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Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome
The relationships between Roman emperors and their objects of desire, male and female, are well attested. The salacious nature of this evidence means...
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Plague and the Athenian Imagination
The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of...
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The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville
In his Etymologiae, St Isidore of Seville put together a systematic survey of the world in the form of a vast thesaurus of Latin vocabulary, which...
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Herophilus
Herophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B.C., and seems to have been the first Western scientist...
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Herodotus: Histories Book VIII
The Battle of Salamis was the first great (and unexpected) victory of the Greeks over the Persian forces under Xerxes, whose defeat had important...
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Tacitus: Histories Book II
The Histories is the first historical work by Rome’s most accomplished and challenging historian, Tacitus. It narrates the brutal civil wars which...
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Stone Vessels and Values in the Bronze Age Mediterranean
The societies that developed in the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age produced the most prolific and diverse range of stone vessel...
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The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great
This book is a comprehensive study of political thought at the court of King Alfred the Great (871–99). It explains the extraordinary burst of...
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Imperial Ideology and Political Thought in Byzantium, 1204–1330
This is the first systematic study of Byzantine imperial ideology, court rhetoric and political thought after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in...
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A History of Ancient Greek
This book provides the most comprehensive account of the history of the Greek language from its beginnings to late antiquity. In this revised and...
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Bildning, utbildning, journalistik
När Utbildningsradion bildades och expanderade byggde verksamheten på såväl folkbildnings- och utbildningstraditioner som ett journalistiskt arv....
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Child of a Turbulent Century
Victor Erlich was born in 1914, at the threshold of what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova called "the real twentieth century," in...
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The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
In this cultural history of Americans’ engagement with Islam in the colonial and antebellum period, Timothy Marr analyzes the historical roots of...
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From Augustus to Nero
This reader contains selections from Tacitus, Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus
Herodotus’ Histories is the first major surviving prose work from antiquity. Its range of interests is immense, covering the whole of the known...
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Caesar’s Legacy
In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar\'s...
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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly...
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The Idea of a Free Press
With the introduction of the printing press in England in 1476, a struggle over its control--and its potential for interrupting power--was joined....
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The Military and the Press
Because news is a weapon of war--affecting public opinion, troop morale, even strategy--for more than a century America's wartime officials have...
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The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace
State workers in China have until recently enjoyed the iron rice bowl of comprehensive cradle-to-grave benefits and lifetime employment. This central...
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Anglo-Saxon Medicine
This is the first book to make a comprehensive study of Old English medical texts. Professor Cameron compares Anglo-Saxon medical practice with that...
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Deference and Defiance in Monterrey
The first comprehensive history of labour relations and the working class in twentieth-century Monterrey, Deference and Defiance explores how both...
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Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700–1830
In this interdisciplinary volume, an international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere between 1700...
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