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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: Trda84,79 € -
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Standard of Ur(2015) COLLINS, SARAHThe Standard of Ur is one of the most famous objects to be discovered from ancient Mesopotamia. It was un earthed in a tomb in 1927 by Leonard Woolley during his archaeological excavations of the ‘Royal Cemetery’ of Ur located in present - day Iraq. ThisVezava: Mehka8,34 € -
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: Mehka18,05 € -
Cleopatra(2011) SCHIFF, STACYCleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth ofVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
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: Mehka72,92 € -
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: Mehka47,76 € -
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: Mehka5,55 € -
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: Mehka5,55 € -
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: Mehka5,55 € -
Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece(2021) GAGNE, RENAUD (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)Wherever the idea of a world appears, there is an expression of cosmography. Cosmography, here, is defined as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. This book pursues an anthropological and literary trajectory through ancient Greek cosmogVezava: Trda196,88 € -
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: Mehka5,55 € -
Athens at the Margins(2021) ARRINGTON, NATHAN T.How the interactions of nonelites influenced Athenian material culture and societyThe seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. ConventionalVezava: Trda64,88 € -
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: Mehka31,22 € -
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: Trda35,36 € -
History of Rome, Volume VIII(2021) 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: Trda48,71 € -
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: Trda42,98 € -
History of Rome, Volume V(2019) LIVYLivy, 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 maintain such greatness. The third decad (21Vezava: Trda42,98 € -
Book of Wonders(2020) WARDHAUGH, BENJAMINEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics – often hailed as the world’s first textbook – shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and liteVezava: Trda34,74 € -
Commentary on Plotinus(2017) FICINO, MARSILIOMarsilio Ficino (1433–1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. The I Tatti edition of his commentary on Plotinus, in 6 volumes, contains tVezava: Trda46,09 €
