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Empires & historical states

Hardback. Series: Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Num Pages: 217 pages, 66 b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; AFPC; HDA; HDDK; HDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1189.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Archeological Exploration of Sardis
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674171602
ISBN
9780674171602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.50
€ 94.21

Paperback. For the amateur archaeologist - summarizes 65 archaeological sites with maps and coordinates Num Pages: 256 pages, colour plates and maps. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Signal Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904955955
ISBN
9781904955955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. This book argues that specialized cadres of virgin priestesses in ancient Greece were believed to give birth in miraculous fashion as a means of bringing forth holy political and spiritual leaders. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRAX; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111325
ISBN
9780230111325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.59

Hardback. This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre. Series: Ancient World S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631200468
ISBN
9780631200468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.27

Paperback. This book is about the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre. Series: Ancient World S. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631200475
ISBN
9780631200475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.41

Paperback. Traversing a range of discourse and imagery about kitharoidia - poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions - this book offers an account of the aesthetic and socio-cultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the song makers in the popular imagination. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; AS; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1084.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021389
ISBN
9780674021389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.68

Paperback. Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, this title shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. It challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groups. Num Pages: 274 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 1QDT; 3JH; GTB; HBJF1; HBLL; HRAM9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520218468
ISBN
9780520218468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Described as a spirited, sometimes quirky, narrative of the ups and downs of simple travel in the Greek islands. in the late nineteenth century', this book is a personal account of two tours made by J Theodore Bent and his wife around the Greek islands between 1882 and 1884. Series: 3rdguide S. Num Pages: 306 pages, 2ill.1M. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1QDAG; HDDK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 531.
Publisher
Archaeopress United Kingdom
Number of pages
306
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953992317
ISBN
9780953992317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.42

Hardcover. The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. The Cylinder was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian King Cyrus the Great (559ae'530BC) after he captured Babylon in 539BC. Translator(s): Finkel, Irving L. Num Pages: 144 pages, 110 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; HBJF1; HBLA; HDDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 282 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1002.
Publisher
British Museum Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714111872
ISBN
9780714111872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.83

Paperback. This book explores everyday life of the Greek gods, including what their bodies were made of and how they were nourished, the organization of their society, and the sort of life they led in Olympus and the human world. It also shows how citizens carried on everyday relations with the gods. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804736145
ISBN
9780804736145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
675
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9788779345218
ISBN
9788779345218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.06
€ 38.41

Hardback. "In a study of sixty neglected panel paintings from Roman Egypt, the authors present evidence for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance"--Provided by publisher. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDAR; 3D; ACG; AFC; AGR; HRCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 336 x 26. Weight in Grams: 2134.
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606065099
ISBN
9781606065099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 45.79

Paperback. Editor(s): Heckel, Waldemar. Translator(s): Yardley, J. C. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555680
ISBN
9780199555680
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. Drawing on notions of personal honor, manly vigor, and sophisticated craftsmanship, the games were a story that the Romans loved to tell themselves about themselves. Series: Witness to Ancient History. Num Pages: 144 pages, 8, 6 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415864
ISBN
9781421415864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.90

Hardback. With his keen, original analysis of hitherto untapped literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources, Burgess adds greatly to our understanding of this archetypal mythic hero. Num Pages: 208 pages, 26, 23 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBH; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890291
ISBN
9780801890291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.34

Paperback. The story of the most famous assassination in history, dramatically narrated in the historical context of Rome's ongoing civil wars. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1x8pg b&w insert. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451668810
ISBN
9781451668810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA; HPCA; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 152 x 50. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037345443
ISBN
9783037345443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.65

paperback. No empire has been larger or more diverse than the British Empire. At its apogee in the 1930s, 42 million Britons governed 500 million foreign subjects. Britannia ruled the waves and a quarter of the earth's surface was painted red on the map. Yet no empire (except the Russian) disappeared more swiftly. This title tells this history. Num Pages: 816 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780712668460
ISBN
9780712668460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.10

Paperback. An abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into a single epic narrative. Num Pages: 700 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 47. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
700
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Abridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753818817
ISBN
9780753818817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

hardcover. A work on Roman history. It comes with all the author's own notes, later editorial commentaries, maps, tables, descriptive tables of contents, indices, appendices and two magisterial essays on the author and his work by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Num Pages: 1952 pages, notes, maps, tables, indices. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 118. Weight in Grams: 2302.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
1952
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151923
ISBN
9781857151923
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.29
€ 56.80

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