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Harry Sidebottom
Those Who Are About To Die

Bestselling author Harry Sidebottom takes readers on a thrilling journey through a day in the life of the most iconic figure of the ancient world: the Roman gladiator'Grippingly original ' Tom Holland, Su…

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Verity J Platt
Epistemic Impressions

Epistemic Impressions advances a new history of image-making and art-text relations in classical antiquity. Moving away from a focus on imitation (mim¿sis ), it looks instead to the concept of the seal-im…

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Richard D McBride II
The Three Kingdoms of Korea

An expansive and accessible introduction to the history of Korea during the first millennium CE.Korea's Three Kingdoms period is a genuine "lost civilization," during which ancient realms vied f…

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The Oxford Handbook of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

This Handbook includes fifty chapters written by experts from a variety of disciplines: archaeology (including classical, near eastern, and Islamic), ancient history, anthropology, art history, data and n…

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Mark McClay
The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition

"Examines a collection of gold tablets, products of Greek mystery religions offering post mortem salvation, and reads them in the performance context and thought of early Greek poetry. Applies a rang…

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The Authoritative Historian

"In this volume an international group of scholars revisits the themes of John Marincola's groundbreaking Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. The nineteen chapters offer a series of ca…

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Toby Wilkinson
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt's complex evolution over the course of three millenniums."-Los Angeles TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE Y…

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David Alan Parnell
Belisarius & Antonina

A unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of JustinianBelisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, v…

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Arrian,
The Landmark Arrian

Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander, widely considered the most authoritative history of the brilliant leader's great conquests, is the latest addition to the acclaimed Landmark series.After twelve years of h…

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New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49-30 Bce

"Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, this book explores eleven papers which shed light on this crucial moment in the forging of Roman identity. They engage with…

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Dean Hammer
Rome and America

"This Roman polish, and this smooth behaviour, That render man thus tractable and tame? Are they not only to disguise our passions, To set our looks at variance with our thoughts, To check the starts…

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Matthews
From Byzantium to Constantinople

The foundation of Constantinople was a key moment in the political, cultural, and religious history of the ancient Mediterranean world, and its emergence as the capital of a Byzantine and Christian empire…

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Owen Rees
The Far Edges of the Known World

To many ancient Greeks and Romans, the outer reaches of their world was where civilization ceased to exist. But what was it like to live on the edges of these empires, on the boundaries of the known world…

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Will Brockliss
Horror in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic

By demonstrating the importance of horrific motifs in Greek and Roman epic, this book challenges existing conceptions of what an epic poem is and of what it means to engage with such a text. Taking the re…

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Nicky Nielsen
Subsistence Strategies and Craft Production at the Ancient Egyptian Ramesside Fort of Zawiyet Umm El-Rakham

"Drawing on more than 20 years of archaeological study and investigation at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, this book paints a nuanced picture of daily life not only at this liminal military site, but also in…

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Christopher Pelling
Plutarch: Alexander

Christopher Pelling provides the first detailed commentary and translation with notes in over fifty years of Plutarch's Life of Alexander . This is a companion volume to Pelling's Plutarch Caesar (2011), …

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Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

"Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in quest…

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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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Vojt& Hladký
On the Gods and the World

A new interpretation of the Derveni papyrus, an important testimony of intellectual life in Greece of late fourth century BCE, which combines subjects from ancient religious thought, allegorical explanati…

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Eve Macdonald
Carthage

For 600 years, the kingdom of Carthage dominated the western Mediterranean, rising from a small city founded in the ninth century BCE to the area's largest, richest empire by the third. Inevitably, it cla…

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