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Architecture, Mysticism And Myth by W.R. Lethaby "This delightful book describes the symbolism of real-world architecture, as well as architecture described in fiction, myth and folklore. Lethaby be……続きを見る

The first book to capture a complete picture of the most important of Greek gods in one reliable volume for almost seventy years, this masterly and comprehensive study brings a new-millennium examin……続きを見る

First published in 2005. This work, while aimed at a general audience, is by no means a dreary introductory textbook. Blackman perceptively answers the reader's most pressing questions about life in……続きを見る

Hippolytus By Euripides In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hipp……続きを見る

Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has ……続きを見る

"Horace", or "Quintus Horatius Flaccus", was the leading romantic lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Qunitillian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth read……続きを見る

Humanism built Western civilisation as we know it today. Its achievements include the liberation of the individual, democracy, universal rights, and widespread prosperity and comfort. Its ambassador……続きを見る

Gerald Hawting's book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab and Islamic history. Now it is once more made available, with the addition of a ne……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Le Manuel d'Épictète est un ouvrage compilé par Arrien. Sans doute publié pour la première fois autour de l'an 125, il s'agit d'un li……続きを見る

A collection of essays representing the cutting edge of critical thinking in Greek and Roman literature in America today. 続きを見る

Greek tragedy is widely read and performed, but outside the commentary tradition detailed study of the poetic style and language of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides has been relatively neglected. ……続きを見る

Religion in Late Roman Britain explores the changes in religion over the fourth century; the historical background for these changes and the forces which contributed to them. Dorothy Watts examines ……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Extrait : Je n’ignorais pas, Brutus, en confiant à la langue latine des sujets déjà traités en grec par des philosophes d’un grand gé……続きを見る

Two hundred years ago, India was seen as a place with little history and less culture.Today it is revered for a notable prehistory, a magnificent classical age and a cultural tradition unique in bot……続きを見る

First published in 2005. This concise, erudite text will be of interest to any enthusiast of ancient Egypt or the mechanical arts. Among the topics included are the Egyptian knowledge of mechanics, ……続きを見る

This remarkable and original introduction to Greek civilization starts with a tour of Greece, and uses real sights which you can visit today as a starting point for discussions of all aspects of Gre……続きを見る

Who's Who in Classical Mythology is the most complete and detailed reference book of its kind. It offers scholarly, yet accessible accounts of those mythological tales surrounding such gods as Apoll……続きを見る

For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first ……続きを見る

Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time i……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Extrait : Trois qualités sont nécessaires à la narration, la brièveté, la clarté, la vraisemblance. Puisque nous savons que ces condi……続きを見る

First published in 1988. Can you name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World? Did they even exist? The Pharos at Alexandria survived into the Middle Ages, but the Hanging Gardens of Babylon exist on……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Jugurtha est le neveu puis le fils adoptif de Micipsa. À sa mort, en 118 av. J.-C., Micipsa souhaite que le royaume soit séparé entr……続きを見る

Sophocles and the Politics of Tragedy is an inquiry into a fundamental political problem made visible through the tragic poetry of Sophocles. In part I Badger offers a detailed exegesis of three pla……続きを見る

Written by renowned Aristotle scholar Sir David Ross, this study has long been established as one of the foremost surveys of Aristotle's life, work and philosophy. With John L. Ackrill's introductio……続きを見る

A comprehensive study – recently updated for the eBook edition – which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD. After being beset by invasion, civil war and internal……続きを見る

The theorem of Pythagoras, Euclid's "Elements", Archimedes' method to find the volume of a sphere: all parts of the invaluable legacy of ancient mathematics. But ancient mathematics was also about c……続きを見る

This Bybliotech version of Thucydides "History of the Peloponnesian War" with unique illustrations has been compiled and optimised for e-readers. It includes an active table of contents for ease of ……続きを見る

Myth into Art is a comparative study of mythological narrative in Greek poetry and the visual arts. Thirty of the major myths are surveyed, focusing on Homer, lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. On the ……続きを見る

In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization – a central aspec……続きを見る

Through the close study of texts, Roman Imperial Identities in the Early Christian Era examines the overlapping emphases and themes of two cosmopolitan and multiethnic cultural identities emerging i……続きを見る