стародавні цивілізації. первісне суспільство

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    Придбаний Книга Cynics (Вільям Д. Десмонд)

    Once regarded as a minor Socratic school, Cynicism is now admired as one of the more creative and influential philosophical movements in antiquity. First arising in the city-states of late classical Greece, Cynicism thrived through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, until the triumph of...
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    Придбаний Книга The Womb and the Simile of the Woman in Labor in the Hebrew Bible: Embodying Relationship with YHWH (Карен Ленгтон)

    This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations that present these as disparate images and showing how their interconnectivity embodies relationship with YHWH. In the Hebrew Bible, images of the...
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    Придбаний Книга The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century (Стефані Балквілл)

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the...
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    Придбаний Книга Agricola: Warrior (Саймон Терні)

    The second thrilling historical adventure novel in a series based on the life of renowned Roman soldier and statesman Agricola. The new thrilling Roman historical adventure in a series based around one of the most renowned and intriguing figures of Ancient Rome. In Nero's Rome, ambition is a...
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    Придбаний Книга The Romanization of Britain: An Essay in Archaeological Interpretation (Мартін Міллетт)

    Reissue of this acclaimed and influential study of cultural change, with a new introduction reviewing the ongoing debate about Romanization. The Romanization of Britain was greeted, on first publication, as an innovative study of cultural change and interaction, offering a bold new perspective...
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    Придбаний Книга Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome (Джосайя Осгуд)

    'A vivid, visceral and crucial read for our times' BETTANY HUGHES 'Wonderful and insightful' ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY The collapse of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic told through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero. In its final decades, the Roman Republic was...
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    Придбаний Книга The Celts: A Modern History (Іен Стюарт)

    A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and France Before the Greeks and Romans, the Celts ruled the ancient world. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and conquered much of Europe, from Ireland to...
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    Придбаний Книга The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248 260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome (Пол Н. Пірсон)

    This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome's millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome, involving a series of civil wars, several...
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    Придбаний Книга The Lives of the Caesars (Гай Светоній Транквілл)

    A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detail The ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle. To rule as a Caesar was...
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    Придбаний Книга Eric Bloodaxe The Viking (Джон Седлер)

    Eric Bloodaxe (or Brother-Slayer) might well claim to be the last of the Vikings, his career a real-life episode of Game of Thrones, his life a true Norse saga, the realities teased out by the author from sparse chronicle sources and enigmatic, often contradictory sagas. The whole picture...
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    Придбаний Книга Near-Death Experience in Ancient Civilizations: The Origins of the World's Afterlife Beliefs (Грегорі Шушан)

    A cross-cultural comparison of ancient beliefs about death and the afterlife • Reveals the powerful influence of near-death experiences (NDEs) on the formation of religious beliefs, mystical literature, and ritual practices • Focuses on the afterlife beliefs of five ancient world regions: Old...
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    Придбаний Книга The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism (Янні Котсоніс)

    A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism traces how something new emerged from...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Egypt (DK (Dorling Kindersley))

    Learn all about ancient Egypt, from everyday life to the afterlife, in this ultimate guide. Explore the everyday lives of ancient Egyptians, from farming alongside the mighty River Nile to worshipping powerful gods and goddesses, in this history book for children aged 9-12. Discover why cats...
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    Придбаний Книга de Romanis Book 1 (2nd edition): dei et deae (Анжела Чітхем)

    The new edition of Bloomsbury's rigorous engaging Latin course for KS3 to GCSE now endorsed by OCR and Eduqas. Now endorsed by OCR and Eduqas, this popular Latin course for students aged 11–16 is breathing new life into Latin teaching and learning. de Romanis is a vibrant and accessible...
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    Придбаний Книга de Romanis Book 2 (2nd edition): homines (Анжела Чітхем)

    The new edition of Bloomsbury's rigorous engaging Latin course for KS3 to GCSE now endorsed by OCR and Eduqas. Now endorsed by OCR and under review by Eduqas, this popular Latin course for students aged 11–16 is breathing new life into Latin teaching and learning. de Romanis is a vibrant and...
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    Придбаний Книга The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought (Роберт Луїс Вілкен)

    From the time of Jesus, Palestine has been an integral part of the Christian experience. Not only have Christians always lived in Palestine, but more important, since the fourth century Christians gradually came to see Palestine as a Holy Land and Jerusalem as the Christian city. In this...
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    Придбаний Книга The Great Cauldron: A History of Southeastern Europe (Марі-Жанін Калік)

    A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions. We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the present it has been a dynamic meeting...
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    Придбаний Книга Boudica's Last Stand: Britain's Revolt against Rome AD 60-61 (Джон Вайт)

    In 61 AD, Roman rule in Britain was threatened by a bloody revolt led by one of the most iconic figures in British history. Legend dictates that Boudica destroyed three Roman towns and thousands of lives in response to Roman cruelty and betrayal towards her and her family. However, in recent...
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    Придбаний Книга Alexander the Great (Філіп Фріман)

    Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) was one of history's great generals, a man studied by Caesar and Napoleon, among hundreds of others. He was born to the king of Macedon and educated by Aristotle, whose inquiring mind Alexander appreciated. After his father, Philip II, was...
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    Придбаний Книга Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook (А. Д. Лі)

    In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the 3rd century to a situation where, by the 6th century, Christianity had become the dominant...
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    Придбаний Книга Greek Sculpture (Марк Д. Фуллертон)

    Greek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD...
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    Придбаний Книга A History of the Classical World: The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome (Елізабет Вайз)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/a-history-of-the-classical-world-the-story-of-ancient-greece-and-rome-3341064.html
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    Придбаний Книга Between Two Rivers: 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND (Мудхі Аль-Рашид)

    'I have never read a book on Mesopotamia that so beautifully brings to life the people themselves ... It melts away the sense of time. A wonderful read.' TOM HOLLAND 'A tender, moving and vivid history of ancient Mesopotamia and how it still speaks to us.' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'Fascinating and...
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    Придбаний Книга The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Deluxe Slipcase Edition (Е. А. Волліс Бадж)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/the-egyptian-book-of-the-dead-deluxe-slipcase-edition.html
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    Придбаний Книга Philosophers, Jews, and Christians in the Roman Empire: Authority, Text, and Tradition (Леслі Келлі)

    This book explores how philosophical and religious communities in the Roman Empire of the first and second centuries CE engaged with, and were shaped by, their relationship to texts and tradition in their quest for true religious knowledge or ultimate truth. This era was a dynamic transition...
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    Придбаний Книга Divergent Worlds: What the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean Can Tell Us About the Future of International Order (Амітав Ачарья)

    A study of why the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean took different paths to peace and stability and its lessons for international order today In this book Amitav Acharya and Manjeet S. Pardesi compare the interplay of power and ideas in the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean to...
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    Придбаний Книга The Flight of the Vikings: Daring Escapes in Small Boats from Nazi-Occupied Norway, 1940-45 (Ендрю Орр)

    When the full might of Nazi Germany descended without warning upon neutral Norway in April 1940, many brave Norwegians wanted to escape to Britain to join the fight against the occupation of their country. The most natural route to freedom was to take to the cruel North Sea in small boats...
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    Придбаний Книга The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra (Тобі Уілкінсон)

    A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt, he overthrew the hated Persian overlords and was welcomed as a saviour. He repaid them by showing due reverence to their long-held...
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    Придбаний Книга The Illustrated Meditations: Life Lessons from Marcus Aurelius (Джеймс Ромм)

    A curated selection of the most significant life lessons from the iconic work of Stoic philosophy That which is not good for the hive, neither is it good for the bee Renowned Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius compiled his Meditations nearly two thousand years ago, as a personal...
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    Придбаний Книга The Rise of the Roman Empire: An Alternative History, AD 375-641 (Тімоті Веннінг)

    An alternative history of success rather than decline anf fall. The actual history is set out and the alternative history with Old Time Lines (OTL) for reference. It is a vivid narrative, deeply researched, full of events and people, great and minor igur6es who come to life. It is a story of...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Colosseum: Spectacular Visual Guides (Фіона Макдональд)

    An informative, highly illustrated visual guide to the world of ancient Rome! Roman Colosseum explores the architectural achievements and hidden secrets held within the walls of this ancient arena. Step inside the enormous, boldly designed Roman Colosseum and uncover the secret lives of the...
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    Придбаний Книга Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome (Джейн Дрейкотт)

    The charismatic Fulvia amassed a degree of military and political power that was unprecedented for a woman in Ancient Rome. Married three times to men who moved in powerful circles, including Marc Antony, Fulvia was not content to play the usual background role that was expected of a wife -...
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    Придбаний Книга St George: Hero, Martyr and Myth (Саманта Річес)

    Who was St George and how did he become patron saint not only of England but in many European countries? Who was St George and how did he become patron saint not only of England but also of many other European countries? In this richly illustrated book, Samantha Riches explores the extraordinary...
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    Придбаний Книга Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline (Пол Купер)

    Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations 'Cooper is a phenomenon' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'You need to read this book' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment Based on the hit podcast with over 200 million streams The world is full of ruins. From...
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    Придбаний Книга The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History (Селена Вісном)

    The Library of Ancient Wisdom 'pieces together a vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life from the shattered remnants of the 30,000 or so tablets in Ashurbanipal's library... which not only bring kings and queens to life, but also priests, traders and professional lamenters' - New Scientist...
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    Придбаний Книга The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World (Алексіс Ханна Прескотт)

    The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World takes you on a journey into the world of Classical literature, from the adventurous Homeric epic of the Odyssey to the grim warfare of Lucan’s De Bello Civili. In doing so, you will be introduced to a handful of powerful women who will...
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    Придбаний Книга Vikings: A History of the Norse People (Мартін Догерті)

    Beginning in 789AD, the Vikings raided monasteries, sacked cities and invaded western Europe. They looted and enslaved their enemies. But that is only part of their story. In long boats they discovered Iceland and America (both by accident) and also sailed up the Seine to Paris (which they...
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    Придбаний Книга Vikings in the East: From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin - The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine (Мартін Вітток)

    In Western Europe, we typically associate Vikings with the storm-tossed waters of the North Sea and the North Atlantic, the deep Scandinavian fjords and the attacks on the monasteries and settlements of north-western Europe. This popular image rarely includes the river systems of Russia and...
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    Придбаний Книга Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It (Емілі Хаузер)

    Award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey . . . 'Bold and intellectually thrilling...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Пола Фредріксен)

    How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods. For centuries, a practical religious pluralism prevailed. How, then, did one particular god come to...
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    Придбаний Книга Імператор Риму. Володар давньоримського світу (Мері Берд)

    Авторка бестселера «SPQR. Історія Давнього Риму» Мері Берд пропонує чергове захопливе дослідження — цього разу про життя й правління понад 30 римських імператорів. Починаючи оповідь Юлієм Цезарем, якого було вбито в 44 році до н. е., вона описує майже 300 років римської історії крізь призму...
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    Придбаний Книга Світанок цивілізації: від дикої природи до перших поселень (комплект із 3-х книг) (Ігор Цеунов)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Первісність У «Навігаторі», що розповідає про первісність, ідеться про час від появи людини до перших цивілізацій і зародження писемності. На теренах України цей період тривав від 1 мільйона років тому — саме так датовані найдавніші залишки людської...
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    Придбаний Книга Світ до людей: коли Земля належала мамонтам (комплект із 3-х книг) (Ігор Цеунов)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Первісність У «Навігаторі», що розповідає про первісність, ідеться про час від появи людини до перших цивілізацій і зародження писемності. На теренах України цей період тривав від 1 мільйона років тому — саме так датовані найдавніші залишки людської...
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    Придбаний Книга Русь: від племен до державності (комплект із 3-х книг) (Ігор Цеунов)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Темні віки Темні віки — це словосполучення, яке часто викликає похмурі асоціації. Та насправді «пітьма» цієї епохи пов’язана не з особливими жорстокістю чи невіглаством, а з тим, що документальних свідчень із того часу збереглося дуже мало. «Навігатор»...
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    Придбаний Книга Шлях до Києва (комплект із 3-х книг) (Вадим Арістов)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Русь «Навігатор» охоплює ІХ–ХІІІ століття — період, за який у Східній Європі й зокрема на теренах сучасної України трапилося чимало карколомних перетворень: виникла руська державність, на українські землі прийшли цивілізація, писемність і християнство...
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    Придбаний Книга Мандрівка крізь тисячоліття: відкривачі прадавніх світів (комплект із 3-х книг) (Ігор Цеунов)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Первісність У «Навігаторі», що розповідає про первісність, ідеться про час від появи людини до перших цивілізацій і зародження писемності. На теренах України цей період тривав від 1 мільйона років тому — саме так датовані найдавніші залишки людської...
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    Придбаний Книга До українців: історія людей і землі (комплект із 3-х книг) (Ігор Цеунов)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Темні віки Темні віки — це словосполучення, яке часто викликає похмурі асоціації. Та насправді «пітьма» цієї епохи пов’язана не з особливими жорстокістю чи невіглаством, а з тим, що документальних свідчень із того часу збереглося дуже мало. «Навігатор»...
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    Придбаний Книга В імлі століть: що було ДО Русі? (комплект із 3-х книг) (Ігор Цеунов)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Темні віки Темні віки — це словосполучення, яке часто викликає похмурі асоціації. Та насправді «пітьма» цієї епохи пов’язана не з особливими жорстокістю чи невіглаством, а з тим, що документальних свідчень із того часу збереглося дуже мало. «Навігатор»...
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    Придбаний Книга Як подолати минуле? Пам’ять, уроки, перспективи (комплект із 3-х книг) (Олександр Маєвський)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Світові війни Ця книжка — путівник по історичному періоду 1914-1945 років. У ньому йдеться про передумови Першої і Другої світових воєн, їхній перебіг і наслідки для світу. Про розпад імперій і революційні хвилі, про особливості тоталітарних режимів і...
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    Придбаний Книга Мозаїка епох: від первісності до Русі (комплект із 4-х книг) (Ігор Цеунов)

    Книга 1. Навігатор з історії України. Первісність У «Навігаторі», що розповідає про первісність, ідеться про час від появи людини до перших цивілізацій і зародження писемності. На теренах України цей період тривав від 1 мільйона років тому — саме так датовані найдавніші залишки людської...
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    Придбаний Книга Vergil: The Poet's Life (Сара Руден)

    A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid “Ms. Ruden has converted the writer of the Aeneid from a noble and stodgy ‘ancient’ into our contemporary . . . persuasively re-imagined [as] a sympathetic, three-dimensional figure. . . . The existence of...
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    Придбаний Книга Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 7 (Чік Джефферс)

    In this latest instalment of the series A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Peter Adamson and Chike Jeffers delve into the fascinating world of Africana Philosophy. Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century is the first of two volumes in the History of Philosophy...
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    Придбаний Книга A History of Britain in Ten Enemies (Террі Дірі)

    A ridiculously funny book for adults from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, perfect for fans of Unruly by David Mitchell. 'If you could take just one history book to a desert island, this would be it' Conn Iggulden 'This book makes you question everything you...
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    Придбаний Книга Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Лора Спінні)

    A New History of Our Ancient Past, From the Author of the International Bestseller Pale Rider 'The fascinating story of ancient words … new revelations await' The Guardian 'A truly extraordinary detective story' Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything ____ One ancient language...
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    Придбаний Книга The Goths AD 200–700 (Андреа Салімбеті)

    An illustrated study of Rome's key enemies from the Late Principate and Dominate: the western Visigoths and the eastern Ostrogoths. The Goths were a Germanic people who, under pressure from the Huns, migrated during the 2nd century AD to the Balkans, where they split into the Visigoths to the...
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    Придбаний Книга The Cleopatras: Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of Ancient Egypt! (Ллойд Ллевеллін-Джонс)

    'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen. A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film. She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony...
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    Придбаний Книга Україна. Від первісних часів до сьогодення. Доповнене видання (Сергій Жуков)

    Це оновлене видання бестселера видавництва «Ранок»! «Україна. Від первісних часів до сьогодення» — історичний путівник, що відправить допитливих українців у подорож довгим шляхом розвитку нашої країни. Книжка розповідає про перших людей на українських землях, про поселення давніх слов’ян, про...
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    Придбаний Книга Сміючись і помру: про життя і смерть видатних вікінгів (Том Шиппі)

    Вікінги були дивовижними воїнами, вправними мореплавцями, що завоювали світ і розчинились в історії, залишивши по собі чимало легенд і саг. От за останнє і взявся Том Шиппі, переконаний, що в давніх сагах Півночі набагато більше правди, ніж може здаватися на перший погляд. Ця книжка – наслідок...
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    Придбаний Книга Навігатор з історії України. Первісність (Ігор Цеунов)

    У «Навігаторі», що розповідає про первісність, ідеться про час від появи людини до перших цивілізацій і зародження писемності. На теренах України цей період тривав від 1 мільйона років тому — саме так датовані найдавніші залишки людської життєдіяльності, знайдені на стоянці Королеве на...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Иудейская война (Іосиф Флавій)

    От издателя: Иосиф Флавий (ок. 37—ок. 100) — знаменитый еврейский историк и военачальник, принимавший непосредственное участие в войне римлян с евреями. Его книга «Иудейская война» – практически единственное свидетельство событий тех лет, которые привели к национальной катастрофе еврейского...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга 50 знаменитых загадок Древнего мира (Анна Єрмановська)

    Люди всегда с особым интересом относятся ко всякого рода тайнам и загадкам, особенно если это касается прошлого. Именно там, в глубине минувших тысячелетий, зародилось и само понятие «время» — появились первые календари. Так началась история... Наша книга расскажет о событиях, известных еще по...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Загадки истории. Междуречье (Андрій Домановський)

    Междуречье, древние шумеры, жители библейского Вавилона… О них хотя бы понаслышке знает каждый. Ведь эти люди первыми в истории человечества начали обрабатывать землю, строить оросительные каналы, изобрели письменность и то, что мы сегодня называем словом «государство». Но как они этому...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Золоте руно. Історія, заплутана в міфах (Олексій Мустафін)

    «Золоте руно» — незвична розповідь про відомі з дитинства міфи та легенди Давньої Греції. Несподівана спроба відшукати у казці історичну правду і реконструювати за легендарними переказами справжню історію мікенської цивілізації — яскраву, криваву і повчальну, уроки якої стануть в нагоді й...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга А потім прийшов Цезар… (Алекс Хавр)

    Давній Рим… Залізна хода легіонів, довга низка богоподібних імператорів, наймогутніша держава минувшини… Звідки все це? Невже крихітному містечку, яке виникло у VIII ст. до н. е. на берегах Тибру, просто пощастило стати відправною точкою в розвитку всієї західної цивілізації? «А потім прийшов...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Laws of Ancient World. Vol. 1: Mesopotamia (Андреас Асіміс)

    Despite all of the imperfections present throughout Ancient Mesopotamian legislation, these laws of the ancient world are a priceless treasure influencing the history of judicial science. In ancient Mesopotamia, a written set of laws adopted by a ruler or his kingdom was quickly established as...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга The Code of Hammurabi (Хаммурапі)

    The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, developed during reigning Hammurabi from c. 1792 BC to c. 1750 BC (according to the Middle Chronology) of the 1st dynasty of Babylon . It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга The Histories of Polybius (Полібій)

    Written in the 2nd century by Polybius. Polybius, a historian from the Greek city of Megalopolis in Arcadia, was taken as a hostage to Rome after the Roman defeat of the Achaean League in Achaean War, and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a world power. He concludes that...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Цікаві факти з історії давніх часів (Олексій Мустафін)

    Чому перші цивілізації виникли там, де їжа людей була одноманітнішою? Чим марнославство перського царя допомогло розшифрувати писемність народу, що зник за два тисячоліття до його народження? Коли відбулася найперша битва в історії і як визначили місце останньої? Навіщо майя фарбували свої храми...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга The Complete Works of Livy. History of Rome. Illustrated (Тит Лівій)

    Livy wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled Ab Urbe Condita, ''From the Founding of the City''. Seneca the Younger gives brief mention that he was also known as an orator and philosopher and had written some treatises in those fields from a historical point of view. Livy...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга The Complete Works of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Illustrated (Діонісій Галікарнаський)

    Dionysius of Halicarnassus taught rhetoric in Rome while studying the Latin language, collecting material for a history of Rome, and writing. His Roman Antiquities began to appear in 7 BCE. Dionysius states that his objects in writing history were to please lovers of noble deeds and to repay the...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга The Complete Works of Flavius Josephus. Illustrated (Іосиф Флавій)

    Flavius Josephus was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian, best known for The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews. He initially fought against the Romans during the First Jewish–Roman War as head of Jewish forces in Galilee, until surrendering in 67 CE to Roman forces led by Vespasian...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга The Complete Works of Herodotus. Illustrated (Геродот)

    Herodotus was a Greek writer and geographer credited with being the first historian. He is referred to as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero. His magnum opus is a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars that he called “The Histories.” Before...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга The Great Historians of the Ancient World in 3 volumes. Volume I. Illustrated (Плутарх)

    Most of what is known of the ancient world comes from the accounts of antiquity's own historians. Ancient history is the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as post-classical history. istorians have two major ways of...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Справжня історія стародавнього часу (Олексій Мустафін)

    «Справжня історія стародавнього часу» — одна з чотирьох книжок серії «Справжня історія», автором яких є Олексій Мустафін. Вона охоплює події найдовшої доби в історії людства — від появи перших людей до розпаду найбільших імперій давнини. Що дозволило нашим пращурам вижити за часів льодовикового...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Уроки історії. Огляд історії людства як продукту людського досвіду (Уілл Дюрант)

    Історія — це не просто хронологія подій, а ще й джерело уроків з різноманітних царин життя, якими ми нині можемо скористатися. У цій ґрунтовній і водночас простій для сприйняття книжці Вілл та Аріель Дюрант передають читачеві накопичені за чотири десятиліття роботи над «Історією цивілізації»...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Three Ages of Rome (Філіп Гартон)

    No rebasing required, can be played with all current basing styles and conventions. For seven centuries, the history of Rome was central to the history of Europe. This story of expansion and decline is the inspiration for these wargames’ rules. Designed for ease of play, Three Ages of Rome...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Українська нація. Походження і життя української нації з найдавніших часів до XI століття (Микола Галичанець)

    У книзі подано походження та життя української нації від її утворення 40 тисяч років тому і до ХІ століття н. е. Автор висвітлює той період розвитку українського народу, що його забороняли описувати московські колонізатори. Пишучи за нас нашу історію, вони “відрубали” історичні корені нації, чим...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Wargame the Roman Invasion AD 43 (Енді Каллан)

    In the Battle for Britain series, well-known historical illustrator Peter Dennis breathes life back into the 19th century paper soldier, supplying all the artwork neede to create the armies which struggled for supremacy through our island history. Here, the Legions of Rome and the fierce Celtic...
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    Придбаний Електронна книга Троя (Стiвен Фрай)

    Стівен Фрай (нар. 1957 р.) — британський комедійний актор, письменник, сценарист, телеведучий, режисер, найбільшу популярність здобув своїми ролями у телевізійних серіалах. Фрай також відомий як представник еталонного англійського духу та класичної англійської мови. Майже всі його літературні...
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    Придбаний Аудіокнига The Art of War (Сунь-цзи)

    'Opportunities multiply as they are seized.' Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking...
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    Придбаний Книга The King's Magnates: A Study of the Highest Officials of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Рая Маттіла)

    This study documents the king’s highest officials with the aim of uncovering their roles in the administration of the Empire. The contributions that these textual references can provide are analyzed and then summarized, the useful by-product being a complete catalog of the holders of these...
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    Придбаний Книга The Exodus (Річард Елліот Фрідман)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/the-exodus.html
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    Придбаний Книга People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity, Volume II: Selected Latin Texts from Gaul and Western Europe (Ральф В. Маті

    Late Antiquity, which lies between Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 250-750), heralded the gradual decline of Mediterranean classical civilization, and the initial formation of a strictly western European, Christian society. During this period, three momentous developments...
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    Придбаний Книга Infant Weeping in Akkadian, Hebrew, and Greek Literature (Девід А. Босворт)

    Those who have spent time within earshot of a crying baby know the stress this sound can induce. Considerable scientific research has been devoted to the causes and consequences of infant crying because it is a public health concern implicated in parental frustration and infant abuse. Infant...
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    Придбаний Книга Knowledge by Ritual: A Biblical Prolegomenon to Sacramental Theology (Дру Джонсон)

    What do rituals have to do with knowledge? Knowledge by Ritual examines the epistemological role of rites in Christian Scripture. By putting biblical rituals in conversation with philosophical and scientific views of knowledge, Johnson argues that knowing is a skilled adeptness in both the...
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    Придбаний Книга All the Boundaries of the Land: The Promised Land in Biblical Thought in Light of the Ancient Near East (Нілі Вазана)

    What are the borders of the Promised Land in the Hebrew Bible? What drives and characterizes the descriptions given of them? The starting point for this research lies in the premise that, despite their detailed geographical nature, the biblical texts are not genuinely geographical documents...
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    Придбаний Книга Orientations of Avicenna's Philosophy: Essays on his Life, Method, Heritage (Дімітрій Гутас)

    The volume brings together seventeen studies on Avicenna by Dimitri Gutas, written over the past twenty-five years. They aim to establish Avicenna’s historical and philosophical context as a means to determining his philosophical project and the orientations of his thought. They deal with his...
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    Придбаний Книга Studies on Early Arabic Philosophy (Пітер Адамсон)

    Philosophy in the Islamic world from the 9th to 11th centuries was characterized by an engagement with Greek philosophical works in Arabic translation. This volume collects papers on both the Greek philosophers in their new Arabic guise, and on reactions to the translation movement in the period...
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    Придбаний Книга Honor and Profit: Athenian Trade Policy and the Economy and Society of Greece, 415-307 B.C.E. (Дарел Тай Енген)

    Honor and Profit offers a welcome corrective to the outmoded Finleyite view of the ancient economy. This important volume collects and analyzes economic evidence including government decrees for all known occasions on which Athens granted honors and privileges for services relating to trade. The...
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    Придбаний Книга Reading Lucan's Civil War: A Critical Guide (Пол Рош)

    Born in 39 C.E., the Roman poet Lucan lived during the turbulent reign of the emperor Nero. Prior to his death in 65 C.E., Lucan wrote prolifically, yet beyond some fragments, only his epic poem, the Civil War, has survived. Acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest literary achievements of...
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    Придбаний Книга The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah\u002FNimrud (Мікко Луукко)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/the-correspondence-of-tiglath-pileser-iii-and-sargon-ii-from-calah-nimrud.html
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    Придбаний Книга Conventional Values of the Hellenistic Greeks (Пер Більде)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/conventional-values-of-the-hellenistic-greeks.html
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    Придбаний Книга A History of the Classical Greek World: 478 - 323 BC (П. Дж. Родс)

    Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Two important new chapters have been...
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    Придбаний Книга A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 (Поль-Ален Больє)

    Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople Written by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First Dynasty (1880-1595) until...
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    Придбаний Книга Untersuchungen zum Agyptischen Staat des Alten Reiches und Seinen Institutionen (Петра Андраші)

    This book examines from a historical materialist perpective, several Old Kingdom state institutions, such as the treasury, the granaries, the king's domain and the vizier. It looks at Old Kingdom society from the early Dynastic period to the Sixth Dynasty, following the development, function and...
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    Придбаний Книга Non-Royal Regular Feminine Titles of the Middle Kingdom (Даніела Стефанович)

    This book lists the dossiers of the holders of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period regular non-royal feminine titles: iryt-pat (rpatt), anx(t) n(t) niwt, anxt nt nswt tpt, aHayt, aqyt, wbAyt (wbAt), bAkt nt HqA, mnat, Hsyt (Hst), xtt-pr, and Xkrt-nswt. The dossiers, with a...
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    Придбаний Книга Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion`s Leap (Норма Томпсон)

    Norma Thompson opens a new angle of political vision in this imaginative and engaging interpretation of Herodotus' History. She claims for the "father of history" a position in the canon of political thought, finding modern validity in his fundamental perceptions about the importance of stories...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Letters: An Anthology (Ноель К. Зейнер-Кармайкл)

    Roman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancient Roman letters spanning from the 1st century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Chronologically arranged and grouped according to author or collection, the letters cover various topics and themes selected from a broad range of...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Letters: An Anthology (Ноель К. Зейнер-Кармайкл)

    Roman Letters offers a rich selection of original translations of ancient Roman letters spanning from the 1st century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Chronologically arranged and grouped according to author or collection, the letters cover various topics and themes selected from a broad range of...
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    Придбаний Книга Women and Politics in Ancient Rome (Річард А. Бауман)

    First published in 1994. The study of women in the societies of antiquity has assumed a fresh significance in recent years. This book delineates not only the influential and manipulative role of Roman women in the business of government, law and public affairs in general, but also the emergence...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery (Пітер Хант)

    An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery (Пітер Хант)

    An exciting study of ancient slavery in Greece and Rome This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad—ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the...
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    Придбаний Книга The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History (Ненсі Х. Деманд)

    The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History p>“Drawing extensively on the latest archaeological data from the entire Mediterranean basin, Nancy Demand offers a compelling argument for situating the origins of the Greek city-state within a pan-Mediterranean network of maritime interactions...
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    Придбаний Книга Divine Providence in Philo of Alexandria (Пітер Фрік)

    In his study Peter Frick starts with the examination of the theocentric structure of Philo's thought as outlined in the important passage De Opificio Mundi 171-2 where Philo correlates the idea of providence with his concept of God and the theory of creation. On this basis, any adequate...
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    Придбаний Книга Greek Tragedy (Ненсі Соркін Рабінович)

    Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary...
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    Придбаний Книга Herod Antipas in Galilee: The Literary and Archaeological Sources on the Reign of Herod Antipas and its Socio-Economic Impact on Galilee (Мортен

    In this excellent, thoroughly-researched and thoughtful study, J. aims to steer a path between these divergent views, and to provide a way out of what has become a scholarly impasse. […] J.'s study is a model of sober scholarship. […] this is a fine study that will undoubtedly become the...
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    Придбаний Книга Economics in Persian-Period Biblical Texts: Their Interactions with Economic Developments in the Persian Period and Earlier Biblical Traditions

    Large-scale economic change such as the rise of coinage occurred during the Persian-dominated centuries (6th -4th centuries BCE) in the Eastern Mediterranean and ancient Near East. How do the biblical texts of the time respond to such developments?In this study, Peter Altmann lays out...
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    Придбаний Книга The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest (Пітер С. Уеллс)

    In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably eastward into present-day Russia. But...
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    Придбаний Книга Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts (Пол Рузер)

    This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 BC until 1000 AD. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Irish Legends (Падрейк О'Фаррелл)

    From the Children of Lir to Diarmuid and Gráinne to the Salmon of Knowledge and Oisín in Tir na nÓg, Padraic O'Farrell reintroduces the classic stories of the Celtic past. Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/ancient-irish-legends.html
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    Придбаний Книга Hadrian's Wall: Archaeology and history at the limit of Rome's empire (Нік Ходжсон)

    Features and reviews in BBC History, Journal of Roman Studies, Roman Times and History Today. Reviews in Britain magazine, British Archaeology and Current Archaeology magazines. Built around AD122, Hadrian's Wall was guarded by the Roman army for over three centuries and has left an indelible...
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    Придбаний Книга Classics: Why It Matters (Невілл Морлі)

    For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals; Greece and Rome were seen as pinnacles of civilization, and the origins of western superiority over...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman History, Volume IV: Books 41–45 (Діо Кассій)

    A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150–235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He...
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    Придбаний Книга The Celebration of the Saints in Byzantine Art and Liturgy (Ненсі П. Севченко)

    The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the 9th century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through liturgical poetry and sequences of isolated images...
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    Придбаний Книга Julius Caesar's Self-Created Image and Its Dramatic Afterlife (Мір'яна Дімітрова)

    The first analysis of Julius Caesar’s self-representation in his Commentaries, from the point of view of how the themes and characterisation have been appropriated or contested by major dramatic representations. The book explores the extent to which aspects of Julius Caesar’s self-representation...
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    Придбаний Книга A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 (Поль-Ален Больє)

    Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of Constantinople Written by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First Dynasty (1880-1595) until...
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    Придбаний Книга Liturgical Space: Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe 1500-2000 (Найджел Йейтс)

    This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the internal arrangement of church buildings in Western Europe between 1500 and 2000, showing how these arrangements have met the liturgical needs of their respective denominations, Catholic and Protestant, over this period. In addition...
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    Придбаний Книга From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt (Дональд Б. Редфорд)

    Donald Redford is one of the few scholars in Egyptology blessed with the ability to convey complex ideas in a lively manner that engages the attention of lay readers. At the same time, his historical insights and depth of knowledge are widely respected in the field, and in his new work, he shows...
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    Придбаний Книга Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity (Пітер Страк)

    Divination and Human Nature casts a new perspective on the rich tradition of ancient divination--the reading of divine signs in oracles, omens, and dreams. Popular attitudes during classical antiquity saw these readings as signs from the gods while modern scholars have treated such beliefs as...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Egypt: The Basics (Дональд П. Райан)

    Ancient Egypt: The Basics offers an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the history, archaeology and influence of this fascinating civilization. Coverage includes: A survey of Egyptian history from its earliest origins to the coming of Islam Life and death in ancient Egypt Key...
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    Придбаний Книга The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Девід Венгроу)

    It has often been claimed that "monsters"--supernatural creatures with bodies composed from multiple species--play a significant part in the thought and imagery of all people from all times. The Origins of Monsters advances an alternative view. Composite figurations are intriguingly rare and...
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    Придбаний Книга Augustus Caesar (Девід Шоттер)

    History sees Augustus Caesar as the first emperor of Rome, whose system of ordered government provided a firm and stable basis for the expansion and prosperity of the Roman Empire. Hailed as 'restorer of the Republic' and regarded by some as a deity in his own lifetime, Augustus was emulated by...
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    Придбаний Книга Julia Augusti (Елейн Фантем)

    This scholarly biography details the life of an extraordinary woman in an extraordinary society. Julia Augusti studies the life of the only daughter of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and the father who sacrificed his daughter and her children in order to establish a dynasty. Studying the...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration (О. Ф. Робінсон)

    Rome was a huge city. Running it required not only public works and services but also specialised law. This innovative work traces the development of that law and system in the main areas of administration. The book incorporates and develops previous historical and topographical works by...
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    Придбаний Книга Egypt's Legacy: The Archetypes of Western Civilization: 3000 to 30 BC (Майкл Райс)

    Drawing on Jungian psychology to show why Egypt has been so important in the history of Western civilisation, Michael Rice explains the majesty and enduring appeal of Egyptian civilization. Jung claimed that there exist certain psychological drives dormant in our shared unconscious: these are...
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    Придбаний Книга The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East (Патрік Вінг)

    This book traces the origins, history, and memory of the Jalayirid dynasty, a family that succeeded the Mongol Ilkhans in Iran and Iraq in the 14th and early 15th centuries. The story of how the Jalayirids came to power is illustrative of the political dynamics that shaped much of the Mongol and...
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    Придбаний Книга Morgantina Studies, Volume III: Fornaci e Officine da Vasaio Tardo-ellenistiche. (In Italian) (Late Hellenistic Potters' Kilns and Workshops) (Н

    The kilns at Morgantina, site of the well-known excavations in central Sicily, are an outstanding example of multiple potters' workshops in use during the late Hellenistic period. In fully documenting these ten kilns, excavated between 1955 and 1963, Ninina Cuomo di Caprio offers both a...
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    Придбаний Книга Kissing Christians: Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church (Майкл Філіп Пенн)

    Kissing was one of the most widely practiced early Christian rituals. Kissing Christians presents the first comprehensive study of how ancient controversies concerning this rite became part of larger debates regarding the internal structure of ancient Christian communities and their relations...
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    Придбаний Книга William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth-Century England (Девід Бойд Хейкок)

    Stukeley's antiquarian researches, particularly into the great stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury, were the first to reveal their great antiquity. Friend of Newton, his life embodies the classic Enlightenment confrontation between science and religion. Dr William Stukeley (1687-1765) was...
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    Придбаний Книга The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (Пітер С. Уеллс)

    The Barbarians Speak is an important book. It is the first to address the question of Roman-native interaction in Europe from the perspective of anthropological archaeology rather than a historical form of archaeology, which privileges the Roman side of the story. -- Peter Bogucki, Princeton...
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    Придбаний Книга Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a Culture (Патриція Кокс Міллер)

    Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. Finding it difficult to account for the prevalence of dream-divination, modern scholarship has...
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    Придбаний Книга The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis (Нафталі С. Кон)

    Naftali S. Cohn provides an innovative understanding of the rabbinic authors of the Mishnah and their intense focus on the Temple. He contends that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis, arguing for their own importance within the complex social landscape of Jewish...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition (Ральф Вітні Матісен)

    Proposes that barbarian integration into Roman society was a collaborative process rather than a conquest in the fifth century Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still...
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    Придбаний Книга The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes (Девід Лант)

    The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmian Games for Poseidon, and the Neman Games, sacred to Zeus. For over nine hundred years, the...
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    Придбаний Книга Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries (Пітер Дж. Томсон)

    The present volume gathers up studies by Peter J. Tomson, written over thirty-odd years, that deal with ancient Jewish law and identity, the teachings of Jesus, the letters of Paul, and the historiography of early Jews and Christians. Notable subject areas are Jewish purity laws, divorce law...
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    Придбаний Книга The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective (Річард А. Біллоуз)

    A study of the egalitarian systems of warfare and political decision-making, and the spread of literacy to the majority of male citizens, that contributed to the society and culture of the classical Greek city-states. This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek...
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    Придбаний Книга A Brief History of the Olympic Games (Девід К. Янг)

    For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence...
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    Придбаний Книга A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity (Дуглас Бойн)

    2019 PROSE Award finalist in the Classics category! A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity examines the social and cultural landscape of the Late Antique Mediterranean. The text offers a picture of everyday life as it was lived in the spaces around and between two of the most memorable...
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    Придбаний Книга On Jews in the Roman World: Collected Studies (Ранон Кацофф)

    The present volume presents a selection of studies by Ranon Katzoff on Jews in the ancient Roman world. Common to them is that they deal with Jews in liminal situations - confronted with non-Jewish, mainly Roman, laws, places, government, and modes of thought. In these studies - in which texts...
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    Придбаний Книга Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East (Ділан Р. Джонсон)

    Five Pentateuchal texts (Lev 24:10-23; Num 9:6-14; Num 15:32-36; Num 27:1-11; Num 36:1-12) offer unique visions of the elaboration of law in Israel's formative past. In response to individual legal cases, Yahweh enacts impersonal and general statutes reminiscent of biblical and ancient Near...
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    Придбаний Книга Sport: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Пітер Дж. Міллер)

    An overview of the influence of ancient Greek and Roman sport and spectacle on the modern, globalized world of contemporary sport. Modern sport cannot be understood without ancient sport. Sport saturates contemporary society and the global reach of sport and its intense popularity characterizes...
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    Придбаний Книга Greek Warfare beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States (Девід А. Блом)

    Greek Warfare beyond the Polis assesses the nature and broader significance of warfare in the mountains of classical Greece. Based on detailed reconstructions of four unconventional military encounters, David A. Blome argues that the upland Greeks of the classical mainland developed defensive...
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    Придбаний Книга A Short History of the Byzantine Empire: Revised Edition (Діонісіос Статакопулос)

    Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this book sheds new light on its culture, theology, and economic and socio-political spheres. Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the...
  144. G

    Придбаний Книга A Short History of the Byzantine Empire: Revised Edition (Діонісіос Статакопулос)

    Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this book sheds new light on its culture, theology, and economic and socio-political spheres. Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the...
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    Придбаний Книга Greece and Rome at War (Пітер Конноллі)

    In this sumptuous guide to twelve centuries of military development, Peter Connolly combines a detailed account of the arms and armies of Greece and Rome with his superb full-colour artwork. Making use of fresh archaeological evidence and new material on the manufacture and use of the weapons of...
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    Придбаний Книга Discovering the Olmecs: An Unconventional History (Девід К. Гроув)

    "This is a marvelously engaging introduction to Olmec civilization that has something to offer the novice and expert alike... There is no other book on the market resembling it that traces the history of Olmec studies through the people who did the field work, the discoveries they made, and the...
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    Придбаний Книга Dawn of the Horse Warriors (Дункан Ноубл)

    The domestication of the horse revolutionized warfare, granting unprecedented strategic and tactical mobility, allowing armies to strike with terrifying speed. The horse was first used as the motive force for chariots and then, in a second revolution, as mounts for the first true cavalry. The...
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    Придбаний Книга Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia (Раймонд Ван Дам)

    Kingdom of Snow investigates the impact of Roman rule in Cappadocia and the fate of classical Greek culture in an increasingly Christian society. Cappadocia had long been a marginal province in the eastern Roman empire, high on a rugged plateau in central Asia Minor and hardly influenced by...
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    Придбаний Книга Rural Athens Under the Democracy (Ніколас Ф. Джонс)

    The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the classical fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Much of the evidence—literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial—from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subject matter, and...
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    Придбаний Книга The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History (Девід Ллойд Дюсенбері)

    The gospels and ancient historians agree: Jesus was sentenced to death by Pontius Pilate, the Roman imperial prefect in Jerusalem. To this day, Christians of all churches confess that Jesus died 'under Pontius Pilate'. But what exactly does that mean? Within decades of Jesus' death, Christians...
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    Придбаний Книга Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Філіп Фріман)

    The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman “When we think of ancient Rome, it’s impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports—but what if it hadn’t been? This is the question provoked by classicist Philip...
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    Придбаний Книга The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire (Пол Дж. Космін)

    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year The Seleucid Empire (311–64 BCE) was unlike anything the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds had seen. Stretching from present-day Bulgaria to Tajikistan—the bulk of Alexander the Great’s Asian conquests—the kingdom encompassed a...
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    Придбаний Книга A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine's Political Thought (Майкл Ламб)

    A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life When it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history’s great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square. Many have enlisted him to...
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    Придбаний Книга Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (Редкліфф Г. Едмондс III)

    An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Skies: Constellation Mythology of the Greeks (Девід Вестон Маршалл)

    Tales of the forty-eight classical constellations have captured the human imagination from ancient times to the present. Compiled from literature spanning from Homer to Claudius Ptolemy, with illustrations and star charts reconstructed from ancient sources, Ancient Skies immerses the reader in...
  156. G

    Придбаний Книга Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East: Sources and Contexts (Ольга Кубіца)

    This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Indo-Greek kingdom circa 10 AD. The main thesis of this book...
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    Придбаний Книга Omnes Collegiati «Concurrite»!: Brandbekaempfung Im Imperium Romanum (Рената Лафер)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/omnes-collegiati-concurrite-brandbekaempfung-im-imperium-romanum.html
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    Придбаний Книга Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture (Моллі Світнам-Берланд)

    This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus. This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a...
  159. G

    Придбаний Книга Ancient Egypt on Five Deben a Day (Дональд П. Райан)

    An essential guide for the discerning time-traveller: take a trip to ancient Egypt at the height of its power and prosperity in the reign of Ramesses II. More reliable than Herodotus and more upbeat than The Book of the Dead, this popular book in Thames & Hudson’s successful Time Travel series...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Israel and Its Neighbors: Interaction and Counteraction (Надав Нааман)

    Throughout the past three decades, Nadav Na’aman has repeatedly proved that he is one of the most careful historians of ancient Canaan and Israel. With broad expertise, he has brought together archaeology, text, and the inscriptional material from all of the ancient Near East to bear on the...
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    Придбаний Книга Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus (Філіпа М. Стіл)

    The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years. From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, often setting it apart from other areas...
  162. G

    Придбаний Книга Before the Pharaohs: Egypts Mysterious Prehistory (Едвард Ф. Малковскі)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/before-the-pharaohs-egypts-mysterious-prehistory.html
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    Придбаний Книга Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (Нора Гольдшмідт)

    This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction'). Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries...
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    Придбаний Книга Athenian Democracy at War (Девід М. Прічард)

    Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower. Classical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today. These achievements are rightly revered. Less well known is the other side...
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    Придбаний Книга Explorations in Latin Literature: Volume 1, Epic, Historiography, Religion (Деніс Фіні)

    A collection of all the major papers by a leading Latinist, on key ancient genres and theoretical issues. Denis Feeney is one of the most distinguished scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture in the world of the last half-century. These two volumes conveniently collect and present afresh...
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    Придбаний Книга Ravenna in Late Antiquity (Дебора Маускопф Деліянніс)

    A comprehensive survey of Ravenna's history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works. Ravenna was one of the most important cities of late antique Europe. Between 400 and 751 AD, it was the...
  167. G

    Придбаний Книга From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC–AD 14): Using Coins as Sources (Клер Роуен)

    A richly illustrated introduction to the contribution of Roman and provincial coinage to the history of this period, aimed at undergraduates. This unique book provides the student of Roman history with an accessible and detailed introduction to Roman and provincial coinage in the late Republic...
  168. G

    Придбаний Книга The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood: Tracing the Imprint of the Past, from 500 BCE to the Present (Пол В. Джейкобс, II)

    Takes one of the world's longest continuously occupied urban neighborhoods and explores the trace of early development on the future space. In this book, Paul Jacobs traces the history of a neighborhood situated in the heart of Rome over twenty-five centuries. Here, he considers how topography...
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    Придбаний Книга The Archaeology of Urbanism in Ancient Egypt: From the Predynastic Period to the End of the Middle Kingdom (Надін Меллер)

    This book presents the latest archaeological evidence that makes a case for Egypt as an early urban society. In this book, Nadine Moeller challenges prevailing views on Egypt's non-urban past and argues for Egypt as an early urban society. She traces the emergence of urban features during the...
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    Придбаний Книга Emperors and Ancestors: Roman Rulers and the Constraints of Tradition (Олів'є Гекстер)

    Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD. Emperors and Ancestors is the first systematic analysis of the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented in the various 'media' through which images of...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Пітер Салвей)

    For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome started long before the Conquest launched by the Emperor Claudius in 43 AD, and it continued to be a...
  172. G

    Придбаний Книга Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction (Пенелопа Вілсон)

    Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years; used as monumental art, as a means of identifying Egyptianness, and for rarefied communication with the gods. In...
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    Придбаний Книга Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature (Л. Д. Рейнольдс)

    One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to be produced by hand and were subject to...
  174. G

    Придбаний Книга Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires (Рендольф Б. Форд)

    An exploration of ethnological thought in Greece, Rome, and China and its articulation during 'barbarian' invasion and conquest. This book addresses a largely untouched historical problem: the fourth to fifth centuries AD witnessed remarkably similar patterns of foreign invasion, conquest, and...
  175. G

    Придбаний Книга The Falls of Rome: Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity (Мішель Рене Зальцман)

    Focuses on the resilience of generations of Roman men and women, and their ability to reconstitute their city and society. Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the...
  176. G

    Придбаний Книга The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century (Доун ЛаВалль Норм

    An early Christian dialogue with an all-female cast makes us rethink how literature was changing during the third century CE. This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It...
  177. G

    Придбаний Книга Aristotle on Matter, Form, and Moving Causes: The Hylomorphic Theory of Substantial Generation (Девін Генрі)

    Examines Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism and its importance for understanding the process by which substances come into being. This book examines an important area of Aristotle's philosophy: the generation of substances. While other changes presuppose the existence of a substance (Socrates...
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    Придбаний Книга Caesar Rules: The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c. 50 BC – AD 565) (Олів'є Гекстер)

    A riveting portrayal of what the inhabitants of the Roman Empire expected of their ruler and their feelings about him. For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed...
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    Придбаний Книга Sparta (Майкл Вітбі)

    This volume introduces the reader to every important aspect of the society of Sparta, the dominant power in southern Greece from the seventh century BC and the great rival of democratic Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries. During this period Sparta evolved a unique social and political...
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    Придбаний Книга Avebury Cosmos – The Neolithic World of Avebury henge, Silbury Hill, West Kennet long barrow, the Sanctuary & the Longstones Cove (Ніколас Манн)

    A fresh look at the World Heritage Site that includes Avebury henge, West Kennet long barrow and Silbury Hill. Mann combines archaeology, astronomy and anthropology to offer an original and convincing account of the building of these extraordinary Neolithic monuments. The ancient Britons were...
  181. G

    Придбаний Книга People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases (Пенелопа М. Еллісон)

    Uses artefact analyses to investigate complex spatial and community relationships inside the walls of early Roman imperial military bases. This study uses artefact distribution analyses to investigate the activities that took place inside early Roman imperial military bases. Focusing especially...
  182. G

    Придбаний Книга Seneca on Society: A Guide to De Beneficiis (Міріам Т. Гріффін)

    Seneca's De Beneficiis (On Benefits) is the only work surviving from antiquity that discusses the exchange of gifts and services. Though the topic is of great importance, in practical moral philosophy, sociology, and in the historical study of how Roman society worked, the treatise has received...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Greek Letter Writing: A Cultural History (600 BC- 150 BC) (Паола Чеккареллі)

    In this volume, Ceccarelli offers a history of the development of letter writing in ancient Greece from the archaic to the early Hellenistic period. Highlighting the specificity of letter-writing, as opposed to other forms of communication and writing, the volume looks at documentary letters...
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    Придбаний Книга Troy: City, Homer and Turkey (Гюнай Услу)

    There is no city in history more evocative than Troy. Since the famous poet Homer wrote his Iliad and Odyssey in the 8th century BC, many others have studied, reinterpreted, sung about and laid claim for themselves to the city, the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, and the famous Wooden...
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    Придбаний Книга Legion: life in the Roman army (Річард Абді)

    The Roman army has been immortalised in heroic art and screen epics, but what was life really like for an ordinary soldier? ‘Everything the best history books can be: erudite, entertaining and eloquent.’ – Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories ‘Splendidly direct, clear and jargon free…...
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    Придбаний Книга Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus (Філіпа М. Стіл)

    The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years. From its first adoption of writing at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age, ancient Cyprus was home to distinctive scripts and writing habits, often setting it apart from other areas...
  187. G

    Придбаний Книга Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome (Натаніель Б. Джонс)

    Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns. In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural...
  188. G

    Придбаний Книга The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE (Рафаель Грінберг)

    An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions. The Levant - modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine - is one of the most intensively excavated regions of the...
  189. G

    Придбаний Книга Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece: A Philology of Worlds (Рено Ганьє)

    Follows the extraordinary record of ancient Greek thought on Hyperborea as a case study of cosmography and anthropological philology. Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion...
  190. G

    Придбаний Книга Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome (Натаніель Б. Джонс)

    Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns. In the first centuries BCE and CE, Roman wall painters frequently placed representations of works of art, especially panel paintings, within their own mural...
  191. G

    Придбаний Книга Oscan in the Greek Alphabet (Ніколас Заїр)

    By examining Greek-alphabet Oscan inscriptions, this book shines light on the linguistics, bilingualism and epigraphy of ancient Southern Italy. Oscan was spoken in Southern Italy in the second half of the first millennium BC. Here, for the first time, all the evidence for the spelling of Oscan...
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    Придбаний Книга The Lives of Ancient Villages: Rural Society in Roman Anatolia (Пітер Тонеманн)

    A ground-breaking historical ethnography of kinship, religion, and village society in a remote rural backwater of the Roman world. Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group...
  193. G

    Придбаний Книга Negotiating Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean: The Archaic and Classical Greek Multiethnic Emporia (Деніз Деметріу)

    Explores the creation of identities through cross-cultural interactions in multiethnic commercial settlements in the Archaic and Classical Mediterranean. The Mediterranean basin was a multicultural region with a great diversity of linguistic, religious, social and ethnic groups. This dynamic...
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    Придбаний Книга The Mosaics of Roman Crete: Art, Archaeology and Social Change (Ребекка Дж. Свитман)

    This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. This book examines the rich corpus of mosaics created in Crete during the Roman and Late Antique eras. It provides essential information on the style, iconography and chronology of the...
  195. G

    Придбаний Книга A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600–300 BC (Філіпа М. Стіл)

    The first comprehensive treatment of the languages and scripts of Cyprus, from the Late Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period. This pioneering volume approaches the languages and scripts of ancient Cyprus from an interdisciplinary point of view, with a primarily linguistic and epigraphic approach...
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    Придбаний Книга Community and Identity in Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom Cemetery at Qubbet el-Hawa (Дебора Вішак)

    In this book, Deborah Vischak argues that localized communities are an important source of identity in ancient Egypt. This book examines a group of twelve ancient Egyptian tombs (c.2300 BCE) in the elite Old Kingdom cemetery of Elephantine at Qubbet el-Hawa in modern Aswan. It develops an...
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    Придбаний Книга A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo (Дуейн В. Роллер)

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    Придбаний Книга Emperor and Senators in the Reign of Constantius II: Maintaining Imperial Rule Between Rome and Constantinople in the Fourth Century AD (Мюріел

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    Придбаний Книга Xenophon of Athens: A Socratic on Sparta (Норін Хамбл)

    Challenges the long-held view that Xenophon is pro-Spartan, arguing that his stance is, rather, critical and philosophical. Xenophon of Athens (c. 430–354 BCE) has long been considered an uncritical admirer of Sparta who hero-worships the Spartan King Agesilaus and eulogises Spartan practices in...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Law in Context (Девід Джонстон)

    This extensively updated second edition considers how Roman law worked in practice, viewed in its social and economic context. This book explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. Written in an accessible...
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    Придбаний Книга Knowledge and Politics in Plato's Theaetetus (Пол Стерн)

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    Придбаний Книга The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy (Деметра Касіміс)

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    Придбаний Книга Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered (Річард Дж. А. Талберт)

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    Придбаний Книга Aristotle on Political Community (Девід Дж. Рісбек)

    A unified interpretation of Aristotle's views about the distinctive nature and value of political community, rule and participation. Aristotle's claims that 'man is a political animal' and that political community 'exists for the sake of living well' have frequently been celebrated by thinkers...
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    Придбаний Книга The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain (Ніл Фолкнер)

    Combining a fresh analysis of the archaeological evidence with the traditional historical accounts, Neil Faulkner presents a new interpretation of the decline and fall of Roman Britain. The original conquest of Britain was one of the last successes of Roman military imperialism, whereas the...
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    Придбаний Книга King Arthur: pocket GIANTS (Нік Хайем)

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    Придбаний Книга Roman Bath Discovered (Баррі Канліфф)

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    Придбаний Книга A Companion and Guide to the Norman Conquest (Пітер Брамлі)

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    Придбаний Книга Kings of the Jews: Exploring the Origins of the Jewish Nation (Норман Гелб)

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    Придбаний Книга Cartimandua - Queen of the Brigantes (Нікі Говарт)

    This is the first major study of Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes tribe in Northern Britain in the first century AD. Little is known about the tribal ruler, who fought off rebellion and civil war and managed to keep her lands when many other British leaders were forfeiting theirs in the...
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    Придбаний Книга Silures: Resistance, Resilience, Revival (Рей Хауелл)

    ‘There are huge gaps in our understanding of the lives of the Silures … Despite what is in many instances a glaring lack of evidence, I’ve increasingly become convinced that trying to tease out what we can about the social structure of these people offers one of our best avenues to understanding...
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    Придбаний Книга Rural Landscapes of the Punic World (Карлос Гомес Беллард)

    Phoenician and Punic archaeology have long been overlooked by Mediterranean archaeologists, who focused their attention on Greek and Roman cultures. Although the Punic cities and their rural landscapes are to be found along the southern shores and on the islands of the western Mediterranean...
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    Придбаний Книга Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain (Річард Хінглі)

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    Придбаний Книга Cleopatra's Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era (Дуейн В. Роллер)

    The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome. This...
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    Придбаний Книга The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction (Пітер Тонеманн)

    The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube could serve...
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    Придбаний Книга Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 (Пітер Адамсон)

    Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and...
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    Придбаний Книга Late Roman Warlords (Пенні Макджордж)

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    Придбаний Книга Hadrian's Wall: A Life (Річард Хінглі)

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    Придбаний Книга Antígonas: Writing from Latin America (Мойра Фрадінгер)

    Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical...
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    Придбаний Книга Before the Scrolls: A Material Approach to Israel's Prophetic Library (Натан Мастняк)

    Before the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to biblical literature. Although scholars understand that the material of composition was the scroll rather than the codex, they persist in imagining the form as a single textual object...
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    Придбаний Книга Das Privatleben Der Roemischen Kaiser in Der Spaetantike: Studien Zur Personen- Und Kulturgeschichte Der Spaeten Kaiserzeit (Моніка Стаеше)

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    Придбаний Книга Phoenicians among Others: Why Migrants Mattered in the Ancient Mediterranean (Деніз Деметріу)

    Phoenicians among Others provides the first history of Phoenician immigrants in the ancient Mediterranean from the fourth to the first centuries BCE. Through an examination of inscriptions, many bilingual in Phoenician and Greek or Egyptian, Phoenicians among Others demonstrates how mobility and...
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    Придбаний Книга Lucian, True History: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Діскін Клей)

    Lucian of Samosata's True History is a fantastical tale of voyage and imagination. No editor, translator, or reader knows quite how to describe it or fit it comfortably into a familiar genre of Greek literature: 'satires' and 'dialogues' only partially describe the genre or genres he wrote in...
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    Придбаний Книга The Hellenistic Age (Пітер Тонеманн)

    The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the lower Danube could serve...
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    Придбаний Книга The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction (Девід М. Гвінн)

    The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage...
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    Придбаний Книга Images of the Ice Age (Пол Г. Бан)

    Images of the Ice Age, here in its third edition, is the most complete study available of the world's earliest imagery, presenting a fascinating and up-to-date account of the art of our Ice Age ancestors. Authoritative and wide-ranging, it covers not only the magnificent cave art of famous sites...
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    Придбаний Книга The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students (Девід Реберн)

    This commentary discusses Aeschylus' play Agamemnon (458 BC), which is one of the most popular of the surviving ancient Greek tragedies, and is the first to be published in English since 1958. It is designed particularly to help students who are tackling Aeschylus in the original Greek for the...
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    Придбаний Книга Greek Ethnic Terminology (П. М. Фрасер)

    This volume is a significant contribution to the study of the ancient Greek vocabulary used to describe the local origins of individuals. It sheds much new light on ancient grammarians, and other ancient writers (many of them 'lost' in the sense that they survive only in quotations in later...
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    Придбаний Книга Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War (Декстер Хойос)

    To say the Punic Wars (264-146 BC) were a turning-point in world history is a vast understatement. These vicious battles pitted two flourishing Mediterranean powers against one another, leaving one an unrivaled giant and the other a literal pile of ash. To later observers, a collision between...
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    Придбаний Книга Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian (Девід Алан Парнелл)

    A unique look at a powerful marriage in the celebrated age of Justinian Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1,500 years ago. Belisarius was the most well-known general of his age, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the Vandals and the Goths, and as if this were not...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Inequality: Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions (Едвард Е. Коен)

    Roman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in business amidst a population of generally impoverished free inhabitants and of impecunious enslaved residents. Edward E. Cohen focuses on two anomalies...
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    Придбаний Книга The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (Майкл Путнам)

    In the essays of this volume, Michael Putnam shows how seriously Statius pays homage to his canonical predecessor, Virgil, how thoroughly he interprets the complexities of Virgilian poetry, and how he often, by placing a Virgilian reference in a different social and cultural context, boldly...
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    Придбаний Книга The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Едвард Дж. Воттс)

    As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in...
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    Придбаний Книга London in the Roman World (Домінік Перринг)

    incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from one of the world's richest and most...
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    Придбаний Книга Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction (Дженніфер Т. Робертс)

    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its knees in 404. The...
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    Придбаний Книга Desire in the Iliad: The Force That Moves the Epic and Its Audience (Рейчел Х. Лессер)

    This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic's narrative structure and audience reception. Rachel H. Lesser offers a new reading of the poem that shows how the characters' desires, especially those of the mortal hero...
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    Придбаний Книга Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education (Майкл В. Чемпіон)

    Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education approaches fundamental questions about the role and function of education in late antiquity through a detailed study of the thought of Dorotheus of Gaza, a sixth-century Palestinian monk. It illumines the thought of a significant figure in Palestinian...
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    Придбаний Книга The Empire of the Black Sea (Дуейн В. Роллер)

    What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties not...
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    Придбаний Книга A Catalogue of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library: Part IV: Veda. By K. Parameswara Aithal (Парамесвара Айтхал)

    The Chandra Shum Shere Collection, which arrived in Oxford from Varanasi over a century ago, is one of the largest Indian manuscript libraries in the world outside the Subcontinent. Part IV of this descriptive catalogue adds much to our knowledge of the collection as a whole and gives details of...
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    Придбаний Книга Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher (Едвард Дж. Воттс)

    A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose...
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    Придбаний Книга A History of Roman Britain (Пітер Салвей)

    'One could not ask for a more meticulous or scholarly assessment of what Britain meant to the Romans, or Rome to Britons, than Peter Salway's Monumental Study' Frederick Raphael, Sunday Times From the invasions of Julius Caesar to the unexpected end of Roman rule in the early fifth century AD...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition (Пітер Кінгслі)

    Empedocles played a crucial role in the development of western culture; yet little is known or understood about this man, who lived in Sicily in the fifth-century BC. This is mainly becuase his teaching has been reconstructed by modern shcolars first and formost on the basis of Aristotle's...
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    Придбаний Книга The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians (Пітер Хізер)

    The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors Rome called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling an Empire that had...
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    Придбаний Книга The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia: Money, Culture, and State Power (Ной Кайе)

    Reveals how the empire of Attalid Pergamon dominated the Hellenistic world by controlling culture and identity through its fiscal system. Historians have long wondered at the improbable rise of the Attalids of Pergamon after 188 BCE. The Roman-brokered Settlement of Apameia offered a new map – a...
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    Придбаний Книга Writing, Violence, and the Military: Images of Literacy in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt (1550-1295 BCE) (Нів Аллон)

    Writing, Violence, and the Military takes representations of reading and writing in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt (ca. 1550-1295 BCE) as its point of departure, asking how patrons of art conceptualized literacy and how in turn they positioned themselves with respect to it. Exploring statuary and tomb...
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    Придбаний Книга Fifty Years at the Sibyl's Heels: Selected Papers on Virgil and Rome (Ніколас Хорсфолл)

    Nicholas Horsfall was one of the most recognizable and influential Latinists of his generation. His main legacy is his work on Virgil and the five erudite commentaries on the Aeneid, but he was also a prolific writer of papers, both Virgilian and non-Virgilian. A number of Horsfall's papers...
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    Придбаний Книга Reign of Arrows: The Rise of the Parthian Empire in the Hellenistic Middle East (Ніколаус Лео Овертум)

    From its origins as a minor nomadic tribe to its status as a major world empire, the rise of the Parthian state in the ancient world is nothing short of remarkable. In their early history, the Parthians benefitted from strong leadership, a flexible and accommodating cultural identity, and...
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    Придбаний Книга Teos and Abdera: Two Cities in Peace and War (Мустафа Адак)

    In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek inscriptions to have been discovered this century. It records, in thrilling and moving detail, the assistance provided by the Teians in the repopulation and...
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    Придбаний Книга Plato's Caves: The Liberating Sting of Cultural Diversity (Ребекка ЛеМойн)

    Months before the 2016 United States presidential election, universities across the country began reporting the appearance of white nationalist flyers featuring slogans like "Let's Become Great Again" and "Protect Your Heritage" against the backdrop of white marble statues depicting figures such...
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    Придбаний Книга Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain (Річард Хінглі)

    An authoritative new history of the Roman conquest of Britain Why did Julius Caesar come to Britain? His own account suggests that he invaded to quell a resistance of Gallic sympathizers in the region of modern-day Kent -- but there must have been personal and divine aspirations behind the...
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    Придбаний Книга Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age & Roman Europe (Міранда Грін)

    Sacrifice, like death, is one of the great taboo subjects of modern society. The notion that human sacrifice, murder most horrid and even cannibalism could be considered a most holy act is almost inconceivable. Yet the evidence for human sacrifice in north-west Europe, deriving from both...
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    Придбаний Книга Danebury Hillfort (Баррі Канліфф)

    An extremely well-preserved example of an Iron Age hillfort, Danebury is typical of many in Wessex but made exceptional by being the most thoroughly excavated and explored hillfort in the whole of Europe. Barry Cunliffe recreates the hillfort’s past using maps, plans, reconstructions and...
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    Придбаний Книга Housesteads: A Fort & Garrison on Hardrian's Wall (Джеймс Кроу)

    Housesteads is the best-known fort on Hadrians Wall and the most popular monument along the whole line. This book outlines the major structures of the fort which have made it one of the most celebrated military monuments anywhere in the Roman world. This new edition incorporates the results of...
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    Придбаний Книга Runes Illustrated (Рейчел Ньюкомб)

    Beautiful hand-bound volume showcasing the runic alphabets and how to read the meaning of the runes themselves. An alphabet developed by Germanic and Nordic peoples during ancient times, runes were used to represent both simple things and more complex concepts, providing a written form of...
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    Придбаний Книга Myths, Mummies and Magic in Ancient Egypt (Стівен Девіс)

    A vivid and contemporary retelling of the ancient Egyptian myths - now available in paperback. The ancient Egyptian myths are some of the oldest and most famous stories in the world. This striking new comic book collection will be the perfect introduction to the world of the ancient Egyptians...
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    Придбаний Книга Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy: Encounters with Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche (Пітер Дж. Аренсдорф)

    Shows that Homer was a philosophic thinker who played a crucial role in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche. In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf explores an overlooked but crucial role that Homer played in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning, notably, the...
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    Придбаний Книга The Sustainability and Development of Ancient Economies: Analysis and Examples (Клемент А. Тісделл)

    Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societies and their diversity. New ideas are presented...
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    Придбаний Книга Mediterranean Timescapes: Chronological Age and Cultural Practice in the Roman Empire (Франческо Тріфіло)

    This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region. Discrepancies between the use of time to...
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    Придбаний Книга The World of Saint Patrick (Філіп Фріман)

    The legend of Saint Patrick is irresistibly captivating-he drove the snakes out of Ireland, battled the druids, and used the three-leaf Shamrock to convert the pagan Irish to belief in the Christian Trinity. Yet, as so often happens, these stories are mere myths that fold under closer scrutiny...
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    Придбаний Книга Cyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship (Лінетт Мітчелл)

    Cyrus the Great was a celebrity of the ancient world, the founder of one of the first world empires in the ancient Near East, whose life and deeds were celebrated through the many stories told about him, then and for millennia. This book offers an analysis of these stories, locating them within...
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    Придбаний Книга The Falls of Rome: Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity (Мішель Рене Зальцман)

    Focuses on the resilience of generations of Roman men and women, and their ability to reconstitute their city and society. Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the...
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    Придбаний Книга Before Atlantis: 20 Million Years of Human and Pre-Human Cultures (Френк Джозеф)

    Exploring emerging and suppressed evidence from archaeology, anthropology, and biology, Frank Joseph challenges conventional theories of evolution, the age of humanity, the origins of civilization, and the purpose of megaliths around the world. He reveals 20-million-year-old quartzite tools...
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    Придбаний Книга Theologies of Fear in Early Greek Epic (Карман Романо)

    This book explores the theological significance of horror elements in the works of Hesiod and in the Homeric Hymns for the characters within these poems, the mortal audience consuming them, and the poet responsible for mythopoesis. Theologies of Fear in Early Greek Epic argues that just as...
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    Придбаний Книга Aegeomania: Modern Reimaginings of the Aegean Bronze Age (Ніколетта Момільяно)

    Aegeomania, Cretomania: the uses of archaeology in literature, arts, music, and other cultural practices. This Element provides an overview of Aegeomania: the fascination, sometimes bordering on the obsession, with the Aegean Bronze Age, which manifests itself in the uses of Aegean Bronze Age...
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    Придбаний Книга The Ancient Shore (Пол Дж. Космін)

    An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity. As we learn from The Odyssey and the Argonauts, Greek dramas frequently played out on a watery stage. In...
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    Придбаний Книга What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West (Девід Венгроу)

    The targeted destruction of ancient sites and monuments in the Middle East provokes widespread outrage in the West. But what is our connection to the ancient Near East? In this updated edition of What Makes Civilization? archaeologist David Wengrow investigates the origins of farming, writing...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Homosexuality (Крейг А. Вільямс)

    Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second...
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    Придбаний Книга The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Едвард Воттс)

    As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in...
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    Придбаний Книга A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo (Дуейн В. Роллер)

    The first English commentary on Strabo's seventeen-book Geography, the single most important source for the history of Greek geography. Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English...
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    Придбаний Книга Afterlives of the Roman Poets: Biofiction and the Reception of Latin Poetry (Нора Гольдшмідт)

    This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction'). Conscious of ancient modes of reading poetry 'for the life', Roman poets encoded versions of their lives into their texts. The result is a body of literature that cries...
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    Придбаний Книга The Aesthetics of Hope in Late Greek Imperial Literature: Methodius of Olympus' Symposium and the Crisis of the Third Century (Доун ЛаВалль Норм

    An early Christian dialogue with an all-female cast makes us rethink how literature was changing during the third century CE. This book sheds light on a relatively dark period of literary history, the late third century CE, a period that falls between the Second Sophistic and Late Antiquity. It...
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    Придбаний Книга Sanctity, Gender and Authority in Medieval Caucasia (Ніколоз Алєксідзе)

    From the early fourth century, the veneration of saints and relics spread rapidly across Christendom from the British Isles to Iran. In late antique Caucasia, the cult of the saints was immediately integrated into Armenian and Georgian identity and political discourses. It was used to legitimise...
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    Придбаний Книга Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition (Діоген Лаертский)

    Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to...
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    Придбаний Книга From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East: Tracing the Origins of Religion (Нікола Ланері)

    This book traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities. Human belief systems and practices can be traced to ca. 10,000 BCE in the Ancient Near East, where the earliest evidence of ritual structures and objects can be found. Religious...
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    Придбаний Книга The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch (Дже

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/the-greek-histories-the-sweeping-history-of-ancient-greece-as-told-by-its-first-chroniclers-herodotus-thucydides-xenophon-and-plutarch.html
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    Придбаний Книга Cleopatra's Daughter: and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era (Дуейн В. Роллер)

    The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome. This...
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    Придбаний Книга Resetting the Origins of Christianity: A New Theory of Sources and Beginnings (Маркус Вінзент)

    Interrogates standard interpretations of Christian origins handed down over the centuries. How do we know what we know about the origins of the Christian religion? Neither its founder, nor the Apostles, nor Paul left any written accounts of their movement. The witnesses' testimonies were...
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    Придбаний Книга Nations before the Nation-State: Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present (Анна Маріса Шон)

    Novel approach to the problem of nationalism through an extended study of the nation in ancient and medieval political thought. Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, thinkers understood nations as communities defined by common language, culture, and descent, and sharing strong bonds of...
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    Придбаний Книга The Fate of the Apostles: Examining the Martyrdom Accounts of the Closest Followers of Jesus (Шон Макдауелл)

    The Book of Martyrs by John Foxe written in the sixteenth century has long been the go-to source for studying the lives and martyrdom of the apostles. While other scholars have written individual treatments on the more prominent apostles such as Peter, Paul, John, and James, there is little...
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    Придбаний Книга Julius Caesar: The Gallic War Books I-II (Дженніфер Герріш)

    Books I-II of Julius Caesar’s The Gallic War narrate the campaigns of Caesar’s first two years in Gaul (58-57 BCE). These first years saw great success for Caesar. He repelled the Helvetii, who were attempting to migrate through Roman territory; he defeated the German tribes who had crossed the...
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    Придбаний Книга Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day (Ян Гадейн)

    This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome. Scholars specialized in different historical periods contributed chapters, in order to find common themes which weave their way...
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    Придбаний Книга Power and Rhetoric in the Ecclesiastical Correspondence of Constantine the Great (Ендрю Дж. Поттенгер)

    This volume closely examines patterns of rhetoric in surviving correspondence by the Roman emperor Constantine on conflicts among Christians that occurred during his reign, primarily the ‘Donatist schism’ and ‘Arian controversy’. Commonly remembered as the ‘first Christian emperor’ of the Roman...
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    Придбаний Книга Politics in the Monuments of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar (Елеонора Замп'єрі)

    This book explores the diachronic development of the ideological content of Pompey and Caesar’s monuments in Rome, emphasising the importance of the late Republican period as a precursor to imperial propaganda through architecture. In the final years of the Roman Republic, individuals such as...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Empire at War: A Compendium of Battles from 31 B.C. to A.D. 565 (Дон Тейлор)

    In a single volume, Empire at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Empire from Augustus to Justinian I (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn exclusively from Ancient, Late Antique, and Early Medieval...
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    Придбаний Книга 24 Hours in Ancient Egypt: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There (Дональд П. Райан)

    Have you ever wondered what it was like to live and work in Egypt, the most powerful kingdom of the ancient world? Spend a day with 24 Egyptians to see Egypt through their eyes. 'Lively and amusing [...] an engaging read. Ryan successfully makes this ancient civilisation more immediate and...
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    Придбаний Книга The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights (Рейчел Холл Стернберг)

    2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Classics Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane discourse date further back, to Classical Athens. The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights analyzes the...
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    Придбаний Книга Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion (Пітер Хізер)

    'A fascinating story about a religion in a surprisingly precarious position' Dan Jones, Sunday Times 'Superb storytelling ... captivating and profound' Literary Review 'A page-turner' The Spectator In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded out of Palestine. Overwhelming the paganism of...
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    Придбаний Книга Arrian the Historian: Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire (Деніел В. Леон)

    During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful of these literary figures were sophists, whose highly influential display oratory has been the...
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    Придбаний Книга The Final Pagan Generation: Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity (Едвард Дж. Воттс)

    A compelling history of radical transformation in the fourth-century--when Christianity decimated the practices of traditional pagan religion in the Roman Empire. The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor...
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    Придбаний Книга Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World (Натан Т. Аррінгтон)

    How the interactions of non-elites influenced Athenian material culture and society The seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. Conventional narratives argue that goods and...
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    Придбаний Книга Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (Нур Масалха)

    Beginning with the late Bronze Age and moving through to the present day, this is the definitive history of Palestine and its people. This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back...
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    Придбаний Книга Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age (Донна Цукерберг)

    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week A virulent strain of antifeminism is thriving online that treats women’s empowerment as a mortal threat to men and to the integrity of Western civilization. Its proponents cite ancient Greek and Latin texts to support their claims—from Ovid’s Ars...
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    Придбаний Книга Post-Priestly Additions and Rewritings in Exodus 35-40: An Analysis of MT, LXX, and Vetus Latina (Доменіко Ло Сардо)

    In this study, Domenico Lo Sardo shows that the section of MT Exod 35-40 dedicated to the construction of the Tabernacle involves textual and literary problems. It has different textual forms according to MT, LXX, and Vetus Latina (Monacensis ms): LXX Exod 35-40 shows a different order of the...
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    Придбаний Книга Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire (Пол Дж. Космін)

    Winner of the Runciman Award Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award “Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from there, rather than starting a new count, as other states did, each time a new monarch was crowned…Fascinating.”...
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    Придбаний Книга A Short History of the Ottoman Empire (Рене Воррінгер)

    In this beautifully illustrated overview, Renée Worringer provides a clear and comprehensive account of the longevity, pragmatism, and flexibility of the Ottoman Empire in governing over vast territories and diverse peoples. A Short History of the Ottoman Empire uses clear headings, themes, text...
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    Придбаний Книга The Normans in Ireland: Leinster, 1167–1247 (Річард Ломас)

    The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many similarities, although relations between them have...
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    Придбаний Книга Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (Пол Хей)

    How the notion of unique eras influenced the Roman view of time and the narration of history from various perspectives. The Victorian Era. The Age of Enlightenment. The post-9/11 years. We are accustomed to demarcating history, fencing off one period from the next. But societies have not always...
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    Придбаний Книга Crassus: The First Tycoon (Пiтер Стотхард)

    The story of Rome’s richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory “A perfectly paced biography.”—Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement Marcus Licinius Crassus (115–53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and...
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    Придбаний Книга Portraits of the Ptolemies: Greek Kings as Egyptian Pharaohs (Пол Едмунд Стенвік)

    "This study of Ptolemaic royal statuary will be an outstanding resource for scholars and of considerable interest to the general reader. As an Egyptological reference and as a model for the application of the methodology of art historical analysis, it should stand unchallenged for many years...
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    Придбаний Книга Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars (Пiтер Стотхард)

    'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The...
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    Придбаний Книга At the Gates of Rome: The Battle for a Dying Empire (Дон Голлувей)

    A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome from the perspective of the Roman general Stilicho and Alaric, king of the Visigoths. A dramatic retelling of the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the downfall of Rome itself from the...
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    Придбаний Книга Satyricon. Apocolocyntosis (Петроніус)

    Two rollicking Roman satires. The Satyrica (Satyricon liber), a comic-picaresque fiction in prose and verse traditionally attributed to the Neronian Petronius (d. AD 66) but possibly of Flavian or Trajanic date, survives only as fragments of a much larger whole. It takes the form of a...
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    Придбаний Книга Carthage's Other Wars: Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome (Декстер Хойос)

    Carthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and chequered even before her Punic Wars' against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a predominantly mercantile state, Carthage...
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    Придбаний Книга Septimius Severus and the Roman Army (Сейдж Майкл)

    The assassination of Emperor Commodus in 192 sparked a civil war. Septimius Severus emerged as the eventual victor and his dynasty (the Severans) ruled until 235\. He fought numerous campaigns, against both internal rivals and external enemies, extending the Empire to the east (adding...
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    Придбаний Книга The History Behind Game of Thrones: The North Remembers (Девід К. Вайнчок)

    A wall in the distant north cuts the world in two. Ruthless seaborne warriors raid the coasts from their war galleys, yearning to regain lost glories. A young nobleman and his kin are slaughtered under a banner of truce within a mighty castle. A warrior king becomes a legend when he smites his...
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    Придбаний Книга The Roman Occupation of Britain and its Legacy (Руперт Джексон)

    A complete, up-to-date and readable history of Roman Britain, rooted in detailed scholarship yet accessible for students and non-specialists This book tells the fascinating story of Roman Britain, beginning with the late pre-Roman Iron Age and ending with the province's independence from Roman...
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    Придбаний Книга From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Medieval Texts and their Modern Reception (Родерік Бітон)

    The twelfth century was a time of cultural renewal and innovation in Byzantium, just as it was in the west. In literature, the long disused genres of epic, satire and the novel (or 'romance') took new forms during that century; at the same time, in language, the vernacular made its first...
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    Придбаний Книга Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province (Джон Крейтон)

    This book completely re-evaluates the evidence for, and the interpretation of, the rule of the kings of Late Iron Age Britain: Cunobelin and Verica. Within a few generations of their reigns, after one died and the other had fled, Rome’s ceremonial centres had been transformed into the...
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    Придбаний Книга The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire (Едвард Н. Люттвак)

    The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire is written with a profound knowledge of the field, a thorough mastery of the sources and secondary literature, and a lively and engaging style that both specialists and general readers will appreciate. -- Peter B. Golden, Rutgers University Edward...
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    Придбаний Книга Philip Doddridge and the Shaping of Evangelical Dissent (Роберт Стрівенс)

    Evangelical Dissent in the early eighteenth century had to address a variety of intellectual challenges. How reliable was the Bible? Was traditional Christian teaching about God, humanity, sin and salvation true? What was the role of reason in the Christian faith? Philip Doddridge (1702-51)...
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    Придбаний Книга Diocletian and the Tetrarchy (Роджер Різ)

    This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire -- the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath. Diocletian was an emperor of unusual ambition, and his reign saw considerable military success, an experiment in...
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    Придбаний Книга Silver and Society in Late Antiquity: Functions and Meanings of Silver Plate in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries (Рут Е. Лідер-Ньюбі)

    The spectacular hoards of late antique silver - Mildenhall, Thetford, Sevso - discovered since the middle of the last century have aroused much interest in this luxury art form. But what did these pieces mean to their owners, and why was silverware so important in late antiquity? Silver and...
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    Придбаний Книга The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Робін Осборн)

    How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very...
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    Придбаний Книга Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (Роберт Г. Хойланд)

    Long before Muhammed preached the religion of Islam, the inhabitants of his native Arabia had played an important role in world history as both merchants and warriors Arabia and the Arabs provides the only up-to-date, one-volume survey of the region and its peoples, from prehistory to the coming...
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    Придбаний Книга Constantinople and the West in Medieval French Literature: Renewal and Utopia (Ріма Деверо)

    An indepth examination of the presentation of Constantinople and its complex relationship with the west in medieval French texts. Medieval France saw Constantinople as something of a quintessential ideal city. Aspects of Byzantine life were imitated in and assimilated to the West in a movement...
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    Придбаний Книга Nubia: Lost Civilizations (Сара Шеллінгер)

    Nubia, the often overlooked southern neighbour of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians’ religious, social, economic and cultural histories, from their nomadic origins during the Stone Ages to their rise to power during the...
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    Придбаний Книга The Ancient Oracles: Making the Gods Speak (Річард Стонеман)

    For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropological...
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    Придбаний Книга Scotland's Beginnings: Scotland Through Time (Ендрю Кітченер)

    What would we have seen if we looked out over the landscape of Scotland at its very beginning, before the impact of mankind? What would it be like to swim in the Jurassic sea? Or stand early one morning in the dragon-fly haunted coal forests of the Midland Valley? This book captures in words...
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    Придбаний Книга Tiberius (Робін Сігер)

    Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor’s complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor. Argues that Tiberius’ character provides the key to...
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    Придбаний Книга Tiberius (Робін Сігер)

    Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor’s complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor. Argues that Tiberius’ character provides the key to...
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    Придбаний Книга A Brief History of Ancient Astrology (Роджер Бек)

    A Brief History of Ancient Astrology explores the theory and practice of astrology from Babylon to Ancient Greece and Rome and its cultural and political impact on ancient societies. Discusses the union between early astrology and astronomy, in contrast to the modern dichotomy between science...
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    Придбаний Книга Plautus and Roman Slavery (Роберта Стюарт)

    This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study slavery – and not simply...
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    Придбаний Книга Hannibal (Серж Лансель)

    This is an historical biography of Hannibal, the military leader of Carthage responsible for waging a dramatic onslaught on Rome during the Punic Wars. One of the few generals of history to be famous for the war he lost, Hannibal's attack in 218BC - which included his renowned march of elephants...
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    Придбаний Книга Hannibal (Серж Лансель)

    This is an historical biography of Hannibal, the military leader of Carthage responsible for waging a dramatic onslaught on Rome during the Punic Wars. One of the few generals of history to be famous for the war he lost, Hannibal's attack in 218BC - which included his renowned march of elephants...
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    Придбаний Книга Pompey the Great: A Political Biography (Робін Сігер)

    Pompey the Great gives readers a look inside the political and military world of ancient Rome and at one of the characters that shaped its destiny. Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/pompey-the-great-a-political-biography.html
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    Придбаний Книга Slaves Tell Tales: And Other Episodes in the Politics of Popular Culture in Ancient Greece (Сара Фордайк)

    Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of popular culture in...
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    Придбаний Книга Sumerian Mythology (Семюел Ной Крамер)

    Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer "A real addition to the body of world mythology."--American Anthropologist "No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that our knowledge of them has become at all...
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    Придбаний Книга Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt: Revised Edition (Розалі Девід)

    Written by a noted Egyptologist, Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt, Revised Edition explores 5,000 years of this mysterious civilization. Containing the most up-to-date information and organized thematically, combining historical and archaeological information in a highly accessible format, this...
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    Придбаний Книга The Origins and Use of the Potter’s Wheel in Ancient Egypt (Сара Доерті)

    The invention of the wheel is often highlighted as one of humankinds’ most significant inventions. Wheels do not exist in nature, and so can be viewed entirely as a human-inspired invention. Machinery too, was relatively rare in the ancient world. The potter’s wheel is arguably the most...
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    Придбаний Книга Human Origins: A Short History (Сара Уайлд)

    Humans are the dominant species on the planet. But how did we get here? Human Origins takes the reader on a fascinating 7-million-year journey from our earliest primordial ape-like roots through to the present day. Humans are the dominant species on the planet. But how did we get here? Human...
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    Придбаний Книга Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East (Рорі Кокс)

    A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near East Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought...
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    Придбаний Книга The Skeptical Dynamis and Its Pragmatic Possibilities (Родріґо Пінто де Бріто)

    This monograph reevaluates a school of thought concerned with truth and inquiry. It examines the critique which asserts that it's not possible to live this Early Greek philosophy in practice. The investigation also details new discoveries on the reception of Skepticism by Empiricist Doctors...
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    Придбаний Книга The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads (Роберт А. Кастер)

    To walk on remnants of the storied Appian Way today, from Rome to the heel of Italy, is to walk in the footsteps of ghosts. Our guide to those ghosts-and the layers of history they represent-is Robert A. Kaster. In The Appian Way, he brings a lifetime of studying Roman literature and history to...
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    Придбаний Книга The Powers of Prophecy: The Cedar of Lebanon Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment (Роберт Е. Лернер)

    The Powers of Prophecy is an original attempt to investigate the subject of medieval eschatological prophecies: how and in what circumstances they were written; how they circulated; what they told people about the future; and how they were received. Although scholars have studied the ideas of a...
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    Придбаний Книга The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365–427) (Роберт Ешмор)

    For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by his poetic voice. This theme in the reception of Tao Qian, moreover, developed alongside an assumption that Tao was fundamentally misunderstood during his own age. This book revisits Tao’s approach to his readers by attempting...
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    Придбаний Книга Politics of the Maya Court: Hierarchy and Change in the Late Classic Period (Сара Е. Джексон)

    In recent decades, advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic writing have given scholars new tools for understanding key aspects of ancient Maya society. This book - the first comprehensive examination of the Maya royal court - exemplifies the importance of these new sources. Authored by...
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    Придбаний Книга Rome's Empire: How the Romans Acquired and Lost Their Provinces (Патриція Саузерн)

    The Roman Empire was forged in war and defended by military might. It also endured because of the Romans’ ability to assimilate and pacify the different peoples and cultures within their provinces. In Rome’s early years it did not annexe territory but created alliances, first with the Italian...
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    Придбаний Книга The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE (Робін Флемінг)

    Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the economy, and the state collapsed. Marshalling a wealth of archaeological evidence, Robin Fleming charts this collapse, and its foundational role in making...
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    Придбаний Книга Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend (Річард Стонеман)

    In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend...
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    Придбаний Книга The Virtual Mummy (Сара У. Віссман)

    This book describes the virtual unwrapping of an Egyptian mummy (an autopsy by computer). The Virtual Mummy is a thoroughly readable introduction to the nondestructive techniques used by contemporary researchers to analyze the artifacts and culture of ancient Egypt. It tells the captivating...
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    Придбаний Книга The Greeks: A Global History (Родерік Бітон)

    The epic, fascinating history of one of the world's great cultures. 'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan 'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian 'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the...
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    Придбаний Книга Sidonius Apollinaris Complete Poems (Роджер П. Х. Грін)

    Sidonius Apollinaris was an inhabitant of southern Roman Gaul in the mid fifth century AD, when it was threatened by invasions from beyond the boundaries of the Roman Empire and by competing warlords. His many poetic works include three panegyrics to emperors at the beginnings of their reigns...
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    Придбаний Книга Sidonius Apollinaris Complete Poems (Роджер П. Х. Грін)

    Sidonius Apollinaris was an inhabitant of southern Roman Gaul in the mid fifth century AD, when it was threatened by invasions from beyond the boundaries of the Roman Empire and by competing warlords. His many poetic works include three panegyrics to emperors at the beginnings of their reigns...
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    Придбаний Книга Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice (Рут Вебб)

    This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places the practice of ekphrasis within its...
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    Придбаний Книга Native and Roman on the Northern Frontier: Excavations and Survey in a Later Prehistoric Landscape in Upper Eskdale, Dumfriesshire (Роджер Мерсе

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/native-and-roman-on-the-northern-frontier-excavations-and-survey-in-a-later-prehistoric-landscape-in-upper-eskdale-dumfriesshire.html
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    Придбаний Книга OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Component 11: The World of the Hero (Саллі Найтс)

    The OCR-endorsed textbook for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation Component 11 (World of the Hero). This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specifications for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers all three options for Component 11: World of...
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    Придбаний Книга Joseph: A Story of Divine Providence: A Text Theoretical and Textlinguistic Analysis of Genesis 37 and 39-48 (Роберт Е. Лонгакр)

    In this fully revised, second edition of Joseph, A Story of Divine Providence, Robert Longacre approaches the Joseph story as a paradigm for an approach incorporating the interests of the Old Testament scholar and critic with the interests of the contemporary textlinguist. His study seeks to...
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    Придбаний Книга On the Edge of Empires: North Mesopotamia During the Roman Period (2nd – 4th c. CE) (Рокко Палермо)

    On the Edge of Empires explores the mixed culture of North Mesopotamia in the Roman period. This volatile region at the eastern edge of the Roman world became during the imperial period the theater of confrontation for multiple political entities: Rome, Parthia, Sasanian Persia. Roman presence...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity (Росс Клер)

    Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction introduces and analyses the reception of classical antiquity in contemporary science fiction. By using up-to-date methods from classical reception theory, science-fiction analysis and fictional-world studies, the book will help furnish the...
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    Придбаний Книга Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC (Робін Осборн)

    Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of...
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    Придбаний Книга Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy (Філіп Фріман)

    Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome...
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    Придбаний Книга Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (Сандра Берінгер)

    This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even...
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    Придбаний Книга The Egyptians (Серджіо Донадоні)

    Providing an accessible introduction to the people who lived along the Nile for almost 35 centuries, this collection of essays presents studies of ancient Egyptians arranged by social type - slaves, craftsmen, priests, bureaucrats, pharaohs, peasants and women. From the text the reader learns...
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    Придбаний Книга Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome (Дуглас Бойн)

    In the conventional story of Rome’s collapse, violent “barbarians” destroy “civilisation”. Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant. Alaric grew up near the border that separated Gothic territory from the Romans. He survived the...
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    Придбаний Книга Damascus: A History (Росс Бернс)

    Damascus, first published in 2005, was the first account in English of the history of the city, bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region’s past. It traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex city through its physical development, from the its...
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    Придбаний Книга Getting Rich in Late Antique Egypt (Райан Макконнелл)

    Papyrologists and historians have taken a lively interest in the Apion family (fifth through seventh centuries), who rose from local prominence in rural Middle Egypt to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in the Eastern Roman Empire. The focus of most scholarly debate has...
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    Придбаний Книга The Druids and King Arthur: A New View of Early Britain (Робін Мелроуз)

    An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 BC, bringing to early Britain a cult of an underworld...
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    Придбаний Книга Public Office in Early Rome: Ritual Procedure and Political Practice (Роберта Л. Стюарт)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/public-office-in-early-rome-ritual-procedure-and-political-practice.html
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    Придбаний Книга Greek Gods Abroad: Names, Natures, and Transformations (Роберт Паркер)

    From even before the time of Alexander the Great, the Greek gods spread throughout the Mediterranean, carried by settlers and largely adopted by the indigenous populations. By the third century b.c., gods bearing Greek names were worshipped everywhere from Spain to Afghanistan, with the...
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    Придбаний Книга Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible (Рассел Е. Гмиркін)

    Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the biblical laws. Following on from his 2006 work, Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus, Gmirkin...
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    Придбаний Книга Stock Characters Speaking: Eight Libanian Declamations Introduced and Translated (Роберт Пенелла)

    Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished. Stock Characters Speaking may be thought of as emerging from three developments of recent decades: an explosive...
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    Придбаний Книга History of the Ancient Mediterranean World (С. Томас Паркер)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/history-of-the-ancient-mediterranean-world.html
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    Придбаний Книга Joel: Scope, Genre(s), and Meaning (Рональд Л. Троксель)

    A lengthy history of readers’ struggles with Joel lies behind Merx’s characterization of the book as “the problem child of Old Testament exegesis, insofar as the resources utilized by interpreters thus far are entirely insufficient to dispel its darkness”. Long before Vernes posited that...
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    Придбаний Книга Greek History: The Basics (Робін Осборн)

    Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome. With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece’s ancient history, the book covers the key topics, approaches and issues at the heart of Greek...
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    Придбаний Книга A History of the Roman Republic (Клаус Брінгманн)

    In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the Tiber estuary into a power that controlled the Italian peninsula and created the final Empire of antiquity, an Empire that was to become both the...
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    Придбаний Книга Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia: The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature (Рівка Гарріс)

    Rivkah Harris's cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach breaks new ground in assessing Mesopotamian attitudes toward youth and mature adulthood, aging and the elderly, generational conflict, gender differences in aging, relationships between men and women, women's contributions to cultural...
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    Придбаний Книга The Appian Way: Ghost Road, Queen of Roads (Роберт А. Кастер)

    The Roman poet Statius called the Via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroyed by time, neglect, and the incursions of...
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    Придбаний Книга The Historians of Ancient Rome: An Anthology of the Major Writings (Рональд Меллор)

    The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the...
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    Придбаний Книга Framing the Mahabharata: Against the Evolution of Early South Asian Society (Сайкат К. Боуз)

    This book weaves the pattern of South Asian society as it evolved through the Bronze and Iron Age, developing motifs we are familiar with today. Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/framing-the-mahabharata-against-the-evolution-of-early-south-asian-society.html
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    Придбаний Книга Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens: Volume 7 (Руна Фредеріксен)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/proceedings-of-the-danish-institute-at-athens-volume-7.html
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Egypt: An Introduction (Саліма Ікрам)

    A cornerstone introduction for the study of ancient Egypt, with an overview of geography, history, society, religion and culture. This book provides an introduction to one of the greatest civilizations of all time – ancient Egypt. Beginning with a geographical overview that explains the...
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    Придбаний Книга Stonehenge (Робін Хіт)

    How do you predict eclipses using Stonehenge? Why were `blue' stones brought all the way from Wales? What is the secret geometry of seven eights? Packed with rare old engravings, clear explanations and exciting new research, this beautiful and enlightening little book for wizards of all ages by...
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    Придбаний Книга A Commentary on Livy, Books VI-X: Volume III: Book IX (С. П. Оуклі)

    Livy's ninth book, one of his finest and most interesting, begins with his celebrated account of the Roman disaster in the Caudine Forks and its aftermath and contains also the famous digression on Alexander and our longest account of the censorship of Appius Claudius Caecus. This new...
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    Придбаний Книга Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium (Роланд Бетанкур)

    Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition. Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how...
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    Придбаний Книга Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece (Сара Фордайк)

    Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece. Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own perspectives, rather than those of their owners, giving a voice to a...
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    Придбаний Книга The Ruin of Roman Britain: An Archaeological Perspective (Джеймс Джеррард)

    This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England. How did Roman Britain end? This new study draws on fresh archaeological discoveries to argue that the end of Roman Britain was not the product of either a violent...
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    Придбаний Книга The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia: Hittite Sovereign Practice, Resistance, and Negotiation (Клаудія Глац)

    This book reconsiders the concept of empire and examines the processes of imperial making and undoing in Hittite Anatolia (c. 1600-1180 BCE). In this book, Claudia Glatz reconsiders the concept of empire and the processes of imperial making and undoing of the Hittite network in Late Bronze Age...
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    Придбаний Книга The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India: A Historical Comparison (Річард Сіфорд)

    Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities. Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did...
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    Придбаний Книга Historical Agency and the ‘Great Man' in Classical Greece (Сара Браун Ферраріо)

    Examines the evolution of 'great man theory' in classical Greece, not only in historical writing, but also in popular thought. The 'great man' of later Greek historical thought is the long product of traceable changes in ancient ideas about the meaning and impact of an individual life. At least...
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    Придбаний Книга Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (Річард Сіфорд)

    Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner. Richard Seaford is one of the most original and provocative classicists of his age. This volume brings together a wide range of papers written with a single focus. Several are...
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    Придбаний Книга The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times (Робін Рімс)

    How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimony The discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand years. Only recently has its perceived importance faded. In this book, renowned...
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    Придбаний Книга Ancient Crete: From Successful Collapse to Democracy's Alternatives, Twelfth–Fifth Centuries BC (Саро Воллес)

    Examines Crete's prehistory to find out why the classical city states of Crete differed considerably from those of central Greece. 'Ancient Greece' with its associations of city states, democratic governance, and iconic material culture, can no longer be envisaged as a uniform geographical or...
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    Придбаний Книга Great Naval Battles of the Ancient Greek World (Оуен Різ)

    Naval warfare is the unsung hero of ancient Greek military history, often overshadowed by the more glorified land battles. Owen Rees looks to redress the balance, giving naval battles their due attention. This book presents a selection of thirteen naval battles that span a defining century in...
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    Придбаний Книга Dionysos (Річард Сіфорд)

    Covering a wide range of issues which have been overlooked in the past, including mystery, cult and philosophy, Richard Seaford explores Dionysos – one of the most studied figures of the ancient Greek gods. Popularly known as the god of wine and frenzied abandon, and an influential figure for...
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    Придбаний Книга The Han-Xiongnu War, 133 BC–89 AD: The Struggle of China and a Steppe Empire Told Through Its Key Figures (Скотт Кроуфорд)

    The Han-Xiongnu War (133 BC – AD 89) pitted the Han dynasty of China against a confederation of nomadic steppe peoples, the Xiongnu Empire. In campaigns waged on a huge scale by the standards of contemporary Western warfare (several hundred thousand soldiers were fielded at the Battle of Mobei...
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    Придбаний Книга Ideas of Europe: Time, Space, and Tradition (Роберто Антонеллі)

    Ideas of Europe is a critical essay reassessing the founding myths of Europe and the making of a European identity from antiquity to the present age. Antonelli argues that the intrinsic fragility and precarious nature of the perceived geographical entity of Europe has been compensated by the...
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    Придбаний Книга Being Christian in Vandal Africa: The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West (Робін Вілан)

    Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and...
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    Придбаний Книга Herodotus: Historians on Historians (Джон Гулд)

    This text brings new approaches to Herodotus' sources and to his methods of collecting information, to the logic of his narrative and to his understanding of human behaviour. Drawing on recent advances in the understanding or oral tradition, the author takes issue with a number of theories about...
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    Придбаний Книга Travels with Plotinus: A Journey in Search of Unity (Моїн Мір)

    In Travels with Plotinus, Moin Mir follows Plotinus’s 1,780-year-old journey of personal discovery across India, Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey as he tries to understand the core concept of Plotinian thought, derived from studying the Upanishads – ‘Unity and Oneness’. He uses Plotinus’s...
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    Придбаний Книга Aristarchus of Samos: On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon: Greek Text, Translation, Analysis, and Relevant Scholia (Крістіан К. Карма

    This book offers the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samos’s On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, accompanied by a full introduction, detailed commentary, and relevant scholia. Aristarchus of Samos was active in the third century BC. He was one of the first...
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    Придбаний Книга Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: Feminizing Sources and Interpretations of the Past (Дженніфер Спінкс)

    Combining historical, historiographical, museological, and touristic analysis, this study investigates how late medieval and early modern women of the Low Countries expressed themselves through texts, art, architecture and material objects, how they were represented by contemporaries, and how...
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    Придбаний Книга The Vanished Settlers of Greenland: In Search of a Legend and Its Legacy (Роберт В. Рікс)

    A gripping account of one of the most contested questions in colonial history: what became of Greenland's vanished Viking settlers? For four hundred years, Norse settlers battled to make southern Greenland a new, sustainable home. They strove against gales and winter cold, food shortages and in...
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    Придбаний Книга Byzantine Art (Робін Кормак)

    The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its values in icons, illuminated manuscripts, and mosaics and wallpaintings placed in domed churches and...
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    Придбаний Книга Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of Byzantium and Neighboring Lands (Роберт Г. Оустерхаут)

    Aside from Hagia Sophia, the monuments of the Byzantine East are poorly understood today. This is in sharp contrast to the well-known architectural marvels of Western Europes Middle Ages. In this landmark survey, distinguished art historian Robert Ousterhout introduces readers to the rich and...
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    Придбаний Книга Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome (Ентоні Еверітт)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/nero-matricide-music-and-murder-in-imperial-rome.html
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    Придбаний Книга Origins of the Colonnaded Streets in the Cities of the Roman East (Росс Бернс)

    The colonnaded axes define the visitor's experience of many of the great cities of the Roman East. How did this extraordinarily bold tool of urban planning evolve? The street, instead of remaining a mundane passage, a convenient means of passing from one place to another, was in the course of...
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    Придбаний Книга Deleuze, A Stoic (Райан Дж. Джонсон)

    Deleuze dramatises the story of ancient philosophy as a rivalry of four types of thinkers: the subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending Plato, the interiorising Aristotle and the perverting Stoics. Deleuze assigns the Stoics a privileged place because they introduced a new orientation for...
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    Придбаний Книга Perpetua: Athlete of God (Барбара К. Голд)

    Perpetua was an early Christian martyr who died in Roman Carthage in 203 CE, along with several fellow martyrs, including one other woman, Felicitas. She has attracted great interest for two main reasons: she was one of the earliest martyrs, especially female martyrs, about whom we have any...
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    Придбаний Книга The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews (Росс Шепард Кремер)

    The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity examines the fate of Jews living in the Mediterranean Jewish diaspora after the Roman emperor Constantine threw his patronage to the emerging orthodox (Nicene) Christian churches. By the fifth century, much of the rich material evidence for Greek and...
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    Придбаний Книга Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires: The Near East After the Achaemenids, c. 330 to 30 BCE (Рольф Штроотман)

    Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership...
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    Придбаний Книга Aristotle and the Animals: The Logos of Life Itself (Клаудія Затта)

    With a novel approach to Aristotle’s zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, in response to his predecessors, exiles logos as reason and pursues the logos intrinsic to animals’ bodies, empowering them to sense the world and...
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    Придбаний Книга The Latin Lives of St Laurence of Dublin (Моріс Рош)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/the-latin-lives-of-st-laurence-of-dublin.html
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    Придбаний Книга Why the Ancient Greeks Matter: The Problematic Miracle that was Greece (Ревіл Нетц)

    The Greeks were consequential, not by creating 'timeless values' but by questioning them, thereby laying the foundations of modern science. The ancient Greeks were exceptional and they were consequential. This innovative, engrossingly written book addresses head-on the problematic question of...
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    Придбаний Книга Cosmos and Perception in Plato’s Timaeus: In the Eye of the Cognitive Storm (Марк Елі Кальдерон)

    This volume offers a wide-ranging study on perception in the Timaeus, not only discussing senses such as touch, taste, and olfaction alongside audition and vision but also engaging with Timaeus’ wider cosmological project. Most studies of perception in the Timaeus focus on a few narrow passages...
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    Придбаний Книга Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Сара Ф. Дербью)

    A bold and brilliant new treatment of blackness in ancient Greek literature and visual culture as well as modern reception. How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and timely new book is the...
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    Придбаний Книга Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (Сара Ф. Дербью)

    A bold and brilliant new treatment of blackness in ancient Greek literature and visual culture as well as modern reception. How should articulations of blackness from the fifth century BCE to the twenty-first century be properly read and interpreted? This important and timely new book is the...
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    Придбаний Книга Roman Papers: Volume VI (Рональд Сайм)

    Shortly before his death in September 1989, Sir Ronald Syme approved the selection and publication of these fifty-nine papers. Volume VI, composed of previously published articles and reviews, offers a splendid cross-section of Syme's interests: the Roman revolution; the Augustan aristocracy...
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    Придбаний Книга Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context (Мері Т. Ботрайт)

    The Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE, the Roman principate. Boatwright uses coins, inscriptions, papyri, material culture, and archaeology, as well as the more familiar but biased ancient...
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    Придбаний Книга The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell (Йонас Олофссон)

    The New Science of Smell – Perfect for readers of Bill Bryson’s The Body Human olfaction – the sense of smell – enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is one of our least explored sensory systems. Until...
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    Придбаний Книга Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome (Ентоні Еверітт)

    Формат: Скан PDf https://www.yakaboo.ua/ua/nero-matricide-music-and-murder-in-imperial-rome-3317597.html
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    Придбаний Книга Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (Річард Сіфорд)

    Reveals the shaping influence of money and ritual on Greek tragedy, the New Testament, Indian philosophy, and Wagner. Richard Seaford is one of the most original and provocative classicists of his age. This volume brings together a wide range of papers written with a single focus. Several are...
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    Придбаний Книга The Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient India: A Historical Comparison (Річард Сіфорд)

    Explains for the first time the genesis and early form of both Indian and Greek philosophy, and their striking similarities. Why did Greek philosophy begin in the sixth century BCE? Why did Indian philosophy begin at about the same time? Why did the earliest philosophy take the form that it did...
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    Придбаний Книга Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality (Сара Нутер)

    Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry. This book suggests that poetry offers a way to remain in the world – not only by declarations of intent or the promotion of remembrance, but also through the durable physicality of its...
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    Придбаний Книга How the World Made the West (Джозефіна Квінн)

    'One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years' (William Dalrymple), this epic debut from Josephine Quinn rewrites the story of the Western world. A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Observer, Economist, Guardian, BBC History Magazine...
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    Придбаний Книга Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God (Кетрін Ніксі)

    'Heresy is a brilliant book' - The Times 'Enthralling . . . an absolute pleasure to read' - The Sunday Telegraph ‘In the beginning was the Word,’ says the Gospel of John. This sentence – and the words of all four gospels – is central to the teachings of the Christian Church and has shaped...
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    Придбаний Книга Історія цивілізації. Україна (комплект із 3 книг) (Андрій Домановський)

    Книга 1. Історія цивілізації. Україна. Том 1. Від кіммерійців до Русі (Х ст.до н.е.- ІХ ст.) На сторінках цього видання постають два тисячоліття історії на теренах сучасної України. Книга поділена на дві частини: перша охоплює період від Х до ІІІ ст. н. е., друга — від ІІІ ст. до ІХ ст. Зміст...
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