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The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece
In classical Greece women were almost entirely excluded from public life. Yet the feminine was accorded a central place in religious thought and ritual.This volume explores the …
Slavery and Sexuality in Classical Antiquity
Slavery and sexuality in the ancient world are well researched on their own, yet rarely have they been examined together. This volume is the first to explore the range of roles …
Imperial Culture and the Sudan
General Gordon's death in the Sudan marks the height of imperial cultural fever. Even in the late nineteen seventies, the themes of Khartoum were still the basis for children's …
Oxford History of the Ancient Near East
This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Iran), from the …
Aesop's Human Zoo
Most of us grew up with Aesop's Fables-tales of talking animals, with morals attached. In fact, the familiar versions of the stories attributed to this enigmatic and astute …
Eutocius d’Ascalon
Eutocius of Ascalon (4th cent. AD) accompanied his edition of the first four books of Apollonius of Perga''s Konika …
After the Bounty
In 1787 the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Soon after leaving Tahiti, Masters Mate Fletcher Christian …
Dawn of the Roman Empire
'With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal …
Tiberius Claudius Drusus Caesar
The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD …
Imperial Tragedy
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting …
Ireland's UN Peacekeeping Policy During the Cold War Era
This is the first book to study the establishment and evolution of an Irish Peacekeeping Policy. The author uses declassified primary source materials released by the Irish …