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Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry [Hardback]
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691095257
Published by : Princeton University Press
This study examines how Hellenistic poetic culture adapted, reinterpreted, and transformed Archaic Greek lyric through a complex process of textual, cultural, and creative reception. Looking at the ways in which the poetry of Sappho, Alcaeus, Ibyc... .... Learn More -
Recognizing Persius [Hardback]
Kenneth J. Reckford (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691141411
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Recognizing Persius is a passionate and in-depth exploration of the libellus--or little book--of six Latin satires left by the Roman satirical writer Persius when he died in AD 62 at the age of twenty-seven. In this comprehensive and reflectively ... .... Learn More -
The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus [Hardback]
Barbara J. Sivertsen (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691137704
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Integrating biblical accounts with substantive archaeological evidence, The Parting of the Sea looks at how natural phenomena shaped the stories of Exodus, the Sojourn in the Wilderness, and the Israelite conquest of Canaan. Barbara Sivertsen posi... .... Learn More -
Early Christian Books in Egypt [Hardback]
Roger S. Bagnall (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691140261
Published by : Princeton University Press
For the past hundred years, much has been written about the early editions of Christian texts discovered in the region that was once Roman Egypt. Scholars have cited these papyrus manuscripts--containing the Bible and other Christian works--as evi... .... Learn More -
Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God [Hardback]
Amos Nur (Author);Dawn Burgess (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691016023
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What if Troy was not destroyed in the epic battle immortalized by Homer? What if many legendary cities of the ancient world did not meet their ends through war and conquest as archaeologists and historians believe, but in fact were laid waste b... .... Learn More -
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece [Hardback]
Joan Breton Connelly (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691127460
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In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, f... .... Learn More -
The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory and Colonialism in the Middle Ages [Hardback]
Robert Bartlett (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691117195
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Seven hundred years ago, executioners led a Welsh rebel named William Cragh to a wintry hill to be hanged. They placed a noose around his neck, dropped him from the gallows, and later pronounced him dead. But was he dead? While no less than nin... .... Learn More -
Women in Purple Rulers of Medieval Byzantium [Paperback]
Judith Herrin (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691117805
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In the eighth and ninth centuries, three Byzantine empresses--Irene, Euphrosyne, and Theodora--changed history. Their combined efforts restored the veneration of icons, saving Byzantium from a purely symbolic and decorative art an... .... Learn More -
Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture [Paperback]
Patrick E. McGovern (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691127842
Published by : Princeton University Press
`As medicine, social lubricant, mind-altering substance, and highly valued commodity, wine became the focus of religious cults, pharmacopoeias, cuisines, economies, and society.' Ancient Roman texts wax lyrical about wine and wine-growing, but thi... .... Learn More -
Lowly Origin: Where, When and Why our Ancestors First Stood Up [Hardback]
Jonathon Kingdon (Author)
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ISBN: 9780691050867
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The dominant theme of this book is bipedality, or walking upright on two feet, how this came about and what consequences it had for mankind. Written by a zoological artist, an authority on Africa's mammals, an ecologist and writer, this study argu... .... Learn More