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History of Art

Ancient World

Sicily Art and Invention Between Greece and Rome

Lyons Claire, Bennett Michael, Marconi Clemente

ISBN: HB: 9781606061336, Getty Publications, March 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 144 colour illus., 23 black&white illus., 1 map

This is a richly illustrated volume that demonstrates Sicily's essential role in the development of the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Sicily, a prosperous island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, occupied a pivotal place in the region. I...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture

Neer Richard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226570648, ISBN: HB: 9780226570631, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10 colour illus., 130 halftones, 12 line illus.

In the fifth century B. C. E, an artistic revolution occurred in Greece, as sculptors developed new ways of representing bodies, movement, and space. The resulting "Classical" style would prove influential for centuries and millennia to come. Modern...

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Mysteries of Artemis of Ephesos Cult, Polis, and Change in the Graeco-Roman World

Maclean Rogers Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300178630, Yale University Press, January 2013
528 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 maps, 27 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.

Artemis of Ephesos was one of the most widely worshiped deities of the Greco-Roman world. Her temple, the Artemision, was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and for more than half a millennium people flocked to Ephesos to learn the great...

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Cuneiform Documents from Hellenistic Uruk

Doty L. Timothy, Wallenfels Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780300185270, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 28.7x21.6 cm, 194 black&white illus.

This volume completes publication of the cuneiform documents of the Hellenistic period in the "Yale Babylonian Collection", begun by A. T. Clay in 1913. This long-awaited edition contains reproductions of 103 texts from the city of Uruk, dating to th...

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Ancient World

Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics

Faulkner Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300159073, Yale University Press, March 2012
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B. C. ? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us...

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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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Decorative Arts

Ancient World

Amber and the Ancient World

Causey Faya

ISBN: PB: 9781606060827, Getty Publications, December 2011
144 pp., 22.4x17.4 cm, 63 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This title offers a fascinating look at the one of the ancient world's most prized substances. Amber has fascinated mankind since the Palaeolithic era. Through exquisite visual examples and vivid classical texts, this book examines the myths and lege...

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Military

Battle of Marathon

Krentz Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...

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Ancient World

History of Trust in Ancient Greece

Johnstone Steven

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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Poetry

Ancient World

Iliad of Homer

Homer

ISBN: PB: 9780226470498, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
608 pp., 22x14 cm, 2 line illus.

"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilleus / and its devastation". For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the "Iliad" in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation – the gold standard for generations of students and general re...

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