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Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity
Cambridge University Press 2013; Not AvailableUp-to-date, theoretically informed historical survey of the practices and performance of gender in ancient Greece and Rome. more...
Greece and Mesopotamia
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 76.00Proposes an exciting new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. more...
Crisis Management during the Roman Republic
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 76.00This 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 Great
Cambridge University Press 2013; Not AvailableProvides 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 Greece
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 119.95This 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 Set
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95Egyptian 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 Egypt
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 14.95Osprey'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 Secrets
Souvenir Press 2013; US$ 10.19Combining 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 Labyrinth
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 21.99In 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 Age
Scribner 2013; US$ 30.00From 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...









