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 Warfare in the Ancient World 
 Author: Brian Todd Carey Warfare in the Ancient World Pen and Sword Military ISBN: 1844151735 2005 Format: EPUB Pages: 244 Size: 3 Mb Language: English Warfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BC and the fall of Rome.Through an exploration of twenty-six selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four weapon systems - heavy and light infantry and heavy and light cavalry - focusing on how shock and missile combat evolved from tentative beginnings in the Bronze Age to the highly developed military organization created by the Romans.
The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality
 The Roman Banquet: Images of Conviviality Author: Katherine M. D. Dunbabin Cambridge University Press 2010 ISBN: 978-0521127301 Pages-13: 319 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 81 MB Drawing frequently upon ancient inscriptions as well as other archaeological material, Katherine Dunbabin studies the representations of the banquet in Roman painting, mosaic, sculpture, and the minor arts, and compares them to archaeological evidence as well as written sources. She discusses the history of dining practices and the evolution of the iconography of dining. By highlighting the artistic and archaeological evidence, Dunbabin offers a more well-rounded picture of the role of the Roman banquet than can be found in literary sources alone.
Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics (Vol. I-II)
 Author: Aristotle Categories, On Interpretation, Prior Analytics (Vol. I-II) Harvard University Press The Loeb Classical Library 1938, 1960 (Reprint 1962) Format: PDF Size: 62,98 mb 568+784
The Roman Army
 Author: John Wilkes The Roman Army Lerner Publications Co. 1977 Format: PDF Pages: 51 Language: English Size: 39.1 MB Explains the organization and structure of the Roman imperial army of 100 A.D. and the daily life of a professional soldier in the Roman Empire.
Greek Bronzes in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Greek Bronzes in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Author: Joan R. Mertens The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 43, no. 2 1985 Pages: 68 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 28 MB
Rome A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
 Author: Robert Hughes Rome A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History Alfred A. Knopf 2011 ISBN: 0307268446 Language: English Pages: 512 Format: EPUB Size: 21,86 МБ From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking. Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered as a hungry twenty-one-year-old fresh from Australia in 1959. From that exhilarating portrait, he takes us back more than two thousand years to the city's foundation, one mired in mythologies and superstitions that would inform Rome's development for centuries.
The Death of Prehistory
 Author: Peter R. Schmidt (Editor), Stephen A. Mrozowski (Editor) The Death of Prehistory Oxford University Press 2014 Format: PDF Size: 13.4 Mb Language: English Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings came to represent primitive people still living in a state without civilization and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history making and documentation, including epic poetry and the use of physical and mental mnemonic devices. Even so, the deeply engrained concept of prehistory--deeply entrenched in European minds up to the beginning of the twenty-first century--continues to deny history and historical identify to peoples throughout the world. The fourteen essays, by notable archaeologists of the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia, provide authoritative examples of how the concept of prehistory has diminished histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories--accepting ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history.
Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity: Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History
 Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity: Space and Spatial Analysis in Art History Author: Maline D. Werness-Rude, Kaylee R. Spencer University of New Mexico Press 2015 ISBN: 082635579X Pages: 432 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 35 MB Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them. The Maya provide a particularly strong example of the ways in which the built and imaged environment are intentionally oriented relative to political, religious, economic, and other spatial constructs. In examining space, the contributors of this volume demonstrate the core interrelationships inherent in a wide variety of places and spaces, both concrete and abstract. They explore the links between spatial order and cosmic order and the possibility that such connections have sociopolitical consequences. This book will prove useful not just to Mayanists but to art historians in other fields and scholars from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, geography, and landscape architecture.
Schliemann: The Story of a Gold-Seeker
 Author: Emil Ludwig Schliemann: The Story of a Gold-Seeker Little, Brown, and Company 1932 Format: PDF Size: 15,64 mb Language: English
The Ancient Egyptians
 Author: Jane Shuter The Ancient Egyptians (History Starts Here) Steck-Vaughn 2000 32 Format: Pdf Size: 3 MB Language: English
The races of Europe
 Author: Carleton Stevens Coon The races of Europe The Macmillan Company 1939 Format: PDF Size: 88.26 mb (+3%) Pages: 875 Language: English
Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age
 Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age Author: Keith Branigan Hardcover 2002 Pages: 192 Format: PDF Size: 14.4 mb Language: english State-formation and the emergence of civilization have been two of the major arenas of debate in Aegean prehistory for the last twenty five years. The process of urbanization has therefore been at the forefront of scholarly debate. Bronze Age towns, however, have largely been ignored, particularly at a generalized level. Research has usually focused on their architecture, and particularly their elite or public architecture, rather than their general nature and character, and many studies have been restricted to a single town or even a single building. This volume redresses the balance and draws attention and thought not only to urban settlements as a whole but to their social and economic roles, their demographic significance and ultimately to their character and personality.
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
 The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy Princeton University Press Author: Adrienne Mayor 2010 Pages: 480 Format: PDF Size: 9 mb Language: English Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death. But until now no modern historian has recounted the full story of Mithradates, the ruthless king and visionary rebel who challenged the power of Rome in the first century BC. In this richly illustrated book--the first biography of Mithradates in fifty years--Adrienne Mayor combines a storyteller's gifts with the most recent archaeological and scientific discoveries to tell the tale of Mithradates as it has never been told before. The Poison King describes a life brimming with spectacle and excitement. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman citizens in 88 BC, he seized Greece and modern-day Turkey. Fighting some of the most spectacular battles in ancient history, he dragged Rome into a long round of wars and threatened to invade Italy itself. His uncanny ability to elude capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals. The Poison King is a gripping account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes.
Blackwell companions to the Ancient world
 Author: Peter E. Knox Publisher: Blackwell 2003-2011 1378 Format: pdf Size: 130 mb Language: English A Companion To Ancient Epic A Companion To Ancient History A Companion To Archaic Greece A Companion To Catullus A Companion To Classical Receptions A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography A Companion To Greek And Roman Political Thought A Companion to Greek Religion A Companion To Greek Rhetoric A Companion To Greek Tragedy A Companion To Julius Caesar A Companion To Late Antiquity A Companion To Latin Literature A Companion To Ovid A Companion to Roman Religion A Companion To Roman Rhetoric A Companion To The Ancient Near East A Companion To The Classical Greek World A Companion To The Classical Tradition A Companion To The Hellenistic World A Companion To The Roman Army A Companion To The Roman Empire A Companion To The Roman Republic
Assiri. I Conquistatori della Mesopotamia
 Assiri. I Conquistatori della Mesopotamia Milano: Corriere della Sera Author: Andre Parrot Grandi Civilta, Volume 16 2005 (Scritto nel: 1961) Pages: 317 Format: pdf Language: Italiano Size: 95.44 mb Quality: Good L’Arte Sumerica e l’Arte Assira sono tra loro abbastanza simili, essendo la seconda la continuazione della prima. Ma le similitudini tra questi due popoli non si fermano all’Arte, abbracciando anche la mitologia e la scrittura. In effetti, si puo’ quasi notare una certa continuita’ in Mesopotamia durante le varie dominazioni che si sono susseguite. In effetti, in questo volume, non viene esaminata solo la civilta’ Assira, ma anche altre civilta’, quali as esempio gli Achemenidi (Dario, Serse, Artaserse), e viene illustrata anche la storia della Mesopotamia e dei popoli che la hanno abitata e dominata, fino all’arrivo di Alessandro Magno, che riusci’ a conquistare tutte le popolazioni del Vicino Oriente e si spinse all’interno anche dell’Oriente nel suo breve regno interrotto da una morte prematura all’eta’ di soli 30 anni.
The Penguin History of the World
 Author: J. M. Roberts, Odd Arne Westad The Penguin History of the World (6th edition) Allen Lane 2013 Format: epub Size: 18.5 Mb Language: English This is a completely new and updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller "The Penguin History of the World". For generations of readers "The Penguin History of the World" has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human endeavour laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain in a single authoritative book. Now, for the first time, it has been completely overhauled for its 6th edition - not just bringing it up to date, but revising it throughout in the light of new research and discoveries, such as the revolution in our understanding of many civilizations in the Ancient World. The closing sections of the book reflect what now seems to be the inexorable rise of Asia and the increasingly troubled situation in the West. About the authors: J.M. Roberts, CBE, published "The Penguin History of the World" in 1976 to immediate acclaim. His other major books include "The Paris Commune from the Right", "The Triumph of the West" (which was also a successful television series), "The Penguin History of Europe" and "The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century". He died in 2003. Odd Arne Westad, FBA, is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He has published fifteen books on modern and contemporary international history, among them "The Global Cold War", which won the Bancroft Prize, and "Decisive Encounters", a standard history of the Chinese civil war. He also served as general co-editor of the "Cambridge History of the Cold War". Reviews: "A work of outstanding breadth of scholarship and penetrating judgements. There is nothing better of its kind". (Jonathan Sumption, "Sunday Telegraph"). "A stupendous achievement". (A.J.P. Taylor). "A brilliant book ...the most outstanding history of the world yet written". (J.H. Plumb).
Garden Lore of Ancient Athens
 Garden Lore of Ancient Athens (Agora Picture Book 8) Author: Burr Thompson, D., Griswold, R. E.. American School of Classical Studies 1963 ISBN: 0876616082 Pages: 36 Format: PDF Size: 8 mb Language: English In the spring, the ground of the Agora archaeological park is covered in poppies and daisies while poplars and oaks shade many of the pathways. Some of these plants are wild and some were deliberately introduced to Athens in Classical times. This booklet presents evidence for ancient horticulture in the Agora (for example, structured antique gardens were uncovered around the Temple of Hephaistos). Its color plates also provide a useful guide to identifying modern Greek vegetation.
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean
 Author : John Julius Norwich : The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean New York: Vintage Books : 2007 ISBN: 1400034280 Pages: 720 Format : EPUB Size : 9 MB Language : English This lively and dramatic book brings roaring to life the grand sweep of 5,000 years of history in the cradle of civilization. A wonderfullyillustrated account of the civilizations that rose and fell on the lands bordering the Mediterranean, The Middle Sea represents the culmination of a great historian's unparalleled art and scholarship. John Julius Norwich provides brilliant portraits of the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Arabs, the French, the Venetians, the Popes, and the pirates of the Gulf. Above all, he deftly traces the intermingling of ancient conflicts and modern sensibilities that shapes life today on the shores of the Middle Sea.
Greek and Roman Necromancy
 Greek and Roman Necromancy Author: D.Ogden Princeton University Press 2001 Pages: 338 ISBN: 0-691-00904-Х Format: PDF Quality: Good Language: English Size: 42 mb In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations flourished, including Egypt, from the Greek archaic period through the late Roman empire, this book is the first comprehensive survey of the subject ever published in any language.
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