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Spartan Regime Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300219012, Yale University Press, September 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history. For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civi...

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Democracy's Beginning The Athenian Story

Mitchell Thomas N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215038, Yale University Press, October 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...

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Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom

Oppenheim Adela, Arnold Dorothea, Arnold Dieter, Yamamoto Kei

ISBN: HB: 9781588395641, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
400 pp., 31.1x24.9 cm, 365 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1700 B.C.), the second great era of ancient Egyptian culture, was a transformational period during which the artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems formed during earlier dynast...

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Ennion Master of Roman Glass

Lightfoot Christopher, Wight Karol B., Pilosi Lisa, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208771, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2015
160 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion's glass stood out for its quality and popularity, and his products are distinguished by t...

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Ancient Rome From Romulus to Justinian

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198317, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the p...

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Ancient Greece From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300160055, Yale University Press, May 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C.E. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and arch...

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Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World

Maclean Rogers Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300178630, Yale University Press, January 2013
528 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 maps, 27 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.

Artemis of Ephesos was one of the most widely worshiped deities of the Greco-Roman world. Her temple, the Artemision, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and for more than half a millennium people flocked to Ephesos to learn the great...

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Cuneiform Documents from Hellenistic Uruk

Doty L. Timothy, Wallenfels Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780300185270, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 28.7x21.6 cm, 194 black&white illus.

This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the "Yale Babylonian Collection", begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions of 103 texts from the city of Uruk, dating to th...

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Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics

Faulkner Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300159073, Yale University Press, March 2012
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B. C. ? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us...

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Women Studies

Women of Byzantium

Connor Carolyn L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300186468, Yale University Press, January 2012
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the w...

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