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The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism...

Author: Fabio Colivicchi (Department of Classics and Archaeology, Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada.) ,  Myles McCallum (Saint Mary’s University, Canada.)
ISBN: 9781032222684
Format: Hardback
$431.00

The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Urbanism in Italy in the Age of Roman Expansion explores trends in...  Read More >>

Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing Perspectives 10

Samaritans and Jews in History and Tradition: Changing...

Author: Ingrid Hjelm (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781032702858
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume presents an anthology of 19 seminal studies, some for the first time in English, which explore the history...  Read More >>

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost...

Author: Laura Beatty
ISBN: 9781838954383
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A strange, wild, brilliant personal journey - across land and through time - in which Laura Beatty travels back...  Read More >>

Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity

Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity

Author: Carlos Machado (University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom.) ,  Rowan Munnery
ISBN: 9781138385306
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume considers “lived space” as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present...  Read More >>

The Virtue of Playfulness: Why Happy People Are Playful

The Virtue of Playfulness: Why Happy People Are Playful...

Author: boomer trujillo (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
ISBN: 9781032717746
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book argues that in order for people to live well, they must develop a virtue of playfulness. Inspired by Aristotle,...  Read More >>

Hannibal

Hannibal

Author: Jacob Abbott
ISBN: 9781389652448
Format: Paperback
$36.35

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.  Read More >>

The History of Julius Caesar

The History of Julius Caesar

Author: Jacob Abbott
ISBN: 9781389652271
Format: Paperback
$36.64

"The name of Julius Caesar reverberates through history, not only as the most famous Roman ever, but as a symbol...  Read More >>

The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus (Esprios Classics): Translated by Thomas Gordon

The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of...

Author: Caius Cornelius Tacitus
ISBN: 9781034159377
Format: Paperback
$65.62

Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 - c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is considered...  Read More >>

Pyrrhus

Pyrrhus

Author: Jacob Abbott
ISBN: 9781389651847
Format: Paperback
$36.77

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

The History of Julius Caesar

The History of Julius Caesar

Author: Jacob Abbott
ISBN: 9781389424229
Format: Hardback
$59.72

"The name of Julius Caesar reverberates through history, not only as the most famous Roman ever, but as a symbol...  Read More >>

A Child's History of Rome Volume I

A Child's History of Rome Volume I

Author: John Bonner
ISBN: 9781715502393
Format: Hardback
$67.12

"Volume I of John Bonner's classic retelling of the history of Rome has lost none of its attention-grabbing interest...  Read More >>

Philebus

Philebus

Author: Plato
ISBN: 9781006313431
Format: Paperback
$29.03

A translation of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge. It includes...  Read More >>

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Author: Natalie Haynes
ISBN: 9781529089516
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.  Read More >>

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and...

Author: Ioannis Smarnakis ,  Zissis D. Ainalis
ISBN: 9781032325675
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context,...  Read More >>

Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman Emperor in the Fourth Century AD

Christ the Emperor: Christian Theology and the Roman...

Author: Nathan Israel Smolin (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar)
ISBN: 9780197689547
Format: Hardback
$210.95

"Politics and diplomacy have always been as much about the social and cultural contexts within which political actors...  Read More >>

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of...

Author: Edward Watts
ISBN: 9780197691953
Format: Paperback
$37.95

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South of the Alps

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South...

Author: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
ISBN: 9781032324944
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came...  Read More >>

Flattery in Seneca the Younger: Theory & Practice

Flattery in Seneca the Younger: Theory & Practice

Author: Martina Russo (Sapienza Università di Roma)
ISBN: 9780192858115
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Flattery in Seneca the Younger explores the discourse of flattery in Seneca's philosophical texts, and analyses...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity

Author: Dr Dimitra Andrianou
ISBN: 9781472577764
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume focuses on the social history of furniture found...  Read More >>

A Child's History of Rome Volume I

A Child's History of Rome Volume I

Author: John Bonner
ISBN: 9781715502423
Format: Paperback
$42.18

"Volume I of John Bonner's classic retelling of the history of Rome has lost none of its attention-grabbing interest...  Read More >>

Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring Metaphor

Gendered Violence in Biblical Narrative: The Devouring...

Author: Esther Brownsmith
ISBN: 9781032192963
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book uses three examples of violent biblical stories about women, explored through the lens of conceptual metaphor...  Read More >>

Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic

Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic

Author: Dr Andriana Domouzi (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) ,  Professor Silvio Bär (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781350260696
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This is the first scholarly exploration of concepts and representations of Artificial Intelligence in ancient Greek...  Read More >>

Women in Martial: A Semiotic Reading

Women in Martial: A Semiotic Reading

Author: Ilaria Marchesi (Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, Hofstra University)
ISBN: 9780198920304
Format: Hardback
$161.95

This book systematically examines the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams, proposing a new method of exploring...  Read More >>

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