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It's All Greek Borrowed Words and their Histories

Tulloch Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9781851245055, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2018
224 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse can also trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce? This b...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

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Studies of Homeric Greece

Bouzek Jan

ISBN: PB: 9788024635613, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2018
320 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 8 colour plates, 16 halftones, 109 line drawings, 30 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Studies of Homeric Greece" is a comprehensive companion to the archaeology and history of Late Mycenaean to Geometric Greece and the koine of Early Iron Age Geometric styles in Europe and...

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Enraged Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

Anhalt Emily Katz

ISBN: PB: 9780300239966, ISBN: HB: 9780300217377, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Millennia ago, Greek myths exposed the dangers of violent rage and the need for empathy and self-restraint. Homer's "Iliad", Euripides' "Hecuba", and Sophocles' "Ajax" show that anger and vengeance destroy perpetrators and victims alike. Composed bef...

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Women Studies

Domina The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

de la Bedoyere Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230307, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 maps

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

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Military

Hannibal A Hellenistic Life

MacDonald Eve

ISBN: PB: 9780300240306, ISBN: HB: 9780300152043, Yale University Press, August 2018
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hannibal lived a life of incredible feats of daring and survival, massive military engagements, and ultimate defeat. A citizen of Carthage and military commander in Punic Spain, he famously marched his war elephants and huge army over the Alps into R...

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Military

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Roman Legionary Soldiers of Empire

Elliott Simon

ISBN: PB: 9781612006116, Casemate, June 2018
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.

The might of Rome rested on the back of its legions; the superbly trained and equipped fighting force with which the imperial Roman army conquered, subdued and ruled an empire for centuries. The legionary soldier served for 20 years, was rigorously t...

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Praetorian The Rise and Fall of Rome's Imperial Bodyguard

Bedoyere Guy de la

ISBN: PB: 9780300234381, Yale University Press, April 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.

A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the power to make – or destroy – the emperors they served Founded by Augustus around 27 B.C., the elite Praetorian Guard was tasked with the protection...

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History of Art

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Art of Libation in Classical Athens

Gaifman Milette

ISBN: HB: 9780300192278, Yale University Press, February 2018
196 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 127 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This handsome volume presents an innovative look at the imagery of libations, the most commonly depicted ritual in ancient Greece, and how it engaged viewers in religious performance. In a libation, liquid – water, wine, milk, oil, or honey – was pou...

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Christianity

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Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians

Wheeler-Reed David

ISBN: HB: 9780300227727, Yale University Press, February 2018
208 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Challenging the long-held assumption that American values – be they Christian or secular – are based on "Judeo-Christian" norms, this provocative study compares ancient Christian discourses on marriage and sexuality with contemporary ones, maintainin...

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Biography & Memoires

Philo of Alexandria An Intellectual Biography

Niehoff Maren R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300175233, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that hi...

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