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OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 1
Myth and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 11 and all three Literature and Culture options (Components 21–23):
Thematic Study: Myth and Religion by Ben Greenley
Literature...
A Place at the Altar
Priestesses in Republican Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman...
The First Fossil Hunters
Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures...
Amheida III
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of...
by Karen Cokayne
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Old age today is a contentious topic. It can be seen as a demographic timebomb or as a resource of wisdom and experience to be valued and exploited. There is frequent debate over how we value the elderly, and whether ageing is an affliction to be treated or a natural process to be embraced. Karen...
Byzantium
Capital of an Ancient Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2007
So what's so significant about the Byzantine Empire? It is now recognized as having had a considerable influence on the Renaissance and a significant impact in the shaping modern Europe. Modern historians are increasingly acknowledging the role the Byzantine Empire played in the development of both...
The Conflict of the Ages Teacher Edition I The Scientific History of Origins
The Conflict of the Ages Teacher Edition, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Teacher Edition includes complete student text, review questions, vocabulary, and answer keys. The Conflict of the Ages is a Multi-Part exploration of History, Science and ancient Literature. This first installment covers the concepts of God, time, Creation, physics, cosmology, and specifics about...
Ancient Germanic Warriors
Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel here details seventeen different Germanic warriors styles, including berserks, wolf-warriors, club-wielders,...
by William E. Dunstan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending...
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice
Ancient Victims, Modern Observers
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The interpretation of animal sacrifice, now considered the most important ancient Greek and Roman religious ritual, has long been dominated by the views of Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne. No penetrating and general critique of their views has appeared and, in particular,...
by David Brakke, Deborah Deliyannis
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Shifting Cultural Frontiers in Late Antiquity explores the transformation of classical culture in late antiquity by studying cultures at the borders - the borders of empires, of social classes, of public and private spaces, of literary genres, of linguistic communities, and of the modern disciplines...
Ancient Times a History of the Early World
An Introduction to the Study of Ancient History and the Career of Early Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Pergamum Collection publishes books history has long forgotten. We transcribe books by hand that are now hard to find and out of print.
by Marcella Denise Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Think about the word "slave" for a moment. What comes to mind? An African woman in rural Mississippi, balancing a basket of freshly picked cotton on her head, or a child struggling to carry tobacco leaf bushels in Virginia? These are images from the African slave trade from...
by Ancient Myths
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
One of the most famous ancient Greek heroes was Theseus who was a son of the king of Athens. During the traveling his father lived in a small town - Tresa. There he married Tresen queen, but preferred not to take her with him because the relatives of Aegeus wanted to seize power and they were dangerous...