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| Gilbert, Adrian; Cotterell, Maurice: The Mayan Prophecies: Unlocking the Secrets of a Lost Civilization
Book Number: 42605
Element Books, Australia 1995 Ancient 8vo. softcover 379pp. very good. Illustrated with photo's in colour and in text diagrams and photo''s. Index. Contents include Maya, Mayan concepts of time, New Solar Astrology, Chacmools, Skull of Doom, Olmecs and Atlantis, Atlantean.
Keywords: Maya, Mayan concepts of time, New Solar Astrology, Chacmools, Skull of Doom, Olmecs and Atlantis, Atlantean
Price: $12.00 |
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| Quennell, Marjorie & C.H.B: Everyday Things in Ancient Greece
Book Number: 42632
London, Batsford. 1957 8vo. hardcover. 256pp. index. + b/w plates. b/w illus. good+, presentation bookplate on fep. / fair, chipped d/w.
Keywords: ancient greek greece history
Price: $15.00 |
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| Low, D.M. (Ed): Gibbon's The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire: Abridged
Book Number: 43551
Bison Books 1979 8vo hardcover 256pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w creased along top edge.
Keywords: Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire history ancient
Price: $25.00 |
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| Badian, E.: Publicans and Sinners: Private Enterprise in the Service of the Roman Republic
Book Number: 43697
Cornell Univ Pr March 1983 8vo softcover 176pp very good. With critical bibliography. Roman Republic History from the third century to the death of Caesar. The author explores the identity of the Publicani, the extent, organization, and prosperity of their activities, and the degree of their involvement in government itself, period by period.
Keywords: business long tail marketing internet internet marketing commodore longtail economic history c64 product development Publicans and Sinners Private Enterprise in the Service of the Roman Republic Badian E
Price: $16.00 |
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| Cottrell, Leonard: The Land of Shinar
Book Number: 44072
Pan 1965 8vo. softcover. 207pp. index. Good,page edges browned.
Keywords: Shinar mesopotamia
Price: $14.00 |
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| Blundell, Susan: Women in Ancient Greece
Book Number: 44148
Harvard University Press 1995 Large 8vo softcover 224pp very good, page edges tanned, pen mark on fep. Review: In her introduction to Women in Ancient Greece Sue Blundell notes how few overviews have appeared among the plethora of books and articles on women's lives and representations in the ancient Greek world...Her book is an admirable response to the need for such an overview. In a concise narrative account incorporating much of the recent scholarly work, Blundell offers a broad survey of the most relevant topics for the study of women in Greece during the period 750-336 B.C....Blundell's narrative is seldom merely descriptive; rather, throughout her exposition, she guides her readers to recognize the ways ancient representations and institutions associated with the female are a production of male issues, concern and power.n--R.J. Schork (New England Classical Journal )nnBlundell offers here an excellent, brief survey of women in archaic and classical Greek art, literature, and history. It is the sole comprehensive account in English of women in ancient Greece (as opposed to Greece and Rome). Blundell's reading is wide, her thought judicious, her prose clear, and her insight penetrating. She has a good bibliography, decent notes, and well-chosen illustrations...Recommended for all college and university libraries.n--J.M. Williams (Choice ) nnProduct DescriptionnnnTo read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to enter a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the Archaic and Classical Ages, completes our picture of ancient Greek society. nnLargely excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in various guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell's analysis, reveal a great deal about women's day-to-day experience as well as their legal and economic position--and how they were regarded by men. Here are women as portrayed in Homer, in Greek lyric poetry, and by the playwrights; the female nature as depicted in medical writings and by Aristotle; representations of women in sculpture and vase paintings. This is evidence filtered through a male view: Sappho is the only female writer of antiquity much of whose work survives. Yet these sources and others such as regulations and law court speeches reveal a great deal about women's lives and about their status as defined by law and by custom. nnBy examining the roles that men assigned to women, the ideals they constructed for them, and the anxieties they expressed about them, Blundell sheds light on the cultural dynamics of a male-dominated society. Lively and richly illustrated, her work offers a fresh look at women in the ancient world.
Keywords: ancient greece greece hellenismos history Women in Ancient Greece Blundell Susan
Price: $18.00 |
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| Brilliant, Richard: Roman Art From the Republic To Constantine
Book Number: 44584
Reader's Union 1974 Large 8vo. hardcover. 2588pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: Roman Art sculpture architecture
Price: $18.00 |
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| Hern, Gerhard: The Celts
Book Number: 44722
Book Club 1976 8vo. hardcover 312pp. index, b/w illus. very good, owner's inscriptions on fep. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Celts ancient history celtic
Price: $18.00 |
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| MACKIE, Euan W.: Science and Society in Prehistoric Britain
Book Number: 44886
Paul Elek, 1977 8vo. hardcover. 252pp. index, b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Keywords: Science Society Prehistoric Britain
Price: $25.00 |
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