Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2018-09-04 | Author:John Gaudet
EIGHTEEN Roman Libraries In order to appreciate the impact of papyrus paper on the daily life of the Romans in a more familiar setting, we could take a trip to ...
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World
November 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2000-11-14 | Author:Mayor, Adrienne;
Evidence of Giant Populations of the Past Not all fabulous creatures of myth were inspired by fossils, of course; some were imaginary. And it’s impossible to know which came first, ...
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Ancient Civilizations
November 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-21 | Author:Christian Meier [Meier, Christian]
Figure 12. Two Greek warships, second half of the sixth century BC. According to Thucydides, the first major Greek naval battle took place around 660 BC between Corinth and Kerkyra ...
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Ancient Civilizations
November 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-11-11 | Author:Colin Wells [Wells, Colin]
The biggest problem the translators faced was generally not the difficulty of the Greek itself but the scarcity of good, accurate Greek manuscripts. Perhaps this helped give rise to the ...
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World
November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paula Fredriksen
ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS Just as pagans could be found visiting with Israel’s god in his temple’s precincts, they also could be found, variously affiliated, in the synagogues of western ...
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History
November 7,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Tony Spawforth
PART II THE ROMANS CHAPTER 13 ‘SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS’ Any society comprises a union, sometimes broadly consensual, sometimes far less so, of many different groups. A Hellenistic-period tomb in Rome, ...
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Ancient Civilizations
November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Fagan
CHAPTER 22 A Palace Fit for a Chief I slipped through a narrow entrance in the high stone enclosure and found myself in a tight passageway between an outer and ...
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Archaeology
November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Edward J. Watts
CHAPTER 9 STUMBLING TOWARD DICTATORSHIP POMPEY RECEIVED NEWS OF MITHRIDATES’S death while in Jericho, settling affairs in Judaea.1 The old king, who had encouraged the genocide of tens of thousands ...
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Politics & Government
November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-08 | Author:Ferdinand Addis
15 MY DEBT TO NATURE The marriages of Lucrezia Borgia _________ 1493–1501 A PARTY AT the palace of the Vatican. The food has been eaten. The plates are cleared. Tables ...
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Ancient Civilizations
November 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-13 | Author:Charlotte Booth
6. WORKING FOR A LIVING ‘Man comes forth from his mother’s womb and runs to his master.’1 From a very young age, perhaps as young as nine years old, boys ...
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Ancient Civilizations
November 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-29 | Author:Kara Cooney
* * * NEFERTITI’S EXPANDED POLITICAL ROLE is just now being uncovered by archaeologists and historians, and more major discoveries are on the verge of taking place. Egyptologists are engaged ...
( Category:
World
October 31,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-29 | Author:Matyszak, Philip;
Pretty clear, one might think, especially as Leotychides had managed to prevail on Agis while the old king was on his deathbed, and had been recognized as the royal heir. ...
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Ancient Civilizations
October 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-29 | Author:Adrian Coombs-Hoar
Fritigern was in an awkward position, his troops were no doubt demanding action and without his cavalry to hand, any hostile action against the Romans was potentially disastrous, so he ...
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Ancient Civilizations
October 23,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Paul Chrystal
Virgil’s audience would have appreciated the poignancy of Dido’s threats. Rome did indeed pay the price for Aeneas’ duplicity; it paid with the devastating Punic Wars. Aeneas was indeed haunted ...
( Category:
Military
October 23,2018 )
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