Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

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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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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Alison McClymont
How to Help Your Child Cope with Anything

The must-have guide to parenting resilient children

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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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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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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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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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Robert Rosenkranz
The Stoic Capitalist

An exploration of the issues around the Stoic ideal of a well lived life, and how anyone can learn to define and realize a modern version of it for themselves.

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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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Harvey Sachs
Schoenberg

In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras ra…

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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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A E Stallings
Frieze Frame

"Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the reader into a coterie of artists and intellectuals, traced and uncovered with a poet's touch." --…

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William Hickling Prescott
History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization and the Life of the Conquerer, Hernando Cortés

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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John Holton
Alexander's Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship

"Alexander's Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship reconstructs how the development of royal ideologies led to five powerful new kingships after Alexander's death. It reveals how ideolo…

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William Hickling Prescott
History of the Conquest of Mexico, With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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