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Series
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"For more than 2,000 years the art of Greece and Rome has lain at the heart of western civilization. This book recaptures the excitement of the artists who first created it. It traces the daring innovations of those who, defying traditional wisdom, explored new ideas; it describes the valiant struggles of sculptors and painters to portray - for the first time - both the complexities of the human form and the richness of human emotions. So much has...
Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear sense of individual lives. This book is the first to infuse the story of Britannia with a beating heart, the first to describe in detail who its inhabitants were and their place in our history. A lifelong...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
All of the clocks at the amusement park have roman numerals instead of numbers. Abby and Ben need to keep track of the time. Young readers will learn how the children figure out how to read roman numerals. Simple text and illustrations help explain which number each roman numeral is equal to, as well as other concepts including first, second, and third.
46) Okay, Cupid
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"As a cupid, Jude thinks they understand love a little bit more than the average human. It makes sense -- Jude's been studying love their whole teen life. And, yes, there have been some bumps in the road, and they're currently on probation for doing something that they absolutely, definitely shouldn't have done... but they're ready to prove they can make matches without ever getting involved. Only... Jude's next assignment isn't about setting up two...
47) Cymbeline
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Language
English
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Posthumus, has secretly married his childhood friend Imogen, daughter of King Cymbeline. Cymbeline, upon finding out, banishes Posthumus from the kingdom. Iachimo, a soldier in the Roman army, makes a bet with Posthumus that he can tempt Imogen to be unfaithful. He sneaks into her bedchamber and steels her bracelet. Then he tells Posthumus he has won the bet, offering the bracelet as proof. Posthumus orders his faithful servant Pisanio to murder Imogen....
48) Emperor
Author
Series
Time's tapestry volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inscribed in Latin, The Prophecy has resided in the hands of a single family for generations, revealing secrets about the world that is to come, and guiding them to wealth and power ... It begins when a Celtic noble betrays his people at the behest of his mother's belief in The Prophecy and sides with the conquering Roman legions. For the next 400 years, Britannia thrives-as does the family that contributed to Rome's reign over the island with the...
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...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Aphrodite was said to have been born out of the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus-and thousands of years before that, as a ferocious warrior-goddess in the Middle East. She's been a carnal symbol to Sappho, a Humanist muse to Renaissance artists, and a raunchy but subversive Shakespeare heroine. Proving...
Author
Publisher
Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever wondered how people counted to 100 before modern numbers were invented? A basic explanation of Roman numerals, examples of how they are used today, and step-by-step guides on how to use them are explored through diagrams, photos, and informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series"--
Publisher
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...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"An indispensable guide in the bestselling Save the Cat! story structure series that reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any young adult novel a success, from an accomplished novelist and the author of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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Description
The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate us today. From the Peloponnesian War through the creation of the Roman Empire and the emergence of Christianity, we are introduced to extraordinary heroes and horrific villains, great thinkers and blood-thirsty tyrants.
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the deal, things take a nasty turn.
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 26
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Get to know Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, in this twenty-sixth Goddess Girls adventure!--
60) Petals of blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Description
"The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this novel about disillusionment in independent Kenya. It is--on the surface--a suspenseful investigation of a triple murder. But as the intertwined stories of the four suspects unfold, a devastating picture emerges of a modern third-world nation whose frustrated people feel their leaders have failed them time after time"--Page 4 of cover.
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