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  • The Lighthouse Of Alexandria

    by John Ray ...
    John Ray tells the story of the building of Alexandria dominated by the towering Pharos and explores the technology which underlay its workings. It was only one of the achievements of that city, the New York of the ancient Mediterranean, with its museum and greatlibrary; its slot machines and the health service for Greeks only; the mathematician Eratosthenes calculating the circumference of the ... Read more

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  • The Roads to Rome

    A History of Imperial Expansion

    Inspired by original research and filled with color and drama, this is an exploration of two thousand years of history as seen through one the greatest imperial networks ever built."All roads lead to Rome” is a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire—and these ancient roads continue to grip our modern imaginations as a physical ... Read more

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  • Inscriptions, Papyri, and Other Artifacts

    Series series Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies
    Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testament.Each volume will feature introductory essays to the corpus, followed by articles on the relevant texts. Each article will address introductory matters, provenance, summary of content, interpretive ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Gladiators 1st–5th centuries AD

    Series Book 258 - Elite
    This illustrated study lifts the veil on the gladiators of ancient Rome, who provided a bloody spectacle for the people of the Eternal City and its vast empire.By the start of the Principate in 27 BC, the gladiator games were a long-standing part of the social and political life of Rome and its sprawling empire. In the wake of reforms enacted by Augustus, the games continued to be at the heart of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Barbarians

    Lost Civilizations

    by Peter Bogucki ...
    Series series Lost Civilizations
    Beginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing complexity, technological accomplishments, and distinctive practices of the non-literate peoples known as Barbarians.We often think of the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome as discrete incubators of Western culture, places where ideas about everything from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Ancient Goddess Magic

    Invoking the Queens of Heaven

    • Explores beliefs and myths from Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, and around the Mediterranean, revealing how ancient goddesses were powerful Queens of the Heavens and Guardians of the Underworld, not passive fertility symbols• Looks at creator goddesses, sun goddesses, lunar goddesses, warrior maiden goddesses, and night goddesses, including Hathor, Asherah, Inanna, Hekate, Athena, Astarte, and Gula ... Read more

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  • The Phoenicians

    Lost Civilizations

    Series series Lost Civilizations
    Drawing on an impressive range of archaeological and textual sources and a nuanced understanding of biases, this book offers a valuable reappraisal of the enigmatic Phoenicians.The Phoenicians is a fascinating exploration of this much-mythologized people: their history, artistic heritage, and the scope of their maritime and colonizing activities in the Mediterranean. Two aspects of the book stand ... Read more

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  • Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (3)

    4th–5th Centuries AD

    Series Book 557 - Men-at-Arms
    A fully illustrated account of the large-scale reformation of the Roman Army from the reign of Diocletian to the fall of the Western Empire in AD 476.After the 50-year chaos of the mid-3rd century AD, Emperor Diocletian (r. AD 284–305) and his successor, Constantine I (r. AD 306–37), the first Christian emperor, undertook major administrative reforms to reflect new realities and improve defensive ... Read more

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  • Brief Histories: Ancient Greece

    Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the warrior societies of The Bronze Age all the way to the invention of democracy during the golden age of Athens, charting the incredible rise and fall of the Greek world and revealing just how much the ... Read more

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  • Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt

    Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Campbell Price takes us through every aspect of Ancient Egypt, from the incredible architectural marvels of the pyramids of Giza to the visually stunning and complex language of hieroglyphics all the way through to those at the top of society ... Read more

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  • The Bible

    A Global History

    by Bruce Gordon ...
    A global history of the world’s best-known and most influential bookFor Christians, the Bible is a book authored by God for humanity. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Golden Road

    How Ancient India Transformed the World

    FROM THE CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCASTIndia was the forgotten heart of the ancient worldFor a millennium and a half, from about 250 BC to 1200 AD, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas, an 'Indosphere' where its influence was predominant. During this period, the rest of Asia was the willing recipient of a mass-transfer ... Read more

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  • A Short History of Tomb-Raiding

    The Epic Hunt for Egypt’s Treasures

    by Maria Golia ...
    A spine-tingling exploration of a venture as ancient as the pyramids themselves.To secure a comfortable afterlife, ancient Egyptians built fortress-like tombs and filled them with precious goods, a practice that generated staggering quantities of artifacts over the course of many millennia—and also one that has drawn thieves and tomb-raiders to Egypt since antiquity. Drawing on modern scholarship, ... Read more

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  • Dirt, Shame, Status

    Perspectives on Same-Sex Sexuality in the Bible and the Ancient World

    by Thomas Kazen ...
    A scholarly examination of same-sex sexuality in the Bible in the context of the ancient worldScriptural prohibitions of same-sex sexual acts (so-called “clobber passages”) are often used as prooftexts to support the oppression of LGBT communities in the West today. However, such interpretation of these scant references ignores critical sociohistorical context from the ancient world.Analyzing a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo

    Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scholars from China and abroad lend their expertise in archaeology, art history, paleography, intellectual history, and many other disciplines to show how these fascinating finds change our understanding of China's past. Organized in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • The Missing Thread

    A Women's History of the Ancient World

    by Daisy Dunn ...
    A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center—from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of historyAround four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and ... Read more

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  • Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires

    A captivating history of civilization that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce, and conquest.No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms of warfare, encouraged long ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Fall of Civilizations

    Stories of Greatness and Decline

    by Paul Cooper ...
    **"A treasure trove of myths and terror… Atmospheric as hell… Immersive."?**The TimesBased on the podcast with over one hundred million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and ... Read more

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  • Caesar's Gallic Wars

    58–50 BC

    by Kate Gilliver ...
    Series series Essential Histories
    A detailed, fully illustrated overview of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, one of the most important conflicts of the ancient world.Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars ... Read more

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  • Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

    “Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country’s southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Women in the Valley of the Kings

    The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

    The never-before-told story of the women Egyptologists who paved the way of exploration in Egypt and created the basis for Egyptology.The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the so-called Golden Age of Exploration, there were ... Read more

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  • Alexander at the End of the World

    The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great

    “A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon WooA riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy.By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great had reached the pinnacle of success. Or so it seemed. He had defeated the Persian ruler Darius III and seized the ... Read more

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  • Euripides and Quotation Culture

    Series series Classical Literature and Society
    **Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture.**Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a selective survey of ways in which Euripidean tragedy was quoted within antiquity, both in social contexts (on the comic stage, at symposia, in law courts, in education) and in different ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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  • Leo Strauss and the Recovery of "Natural Philosophizing"

    Series series SUNY series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
    Among the political philosophers of the twentieth century, Leo Strauss is usually singled out for his attempt to revitalize the ancient approach to counter the relativism of both historicism and positivism. It is less commonly underscored, however, that the cornerstone of this attempt is the recovery of the question of "nature," which he regarded as inseparable from genuine philosophy since its ... Read more

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