Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves. Women in Classical Antiquity, Paperback - Sarah B. Pomeroy

'The classic, groundbreaking account of women's lives in Greece and Rome' Mary BeardFor centuries, half the ancient world remained invisible -- unt...

Explores the archaeological remains of housing in the Greek and Roman worlds, using written evidence and artistic representations to set them in a ...

A translation with introduction of the first ethnographic and semiotic study of gesture in daily life.

Reducere. This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, covering over a thousand years in the history of women from both the elite and lower cl...

DescriptionWhat set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the...

There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "e...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilizatio...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of A Brief History of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic hist...

A practical guide to working with seven angels and their twin flame goddess companions, with visualizations, chakra work, invocations, prayers, rit...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This study of various female deities of Graeco-Roman antiquity is the first to provide evidence that primary goddesses were conceived of as virgin ...

Reducere. Winner: New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and Seven Sisters Book Awards This full-color illustrated book of poetry chronicles the author's 500-mile so...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 1074Collection: Rewriting AntiquityPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 474 x 249 x 70Cover type: Pape...

Reducere. Wives, Slaves, and Concubines argues that Dutch colonial practices and law created a new set of social and economic divisions in Batavia-Jakarta, m...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Roman law you were what you wore. This legal principle became highly significant because, beginning in the first century A.D., a "new...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 25 bw illusNumber of pages: 312Collection: IMAGINES - Classical Receptions in the Visual and P...

Written by two history bloggers, this provides a fresh perspective on the lives of Henry VIII's six wives by journeying through the manors, castles...

Presenting dynamic research, this publication explores two millennia of cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome.Publisher: Getty Trus...

Reducere. Being a woman in ministry, whether you are partnering with your husband in his calling or serving in your own leadership role, is challenging. Whil...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plu...

With inspiring new foreword from Caitlin Moran, enjoy this timeless tale of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - experiencing both hardship and a...

The first full treatment of women and warfare in Classical Greece and Rome. Addresses the neglected subject of the role of women in war in the Clas...

Reducere. When the U.S. Army ordered troops into Arizona Territory in the 19th century to protect and defend the new settlements established there, some of t...

The first exploration of Piranesi's work as a draughtsman, published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum.

This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, incl...

Reducere. Paul's letters stand at the center of the dispute over women, the church, and the home, with each side championing passages from the Apostle. Now, ...

Presents Little Women which describes the family life of the four March sisters living in a small New England community, and Good Wives which is th...

Sensible Meg, impetuous Jo, shy Beth and artistic Amy each have to confront different challenges as they grow up together and attempt to learn how ...

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

A new edition of this vivid cultural and social history of the daughters, sisters, mothers and wives of the men at the centre of a daring imperiali...

Publisher: McFarland & Co IncAuthor(s): Sharon Paice MacLeodIllustration(s): 17 illustrationsNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2013Dimensions: ...

Written in six weeks, and at first thought by its editor to be 'dull', this story of an American family - four sisters and their mother living thro...