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“janet huskinson”

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  • Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch

    Edited by Isabella Sandwell, Janet Huskinson ...
    This collection of papers brings together a broad range of new research and new material on Antioch in the late Roman period (the 2nd to the 7th centuries AD), from the writings of the orator Libanius and the preacher John Chrysostom to the extensive mosaics found in the city and its suburbs. The authors consider the lively issues of identity and ethnicity in this truly multi-cultural and multi ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memory and Mourning

    Studies on Roman Death

    Edited by Valerie Hope, Janet Huskinson ...
    This book explores the themes of memory and mourning from the Roman deathbed to the Roman cemetery, drawing subject matter from the literature, art, and archaeology of ancient Rome. It brings together scholarship on varied aspects of Roman death, investigating connections between ancient poetry, history and oratory and placing these alongside archaeological and textual evidence for Roman funerary ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Experiencing Rome

    Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire

    Edited by Janet Huskinson ...
    Unique in their broad-based coverage the twelve essays in this book provide a fresh look at some central aspects of Roman culture and society. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • The Roman Empire

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    by Christopher Kelly ...
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  • The Birth of Classical Europe

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    by Simon Price, Peter Thonemann ...
    To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures.As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical ... Read more

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  • The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction

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    by David M. Gwynn ...
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    The rise and fall of the Roman Republic occupies a special place in the history of Western civilization. From humble beginnings on the seven hills beside the Tiber, the city of Rome grew to dominate the ancient Mediterranean. Led by her senatorial aristocracy, Republican armies defeated Carthage and the successor kingdoms of Alexander the Great, and brought the surrounding peoples to east and west ... Read more

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  • The Hellenistic Age

    by Peter Green ...
    Series Book 27 - Modern Library Chronicles
    The Hellenistic era witnessed the overlap of antiquity’s two great Western civilizations, the Greek and the Roman. This was the epoch of Alexander’s vast expansion of the Greco-Macedonian world, the rise and fall of his successors’ major dynasties in Egypt and Asia, and, ultimately, the establishment of Rome as the first Mediterranean superpower.The Hellenistic Age chronicles the years 336 to 30 ... Read more

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  • Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

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    One of the world’s leading historians provides a revolutionary tour of the Ancient World, dusting off the classics for the twenty-first century.Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also ... Read more

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  • Ancient Warfare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Harry Sidebottom ...
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  • Makers of Ancient Strategy

    From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome

    Edited by Victor Davis Hanson ...
    Timeless lessons from the military strategies of the ancient Greeks and RomansIn this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of ... Read more

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