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Ancient World

Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece and the Near East
edited by Colin Adams and Jim Roy
This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient ...
Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £9.95

Childhood in the Past (2008)
edited by Eileen M. Murphy
The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, in conjunction with Oxbow Books, publishes the new international journal, Childhood in the Past. This journal provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and chronological boundaries. The editor welcomes offers of ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Deliciae Fictiles IV: Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy. Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes
edited by Patricia Lulof and Carlo Rescigno
In Ancient Italy, temples were adorned with full-figure architectural terracotta images such as acroteria, statuary groups and high reliefs. These terracottas mostly show complex scenes of gods and heroes, legendary battles and mythical animals, as well as large volutes and palmettes. The fourth edition of the Deliciae Fictiles conferences focused on this specific class of mostly handmade terracotta roof decoration from Etruria and Central Italy, ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00

The Limits of Ancient Biography
edited by Brian McGing and Judith Mossman
The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterisation and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Dogs in Antiquity: Anubis to Cerberus
by Douglas J Brewer, Terence Clark and Adrian Phillips
Unlike cats which have remained almost uniform in shape throughout their history, dogs have developed into a myriad of different breeds, ranging from the diminutative Chihuahua to the massive Irish Wolfhound. This book traces the origins of the domestic dog from its first beginnings as a wolf and then explores how the many varieties came about. The most complete information on the origins of breeds comes from Egypt and the Middle East, which saw ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00

The Excavations at Tell Al Rimah: The Pottery
by Carolyn Postgate, David Oates and Joan Oates
Introductory report and a detailed illustrated catalogue of the pottery finds from this second millennium BC Assyrian site, in modern northern Iraq. 275p, copious pls, figs, tabs (Aris & Phillips/British School of Archaeology in Iraq 1998)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £48.00, Our Price GB £25.00

Childhood in the Past Volume 4 (2011)
edited by Eileen Murphy and Traci Ardren
The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, in conjunction with Oxbow Books, publishes this recent international journal, Childhood in the Past. This journal provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and chronological boundaries. The editor welcomes offers of ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Money, Trade and Trade Routes in Pre-Islamic North Africa
edited by Amelia Dowler and Elizabeth R. Galvin
This book expands upon a conference held at the British Museum in 2008 that brought together scholars from differing fields specialising in ancient North Africa. This multidisciplinary approach allowed a number of subjects to be enriched through comparative evidence. The conference concentrated on the area the Romans knew as "Africa" (the area of the modern Maghreb) to draw out evidence for trade and interaction amongst groups in central and ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00

Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World
edited by Amar Annus
The concept of sign, a portent observed in the physical world, which indicates future events, is found in all ancient cultures, but was first developed in ancient Mesopotamian texts. This branch of Babylonian scientific knowledge extensively influenced other parts of the world, and similar texts written in Aramaic, Sanscrit, Sogdian, and other languages. The seminar will investigate how much do we know about the Babylonian theory and hermeneutics ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.95

Archeoastronomia: un Dibattito tra Archeologi ed Astronomi all Ricerca di un Metodo Comune
edited by Mario Codebo
This, the proceedings of a conference held by the Instituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri entitled "Archaeastronomy: a debate between archaeologists and astronomers looking for a shared method" explores our ancestors' knowledge of the movement of the planets and stars. The book is published by Ocarina Books in association with the Instituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri. 336p, 74 b/w illus, 7 tabs, bilingual CD-ROM (Ocarina Books, 2009)
Paperback. Price GB £32.00