Italy. more...

  • Dreams, Healing, and Medicine in Greeceby Steven M. Oberhelman

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 119.95

    This volume centers on dreams in Greek medicine from the fifth-century B.C.E. Hippocratic Regimen down to the modern era. Medicine is here defined in a wider sense than just formal medical praxis, and includes non-formal medical healing methods such as folk pharmacopeia, religion, ’magical’ methods (e.g., amulets, exorcisms, and spells),... more...

  • The War of Horus and Setby David Mcintee; Mark Stacey

    Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95

    Egyptian mythology tells us that long ago the brother gods Osiris and Set ruled peacefully over the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, each in his own kingdom. But over time Set came to covet his brother's lands and crown, and eventually the temptation overwhelmed him. Usurping Osiris' throne, Set began a blood feud that spread war, death and mutilation... more...

  • New Kingdom Egyptby Mark Healy; Angus Mcbride

    Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 14.95

    Osprey's examination of the New Kingdom of Egypt (16th - 11th Century BC) and it's people. Builders of the Pyramids and most ancient of all the powers of the biblical world, the Egyptians remain one of history's most fascinating and enigmatic peoples. During the New Kingdom era, Egypt reached the peak of its power, wealth, and territory. Through the... more...

  • Pompeii's Secretsby Alan Lloyd

    Souvenir Press 2013; US$ 10.19

    Combining fictional characterisation and factual research Alan Lloyd asks who were these people who lived in Pompeii and what were their lives like in those last days before the disaster? Alan Lloyd, an acclaimed historian and novelist, breathes life into the ghosts that haunt the empty streets, quiet courtyards and silent rooms of Pompeii while... more...

  • The Riddle of the Labyrinthby Margalit Fox

    HarperCollins 2013; US$ 21.99

    In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.   When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated... more...

  • I Invented the Modern Ageby Richard Snow

    Scribner 2013; US$ 30.00

    From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who ?writes with verve and a keen eye? ( The New York Times Book Review ), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T?the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America. Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new... more...