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• Author(s): Shane Butler | Mark Bradley • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis set includes all six titles in The Senses in Antiquity series. Buying the set provides a significant saving as opposed t...

• Author(s): P. Masson-Ousel | P. Stern | H. Willman-Grabowska • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaOriginally published between 1920-70, The History of Civilization was a landmark in early t...

• Author(s): Lynn Meskell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalEgypt looms large in the Western imagination. Whether it is our attraction to pharaonic art, the pyramids or p...

• Author(s): D. D. Kosambi • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceFirst published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real ...

• Author(s): John G. Landels • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceMusic in Ancient Greece and Rome provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of music from Homeric times to the Roman emperor Had...

• Author(s): Paul Louis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Biblical Studies - GeneralOriginally published in 1927 this volume includes an economic history of Rome from the origins to the Empire, with four illustrations...

• Author(s): Richard Bradley | Howard Williams • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Museum Administration and MuseologyJust as modern societies interpret ancient monuments and incorporate them in their political and cult...

• Author(s): A. Moret • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThis work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up to date findings in all branches of the social science...

• Author(s): Sue Blundell | Margaret Williamson | Margaret Williamson**nfa*** • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThe papers collected in this volume present a systematic and comprehensive survey of wome...

• Author(s): Andrew Michael Chugg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalThis comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthou...

• Author(s): Donald G. Kyle • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Death & DyingRome killed many thousands of people & animals in elaborate public spectacles. This provocative book asks not only who the victims wer...

• Author(s): Rex Koontz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ArchaeologyFrom the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest, Ancient Mesoamericans cre...

• Author(s): Andrew N. Sherwood | Milorad Nikolic | John W. Humphrey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralIn this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passage...

• Author(s): Beverley Southgate • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - GeneralThis is a highly accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject and discusses the tr...

• Author(s): Kelly Olson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeIn ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of th...

• Author(s): Estate The Arthur Waley | Arthur Waley • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EasternFirst published in 1939. This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appea...

• Author(s): Emma Griffiths • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologyBoth visual and literary, this indispensable guide to the fascinating mythical figure of Medea gives access to the latest crit...

• Author(s): D. W. Harding • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - GeneralMore wide ranging, both geographically and chronologically, than any previous study, this well-illustrated book offers a new definition of ...

• Author(s): E. A. Wallis Budge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptSir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum's department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement ...

• Author(s): Richard A. Tomlinson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceArgos and the Argolid, first published in 1972, presents a study of the history and achievements of the Argives, who have hitherto be...

• Author(s): E. A. Wallis Budge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptContaining a comprehensive dictionary of hieroglyphs to all the texts of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead, and also to most ...

• Author(s): John F. Devlin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralFirst Published in 1983, Syria: Modern State in an Ancient Land presents a concise profile of Syria in which the author depicts the fa...

• Author(s): Eleanor Betts • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThe Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and...

• Author(s): Graham Anderson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyThis original and compelling study argues against the traditional identification of Arthur as a king in Celtic Britain. Instead, G...

• Author(s): Jon R. Stone • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LatinThis revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and abbreviations. Organized...

• Author(s): Emma Stafford • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThere is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, co...

• Author(s): H. Parke • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Antiquities & ArchaeologySibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity, first published in 1988, is an authoritative account of a subject rarely treat...

• Author(s): Peter Edwell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centurie...

• Author(s): Lyn Hatherly Wilson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalFirst published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Author(s): T. A. Dorey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeFirst published in 1965, Cicero contains a number of assessments of Cicero’s political career, his character, his oratory, philosophy and poems,...

• Author(s): E. a. Wallis Budge • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeE. A. Wallis translated and transcribed this work. The Book of the Dead is the name given by the ancient Egyptian funeral text 'The Book ...

• Author(s): William H. Stiebing Jr • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAncient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the a...

• Author(s): Thomas Grunewald | John Drinkwater • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThis wide-ranging and informative survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understa...

• Author(s): Augustine Casiday • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralPresenting many texts available for the very first time, this new volume in the successful Early Church Fathers series s...

• Author(s): The Arthur Waley Estate | Arthur Waley • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ConfucianismFirst published in 1938. Previous translations of the Analects of Confucius are based upon a medieval interpretation wh...

• Author(s): Brian M. Fagan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralArchaeology: The Basics, rewritten for this fourth edition, is a short, engaging book that takes the re...