Ancient category: 10855 books

Cover of Complete History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
by G. Maspero, Gaston Camille Charles Maspero
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015

Contents History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 2 (of 12) History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia,...
Cover of Tools and Treasures of the Ancient Maya
by Matt Doeden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Do you use a calendar? Have you ever played basketball? These things were important to the ancient Mayans too. About four thousand years ago, they invented tools and treasures that still shape...
Cover of Tools and Treasures of Ancient Rome
by Matt Doeden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Have you ever wanted to play the flute? Or have you seen a building with a domed ceiling? These things have roots in ancient Rome. More than two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire was the most powerful civilization on Earth. It left behind tools and treasures that still shape our lives. Find out...
Cover of Tools and Treasures of the Ancient Maya
by Matt Doeden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Do you use a calendar? Have you ever played basketball? These things were important to the ancient Mayans too. About four thousand years ago, they invented tools and treasures that still shape our lives. Find out where and how the ancient Mayans lived, and learn about their mysterious disappearance. Discover how they changed the world!
Cover of Tools and Treasures of Ancient Rome
by Matt Doeden
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Have you ever wanted to play the flute? Or have you seen a building with a domed ceiling? These things have roots in ancient Rome. More than two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire was the...
Cover of Summary Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

This is Roman history roughly from its mythological dawning about 753 BC to the time when free adult males within the Roman Empire were declared by Emperor Caracalla as citizens of Rome in 212 CE.Beard starts the history of ancient Rome with an account of how Lucius Sergius Catalina (Cataline)...
Cover of Women and War in Antiquity
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015

The martial virtues—courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength—were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity, sixteen scholars reexamine classical...
Cover of The Idea of Iambos
by Andrea Rotstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009

The Idea of Iambos is a long overdue study of the genre of Greek iambic poetry from the perspective provided by ancient testimonies. Andrea Rotstein places research on iambos in the framework of a new methodological approach to ancient genres based on the cognitive sciences, offering an unprecedented...
Cover of The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World
by Yun Lee Too
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010

In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building...
Cover of Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Propertius—these are just a few of the poets whose work we would be without today were it not for the wealthy and powerful patrons upon whose support the Roman cultural establishment so greatly depended. Who were these patrons? What benefits did they give, to whom, and why?...
Cover of The Ancient Novel

The Ancient Novel

An Introduction

by Niklas Holzberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005

This widely acclaimed book offers an introduction to the ancient novel and presents the latest research findings in the field. For this English translation, Professor Holzberg has substantially updated and expanded the German edition of 1986. Niklas Holzberg considers the ancient novel as encompassing...
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Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art

Women, Agency, and the Trojan War

by Anthony F. Mangieri
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017

The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not...
Cover of Life in Ancient Rome
by Francesco Primerano
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015

When speaking of ancient Rome, it is often referred to the monuments and the various traditions that have remained in history as indelible imprints, but you never brings forward the discussion on historical-legal age. In this manual you want to address not just the dynamics of Roman life of that time,...
Cover of Ancient Syracuse

Ancient Syracuse

From Foundation to Fourth Century Collapse

by Richard Evans
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

Syracuse possesses a unique place in the history of the ancient Mediterranean because of its contribution to Greek culture and political thought and practice. Even in the first century BC Cicero could still declare ’You have often heard that of all the Greek cities Syracuse is the greatest and most...
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