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The Etruscans - 9th-2nd Centuries BC

Ancient Rome had deep roots in the 'Villanovan' culture that we call today the Etruscans. Their long-lived civilization can be traced to ...

The Hydaspes 326 BC - The Limit of Alexander the Great's Conquests

The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece. In the years that followed A...

Speak My Name - Investigating Egyptian Mummies

Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction

Liba Taub gives an overview of the major developments in early science between the 8th century BC and 6th century AD. Focussing on Greece...

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities - A Natural History

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence an...

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome - The History of a Dangerous Idea

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politi...

Warriors and Kings - The 1500-Year Battle for Celtic Britain

New paperback edition - Explore the 1,500-year history of Celtic resistance. Martin Wall explores the mythology and psychology of this un...

The History Behind Game of Thrones - The North Remembers

A history of Scotland explained through the abundant parallels to the big events that underpin the world of George R. R. Martin's "Game O...

The Roman Provinces, 300 Bce-300 CE - Using Coins as Sources

"Makes a complex subject easy for instructors and students to understand and shows how the provincial coinage can illustrate many aspects...

Athenaze, Workbook II - An Introduction to Ancient Greek

Workbook I by Gilbert Lawall, James F. Johnson, Luigi Miraglia; Workbook II by Gilbert Lawall, James F. Johnson, Cynthia King.

The Perdiccas Years, 323-320 BC

On 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching fr...

Silchester Insula IX: Oppidum to Roman City C. A.D. 85-125/150 - Final Report on the Excavations 1997-2014

Silchester (Calleva) experienced major disruption in the late first century A.D. as the Iron Age oppidum was transformed into the Roman c...

Herodotus: Book III

This accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world. Book...

From Byzantine to Norman Italy - Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyze the art and architecture of the archdiocese of Bari and Canosa during the Byzant...

Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for pe...

A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome's celebratory ga...

Tierkulte Im Pharaonischen Ägypten Und Im Kulturvergleich

William Rowley, his All's lost by lust, and A shoemaker, a gentleman; With an Introduction on Rowley's Place in the Drama

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden - (Re)Framing the Hortus

This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a ...

Soldiers and Silver - Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest

A detailed comparative study of resources and military mobilizations in the ancient Mediterranean, this book examines how Rome achieved h...

A Cultural History of the Sea in the Age of Enlightenment

This volume covers a period when Europeans were making great advances in the production and application of pure knowledge, especially in ...

The Pharaoh's Kitchen - Recipes from Ancient Egypts Enduring Food Traditions

Beautifully illustrated with scenes from tomb reliefs, objects and artifacts in museum exhibits, and modern photographs, the recipes are ...

Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens - Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon

"What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been expl...

At the Gates of Rome - The Battle for a Dying Empire

A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome from the perspective of the Roman general St...

Egyptian Genesis of the Nephilim

Egyptian mythology of the "Nephilim" giants and the battle at the beginning of time

Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior - 1st Century AD

The reigns of Augustus and his successor Tiberius saw an epic struggle between the Romans and local peoples for the territory between the...

A Companion to the Hellenistic World

Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this...

The 'Cursus Laborum' of Roman Women - Social and Medical Aspects of the Transition from Puberty to Motherhood

"This book assesses a narrow but vital - and so far understudied - part of Roman women's lives: puberty, preparation for pregnancy, pregn...

The History of Sexuality: 2 - The Use of Pleasure

'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of Books The second volu...

Becoming Asian American - Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities

In Becoming Asian American, Nazli Kibria draws upon extensive interviews she conducted with second-generation Chinese and Korean American...