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  • Studies on the history and archaeology of Lydia from the Early Lydian period to Late Antiquity

    Edited by Ergün Laflı, Guy Labarre ...
    Series series Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité (ISTA)
    Lydia, lying between the Aegean coast and the Anatolian plateau, has been associated since Antiquity with the Pactolus river, which carried gold from the Tmolus mountain, and with the wealth of Croesus. Populated by Lydians and Maeonians, and marked by the presence of Persians, Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines, it has attracted the attention of researchers since the end of the 18th century. This ... Read more

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  • How the World Made the West

    A 4,000 Year History

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    **An award-winning Cambridge history professor “makes a forceful argument and tells a story with great verve” (The Wall Street Journal)—that the West is, and always has been, truly global.“Those archaic ‘Western Civ’ classes so many of us took in college should be updated, argues Quinn, [who] invites us to . . . revel in a richer, more polyglot inheritance.”—The Boston Globe**AN ECONOMIST BEST ... Read more

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  • Memory and the Mediterranean

    by Fernand Braudel ...
    A grand sweep of history by the late Fernand Braudel–one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians–Memory and the Mediterraneanchronicles the Mediterranean’s immeasurably rich past during the foundational period from prehistory to classical antiquity, illuminating nothing less than the bedrock of our civilization and the very origins of Western culture.Essential for historians, yet ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Ancient Perspectives

    Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

    Edited by Richard J. A. Talbert ...
    "Contains must-read essays for all those interested in the history of these earliest forms of cartography . . . A truly wonderful read." —John Hessler, Library of Congress, The PortolanAncient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient ... Read more

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  • In Search of the Phoenicians

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    Series series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers ... Read more

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  • Travelling Heroes

    by Robin Lane Fox ...
    The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousands of years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their gods develop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicist Robin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancient world, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuing it through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how the intrepid ... Read more

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  • Alexander the Great and His Empire

    A Short Introduction

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Amélie Kuhrt ...
    A classic account of Alexander the Great's conquest and its impact on the conquered—now in English for the first timeThis is the first publication in English of Pierre Briant's classic short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. Eschewing a conventional biographical focus, this is the only book in any language that sets the rise of ... Read more

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  • Alexander to Actium

    The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age

    by Peter Green ...
    Series Book 1 - Hellenistic Culture and Society
    The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered a rich and variegated field of exploration for historians, philosophers, economists, and literary critics. Yet few scholars have attempted the daunting task of seeing the period whole, of refracting its achievements ... Read more

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  • The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires

    Adaptation and Expansion

    Edited by Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee, Elizabeth Pendleton ...
    Series Book 5 - British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
    Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sassanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture. Despite a change of ruling dynasty, the two empires were closely connected and cannot be regarded as totally separate ... Read more

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  • Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    A detailed and incisive analysis of the recorded history surrounding the last king of Achaemenid Persia, Darius III.The last of Cyrus the Great's dynastic inheritors and the legendary enemy of Alexander the Great, Darius III ruled over a Persian Empire that stretched from the Mediterranean to the Indus River. Yet, despite being the most powerful king of his time, Darius remains an obscure figure ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

    Edited by Christina Riggs ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World

    The Nickle Numismatic Papers

    by Waldemar Heckel, Richard Sullivan ...
    Through the ages, coins have been more than a common standard or a means of exchange between peoples for goods and services. The development of coinage gave men freedom to move beyond their communities, served as a propaganda tool for advancing armies and visually showed people the source of politics which governed their lives. Today, these same bits of metal, these ancient video disks, transmit ... Read more

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