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Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece
This is the first book in English to provide a systematic treatment of Panhellenism. The author argues that in archaic and classical Greece Panhellenism defined the community of …
Indian Speeches
Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt support of sea marauders in …
Magic in Roman Britain
In Roman Britain people used magic to protect themselves, to gain better health, to fall in love, and to curse wrongdoers. They used arcane words, strange and uncanny materials, …
Looking Back through Our Identities
An accessible monograph that invites readers to rethink traditional historical boundaries in its exploration of myth and memory.Looking Back through Our Identities explores the …
The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus
Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the …
Theatrocracy
Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can affect the people who experience it, and the societies within which it is embedded. It takes as its model the …
Alexandrien - London
Turkey - Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-1952
This book aims to enhance our understanding of how American presence came to become consolidated - through NATO - in the eastern Mediterranean in the early cold war period by …
Die by the Blade
*Thus Valour and Skill Have Their Reward*The year is 77 A.D. On the frontier of the Roman Empire, a Dacian man named Verus is captured and enslaved during an imperial raid north of …
"Fabellae"
Lying between the grammarians'' and rhetors'' domains, Aesop''s fables were known and employed in the Western and Eastern educational environments mainly for their intrinsically …
Tutankhamen & The Discovery of His Tomb
The discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 aroused unprecedented excitement in the field of Egyptology. In the tomb of a "e;colourless youth, who reigned for a few years …