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Presargonic Period
Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC)
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
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
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
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
From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Second Edition
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Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents without unnecessary editorial intervention.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
Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
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
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
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
Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences
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
Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History
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
A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy
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
From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century
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
A Reader
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
From Antiquity to the Present
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
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
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
Historical Essays
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.

Presargonic Period
Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC)
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
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
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
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
From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Second Edition
Price: $63.00
ISBN: 9781442609303
Pub Date: July 2015
Roman Social Imaginaries
Language and Thought in the Context of Empire
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
Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World
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
Foundations of the Modern Cultural Sciences
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
Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History
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
A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy
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
From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Price: $53.00
ISBN: 9781442607569
Pub Date: December 2013
Prologues to Ancient and Medieval History
A Reader
Price: $47.95
ISBN: 9781442605039
Pub Date: October 2013
The Shaping of Western Civilization
From Antiquity to the Present
Price: $48.95
ISBN: 9781442601901
Pub Date: September 2013
Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World
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
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
Historical Essays
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781442644205
Pub Date: April 2012