Category: Ancient History

"A vast cabinet of curiosities" --Stephen Greenblatt "Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet." --Frederic Raphael, Literary Review How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus's sirens to those of an ambulance? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome is all around us, imitated, resisted, reworked, and misunderstood. In this beautifully illustrated and encyclopedic compendium, a team of leading scholars investigates the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, architecture, history, politics, religion, and science. ...
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (Oxford Histories)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : June 2002

Seller ID: 70791

ISBN-13: 9780192802934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Oxford Illustrated History of Ancient Egypt is the only book available providing detailed historical coverage of Egypt from the early Stone Age to its incorporation into the Roman Empire. The lively essays and beautiful illustrations portray the emergence and development of the distinctive civilization of the ancient Egyptians covering the period from 700,000 BC to AD 311. Against the backdrop of the rise and fall of ruling dynasties, this book also examines cultural and social patterns, including stylistic developments in art and literature. The pace of change in such aspects of Egyptian...
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The Oxford History of the Classical World: Greece and the Hellenistic World

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA : November 1988

Seller ID: 15861

ISBN-13: 9780192821652

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From the epic poems of Homer to the glittering art and architecture of Greece's Golden Age to the influential Roman systems of law and leadership, the classical world has established the foundations of our culture, as well as many of its enduring achievements. Astonishingly in-depth in its coverage of the entire 1000-year history of the classical world and richly illustrated, The Oxford History of the Classical World offers the general reader the definitive companion to the Graeco-Roman world, its history, and its achievements. The first volume, Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World, cove...
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The Panorama of the Renaissance

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Harry N Abrams : October 1996

Seller ID: 16253

ISBN-13: 9780810937048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Roman World: The Oxford History of the Classical World (Vol 2)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA : November 1988

Seller ID: 32872

ISBN-13: 9780192821669

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Oxford history of the classical world aims to present the general reader with a view of the Graeco-Roman world, its history and achievements.
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Women, Men and Eunuchs: Gender in Byzantium

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Routledge : September 1997

Seller ID: 23771

ISBN-13: 9780415146869

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The collected papers in this volume present a unique introduction both to the history of women, of men and eunuchs, or the third sex, in Byzantium and to the various theoretical and methodological approaches through which the topic can be examined. The contributors use evidence from both texts and images to give a wide-ranging picture of the place of women and Byzantine society and the perceptions of women held by that society.Women, Men and Eunuchs offers a unique and valuable exploration of the issue of gender in Byzantium, which will fascinate anyone interested in ancient and medieval histo...
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Ancient Greek Dress

By: Abrahams, Ethel

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Argonaut, Inc. : 1964

Seller ID: 16072

ISBN: 281BSY1000387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 33790 B.C. (Hellenistic Culture and Society)

By: Ager, Sheila L.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: University of California Press : May 1997

Seller ID: 23758

ISBN-13: 9780520081628

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body of literary and epigraphical sources on arbitration, together with up-to-date bibliographic references, and commentary.The sources collected here range widely; Ager presents an exhaustive record of documents ranging from the settlement of a minor territorial squabble between two tiny city-states to th...
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