Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 2

Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art

"Images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the archaic Greek to the Christian era. This book traces their significance across the chronological and geographic borders of the ancient world…

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social…

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Stefanie Lenk
Roman Identity and Lived Religion

"Demonstrates, by examining the decoration of Mediterranean baptisteries from the fifth to the seventh century, that Roman popular culture had a strong impact on how common Christians defined what it…

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Gabriel Zuchtriegel,
The Buried City

"Join Gabriel Zuchtriegel for the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city that was tragically annihilated yet perfectly preserved in the year AD 79. As director of the arch…

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Zahi Hawass
Discovering Tutankhamun

A thorough and absorbing account of the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, Tutankhamun, from the discovery of his tomb to the CT-scans of the twenty-first century, now fully updated and expandedP…

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social…

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Pantelis Michelakis
Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sop…

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Thomas J Nelson, Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani
Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence

This interdisciplinary volume provides the first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon. It surveys the rich and diverse interactions between these two cities fro…

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Ory Amitay
Alexander the Great in Jerusalem

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History discusses four different stories told in antiquity about the meeting between Alexander the Great and the Judeans of Jerusalem. In history, this meeting p…

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Aristote
The Art of Rhetoric

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.Dating from the 4th century BC, Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded as the sing…

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Alison McClymont
How to Help Your Child Cope with Anything

The must-have guide to parenting resilient children

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Alley Marie Jordan
Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson

"Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in hi…

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Ammonius: On Aristotle on Interpretation 10-14

This commentary of Ammonius (c. 440-520 AD) on Aristotle "On Interpretation" discusses philosophical ideology and is the only commentary written out and published by Ammonius, professor of philo…

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Alex Mullen, Anna Willi
Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West

This volume offers a detailed anatomy of the spread of Latin and local and regional language change across Britain, Gaul, the Germanies, and the Iberian Peninsula during the late Roman republic to the end…

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Sophie Crawford-Brown
Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion

"Religious Architecture and Roman Expansion uses architectural terracottas as a lens for examining the changing landscape of central Italy during the period of Roman military expansion. It investigat…

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Hallie Franks,
Ancient Sculpture and Twentieth-Century American Womanhood

**This book examines the reception of Graeco-Roman sculptures of Venus and their role in the construction of the body aesthetics of the "fit" American woman in the decades around the turn of the…

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Sabina Antonini, Christian Robin
The Arts of Ancient South Arabia

A superb collection of spectacular and varied pre-Islamic Arabian artefacts held by The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, many published here for the first time. Between the third millennium BCE and the third …

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Ravi Sharma
Plato's Hippias Minor

Ravi Sharma provides a close study of an important but neglected Socratic dialogue by Plato. A new interpretation of the dialogue thoroughly re-examines the ancient evidence bearing on its interpretation …

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John Holton
Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander's Successors

"Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great's death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. Th…

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Phenomenology and the Painted Vase

Most people today encounter ancient Greek vases as static, untouchable artifacts safely out of reach behind glass, in the quiet of a museum gallery. Once, however, these vessels were also useful objects, …

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