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Movements & Periods
A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic by Evans Jane DeRose;
epub |eng | 2013-02-18 | Author:Evans, Jane DeRose;

At issue is the problem that was posed by Mattingly: “what makes Romanization and Hellenization particularly unhelpful constructs is that the terms are used to describe both process and outcome, ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to the Etruscans by Bell Sinclair; Carpino Alexandra A.; & Alexandra A. Carpino
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Bell, Sinclair; Carpino, Alexandra A.; & Alexandra A. Carpino

GUIDE TO FURTHER READING The study of bucchero is a complex subfield within Etruscan studies. The literature on the subject is somewhat fragmented and there is no single volume that ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
A Companion to Greek Architecture by Margaret M. Miles
epub |eng | 2016-08-08 | Author:Margaret M. Miles

The pioneering techniques, set into place with a new defensive mindset, may be seen in the early fourth‐century BCE circuit wall at Syracuse. Dionysios I recognized the necessity of protecting ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation by Maureen B. Fant & Mary R. Lefkowitz
epub |eng | 2016-07-27 | Author:Maureen B. Fant & Mary R. Lefkowitz [Fant, Maureen B.]

Vitruvius' handbook on architecture seems an unlikely place to look for women's history, and yet this apocryphal account of the origin of a common architectural form recounts a dramatic event ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
Polybius' Histories by McGing Brian C.;
epub |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:McGing, Brian C.;

Further Reading There is a very good account of the workings of Hellenistic courts in Herman (1997) and also Mooren (1998). For a political assessment of Apelles’ “conspiracy,” see Errington ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
The Two Falls of Rome in Late Antiquity by James Moreton Wakeley
epub |eng | | Author:James Moreton Wakeley

Actual, more primordial origin, therefore, was of little import when a new people like the relatively well-attested Gothic groups, who often form the basis of such analyses, were being formed ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
Image and Myth by Giuliani Luca; O'Donnell Joe;
epub |eng | 2013-05-27 | Author:Giuliani, Luca; O'Donnell, Joe; [Giuliani, Luca]

41. Peloponnesian shield-band relief, 570-560. Olympia, Museum, Inv. B 8364. A very different way of depicting the episode can be seen on a tripod pyxis in Berlin.104 Here we see ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 28,2019 )
The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-11 | Author:Thucydides [Thucydides]

BOOK SEVEN After repairing their ships Gylippus and Pythen sailed down the 1 coast from Taras to Epizephyrian Locri. They now learnt the true situation, that Syracuse was not yet ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Ancient Egyptian Literature by Lichtheim Miriam; Manning Joseph G.;
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Lichtheim, Miriam; Manning, Joseph G.;

IV. Hymns and Lamentations The hymns translated in Ancient Egyptian Literature, Vols. I and II, came from private funerary monuments—tombs, stelae, and statues—or were preserved on papyrus. By contrast, the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources by Ancient Israel's History An Introduction to Issues & Sources
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Ancient Israel's History An Introduction to Issues & Sources

Other sources for assessing possible Judean expansion include Hebrew inscriptions found at Meṣad Hashavyahu, a small fortress on the southern Mediterranean coast.84 Some scholars take these inscriptions as indicating a ...
( Category: Movements & Periods May 27,2019 )
The Early History of Rome: Bks. 1-5 (Penguin Classics) by Livy
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-25 | Author:Livy

BOOK FOUR War and Politics The next consuls were Marcus Genucius and Gaius Curtius. War and political dissension made the year a difficult one. Hardly had it begun, when the ...
( Category: Greek May 27,2019 )
The Erotic Poems (Classics) by Ovid
mobi |eng | 2004-04-28 | Author:Ovid

What he describes here–camouflaging his personal feelings, as so often, behind a smokescreen of mythic witticisms–is the psychological impact of falling in love with an actual person. The symptoms are ...
( Category: Love Poems May 27,2019 )
The Mind of Thucydides (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology) by Jacqueline de Romilly
mobi, epub |eng | 2017-12-15 | Author:Jacqueline de Romilly

Chance and Intelligence As narrated by Thucydides, the battle, though neither dry nor disembodied, may be offered chiefly as a lesson. It is first of all a lesson to the ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Iliad (Translated & Annotated) by Homer & Lombardo Stanley
mobi |eng | 1997-05-31 | Author:Homer & Lombardo, Stanley [Lombardo, Stanley]

He washed the wound off with warm water And patted into it a bitter root That he had rubbed between his hands, [890] An anodyne that took away the pain. ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 27,2019 )
Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices by Lecouteux Claude
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-07-16 | Author:Lecouteux, Claude [Lecouteux, Claude]

because that’s the boundary of Galvoie That knights cannot pass And ever return again. (6602–4) The boundary marker therefore signifies, to some extent, the beginning of a journey of no ...
( Category: Arthurian Romance May 27,2019 )

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