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PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-139595-1
EAN 9780141395951
Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind.Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has freshly translated a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-674-73123-3
EAN 9780674731233
The Pyramids on the Giza Plateau represent perhaps the most famous archaeological site in the world, capturing on tomb walls frozen moments from almost every aspect of life in ancient Egypt. This book, by one of the foremost experts on the history of Giza, explores new approaches to 'cataloging' the site, highlighting efforts at the ...
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Seth L. Sanders offers a history of first-millennium scribes through their heavenly journeys and heroes, treating the visions of ancient Mesopotamian and Judean literature as pragmatic things made by people. He presents each scribal culture as an individual institution via detailed evidence for how visionary figures were used over time. The author also provides the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17314-6
EAN 9780691173146
Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-17380-1
EAN 9780691173801
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-370-1
EAN 9781846683701
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successive emperors rose ...
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PVP: 35,20 €
ISBN 978-0-297-86428-8
EAN 9780297864288
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their peace meant Roman victory ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4738-3374-6
EAN 9781473833746
The Han Empire equalled Rome in the scale of its territories and subject populations. With superior steel manufacturing techniques and crossbow weaponry, the Han created a system of Central Asian transport connections known as the Silk Routes. These conveyed unique Chinese goods as far as Persia and the Roman frontier.Ancient evidence suggests that one-tenth of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-4447-8516-6
EAN 9781444785166
The story of the world's greatest civilisation spans more than 4000 years of history that has shaped the world. It is full of spectacular sites and epic stories, an evolving society rich in heroes and villains, inventors and intellectuals, artisans and pioneers. Now Professor Joann Fletcher pulls together the complete Story of Egypt - charting ...
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ISBN 978-1-4742-9599-4
EAN 9781474295994
Despite his critical role in the western Roman Empire during the early fifth century AD, Bonifatius remains a neglected figure in the history of the late Empire. The Last of the Romans presents a new political and military biography of Bonifatius, analysing his rise through the higher echelons of imperial power and examining themes such ...
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At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion,but continuing research indicates significant variations in Roman armour and equipment not only between different legions and the provincially-raised ...
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ISBN 978-0-349-12383-7
EAN 9780349123837
Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood.So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus,' their new master called himself: ...
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Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens, and the Athenians reveled in their victory over a powerful Amazon army. In historical times, Cyrus of Persia, Alexander the Great, and the Roman general Pompey ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84668-381-7
EAN 9781846683817
Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strike a chord ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9350-8
EAN 9780718193508
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap between ideals and reality.
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'Every time gardens welcomed us, we said to them,Aleppo is our aim and you are merely the route.' Al-Mutanabbi Aleppo lies in ruins. Its streets are plunged in darkness, most of its population has fled. But this was once a vibrant world city, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived and traded together in peace.Few places ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78453-487-5
EAN 9781784534875
Troy: one of the most captivating and mysterious stories of antiquity...But was Troy an actual place or just a legend of Homer's epic? It took the most unlikely of people, Heinrich Schliemann - a grocer's-apprentice turned self-made archaeologist, courageous and driven - to solve one of the greatest puzzles in history. His extraordinary discovery of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 61,05 €
ISBN 978-0-691-11713-3
EAN 9780691117133
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PVP: 108,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7156-3127-0
EAN 9780715631270
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 338 páginas
PVP: 40,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78159-120-8
EAN 9781781591208
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