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Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity

"Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automa…

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Urban Religion in Late Antiquity

Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with "lived religion" in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes…

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Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity

This bookexamines the links between experiencing immersion in antiquity and modernity.Immersive experiences are big business within today's creative economy.Forms range from immersive museum exhibitions, …

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Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity

The period from the Late Roman Republic to the end of antiquity was marked by a wide interest in divination, and more broadly by an intense belief in the possibility of establishing close and personal con…

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Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland

"This open-access book fills a huge gap in the study of classical reception in Irish literature by making accessible in translation selections from a wide variety of C10th-C15th texts. These texts ar…

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Emily Gowers
The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity

" The Small Stuff is quintessential Gowers. Written with characteristic verve and elegance, it challenges us to think again about what constitutes a subject worth pursuing."--William Fitzgerald,…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in Antiquity

Covering the period from 2500 BCE to the Byzantine Era, this volume in A Cultural History of Furniturefocuses on the social history of furniture found in houses, tombs, and temples as narrated through the…

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A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Insects in Antiquity covers the period from 1000 BCE to 500 CE. As different cultures expanded so did their interactions with insects, largely seen as vectors of disease and as agric…

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Christian Thrue Djurslev, Vinnie Nørskov
Popular receptions in Classical Antiquity

The present volume offers a fresh take on classical antiquity's enduring presence in popular culture. It is structured around three key themes -- historical receptions, comics, and contemporary society --…

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A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity

A thematic overview of education and its place in Western society and culture in ancient history.

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Kevin Blachford
World Order in Late Antiquity

In World Order in Late Antiquity Blachford examines the diverse suzerain order of late antiquity as 'barbarous' nomadic tribes challenged the hierarchical ambitions of two rival empires who both claimed a…

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Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

A conceptual and cultural history of 'horror' as effect, concept, experience and emotion in Graeco-Roman antiquity and beyond.

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A Cultural History of Chemistry in Antiquity

Explores the chemical arts in the long period from 3000 BCE to 600 CE, when chemical artisans, recipes and ideas were exchanged between Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. Also avai…

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Queens in Antiquity and the Present

This interdisciplinary volume explores the methodological and theoretical approaches to studying queens in the ancient Mediterranean world.

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A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity

Examines the uses and meanings of plants from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE, from the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere.

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A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity

The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. This volume explores some of the specific ways race was d…

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Guy G Stroumsa
Dynamics of Monotheism in Late Antiquity

The fundamental transformation of religion in late antiquity is usually perceived as the passage from Greco-Roman polytheism to Christian monotheism. The present work seeks to offer a more sophisticated a…

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George Rawlinson
The Antiquity of Man, Historically Considered

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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George Rawlinson
The Antiquity of Man, Historically Considered

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond

This open-access volume is the first to explore systematically and comprehensively the concept and category of 'horror' in antiquity. The contributors retrieve the ancient grammar of horror by paying equa…

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