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Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays that provide information about the ancient Mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Rome, providing a chronological survey of the period from the early first millennium B.C. to the late fifth century A.D., and covering the topics of geography, population, food and agriculture, technology, and government and society.
Publisher
Scribner's
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays that provide information about the ancient Mediterranean civilizations of Greece and Rome, covering the topics of women and family life, literary and performing arts, philosophy, and the visual arts, and including a discussion of the progress of classical scholarship.
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Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this thoroughly engaging book, Natalie Haynes brings her scholarship and wit to the most fascinating true stories of the ancient world. The Ancient Guide to Modern Life not only reveals the origins of our culture in areas including philosophy, politics, language, and art, it also draws illuminating connections between antiquity and our present time, to demonstrate that the Greeks and Romans were not so different from ourselves: is Bart Simpson...
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Discover a different way to see classical civilization in this collection of ancient Greek and Roman texts on magic and the occult. Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe," of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this path-breaking collection of Greek and Roman writings on magic and the occult, Georg Luck provides a comprehensive sourcebook and introduction to magic as it...
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Language
English
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Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world-from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity , Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome. In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores...
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