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Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom
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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£50,00
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Greek Vase Art of the Storyteller
ISBN: HB: 9781606061473, Getty Publications, November 2013
114 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
This richly illustrated volume offers a fascinating introduction to ancient Greek vases for the general reader. It presents vases not merely as beautiful vessels to hold water and wine, but also as instruments of storytelling and bearers of meaning....
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Empty Bottles of Gentilism Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)
ISBN: HB: 9780300155389, Yale University Press, April 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this book – the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought – Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late...
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£49,00
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Amores
ISBN: PB: 9781857546897, Carcanet, June 2003
112 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm
Five booklets that Ovid first penned now are three; he preferred to emend. So if we don't please you, at least we can ease you presenting two less to offend. Ovid (c. 43 BC-AD17), a daring, original and passionate poet, has been an enduring influenc...
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£7,95
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