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The Ancient Languages of Asia Minor
By: Woodard, Roger D. (ed.)
Published by: Cambridge University Press
A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages.
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Price: $32.00
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Ancient Laws and Modern Problems
By: Sassoon, John
Published by: Intellect
John Sassoon’s study of the written laws of four thousand years ago puts paid to the belief that the most ancient laws were merely arbitrary and tyrannical. On the contrary, the earliest legal systems honestly tried to get to the truth, do justice to individuals, and preserve civil order. They used the death penalty surprisingly seldom, and then more because society had been threatened than an individual killed. Some of the surviving law codes are originals, others near-contemporary copies. Together they preserve a partial but vivid picture of life in the early cites. This occupies more than half the book. Comparison of ancient with modern principles occupies the remainder and is bound to be controversial; but it is important as well as fascinating. The first act of writing laws diminished the discretion of the judges and foretold a limit on individual justice. Some political principles such as uniformity of treatment or individual freedom have, when carried to extremes, produced crises in modern legal systems world wide.
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Ancient Letters and the New Testament
By: Klauck, Hans-Josef
Published by: Baylor University Press
This volume places the New Testament letters squarely in the middle of all the important letter corpora of antiquity. Chapters cover the basic letter formula, papyrus and postal delivery, non-literary and diplomatic correspondence, Greek and Latin literary letters, epistolary theory, letters in early Judaism, and all the letters of the New Testament. Part I of each chapter surveys each corpus, followed by detailed exegetical examples in Part II. Comprehensive bibliographies and 54 exercises with answers suit this guide to student and scholar alike.
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Price: $39.95
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Ancient Literacies
By: Johnson, William A; Parker, Holt N
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. List of Contributors. 1. Introduction. PART I Situating Literacies. 2. Writing, Reading, Public and Private "Literacies": Functional Literacy and Democratic Literacy in Greece. 3. Literacy or Literacies in Ancient Rome?. 4. Reading, Hearing, and Looking at Ephesos. 5. The Anecdote: Exploring the Boundaries between Oral and Literate Performance in the Second Sophistic. 6. Situating Literacy at Rome. PART II Books and Texts. 7. The Corrupted Boy and the Crowned Poet or the Material Reality and the Symbolic Status of the Literary Book at Rome. 8. The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets. 9. Books and Reading Latin Poetry. PART III Institutions and Communities. 10. Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire. 11. Bookshops in the Literary Culture of Rome. 12. Literary Literacy in Roman Pompeii: the Case of Virgil's Aeneid. 13. Constructing Elite Reading Communities in the High Empire. PART IV Bibliographical Essay. 14. Literacy Studies in Classics: The Last Twenty Years. PART V Epilogue. 15. Why Literacy Matters, Then and Now (May 30, 2006). Index locorum. General Index
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Price: $74.00
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Ancient Mathematics
By: Cuomo, Serafina
Published by: Routledge
The discoveries and insights of ancient mathematics continue to amaze and fascinate the modern reader. This volume offers the first accessible survey of the discipline in all its variety and diversity of practices.
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Price: $41.95
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The Ancient Maya
By: McKillop, Heather
Published by: ABC-Clio
This is an introduction to the Mayan civilization, including new interpretations and ongoing controversies. The book features examples of artifacts such as the murals of Bonampak and the Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan.
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Price: $105.00
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Ancient Medicine
By: Nutton, Vivian
Published by: Routledge
The first large-scale history of medicine in Antiquity to appear in a single volume for almost 100 years.
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Price: $135.00
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Ancient Mesopotamia
By: McIntosh, Jane R.
Published by: ABC-CLIO
A general introduction to Mesopotamia that covers all four of the area's major ancient civilizations - Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia.
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Price: $95.00
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Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization
By: Algaze, Guillermo
Published by: The University of Chicago Press
The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the “cradle of civilization” owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium BC. In Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization, Guillermo Algaze draws on the work of modern economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium impacted the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia. He argues that these natural conditions granted southern polities significant competitive advantages over their landlocked rivals elsewhere in Southwest Asia, most importantly the ability to easily transport commodities. In due course, this resulted in increased trade and economic activity and higher population densities in the south than were possible elsewhere. As southern polities grew in scale and complexity throughout the fourth millennium, revolutionary new forms of labor organization and record keeping were created, and it is these socially created innovations, Algaze argues, that ultimately account for why fully developed city-states emerged earlier in southern Mesopotamia than elsewhere in Southwest Asia or the world.
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The Ancient Messenians
By: Luraghi, Nino
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Traces the history of Messenian ethnicity from the archaic period to the Roman Empire.
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Price: $96.00
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