Zbirka: Antična zgodovina / antične civilizacije
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Julius Caesar and the Roman People(2021) MORSTEIN-MARX, ROBERT (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA)A thorough reconsideration of Julius Caesar's career throughout the crisis of the Roman Republic. Argues that Caesar was not an aspiring autocrat seeking to overthrow the Republic, but an unusually successful republican political leader against whom a detVezava: Trda96,25 € -
Imagining the Divine(2021)An innovative approach to the study of an under-appreciated topic of the place of art in ancient religion and will be essential reading for researchers and students of the material and religious cultures of late antiquity across Eurasia.Vezava: Mehka63,87 € -
Vikings: Classic Histories Series(2016) MAGNUSSON, MAGNUSThey were undoubtedly pillagers, raiders and terrifying warriors, but they were also great pioneers, artists and traders - a dynamic people, whose skill and daring in their exploration of the world has left an indelible impression a thousand years on.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Julius Caesar: pocket GIANTS(2016) WISEMAN, T.P.As the People's champion against a corrupt and murderous oligarchy, he began transformation of the Roman republic into a quasi-monarchy and a military and fiscal system that for four centuries provided western Europe, north Africa and the Middle East withVezava: Mehka9,80 € -
Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece(2022)Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece brings together a series of stimulating chapters contributing to the archaeology, and our modern understanding of the character and importance of caves and cave sanctuaries in the first millennium BCE Mediterranean.Vezava: Mehka80,49 € -
Xenophon: Anabasis Book III(2019)An up-to-date commentary on a pivotal section of Xenophon's Anabasis aimed at undergraduates. Advanced students and scholars will profit from its incorporation of recent developments in Xenophontic scholarship and Greek linguistics. Offers new insights inVezava: Mehka53,22 € -
Epigrams(2015) MARTIALThis new, parallel-text prose translation of a generous selection of Martial's witty and satiric epigrams pulls no punches and matches the boldness of the originals. They bring Imperial Rome vividly to life. The edition establishes Martial's originality aVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Epidaurus(2016) DUDLEY, JILLThe myth of Asclepius booth (god of healing), the expectations of invalids visiting the centre, and the god's miraculous cures, the buildings and the great theatre of Epidaurus.Vezava: Mehka5,60 € -
Santorini (Thira)(2016) DUDLEY, JILLThe myth of how Poseidon, God of the sea, was given the island, and how the people angered him and he caused their deaths in the eruption. The Caldera and the Akrotiri Archaeological site. It is one of six 'Put It in Your Pocket series' on Greek islands.Vezava: Mehka5,60 € -
Athens(2016) DUDLEY, JILLThe king in antiquity. The Birth of Athena, her role as goddess. Early temples, the pantheon. Its marbles, its conversion to a church.Vezava: Mehka5,60 € -
Eleusis(2016) DUDLEY, JILLThe myth about the abduction by Hades off Demeter's daughter Kore. How she was allowed back for 8 months of the year but returned to Hades for the other 4 the founding of Demeter's Eleusinian mysteries.Vezava: Mehka5,60 € -
Chios(2016) DUDLEY, JILLAbout Homer and Chios, The Izaid, one of the six Greek island booklets. The Odyssey, Goddess Athena, God Apollo and Helen of Troy came to Chios. 'Put in your pocket series'.Vezava: Mehka5,60 € -
Hellenistic Anthology(2020)Makes accessible a wide range of important poetic texts from the third and second centuries BC. It provides help with the background to these writers and with the Greek of these often allusive and challenging works. This second edition has been thoroughlyVezava: Mehka55,13 € -
Classical Art(2018) VOUT, CAROLINEHow did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, riVezava: Trda62,48 € -
Plutarch: Volume 47(2021) ROSKAM, GEERT (KU LEUVEN, BELGIUM)This volume introduces the life and works of Plutarch of Chaeronea, one of classical antiquity's most influential writers. It examines Plutarch's views on philosophy, history and religion, and his method of intellectual enquiry. The book also considers thVezava: Mehka36,12 € -
Four Lost Cities(2021) NEWITZ, ANNALEEA fascinating look at four of the most spectacular cities in human history-and why they were all abandoned.Vezava: Trda36,58 € -
History of Rome, Volume VII(2020) LIVYLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC–AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to mainVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Civil War(2016) CAESARCivil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar’s campaigns during the civil war of 49–48 BC, drawn from his three books of commentarii.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Roman History, Volume II(2019) APPIANAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up thVezava: Trda44,47 €
