Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

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DescriptionParting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece...

Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramo...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

In a companion to the best-selling Stories from Ancient Egypt, Joyce Tyldesley re-tells some of the most interesting and entertaining myths and leg...

Collects the primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome that are translated into modern English. Covering a period - from the earlie...

Reducere. DescriptionDespite a common perception that most writing in antiquity was produced by men, some important literature written by women during this p...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Ross (University of Liverpool, UK) ClareIllustration(s): 25 bw illusNumber of pages: 240Collectio...

A radical reappraisal of homosexuality in Ancient Greece, by a young historian described as 'the best thing to happen to ancient history for decade...

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Reducere. Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Elizabeth WyseIllustration(s): Hardback with jacketNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Locates the origins and early form of Indian and Greek philosophy, and the striking similarities between them, in their entire societal and religio...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Classical Antiquity, then keep reading...From about the 9th to 5th centuries BCE, the population...

Explores the creative potential of juxtaposing the cultural foundations of the Mediterranean world and ancient China. Embarking from the observatio...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

DescriptionIf you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome then keep reading... Three captivatin...

DescriptionJourney through 30, 000 years of human history and explore the ideas, discoveries and technology that shaped the human race at the begin...

DescriptionIn the ancient world, magic was everywhere. The supernatural abounded, turning flowers into fruit and caterpillars into butterflies. In ...

Reducere. Explore the History and Mythology of Egypt, Greece and Rome ** 3 Books In 1 - Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome **Ancient Egypt: Through ...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the History and Mythology of Egypt, Greece and Rome ** 3 Books In 1 - Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome **Ancient Egyp...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

Reducere. This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the ...

DescriptionEgypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and ...

Reducere. The Junior Classics 2020 Edition Volume 3: Tales of Greece & Rome includes the classic Greek myths, stories about heroes like Hercules, Jason, and ...

Reducere. This book is a detailed treatise on Greek and Roman mythology, dealing comprehensively with the Gods, demi-Gods and heroes of Greco-Roman legend. H...

Reducere. Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves' economic role in so...

The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to ...

A breathtaking analysis of twelve centuries of warfare.

Chariot racing, peplos weaving, cooking, and helmet making! Anything can happen when you spend the day in ancient Greece! It is over two thousand y...

Did the Romans really use bum sponges? What are the four humours? Who were the berserkers and why did the Egyptians worship cats? Delve deep into t...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David (New York University, USA) KonstanNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x ...

This book examines how three different ways of interacting with the surrounding world were shaped by their physical context in ancient Egypt, Greec...

Reducere. In The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges hands us the skeleton key unlocking classical civilization: the Indo-European domestic cult. With a formid...

Reducere. What do you know about Greek history?The ancient Greeks loom large in legend and lore. In ancient myth, names such as Hercules, Achilles, and Prome...

Quoting hundreds of passages from Greek and Roman authors, this light-hearted book gives a vividly direct picture of the origins of modern medicine...

Reducere. Did you know that the classical Greek philosophers were the earliest people to believe that the earth was a sphere? Among them was Aristotle, the p...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the History and Mythology of the Ancient Greeks There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece,...

Wherever the idea of a world appears, there is an expression of cosmography. Cosmography, here, is defined as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of...