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The first book to approach the ancient Greek economy along the lines of the "new fiscal history", new in paperback.

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A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world.

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From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civilisation forward.

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They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancient Greeks And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much This title offers a revelatory way of viewing this geographically scattered people, and more.

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From the award-winning author of The Discovery of France and Parisians.

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A sparkling introduction to the Ancient World that brings its peoples and cultures vividly to life.

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This comprehensive, readable survey of the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it ranges from the Aegean world of the second millenium BC to Augustine's City of God . More than that, it considers not only how the ancient world is remembered today but also how the Greeks and Romans perceived and felt the influence of their own past.

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Euclids Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics often hailed as the worlds first textbook shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

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Euclids Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics often hailed as the worlds first textbook shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths.

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A portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome.

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A remarkable insight into the real story of the seven Queen Cleopatras of Ancient Egypt

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Robert Knapp finds a new answer to the old question: why did Christianity take root and spread in the ancient Roman world

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Learn of a world of accomplishment, peace and prosperity that already existed two thousand years before Ancient Greek thinkers tried to recreate the true Golden Age of Man

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Focusing on the Townley Discobolus, this illustrated introduction explores the history and significance of the statue in both classical and modern times in light of ancient discus throwing, Myrons other works, and the artistic, intellectual and philosophical context of the Greek world.

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An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon

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An authoritative and beautifully illustrated study of the brilliant, warlike Bronze Age and Iron Age culture of north and central Italy, which at first dominated, and was later conquered by, Rome.

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What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees shifts our focus from the centres of Greece and Rome to the lively, long-ignored societies on the borders.

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Like their modern counterparts, the 'first ladies' of Rome were moulded to meet the political requirements of their emperors, be they fathers, husbands, brothers or lovers.

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Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid -the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837 -was forged

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In AD 66 a local disturbance in Caesarea caused by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue exploded into a pan-Jewish revolt against their Roman overlords. Gaining momentum, the rebels successfully occupied Jerusalem and drove off an attack by the Roman legate of Syria, Cestus Gallius, who was defeated at the battle of Beth Horon.

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During twelve years of continuous campaigns, Alexander conquered an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the edge of modern India.

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They had many legendary names - the Divine Pelasgians of Greece, the Luwians of Troy and western Anatolia, the Rephaim and Anakim of the Bible, and the Hyksos rulers of Avaris who suppressed Egypt for generations.