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  • Religion in the Roman Empire

    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of ... Read more

    $92.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rome:An Empire's Story

    An Empire's Story

    by Greg Woolf ...
    The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa--and sometimes even further afield. In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects--a story ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Life and Death of Ancient Cities

    A Natural History

    by Greg Woolf ...
    The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. The ruins of many of them still enchant us. This book tells the story of the rise and fall of ancient ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ancient Libraries

    Edited by Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou, Greg Woolf ...
    The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Tales of the Barbarians

    Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West

    by Greg Woolf ...
    Series series Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
    Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material.Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the creation of new histories in the Roman WestExplores how ancient geography, local histories and the ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • Rome

    An Empire's Story

    by Greg Woolf ...
    The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa--and sometimes even further afield. In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects--a story ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Life and Death of Ancient Cities

    A Natural History

    by Greg Woolf ...
    The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing, without temples for the gods or palaces for the mighty. Over the ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Rome

    An Empire's Story

    by Greg Woolf ...
    Rome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the Mediterranean world and finally, at breakneck speed, deep into Europe, out to the Atlantic, along the edge of the Sahara and down the Red Sea. But there had been other empires that had expanded rapidily: what made Rome remarkable ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture

    Edited by Jason König, Greg Woolf ...
    How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

    Edited by Jason König, Greg Woolf ...
    There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works with a broad concept of encyclopaedism, resisting the idea that there was any clear pre-modern genre ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

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    Rome

    An Empire's Story

    by Greg Woolf ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 5 min

    The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa—and sometimes even further afield.In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects—a story ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    1493

    Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

    by Charles C. Mann ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 46 min

    **From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs.More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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