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Ancient World
What Did the Romans Know? An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking
Lehoux Daryn
ISBN: PB: 9780226143217, ISBN: HB: 9780226471143, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 halftones, 4 line illus.
What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about t...
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Women and Weasels Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome
Bettini Maurizio
ISBN: HB: 9780226044743, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a...
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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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Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
Charpin Dominique
ISBN: HB: 9780226101583, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization – home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code o...
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