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  • Cyrus the Great

    A Biography of Kingship

    Series series Routledge Ancient Biographies
    Cyrus the Great was a celebrity of the ancient world, the founder of one of the first world empires in the ancient Near East, whose life and deeds were celebrated through the many stories told about him, then and for millennia.This book offers an analysis of these stories, locating them within the rich storytelling cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and the Near East. Although there are few ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece

    With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at how a common heroic ideology among rulers was based upon excellence, or arete, and also surveys dynastic ruling, where ... Leer más

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  • The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece

    Edición de P.J. Rhodes, Lynette Mitchell ...
    The Greek polis has been arousing interest as a subject for study for a long time, but recent approaches have shown that it is a subject on which there are still important questions to be asked and worthwhile things to be said.This book contains a selection of essays which embody the results of the latest research, yet are presented so as to be accessible to non-specialist readers. Beyond the ... Leer más

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  • A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE

    Series series Blackwell History of the Ancient World
    A History of the Archaic Greek World offers a theme-based approach to the development of the Greek world in the years 1200-479 BCE.Updated and extended in this edition to include two new sections, expanded geographical coverage, a guide to electronic resources, and more illustrationsTakes a critical and analytical look at evidence about the history of the archaic Greek WorldInvolves the reader in ... Leer más

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  • The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

    From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

    A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own.This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and ... Leer más

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  • Politics

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this provocative but balanced essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short ... Leer más

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  • The Spartan Regime

    Its Character, Origins and Grand Strategy

    Series series Yale Library of Military History
    "[A] monumental history . . . explaining . . . how Sparta's early strategic role in the Greek world was inseparable from the uniqueness of its origins and values." (David Hanson, The Hoover Institution, author of The Other Greeks)For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civilization described as a combination of democracy and ... Leer más

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  • Mesopotamia

    The Invention of the City

    Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first book to reveal how life was lived in ten Mesopotamian cities: from Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden, to that potent symbol of decadence, Babylon - the ... Leer más

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  • Democracy

    A Life

    Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy", yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern ... Leer más

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  • The Ancient Near East

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and bureaucracy, diplomacy and state-sponsored warfare, mathematics and literature. This Very Short ... Leer más

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  • Lectures in the History of Political Thought

    Series Libro 1 - Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings
    Oakeshott's memorable lectures on the history of political thought, delivered each year at the London School of Economics, will now be available in print for the first time as Volume II of his Selected Writings. Based on manuscripts in the LSE archive for 1966-67, the last year of Oakeshott's tenure as Professor of Political Science, these thirty lectures deal with Greek, Roman, mediaeval, and ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford History of the Biblical World

    Edición de Michael D. Coogan ...
    In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible. For more than a century, archaeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. Using new approaches, contemporary ... Leer más

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