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Presargonic Period

Presargonic Period

Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC)

by Douglas Frayne

Price: $64.95

ISBN: 9781487545130

Pub Date: October 2021

Provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of kings who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia down to the advent of King Sargon of Akkad. The volume includes a handful of new inscriptions recently uncovered in Iraq.

Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World

Celebrity, Fame, and Infamy in the Hellenistic World

Edited by Riemer Faber

Price: $89.00

ISBN: 9781487505226

Pub Date: April 2020

This book traces the roots of modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy back to the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity, when sensational personages like Cleopatra of Egypt and Alexander the Great became famous world-wide.

Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy

Maternal Conceptions in Classical Literature and Philosophy

by Alison Sharrock and Alison Keith

Price: $79.00

ISBN: 9781487532017

Pub Date: February 2020

This book explores motherhood in Greek and Roman literature, focusing on images of mothers and their relationships with their children across a variety of genres.

A Short History of the Ancient World

A Short History of the Ancient World

by Nicholas K. Rauh and Heidi E. Kraus

Contributions by John C. Hill

Price: $85.00

ISBN: 9781442603851

Pub Date: December 2017

A Short History of the Ancient World begins with the Bronze Age and ends with the collapse of the Roman Empire. Rather than restricting his analysis to the Greek and Roman experience, Rauh introduces students to ancient Africa, Israel, Egypt, Iran, China, and the Indian subcontinent.

Sources for the History of Western Civilization, Volume I

Sources for the History of Western Civilization, Volume I

From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Second Edition

Edited by Michael Burger

Price: $63.00

ISBN: 9781442609303

Pub Date: July 2015

Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents without unnecessary editorial intervention.
Roman Social Imaginaries

Roman Social Imaginaries

Language and Thought in the Context of Empire

by Clifford Ando

Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9781442650176

Pub Date: April 2015

Lucid, insightful, and innovative, the essays in Roman Social Imaginaries constitute some of today’s most original thinking about the power of language in the ancient world.

Bringing in the Sheaves

Bringing in the Sheaves

Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World

by Brent Shaw

Price: $55.00

ISBN: 9781442629226

Pub Date: April 2015

The work features an edition of the reaper inscription, and a commentary on it. It is also lavishly illustrated to demonstrate the important iconic and pictorial dimensions of the story.

Momigliano and Antiquarianism

Momigliano and Antiquarianism

Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences

by Peter N. Miller

Price: $50.00

ISBN: 9781442629011

Pub Date: December 2014

In Momigliano and Antiquarianism, Peter N. Miller brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to provide the first serious study of Momigliano's history of historical scholarship.

Judeans and Jews

Judeans and Jews

Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History

by Daniel R. Schwartz

Price: $60.00

ISBN: 9781442648395

Pub Date: December 2014

Presenting the Second Temple era as an age of transition between a territorial past and an exilic and religious future, Judeans and Jews sharpens our understanding of this important era.

Theodahad

Theodahad

A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy

by Massimiliano Vitiello

Price: $87.00

ISBN: 9781442647831

Pub Date: July 2014

Painting a picture of an unlikely king whose reign helped spell the end of Ostrogothic Italy, Vitiello’s book not only illuminates Theodahad’s own life but also offers new insight into the sixth-century Mediterranean world.

The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I

The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I

From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century

by Michael Burger

Price: $53.00

ISBN: 9781442607569

Pub Date: December 2013

The Shaping of Western Civilization: From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century begins with the ancient Near East and ends with the mid-eighteenth century. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation.
Prologues to Ancient and Medieval History

Prologues to Ancient and Medieval History

A Reader

Edited by Justin Lake

Price: $47.95

ISBN: 9781442605039

Pub Date: October 2013

This volume brings together for the first time the most important historical prologues of the European tradition for a period of almost two millennia.
The Shaping of Western Civilization

The Shaping of Western Civilization

From Antiquity to the Present

by Michael Burger

Price: $48.95

ISBN: 9781442601901

Pub Date: September 2013

The Shaping of Western Civilization begins with the ancient Near East and ends with globalization. Unlike other textbooks that pile on dates and facts, Shaping is a more coherent and interpretive presentation.
Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World

Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World

by Sheila Ager and Reimer Faber

Price: $97.00

ISBN: 9781442644229

Pub Date: April 2013

With a range of social, artistic, economic, political, and literary perspectives, the contributors provide a lively exploration of  the tensions and opportunities of life in the Hellenistic Mediterranean.

Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture

Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture

by Michele George

Price: $89.00

ISBN: 9781442644571

Pub Date: March 2013

The contributors engage with questions concerning the slave trade, manumission, slave education, containment and movement, and the use of slaves in the Roman army.

Apuleius and Antonine Rome

Apuleius and Antonine Rome

Historical Essays

by Keith Bradley

Price: $95.00

ISBN: 9781442644205

Pub Date: April 2012

Apuleius and Antonine Rome effectively illustrates how socio-cultural history can be recovered from works of literature.
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