Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, Paperback (4th Ed.) - Mary R. Lefkowitz

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary R. LefkowitzAuthor: Maureen B. FantNow in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and...

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

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...

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

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 ...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy is a milestone along the complex and difficult road to significant understanding by Westerners of the Asian peo...

Reducere. In the first edition of Women in Greek Myth, Mary R. Lefkowitz convincingly challenged narrow, ideological interpretations of the roles of female c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Mary Jane SmithEditor: Patricia LiehrThree-time recipient of the AJN Book of the Year Award Praise for the third edition: "...

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...

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...

Contributor(s): Author: Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanAuthor: Charles a. MooreHere are the chief riches of more than 3, 000 years of Indian philosophical...

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

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...

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

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

"Comprehensive, reader-friendly, richly detailed, forthright, subtle, and very clear, Controlling Desires is the only handbook on ancient sexuality...

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

A breathtaking analysis of twelve centuries of warfare.

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

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

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Philip MatyszakIllustration(s): 176 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

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

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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 ...

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

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoAuthor(s): Brian K. HarveyIllustration(s): 46Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 154 x ...

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...

Reducere. Was Western civilization founded by ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians? Can the ancient Egyptians usefully be called black? Did the ancient Greeks b...

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 ...

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 ...

Contributor(s): Author: Jack C. RichardsWith: Jonathan HullWith: Susan ProctorInterchange Fourth Edition is a four-level series for adult and young...

A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of t...

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

By exploring how translation has shaped the literary contexts of six Iraqi woman writers, this book offers new insights into their translation path...

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

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

Contributor(s): Author: Jack C. RichardsWith: Jonathan HullWith: Susan ProctorInterchange Fourth Edition is a four-level series for adult and young...

Reducere. Historian and author M. B. Synge tells the reader the greatest and most compelling stories of antiquity; those of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and I...

Reducere. Offering an expansive view of the ancient Mediterranean world, Gods, Heroes, and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in ...

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 ...