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Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World

Beate Dignas, R. R. R. Smith
$135.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780199572069ISBN10: 0199572062 Includes new research by leading scholars in the field.
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Death

Antiquity and Its Legacy
Mario Erasmo
$99.00
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Hardback,  Apr 2012 ISBN13: 9780195380972ISBN10: 0195380975 Personal and yet universal, inevitable and unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures since earliest times.

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Two Romes

Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity
Lucy Grig, Gavin Kelly
$85.00
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199739400ISBN10: 0199739404 Offers a comparative examination of Rome and Constantinople in the two centuries after Constantine

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Trouble in the West

Egypt and the Persian Empire, 525-332 BC
Stephen Ruzicka
$74.00
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Hardback,  Mar 2012 ISBN13: 9780199766628ISBN10: 0199766622 Provides the first detailed, comprehensive reconstruction of Persian-Egyptian relations from the Persian conquest of Egypt through Alexander the Great's campaigns

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Cypro-Minoan Inscriptions

Volume 1: Analysis
Silvia Ferrara
$125.00
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199607570ISBN10: 0199607575 Divided into two broad sections, the volume contextualises the script in its historical setting, considers its role in the material culture of Cyprus, focuses on a new typology of the inscribed objects, identifies scribal practices, and seeks to assess the influences of the Aegean Linear and the Near Eastern cuneiform traditions on Cypriot writing.
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Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy

The Art of the Impossible
Ian Ruffell
$160.00
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199587216ISBN10: 0199587213 Engagement with comic texts beyond the extant plays of Aristophanes alone.

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Cyrene to Chaeronea

Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History
George Cawkwell
$150.00
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Hardback,  Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199593286ISBN10: 0199593280 A generous selection of the writings of one of the most eminent historians of Ancient Greece
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Justin: Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus Volume II: Books 13-15

The Successors to Alexander the Great
J. C. Yardley, Pat Wheatley, Waldemar Heckel
$135.00
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Hardback,  Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199277599ISBN10: 0199277591 Contains a full commentary, translation, and appendices on Justin's Books 13-15.

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Settlement, Urbanization, and Population

Alan Bowman, Andrew Wilson
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Hardback,  Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199602353ISBN10: 0199602352 Clear presentation and analysis of new data for ancient economic history.

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African Athena

New Agendas
Daniel Orrells, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Tessa Roynon
$160.00
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Hardback,  Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9780199595006ISBN10: 0199595003 Re-opens the debate and controversy provoked by Martin Bernal's Black Athena, while changing the terms of that debate and focusing on the implications of Greek, Roman, African, and Middle Eastern intersections.

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