The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times

Reducere. After the age of the dinosaurs, strange and powerful mammals ruled the earth. . . .

This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity - votive offerings in the shape of parts of the hum...

Reducere. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Ethiopian image was always rendered with great realis...

This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography, and numerous new passages with original t...

Reducere. How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain a...

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This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journe...

Publisher: Scarecrow PressNumber of pages: 212Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 231 x 159 x 24Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): David M. SuteraRedesco...

Reducere. Return to the prehistoric era and discover a host of creatures both novel and familiar, from the mysterious trilobite to the famed T. rex. Care to ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan GutmanIllustrator: Jim PaillotThink fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School Did you know that the biggest dinosa...

Reducere. In one of the most famous Greek myths, Ariadne betrayed her father, King Minos, to help Theseus defeat the Minotaur. But Theseus in turn betrayed h...

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gr...

Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds - Michael Scott

A groundbreaking new story of women's journey through medicine, exposing the historic origins of the gender pain gap.

For more than two thousand years the art of Greece and Rome has been hugely influential throughout the Western world. This book recaptures the pass...

This text sets out to bring to life the Greek and Roman plays and their staging, evoking the visual and emotional character of performances and dra...

Reducere. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cli...

Reducere. Every pocket in Greek & Roman Myths Grades 4-6 begins with a two-page reproducible retelling of a tale. About the book: - There is a teacher resour...

In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the de...

Reducere. During most of the history of architecture, architects had to be artists, engineers, and scholars. This three-volume series of books is about what ...

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare - Philip Sabin, Hans Van Wees, Michael Whitby

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Thomas WiedemannNumber of pages: 302Collection: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient WorldPublication da...

Reducere. On a chilly Monday morning in 1935, a young maid opened the garage door of a Southern California seaside villa onto a grim scene. Her employer, a p...

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Fish-tailed creatures and deities are found in the art of several ancient cultures: bronzes, carvings, coins, mosaics, and more. Katharine Shepard'...

The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature - Dr David D. Leitao

Reducere. Offering a sample of the surviving works of philosophers of the Hellenistic Age such as Lucretius, Epicurus, and Philo of Alexandria, this text sho...

Mosaic has been called "painting for eternity, " and it is in fact one of the few arts of antiquity to survive in something like its original condi...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. It will spark renew...

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons IncAuthor(s): Kostas VlassopoulosNumber of pages: 400Collection: Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient HistoryPublication d...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe aim of this book is to make the Gospel of John accessible simultaneously to intermediate students of Ancient Greek and Latin. There ...

Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World explores the use of cannabis and hemp in medicine, religion, and recreation in the classical period. ...

This is an important study of the new types of warships which evolved in the navies of the Mediterranean in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, and of th...

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This volume examines military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering topics including readership, siege warfare, merce...

The Greek and Roman body in all its (surprisingly human) glory.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Caroline VoutIllustration(s): full colour int...

Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe, " of the ancient Greeks and R...

Reading stories of powerful creatures never fail to attract a child's attention. Made-up worlds are simply too fantastic to ignore. But did you kno...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Filippo del LuccheseNumber of pages: 432Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 28Cover type:...

Reducere. A wide-ranging introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world.

Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? How should we exercise power? This book deals with these...

Reducere. Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using Greek and Roman Civilizations This 96-page book features reading selections and assessm...

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Reducere. An engaging introduction to the Greek and Roman classics from Aphrodite to Zeus. Greek and Roman mythology has fascinated people for thousands of y...

The classical gods of Rome uncoiled from the fertile imaginations of the ancient Greeks whose gods were passionate and violent, jealous of their po...

Reducere. A juggernaut in the literary world at the apex of history, culture, politics, and art, the Greeks altered almost every facet of Western ideology an...

Tracing the myths surrounding plants used as medicine within the very temples where worship of the god Asclepius took place.Publisher: John Hunt Pu...