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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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While royal dynasts battled for dominion over Alexander the Great's disintegrating empire, an age of cultural globalization flourished, and people and ideas travelled freely over great areas, from the Rhone to the Indus, and Egypt to Tajikistan. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Thonemann explores this extraordinary era--from the magnificent library of Alexandria to the city of Priene, which rotated honorary statues depending on whose rule they...
Author
Publisher
Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
During the course of a day we meet 24 Athenians from all strata of society-from the slave to the politician, the fishmonger to the philosopher, the soldier to the vase painter-and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters-all from different walks of life-every chapter, with each chapter forming an hour in a day in the life of the ancient city. We also get to spy...
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In New Rome, Paul Stephenson looks beyond traditional texts and well-known artifacts to offer a novel, scientifically-minded interpretation of antiquity's end. It turns out that the descent of Rome is inscribed not only in parchments but also in ice cores and DNA. From these and other sources, we learn that pollution and pandemics influenced the fate of Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire. During its final five centuries, the empire in the...
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The J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Egypt, the most ancient of the Mediterranean civilizations, inspired neighboring cultures with its art, religion, and learning. Already by around 3000 BC, cultural and artistic exchanges between Egypt and Crete were taking place, and contacts expanded greatly over the centuries with the arrival of Greek merchants, artists, and soldiers in Egypt. The complex interconnections between Egypt and the Classical World over the course of nearly 2,500 years-from...
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