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The Ancient Mediterranean Social World by Unknown
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Unknown

10. VERGIL, AENEID 9.687–92 Vergil (70–19 BCE) was a Latin epic poet. In his epic poem the Aeneid, a night raid occurs on the Latin camps, during which a man ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 29,2020 )
Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome by Hölscher Tonio;
epub |eng | | Author:Hölscher, Tonio;

ANALOGOUS AND CONVENTIONAL SIGNS Language is a medium of conventional signs: The words híppos, equus, horse, cheval, and Pferd are totally different designations of the same object; they have no ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 28,2020 )
The Story of the Scrolls by The Story of the Scrolls; the M
epub |eng | 2010-01-29 | Author:The Story of the Scrolls; the M

4. The War Scroll (1QM, 1Q33, 4Q471, 491–7) The rules of the War Scroll concern not the present but the future age, laying down in advance the scenario and the ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism November 28,2020 )
Mayan Civilization: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
epub |eng | 2016-09-25 | Author:Henry Freeman [Freeman, Henry]

Chapter Four Larger Than Life Plenty of people who have put some thought to the life and times of the Maya people walk away wondering about how they could accomplish ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 27,2020 )
Aztec Civilization: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
epub |eng | 2016-11-06 | Author:Henry Freeman [Freeman, Henry]

Chapter Three Their Philosophy: its Impact on Social Life and How it Served the Kings To better understand the Aztec, a good place to start is to consider what shaped ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 27,2020 )
The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch by Plutarch
epub |eng | | Author:Plutarch [Plutarch]

These are the most memorable circumstances recorded in history of Demosthenes and Cicero which have come to our knowledge. But, omitting an exact comparison of their respective faculties in speaking, ...
( Category: Historical Biographies November 25,2020 )
A History of Ancient Persia (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) by Maria Brosius
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-10-28 | Author:Maria Brosius [Brosius, Maria]

( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 24,2020 )
Egyptian Sacred Geometry: Shape Has Power. The ancient Egyptians knew how to capture positive beneficial energies from the Universe. Learn their secrets to harness these energies, improve your life. by Michael Miller
epub |eng | 2020-04-06 | Author:Michael Miller [Miller, Michael]

We have already touched on the fact that the red marble sarcophagus has special powers. Much is written about the mystical powers of the Ark of the Covenant. It is ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 22,2020 )
Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750–1820 by Helen Slaney
epub |eng | 2020-06-29 | Author:Helen Slaney [Slaney, Helen]

When travellers obtain permission to see the Vatican Museum by torch-light, they usually have four wax torches … placed within a reflector, fastened to a long pole; and the light, ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 21,2020 )
The Gospel of Germs by Nancy Tomes
epub |eng | | Author:Nancy Tomes [Tomes Nancy]

8 • The Wages of Dirt Were Death In 1912, Marion Harland, the popular domestic writer, breezily asserted in Good Housekeeping that “the least literate of housemothers has heard of ...
( Category: History of Medicine November 19,2020 )
Pyramids of the Giza Plateau by Charles Rigano
epub |eng | 2014-12-19 | Author:Charles Rigano [Rigano, Charles]

This small section “Barracks” top north-south wall is the “most distinct”. Other parts look like very low mounds. In 1837, Vyse made preliminary cuts through some of the mounds thinking ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 19,2020 )
Pompeii by Wilkinson Paul; Wilkinson Paul;
epub |eng | 2019-11-24 | Author:Wilkinson, Paul; Wilkinson, Paul;

Immediately to the north of the Temple of Vespasian, and on the east side of the Forum, stands the Sanctuary of City Lares (24I), one of the most unusual and ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 18,2020 )
Graphic Signs of Authority in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 300-900 by Garipzanov Ildar;
epub |eng | 2018-03-07 | Author:Garipzanov, Ildar; [Garipzanov, Ildar]

1 Based on textual evidence, Mango and Ševčenko, ‘Remains’, date the construction of the church to c.524–7. But the brickstamp evidence suggests that the construction of the church took ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 18,2020 )
Medieval Rome by Wickham Chris;
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Wickham, Chris; [Wickham, Chris]

5 Medium Elites and Church Clienteles The Society of Rome’s Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries We saw in Chapter 3 that Rome’s small and bustling regiones were quite ...
( Category: Ancient Roman History November 18,2020 )
A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity by Toner Jerry;
epub |eng | 2014-09-17 | Author:Toner, Jerry; [Toner, Jerry]

it would be a very strange thing if there were a number of senses (aisthēseis) sitting inside us as if we were Wooden Horses, and there were not some single ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations November 17,2020 )

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