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New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland [Paperback]
Paul Shackel (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520266308
Published by : University of California Press
New Philadelphia, Illinois, was founded in 1836 by Frank McWorter, a Kentucky slave who purchased his own freedom and then acquired land on the prairie for establishing a new--and integrated--community. McWorter sold property to o... .... Learn More -
Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy [Hardback]
Alan C Bowen (Author); Robert B Todd (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520233256
Published by : University of California Press
Cleomedes, philosopher and teacher, delivered a series of lectures to his students on the subject of astronomy around AD 200. The importance accorded these lectures is not one based on merit but on uniqueness as it is rare to find an intact text f... .... Learn More -
Plato's Parmenides [Hardback]
Samuel Scolnicov (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520224032
Published by : University of California Press
Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to t... .... Learn More -
Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century AD [Hardback]
Noel Lenski (Author)
$75.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780520233324
Published by : University of California Press
Within a few lines of the introduction Valens is summarised as a `distinctly underwhelming figure in Roman history'. The ancient sources are no more enthused about Valens and overall they record his place in history as somewhat disappointing. This... .... Learn More -
Propertius in Love: The Elegies [Hardback]
David R Slavitt (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520228788
Published by : University of California Press
These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tel... .... Learn More -
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin [Hardback]
Noel D Justice (Author)
$39.95Out of stock
ISBN: 9780253339119
Published by : Marston Book Services Ltd
Purely a reference source, this large volume is part of a series of regional guides that surveys, describes and categorises the different types of projectile points and cutting tools in prehistoric North America. This volume focuses on California ... .... Learn More -
Excavations at Nemea II: The Early Hellenistic Stadium [Hardback]
Stephen G Miller (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520216778
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Since 1974, under the direction of Stephen Miller, the Classics Department of the University of California, has been excavating at Nemea, one of four sites in Greece of ancient athletic games and festivals. This second volume in the Excavations a... .... Learn More -
Horace and the Gift Economy of Patronage [Paperback]
Phebe Lowell Bowditch (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520226036
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This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his pat... .... Learn More -
Xenophon's Prince: Xenophon's Prince [Hardback]
Christopher Nadon (Author)
$38.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780520224049
Published by : University of California Press
The Cyropaedia , Xenophon's biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was popular throughout antiquity and heavily influenced Renaissance writers, most notably Machiavelli, but has more recently been neglected. Naddon examines past and prese... .... Learn More -
The Forum of Trajan in Rome: A Study of the Monuments in Brief [Paperback]
James E Packer (Author)
$45.00Out of stock
ISBN: 9780520226739
Published by : University of California Press
This abridged edition of the magesterial three-volume The Forum of Trajan in Rome makes this definitive study of the acknowledged showplace of Imperial Rome available to a wider audience. Published without the scholarly apparatus of the original... .... Learn More