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 Great Ages of man - Ancient China 
 Author: Edward Scahfer Great Ages of man - Ancient China Time-Life Books 1967 Format: PDF Pages: 192 Language: English Size: 26.2 MB Ancient China is one of twenty-one volumes in the Time Life book series Great Ages of Man. Published in the 1960s/70s, this series is a history of the world's cultures. Despite its age, Ancient China is a good introduction to early Chinese history, religion, cosmology, art, and literature. Chapter Three describes the religion of China and is especially informative. As with other books in this series, there are numerous illustrations and maps which supplement the narrative. A time line, index, and bibliography are also included. In conclusion, Ancient China is a good place to start your study of one of the oldest cultures in the world.
Storia di Roma moderna e contemporanea
 Storia di Roma moderna e contemporanea Newton Compton Author: Giovanni Di Benedetto, Claudio Rendina Biblioteca de IL Messaggero 2004 Pages: 448 Format: pdf Language: Italiano Size: 42.26 MB Quality: good Storia di Roma moderna e contemporanea Dal 1528, anno successivo al saccheggio dei Lanzichenecchi, alla Controriforma, dai fasti dell'età barocca alla Rivoluzione francese, dalla Restaurazione a Roma capitale, dalla Roma di Mussolini al boom economico degli anni Sessanta, dal terrorismo fino alle vicende più recenti, come il Giubileo del 2000 e l'elezione di Veltroni sindaco, scorrono in queste pagine cinquecento anni di fatti ed eventi della città eterna.
A Companion to Late Antiquity
 Author : Philip Rousseau : A Companion to Late Antiquity (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) Wiley-Blackwell 2012 ISBN: 9781118255315 Pages: 734 Format : EPUB, MOBI Size : 5,9 MB Language : English An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean. Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era. Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world. Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life
Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
 Sparta and Lakonia & Hellenistic and Roman Sparta Author: Paul Cartledge, Antony Spawforth Routledge ISBN: 041526278X 2001-12-06 Pages: 704 Language:English Format:PDF Size:4.10 MB This set includes the revised edition of Sparta and Lakonia by Paul Cartledge and the second edition of Hellenistic and Roman Sparta by Paul Cartledge and Antony Spawforth, at a very special price. Together, both volumes take an authoritative overview on this fascinating state of Ancient Greece. Sparta and Lakonia explores both the city-state of Aparta and the territory of Lakonia, covering the period from the apogee of Mycenaean culture to it's crucial defeat in 362 BC. While Hellenistic and Roman Sparta focuses on this later part of Spartan history, challenging the misperception of Spartan 'decline' after the loss of her status on the battlefield in 371 BC. Combining traditional written sources, archaeological perspectives and recent finds and scholarship, both volumes give an original and compelling account of Spartan history.
The Quest for Sumer
 Author: Leonard Cottrell The Quest for Sumer G.P. Putnam's Sons 1965 Format: PDF Pages: 246 Language: English Size: 30 MB Sixty centuries ago, four thousand years before the birth of Christ, Sumer was the home of a proud and flourishing culture. The first references to it that we have in our literature occur in the Bible, where it is called "the land of Shinar." This ancient kingdom was the cradle of mankind, the legendary site of the Garden of Eden. Yet as recently as seventy years ago we did not even know that it really existed and today it is little more than a flat, dun-colored expanse of sun scorched mud in a corner of Iraq.
God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination
 Author: Richard Jenkyns God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination Oxford University Press 2014 Format: PDF Size: 91.6 Mb Language: English God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination is a unique exploration of the relationship between the ancient Romans' visual and literary cultures and their imagination. Drawing on a vast range of ancient sources, poetry and prose, texts, and material culture from all levels of Roman society, it analyses how the Romans used, conceptualized, viewed, and moved around their city. Jenkyns pays particular attention to the other inhabitants of Rome, the gods, and investigates how the Romans experienced and encountered them, with a particular emphasis on the personal and subjective aspects of religious life. Through studying interior spaces, both secular (basilicas, colonnades, and forums) and sacred spaces (the temples where the Romans looked upon their gods) and their representation in poetry, the volume also follows the development of an architecture of the interior in the great Roman public works of the first and second centuries AD. While providing new insights into the working of the Romans' imagination, it also offers powerful challenges to some long established orthodoxies about Roman religion and cultural behaviour.
A Catalogue Of The Egyptian Collection
 Author: Wallis Budge A Catalogue Of The Egyptian Collection Cambridge 1893 Format: PDF Size: 3.64 mb Language: English
The Jewish War (Vol. I-II)
 Author: Josephus Flavius The Jewish War (Vol. I-II) Harvard University Press The Loeb Classical Library 1927, 1928 (Reprint 1956, 1961) Format: PDF Size: 71,69 mb 790 + 718
Blackwell companions to the Ancient world
 Author: Peter E. Knox Publisher: Blackwell 2003-2011 1378 Format: pdf Size: 130 mb Language: English A Companion To Ancient Epic A Companion To Ancient History A Companion To Archaic Greece A Companion To Catullus A Companion To Classical Receptions A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography A Companion To Greek And Roman Political Thought A Companion to Greek Religion A Companion To Greek Rhetoric A Companion To Greek Tragedy A Companion To Julius Caesar A Companion To Late Antiquity A Companion To Latin Literature A Companion To Ovid A Companion to Roman Religion A Companion To Roman Rhetoric A Companion To The Ancient Near East A Companion To The Classical Greek World A Companion To The Classical Tradition A Companion To The Hellenistic World A Companion To The Roman Army A Companion To The Roman Empire A Companion To The Roman Republic
The Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders
 Author: Barbara A. Barletta The Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders Cambridge University Press 2001 ISBN: 0521124220 Language: English Pages: 228 Format: PDF Size: 44,44 МБ Much of our understanding of the origins and early development of the Greek architectural order is based on the writings of ancient authors, such as Virtruvius, and those of modern interpreters. Traditionally, the archaeological evidence has been viewed secondarily and often made to fit within a literary context, despite contradictions that occur. Barbara Barletta's study examines both forms of evidence in an effort to reconcile the two sources, as well as to offer a coherent reconstruction of the origins and early development of the Greek architectural orders.
Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
 Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt Author: Kathryn A. Bard Blackwell Publishing 2007 ISBN: 1405111496 Format: PDF Size: 35.6 MB Language: English Pages: 437 Kathryn Bard has authored the first history of ancient Egypt based primarily on archaeological data. She is well qualified to do this as a result of her major contributions as an archaeologist to understanding the development of the state in prehistoric Egypt and of Egyptian trading relations with sub-Saharan Africa, as well as her editing of the highly successful Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt.
Great Ages of Man - Classical Greece
 Author: C.M. Bowra Great Ages of Man - Classical Greece Time-Life Books 1966 Format: PDF Pages: 200 Language: English Size: 28.4 MB Part of Time Life Series on the Great Ages of Man. Author, Sir Maurice Bowra has devoted his life to the contemplation of Greek literature, art and society. His brilliant distillation of Hellenism shows Greece in all its dewy freshness. In the picture essays that document various aspects of the Greek experience for even the most assiduous reader of books on Greece.
Garden Lore of Ancient Athens
 Garden Lore of Ancient Athens (Agora Picture Book 8) Author: Burr Thompson, D., Griswold, R. E.. American School of Classical Studies 1963 ISBN: 0876616082 Pages: 36 Format: PDF Size: 8 mb Language: English In the spring, the ground of the Agora archaeological park is covered in poppies and daisies while poplars and oaks shade many of the pathways. Some of these plants are wild and some were deliberately introduced to Athens in Classical times. This booklet presents evidence for ancient horticulture in the Agora (for example, structured antique gardens were uncovered around the Temple of Hephaistos). Its color plates also provide a useful guide to identifying modern Greek vegetation.
Rome: Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC - AD 476
 Author: Neil Faulkner Rome: Empire of the Eagles, 753 BC - AD 476 Routletge 2008 ISBN: 0582784956 Format: EPUB Size: 7,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 400 The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. However, in this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved. Within the empire the landowning elite creamed off the wealth of the countryside to pay taxes to the state and fund the towns and villas where they lived. The masses of people – slaves, serfs and poor peasants – were victims of a grand exploitation that made the empire possible. This system, riddled with tension and latent conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.
Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans
 Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans Author: Simon K.F. Stoddart The Scarecrow Press 2009 Pages: 360 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 2 Mb The Etruscans created one of the most highly developed cultures of the pre-Roman Mediterranean world. At one time, having control over a significant part of the Mediterranean, the Etruscans laid the foundations of the city of Rome. They had their own language, which has never been totally deciphered, and their art influenced such artists as Michelangelo. While the Etruscans were eventually conquered by the Romans, they left behind a rich culture. The Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans relates the history of this culture, focusing on aspects of their material culture and art history. A chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, appendix of museums and research institutes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions provide an entry into a comparative study of the Etruscans.
Discover Ancient Rome
 Discover Ancient Rome Author: Deborah Kops Enslow Pub Inc Discover Ancient Civilizations 2014 ISBN: 1464403414 Pages: 112 Language: English Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 21 MB DISCOVER ANCIENT ROME covers the highlights of ancient Rome, including the founding of Rome, mythology, Pompeii, and Roman law, among other topics. The book also focuses on Roman civilization, Roman religion, social life and customs. Everyday life is also featured in the book as well, including the bread and circuses, the trade guilds, the blood games, chariot races, the baths, theatre, poetry, and education.
Animals in Celtic Life and Myth
 Animals in Celtic Life and Myth Routledge Author: Miranda Green 1993 Pages: 304 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN: 978-0415050302 Size: 8 mb In Animals in Celtic Life and Myth, Miranda Green draws on evidence from early Celtic documents, archaeology and iconography to consider the manner in which animals formed the basis of elaborate rituals and beliefs. She reveals that animals were endowed with an extremely high status, considered by the Celts as worthy of respect and admiration.
The Story of Troy
 Author: David Maule Dorling Kindersley Pub. DK ELT Graded Readers 2000 ISBN: 075133183X Pages: 50 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 27 MB They draw on the proven strengths of DK books for native speakers of English; an interesting approach to factual topics clear detailed illustrations and a combination of education information and enjoyment. These same strengths are now available to teachers and learners of English. The levels have been chosen for ease of use to approximate to the various UCLES exams and the readers can be used alongside the appropriate course book.
Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium Heirs of the Roman West
 Author: Joachim Henning Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium Heirs of the Roman West Walter de Gruyter & Co ISBN: 3110183560 2010 Format: PDF Size: 37,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 568 In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. - their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as onthose from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).
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