Ancient Near East & Cyprus
Archaeology and history from Early Man to the spread of Islam in the region that stretches from northern Turkey to southern Arabia and from the Levantine coast to Iran.
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Contextualizing the Sacred in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East: Religious Identities in Local, Regional, and Imperial Settings [Paperback]
Rubina Raja (Editor)
£102.00ISBN: 9782503569635
Published by : Brepols
Series: Contextualizing the Sacred
Volume: 8
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The study of religion and religious identities in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East has been a focus within archaeology and ancient history for centuries. Yet the transition between the Hellenistic and Roman period remains difficult to grasp fro... .... Learn More -
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power: Europe, Asia, and America [Hardback]
Clifford Ando (Editor); Seth F. C. Richardson (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9780812249316
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
Series: Empire and After
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While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise of force outside of war and in the infrastructura... .... Learn More -
The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art [Hardback]
S. Rebecca Martin (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780812249088
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians. However humorous or fantastical these acc... .... Learn More -
The Epic of Gilgamesh [Hardback]
Saad D. Abulhab (Author)
£48.99ISBN: 9780998172729
Published by : Blautopf Publishing
The pioneering work presented in this book introduces the earliest known literary and mythology work in the world, the Epic of Gilgamesh, in its actual language: early Classical Arabic. It provides a more accurate translation and understanding of ... .... Learn More -
Sinews of Empire: Networks in the Roman Near East and Beyond [Hardback]
Eivind Heldaas Seland (Editor); Håkon Fiane Teigen (Editor)
Regular Price: £40.00
Special Price: £30.00
ISBN: 9781785705960
Published by : Oxbow Books
A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance, integration and fragmentation. This relational turn has no... .... Learn More -
Reorienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity [Hardback]
Khododad Rezakhani (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9781474400299
Published by : Edinburgh University Press
Central Asia is commonly imagined as the marginal land on the periphery of Chinese and Middle Eastern civilisations. At best, it is understood as a series of disconnected areas that served as stop-overs along the Silk Road. However, in the mediaev... .... Learn More -
Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure [Hardback]
Paul Veyne (Author)
Regular Price: £17.00
Special Price: £14.00
ISBN: 9780226427829
Published by : University of California Press
Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influentia... .... Learn More -
Kinyras: The Divine Lyre [Paperback]
John Curtis Franklin (Author)
£31.95ISBN: 9780674972322
Published by : Harvard University Press
Series: Hellenic Studies Series
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Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon's (faithless) ally, Aphrodite's priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings, and muc... .... Learn More -
The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran [Paperback]
D. T. Potts (Editor)
£35.99ISBN: 9780190668662
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Iran's heritage is as varied as it is complex, and the archaeological, philological, and linguistic scholarship of the region has not been the focus of a comprehensive study for many decades. The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Iran provides up-to-date... .... Learn More -
Resurrection of the Dead in Early Judaism, 200 BCE-CE 200 [Hardback]
C. D. Elledge (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780199640416
Published by : Oxford University Press
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Resurrection of the dead represents one of the more enigmatic beliefs of Western religions to many modern readers. In this volume, C. D. Elledge offers an interpretation of some of the earliest literature within Judaism that exhibits a confident h... .... Learn More
