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Riot in Alexandria : Tradition and Group Dynamics in Late Antique Pagan and Christian Communities

This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ran...

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Housing the Stranger in the Mediterranean World: Lodging, Trade, and Travel in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

The Greek pandocheion, Arabic funduq, and Latin fundicum (fondaco) were ubiquitous in the Mediterran...

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The Two Eyes of the Earth : Art and Ritual of Kingship Between Rome and Sasanian Iran

This pioneering study examines a pivotal period in the history of Europe and the Near East. Spanning...

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Summoned to the Roman Courts : Famous Trials from Antiquity

Summoned to the Roman Courts is the first work by Detlef Liebs, an internationally recognized expert...

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Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform a...

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Ancient Libraries

The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive...

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Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly through those texts which happen to survive. By co...

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Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece

Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless will pay for the deeds later: eit...

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The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought

The symposion was a key cultural phenomenon in ancient Greece. This book investigates its place in a...

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Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens

Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participati...

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Scylla: Myth, Metaphor, Paradox

What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the do...

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Ancient Greek Music

This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practic...

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The Tyranny of Greece over Germany: A Study of the Influence Exercised by Greek Art and Poetry over the Great German Writers of the 18th ,19th and 20th centuries

Originally published in 1935, this book provides a study of the powerful influence exercised by Anci...

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A Peoples History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

A new edition of the bestselling comprehensive radical history of the planet.In this monumental book...

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The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?Tracing the long arc of human history fr...

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