Thracian Princess

Thracian Princess

Author: Bistra Johnson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0955687500

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Dreamy Veronica, Oxford University graduate, finds herself back in time and in true 'Alice in Wonderland' fashion, starts exploring her new surroundings. Following in her footsteps, we enter the uncharted territory of the ancient Thracians.


A Companion to Ancient Thrace

A Companion to Ancient Thrace

Author: Julia Valeva

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1119016185

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A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan periphery of the Classical world. • Features a rich and detailed overview of Thracian history from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity • Includes contributions from leading scholars in the archaeology, art history, and general history of Thrace • Balances consideration of material evidence relating to Ancient Thrace with more traditional literary sources • Integrates a study of Thrace within a broad context that includes the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe/Eurasia • Reflects the impact of new theoretical approaches to economy, ethnicity, and cross-cultural interaction and hybridity in Ancient Thrace


The Gentleman's Magazine

The Gentleman's Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1753

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13:

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Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."


Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire

Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire

Author: Matthew Bunson

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 1438110278

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Not much has happened in the Roman Empire since 1994 that required the first edition to be updated, but Bunson, a prolific reference and history author, has revised it, incorporated new findings and thinking, and changed the dating style to C.E. (Common Era) and B.C.E. (Before Common Era). For the 500 years from Julius Caesar and the Gallic Wars in 59-51 B.C.E. to the fall of the empire in the west in 476 C.E, he discusses personalities, terms, sites, and events. There is very little cross-referencing.


The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom

The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom

Author: Yulia Ustinova

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 9004295909

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This is the first systematic study of the cults of the Bosporan Kingdom, which existed in South Russia in the first centuries AD. The research is based on a variety of sources: archaeological evidence and inscriptions, largely unknown to the non-Russian readers, as well as historical and literary texts. The religion of the Bosporus is viewed in this monograph as a blend of Greek and indigenous Iranian traditions. Its first part is dedicated to the cult of Celestial Aphrodite. The second part examines the controversial cult of the Most High God and its alledged Jewish affinities. The book, illustrated with thirty figures, is an important contribution to the understanding of the religious life in Greek colonies, and the history of Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity.


The Greek Myths

The Greek Myths

Author: Robert Graves

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 110158050X

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Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience And, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons.” His work covers, in nearly two hundred sections, the creation myths; the legends of the births and lives of the great Olympians; the Theseus, Oedipus, and Heracles cycles; the Argonaut voyage; the tale of Troy, and much more. All the scattered elements of each myth have been assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning, Full references to the classical sources, and copious indexes, make the book as valuable to the scholar as to the general reader; and a full commentary on each myth explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today’s archaeological and anthropological knowledge.


Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception

Xenophon’s ›Anabasis‹ and its Reception

Author: Tim Rood

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-10-24

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 3110793431

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This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon’s Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book 1 through Book 7), including the opening, Cyrus’ characterisation, the meeting of Socrates and Xenophon, Xenophon’s leadership, the marches through Armenia and along the Black Sea coast and the service under Seuthes in Thrace. The second section offers an in-depth exploration of hitherto overlooked recurrent themes. Based on new approaches and scholarly trends, it focuses on topics such as the concept of friendship, the speeches of characters other than Xenophon, the suffering of the human body, the role of rumour and misrepresentation, and the depiction of emotions. The third section offers a more thorough investigation of the manifold reception of this work (in Antiquity, Byzantium, Renaissance, modern period, in cinema studies and illustrations). Finally, in acknowledgement of the Anabasis’ long history as a pedagogical text, the volume contains an envoi on the importance and benefits of teaching Xenophon and the Anabasis, more specifically.


Divide et Impera

Divide et Impera

Author: Owen Butters

Publisher: Booktango

Published: 2014-09-15

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 1468949780

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This book is the first 9 chapters of a book about the life of Alexander the Great. It is Fictional.