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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): Shane Butler • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: Movements - HumanismA search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle t...

• 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): Joyce Tyldesley • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 was perhaps the world's most important archaeological find. The only near-intact royal...

• 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): 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): 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): Markus Egetmeyer | Almut Hintze • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Wörterbuch zu den Inschriften im kyprischen Syllabar" verfügbar.

• 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): Zainab Bahrani • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralRituals of war and images of violence in Mesopotamia ca. 3000-500 BCE examined as “magical technologies of warfare.”Ritu...

• 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): 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): Hartmut Erbse • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Untersuchungen zur Funktion der Götter im homerischen Epos" verfügbar.

• Author(s): John Romer • Publisher: St. Martin's Press • Publisher Imprint: St. Martin's Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe ancient world comes to life in the first volume in a two book series on the history of Egypt, spanning the first farmers t...

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

• 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): Werner Liebich | Wilhelm Nestle • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "NESTLE-LIEBICH: GRIECHLITERATUR 1 3AE SG 70" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Thomas Schneider • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptHow well do we really know ancient Egypt? The world of the Egyptians seems strangely familiar to us: exhibit...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Erik Hornung | John Baines • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptAn excellent historical overview of the gods... It is a recommended necessary reading for those st...

• Author(s): Peter A Clayton • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralSets each of the seven wonders in their historical context, bringing together materials from ancient sources and the results o...

• Author(s): T. N. Pollio • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewelry Ancient finger rings made of base metals and low-grade silver alloys are increasingly being unearthed and sold through a ...