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Hannibal A Hellenistic Life
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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£12,99
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£25,00
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Horse in Ancient Greek Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300230574, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 130 colour illus.
Horses were revered in ancient Greece as symbols of wealth, power, and status. On stunning black- and red-figure vases, in sculpture, and in other media, Greek artists depicted the daily care of horses, chariot and horseback races, scenes of combat,...
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£35,00
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Household Gods Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: HB: 9781606064566, Getty Publications, February 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could ha...
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£18,99
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History of Trust in Ancient Greece
ISBN: HB: 9780226405094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm
An enormous amount of literature exists on Greek law, economics, and political philosophy. Yet no one has written a history of trust, one of the most fundamental aspects of social and economic interaction in the ancient world. In this fresh look at a...
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£47,00
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Herculaneum Italy's Buried Treasure
ISBN: PB: 9780892361649, Getty Publications, March 2006
222 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 118 black&white illus.
A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.
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£17,99
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