History : Ancient

Bringing a much clearer picture of women in Roman Britain than any that already exists, Dorothy Watts examines archaeological evidence to give a unique assessment of women and their place in the Romanisation of Britain. more...

Price: $90.00

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets. more...

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Archaeology has unearthed the glories of ancient Jewish buildings throughout the Mediterranean. But what has remained shrouded is what these buildings meant. Building Jewish first surveys the architecture of small rural villages in the Galilee in the early Roman period before examining the development of synagogues as “Jewish associations.” Finally, Building Jewish explores Jerusalem’s flurry of building activity under Herod the Great in the first century BCE. Richardson’s careful work not only documents the culture that forms the background to any study of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity, but he also succeeds in demonstrating how architecture itself, like a text, conveys meaning and thus directly illuminates daily life and religious thought and practice in the ancient world. more...

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Caesar's Legion offers readers a grunt's-eye view of battle and heroics during the Classical Age. Follow the 'Famous Tenth' from its founding by Julius Caesar in 61 B.C. through his greatest military accomplishments: the conquest of Gaul, two invasions of Britain, and the civil war against Pompey the Great, then, after Caesar's death to the siege of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and the assault on Masada. more...

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It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. more...

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