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The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
edited by Katariina Mustakallio and Christian Laes
This volume examines conceptions, ideas and habits connected with children in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, focusing on the "dark sides of childhood" in the pre-modern world. The authors investigate the long-term attitudes of people, as well as ruptures in habits and customs. The book is divided into three parts. "Unwanted" deals with parents who were unable to bring up their baby and handed it over to other people or the cruel whims of ...
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Die Basilica Aemilia am Forum Romanum: Der kaiserzeitliche Bau und seine Ornamentik
by Johannes Lipps
Die Basilica Aemilia am Forum Romanum gehört aufgrund ihrer Lage, Gröáe und Ausstattung zu den bedeutendsten Bauwerken des antiken Roms. Im Vergleich zu den meisten anderen Bauten ist sie besonders gut erhalten, aber dennoch nur schlecht erforscht. Für den vorliegenden Band wurden die erhaltenen Teile des kaiserzeitlichen Baus gesammelt und dokumentiert. Auf dieser Grundlage gelingen eine in Teilen sehr detaillierte Rekonstruktion des Baus, ...
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The Balawat Gates of Ashurnasirpal II
edited by J.E. Curtis and N. Tallis
This important volume publishes in full for the first time two sets of highly elaborate Neo-Assyrian bronze gate decorations from the site of Balawat (ancient Imgur-Enlil) in northern Iraq. One set, discovered by Hormuzd Rassam on a British Museum expedition in 1878, is now on permanent display in London. The other set, found by Sir Max Mallowan in 1956, was on display in the Mosul Museum in Iraq after conservation and mounting at the British ...
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Epic and History
edited by David Konstan and Kurt Raaflaub
This wide-ranging, cross-cultural study of historical epics is essential reading for all those with an interest not just in epic but in how history is treated in narrative poetry. The poems discussed here originated in a diverse set of contexts - from the Sumerian and Akkadian early past to modern Guatemala and South Africa. Each essay introduces the work and genre to be discussed, analyses key aspects, and concludes with detailed notes and ...
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New Light on Nimrud: Proceedings of the Nimrud Conference 11th-13th March 2002
edited by J. E. Curtis, H. McCall, D. Collon and L. al-Gailani Werr
This book publishes 34 papers by international and Iraqi experts given at a conference on Nimrud at The British Museum in 2002. Excavations at the important Assyrian capital city of Nimrud have continued intermittently since 1845, culminating with the discovery in 1989-90 of the tombs of the Assyrian queens with astonishing quantities of gold jewellery. All aspects of the excavations and the various finds and inscribed material from Nimrud are ...
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The Yuezhi. Origin, Migration and the Conquest of Northern Bactria
by C. Benjamin
This book provides a detailed narrative history of the dynasty and confederation of the Yuezhi, whose migration from western China to the northern border of present-day Afghanistan resulted ultimately in the creation of the Kushan Empire. Although the Yuezhi have long been recognised as the probable ancestors of the Kushans, they have generally only been considered as a prelude to the principal subject of Kushan history, rather than as a ...
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Goddesses who Rule
edited by Elisabeth Benard and Beverly Moon
This collection of sixteen papers focuses on the relationship between goddesses and sovereignity and demonstrates that there are as many goddesses as there are gods. Drawing on the religion and folklore of Greece, Mesopotamia, China, Africa, Meso-America and Europe, the contributors show that goddesses were not simply regarded as far more than mother or fertility symbols. Papers examine goddesses, like Aphrodite, who gave birth to a dynasty of ...
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Organised Crime in Antiquity
edited by Keith Hopwood
The nine papers in this edited book derive from an international conference on organised crime held at Lampeter, 1996. They illustrate the antiquity of violence and crime and the need to put evidence for criminal activities into their social context. Studies include 'The Mafia of early Greece', (Hans van Wees); Workshops of villains' (Nick Fisher); Condottieri and clansmen (Louis Rawlings); 'The revolt of the Boukoloi' (R Alston); Native ...
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Love for Antiquity: Selections from the Joukowsky Collection
edited by Rolf Winkes
Catalogue of an exhibit of pieces from the collection of Artemis and Martha Sharp Joukowsky, held at the Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University in 1985.

~ Contents: Mesopotamian Weights (Martha Sharp Joukosky); Luristan Bronzes (Oscar White Muscarella); Egyptian Art (James Frank Romano); Core-Made Glass (Martha Sharp Joukowsky); Human-Faced Glass Beads (Martha Sharp Joukowsky); Cypriot Black-on-Red Jugs (Martha Sharp ...
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The Heretics Feast: A History of Vegetarianism
by Colin Spencer
In this fascinating and informative story of vegetarianism since pre-historic times, Colin Spencer describes its religious, philosophical, and social aspects, introducing such prominent and often colorful believers as Pythagoras, Ovid, Leonardo, Sir Thomas More, Shelley, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Tolstoy, Shaw, Gandhi, and Hitler. Gracefully written and meticulouarched, the book presents not only a surprising slice through world history ...
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