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A Day in Old Rome

A Picture of Roman Life

by Dr. William Stearns Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017

This book tries to describe what an intelligent person would have witnessed in Ancient Rome if by some legerdemain he had been translated to the Second Christian Century, and conducted about the imperial city under competent guidance. The year 134 after Christ has been chosen as the hypothetical...
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by David Randall-MacIver
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

In 1921, author David Randall-MacIver moved to Rome in order to focus on Italian archaeology, the result of which is this is this fascinating and detailed study of the history of the Etruscans, first published in 1927. The Etruscan civilization is the modern name given to a powerful, wealthy...
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by E G Squier
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012

Ancient Monuments of the United States is a brief survey of the remains of Native American Fortifications, Places of Worship, Sepulchral Mounds and other remains of the civilization that occupied the Eastern Seaboard and Mississippi Valley prior to European Colonization. Written in the mid 19th century...
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Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War

The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War

by Gregory Daly
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005

On a hot and dusty summer's day in 216 BC, the forces of the Carthaginian general Hannibal faced the Roman army in a dramatic encounter at Cannae. Massively outnumbered, the Carthaginians nevertheless won an astonishing victory - one that left more than 50,000 men dead. Gregory Daly's enthralling...
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by Jacob Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014

The success of ancient Egyptian civilization came partly from its ability to adapt to the conditions of the Nile River valley. The predictable flooding and controlled irrigation of the fertile valley produced surplus crops, which supported a more dense population, and social development and culture....
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The Atum-Re Revival

Ancient Egyptian Wisdom for the Modern World

by Melusine Draco
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013

An interest in the magic, religion and spirituality of the ancient Egyptians continues to increase steadily as people begin to realise that it is possible to follow this ancient tradition in the 21st century. The Egyptian religion is the oldest recorded belief system in the world, having just entered...
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Waters of Death and Creation

Images of Water in the Egyptian Pyramid Texts

by Greg Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014

This is an in-depth study of a vital and fascinating aspect of ancient Egyptian religion as preserved in the Pyramid Texts of the Fifth Dynasty. The creative and life-giving powers of the waters that sustain this world are also present in the Egyptian underworld and enable the dead king who has lived...
Cover of Egypt: Ancient Sites and Modern Scenes
by Gaston Maspero
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017

In this volume Professor Maspero gives us a collection of charming word pictures of Egypt, in which history and archeology are made to blend with scenes of today, and the past is linked to the present. No living Egyptologist has such a command of facts as Professor Maspero, and no other writer on...
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Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens

Rhetoric, Relevance and the Rule of Law

by Vasileios Adamidis
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016

There has been much debate in scholarship over the factors determining the outcome of legal hearings in classical Athens. Specifically, there is divergence regarding the extent to which judicial panels were influenced by non-legal considerations in addition to, or even instead of, questions of law....
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by Julia Kindt
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012

Who marched in religious processions and why? How were blood sacrifice and communal feasting related to identities in the ancient Greek city? With questions such as these, current scholarship aims to demonstrate the ways in which religion maps on to the socio-political structures of the Greek polis...
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by James Renshaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

In Search of the Greeks offers an engaging introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrated with some hundred and fifty photographs, drawings, maps and plans, many now for the first time in colour, the book introduces key topics of ancient...
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by Kate Gilhuly
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017

Erotic Geographies in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture addresses the following question: how does a place "get a reputation?" The Athenians associated sexual behaviors with particular places and their inhabitants, and this book decodes the meaning of the sexualization of place and traces...
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Classics in Extremis

The Edges of Classical Reception

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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018

Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception. Its contributors explore some of the most remarkable, hard-fought and unsettling claims ever made on the ancient world: from the coal-mines of England to the paradoxes of Borges, from Victorian sexuality to the trenches of the First World War, from...
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The Complete Plutarch

The Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, Parallel Lives and Moralia

by Lucius Mestrius Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013

Plutarch was a Greek scholar who became a Roman citizen during his lifetime. He was the senior priest of Apollo at the famous Oracle of Delphi and he led a highly active social and civic life. His works have lasted through the centuries and still provide a powerful insight into the life and history...
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