Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality, Hardcover - Tonio Holscher

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

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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Reducere. DescriptionDuring the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions--mos...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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...

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

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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mycenaeans, then keep reading...The Mycenaeans were the first advanced civilization to devel...

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 ...

The first book-length work on the Parisienne, this study combines scholarship in the fields of art history, literature and fashion to enrich our un...

DescriptionThe white-tailed deer had a prominent status in Maya civilization: it was the most important wild-animal food source at many inland Maya...

We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and t...

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

Reducere. DescriptionWhat was life like in Ancient Rome? If your 6th grader has ever wondered what it's like to live in the ancient times without technology,...

Josh, Emma and Libby Binkerton return to the Good Times Travel Agency - but this time, with a plan to travel to the future, to the next Olympic Gam...

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

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

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

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...