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• Author(s): Serge Sauneron | David Lorton | Jean-Pierre Corteggiani • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe gods were everywhere in Ancient Egypt. Represented by statues, ba...

• Author(s): Richard H. Armstrong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History"If psychoanalysis is the return of repressed antiquity, distorted to be sure by modern desire, yet still bearin...

• Author(s): Dimitri Meeks | Christine Favard-Meeks | Geoffrey M. Goshgarian • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThis is the first English translation of a highly appealing v...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologyAkhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was king of Egypt during the Eighteenth Dyna...

• Author(s): Timothy Freke • Publisher: Tarcher • Publisher Imprint: Tarcher • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThe first easily accessible translation of the esoteric writings that inspired some of the world's greatest artis...

• Author(s): Erik Hornung | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptFrom our vantage point ancient Egyptian civilization, with its strictly hierarchic organization, ...

• Author(s): Donald Kagan • Publisher: Cornell UP • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe first volume of Donald Kagan's acclaimed four-volume history of the Peloponnesian ...

• Author(s): Sophocles • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalFrom the Back CoverThree Theban Plays entitled Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus.

• Author(s): John Dickson • Publisher: Zondervan • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryFrom the Back CoverUniquely among the world's religions, the central claims of Christianity concern not just timeless spiritual truths,...

• Author(s): David Ewert • Publisher: Zondervan • Publisher Imprint: Zondervan • BISAC: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThere are two strands woven together in the history of the Bible and its translations. One...

• Author(s): Frederick S. Paxton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - Greece

• Author(s): Petronius • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ClassicsThe Satyricon is the most celebrated prose work to have survived from the ancient world. It can be described as the first ...

• Author(s): Daniel Heller-Roazen • Publisher: Zone Books • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: CriticismThis book presents the archaeology of a single sense: the sense of being sentient. Aristotle was perhaps the first to define this faculty ...

• Author(s): Lloyd P. Gerson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative ac...

• Author(s): Peter A. Clayton • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFirst published in 1988. Can you name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Did they even exist? The Pharos at Alexandria s...

• Author(s): John F. Moffitt • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) has long been recognized as one of the great innovators in the history...

• Author(s): Aristotle • Publisher: Signet Classics • Publisher Imprint: Signet Classics • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalMore than two thousand years ago, Aristotle established unique standards of philosophic inquiry, obse...

• Author(s): Sophocles | E. F. Watling • Publisher: Hassell Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hassell Street Press • BISAC: Ancient & ClassicalThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge ...

• Author(s): Janet M. Atwill • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of trad...

• Author(s): Saul S. Friedman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Middle East - General As the birthplace of three principal religions, the Middle East is holy to 15 million Jews, 2 billion C...

• Author(s): Harald Haarmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General Traditional scholarship on how ancient civilizations emerged is outmoded and new insights call for revision....

• Author(s): Jack L. Schwartzwald • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General This book offers a concise survey of Western Civilization from the Stone Age through the fall of the la...

• Author(s): David Matz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - General Chariot races. Gladiatorial combat. Fishing. Hunting. Swimming. The ancient Romans enjoyed these sports--sometim...

• Author(s): Glenn S. Holland • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: HistoryGods in the Desert explores the fascinating religious cultures of the ancient Near East. From ...

• Author(s): Richard E. Lind • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient and Classical For early civilizations, consciousness and the sense of self were experienced as located in the center o...

• Author(s): Susan Woodford • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalThe legendary characters of the Trojan War, Susan Woodford reminds us, captured the imaginat...

• Author(s): Mario Liverani | Zainab Bahrani | Marc Van de Mieroop • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyThe essays included in this volume analyze important historical texts fr...

• Author(s): Leon E. Clark • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: GeneralAfrica, dark only because of our ignorance of it, comes alive through the eyes and voices of its ...

• Author(s): Idries Shah • Publisher: Isf Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Isf Publishing • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyThe appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. His stories are read by children, by scien...

• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General Researchers in American anthropology and archaeology from the late seventeenth century to the presen...

• Author(s): Colin McEvedy • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps (see also Travel - Maps & Road AtThe Penguin Atlas of Ancient History illustrates in a chronological series of ma...

• Author(s): Carol Berg • Publisher: Wordfire Press • Publisher Imprint: Wordfire Press • BISAC: Fantasy - EpicThe final installment of the award-winning Bridge of D'Arnath epic fantasy series by Carol Berg Fear of the Lords' final curse is only ...

• Author(s): Jane M. Day • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalIn one volume, this book brings together a new English translation of Plato's Meno, a selection of i...