Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | | Author:MacLachlan, Bonnie; [MacLachlan, Bonnie]

MAESIA Valerius Maximus pays tribute to several women besides Hortensia who displayed courage and skill. One woman who received his approval was Maesia of Sentinum who, instead of hiring an ...
( Category: World March 1,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:Joseph Roisman

FIGURE 12 The Athlit ram. A bronze ram of a trireme or a larger ship was found on the coast of Athlit, Israel, and is currently on display at the ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-26 | Author:Coulston, J. C.,Dodge, Hazel & Hazel Dodge

206 For a discussion of the Alsietina and the mills see WIKANDER 1979; BELL 1994, 73–89. For the new work being carried out by Andrew Wilson, and the new interpretations ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:Paul Cartledge [Cartledge, Paul]

10 THEBES This has come from my counsel: Sparta has cut the hair of her glory: Messene takes her children in: a wreath of the spears of Thebe has crowned ...
( Category: World March 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Arvanitis, Jim

Figure 7.3 these Panathenaic amphoras during the opening stages of the competition. Both pankratiasts face one another with their front arms extended and hands open. Note the covering of the ...
( Category: Individual Sports March 1,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-18 | Author:John Dominic Crossan [Crossan, John Dominic]

Jesus said, “From Adam to John the Baptist, among those born of women, no one is so much greater than John the Baptist that his eyes should not be averted ...
( Category: History February 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2006-08-23 | Author:Kelly, Christopher [Kelly, Christopher]

The empire writes back Of course, it would be too simple to think of Plutarch or Pausanias as active opponents of Roman power. They would not have supported Boudica and ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 24,2018 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:Peter Sarris [Sarris, Peter]

A frontier society For much of this period, the nature of the warfare fought by the Byzantines against the Arabs was rearguard and defensive. Once the Arabs had established effective ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-24 | Author:Barry J. Kemp

Figure 87 Imaginative adaptation of architecture to topography: the fortress of Shalfak in the Second Cataract area of Nubia, built by Senusret III of the 12th Dynasty on a high ...
( Category: Middle East February 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-25 | Author:Moormann, Eric [Moormann, Eric]

Another poetic voice from Britain is that of John Hayter, King George IV’s librarian and an eminent classicist who sojourned in Campania on research two times. A few years before ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 19,2018 )
epub | | 2009-05-05 | Author:Zecharia Sitchin [Sitchin, Zecharia]

Houve vários problemas no processo, técnicos demais para serem detalhados aqui, mas pouco a pouco eles foram sendo solucionados com o auxílio de experiências, melhores instrumentos e maior compreensão da ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality February 19,2018 )
mobi |eng | 2018-02-13 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF CONVERSION First, it is important to consider several matters of demographics. The vast bulk of the ancient population comprised lower classes. The very upper crust of the ...
( Category: History February 17,2018 )
epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:Philip Matyszak [Matyszak, Philip]

The Battle On 8 April Valens arrived with the rest of the Vitellian army. Further reinforcements were being scraped together from the depleted Rhineland garrisons, but basically the Vitellian force ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-14 | Author:Michael D. Coe & Rex Koontz [Coe, Michael D.]

104 God L, the Maya god of merchants, from a mural at Cacaxtla, Tlaxcala. He is here given the non-Maya name “4 Dog.” To the right is his cacaxtli or ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:John Man [Man, John]

24 Alternatively, Pisan in French. Pizan in Italian, because the family came from Pizzano, near Bologna. 25 The name was not his invention. It had been around for over 300 ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations February 13,2018 )