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Ancient Egypt: The Definitive Visual History
Take a journey through Ancient Egypt and see how the pharaohs once lived An enticing and insightful guide that covers 3,000 years of life under the pharaohs (c. 3200-30 BCE) from …
Plato’s Counterfeit Sophists
This book explores the place of the sophists within the Greek wisdom tradition, and argues against their almost universal exclusion from serious intellectual traditions. By …
Between Yahwism and Judaism
This Element seeks to characterize key aspects of the cult and culture of the Judean populace at large, in Judea and the diaspora, during the Early Hellenistic period (332–175 …
Lives of the Caesars
The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, …
Early Greek Science
This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers, and …
Aesop's Fables
From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's FablesAesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The …
The Early History of Rome
'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and …
Arvet från Bagdad : hur det grekiska vetandet bevarades och berikades
Prisbelönt författare skriver om vårt arabiska arv! En av de myter som ständigt återkommer i den europeiska antiislamiska och antiarabiska retoriken är att biblioteket i Alexandria …
A Short History of Babylon
Much of our perception of Babylon in the West is filtered through the poignant echoes of loss and longing that resonate in the Hebrew Bible. The lamenting exiles of Judah craved a …
Agricola and Germania
The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law - and the first detailed account …
The Slave in Greece and Rome
Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves’ economic role in society, their crucial …