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Epics of Sumerian kings the matter of Aratta
Vanstiphout, H. L. J.
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Polis : A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity
Ma, John.
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A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-state The Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and...
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Strabo's Geography : A Translation for the Modern World
Strabo.
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The World of Hesiod : A Study of the Greek Middle Ages, C. 900-700 B. C
Burn, Andrew Robert.
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Out of One, Many : Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
Roberts, Jennifer T.
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A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively...
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Pox romana : the plague that shook the Roman world
Elliott, Colin P.
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A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that...
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How to Be Queer : An Ancient Guide to Sexuality
Nooter, Sarah.
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An irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and love Eros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again, that bittersweet, implacable creature. --Sappho The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is...
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The new Roman empire : a history of Byzantium
Kaldellis, Anthony
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How to Care about Animals : An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small
Usher, M. D.
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An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals--and our vital relationships with them How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them....
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A noble ruin : Mark Antony, civil war, and the collapse of the Roman republic
Tatum, W. Jeffrey
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How to Get over a Breakup : An Ancient Guide to Moving On
Ovid.
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A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid's Remedies for Love--a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is...
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Epitome of Pompeius Trogus
Justinus, Marcus Junianus
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A condensed Roman history of non-Roman civilizations. To Justin (Marcus Junian(i)us Justinus), otherwise unknown, is attributed our abbreviated version of the lost Philippic History by (Gnaeus?) Pompeius Trogus, a massive account, in forty-four books, of the non-Roman world and its...
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Philosophical orations Volume I
Maximus, of Tyre
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A Platonic evangelist's lectures on the good life. Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platonist whose only surviving work consists of forty-one brief addresses on various topics of ethical, philosophical, and theological...
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The Ancient Explorers
Cary, M.
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American Classicist : The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton
Houseman, Victoria.
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A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world Edith Hamilton (1867-1963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would...
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Before and after Babel : Writing As Resistance in Ancient near Eastern Empires
Van De Mieroop, Marc.
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The Trojan horse and other stories : ten ancient creatures that make us human
Kindt, Julia
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How to Make Money : An Ancient Guide to Wealth Management
Grillo, Luca.
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An enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made--and thought about--money Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in...
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Ovid in French : reception by women from the Renaissance to the present
Taylor, Helena
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