12,933円 The Akhbār majmū‘a, or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of ‘Abd al-Rahmān III (912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No Arabic text dealing with the early h...

1,591円 Nearly a decade in the making, award-winning author Dianne Ebertt Beeaffs transcending new book, Spirit Stones, explores the enduring lessons of Europes prehistoric monoliths, stone circles and burial chambers. Beeaffs fastidious research, first-hand accounts and prevailing love of history captur...

399円 The Complete Ovid Anthology is a collection of all the works of Publius Ovidius Naso, the great Roman poet in English translation. Ovid has remained popular through the ages, to artists and fellow poets, as well as scholars and historians. Ovid was notably the favourite poet of William Shakespear...

777円 C.W. Ceram visualized archeology as a wonderful combination of high adventure, romance, history and scholarship, and this book, a chronicle of man's search for his past, reads like a dramatic narrative. We travel with Heinrich Schliemann as, defying the ridicule of the learned world, he actually ...

599円 2 works of Guglielmo Ferrero Italian historian, journalist and novelist (1871-1942) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Guglielmo Ferrero. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Characters and events of Roman History The Women...

9,119円 The first book to look at this particular subject, The Roman Book of Gardening brings together an extraordinarily varied selection of texts on Roman horticulture, celebrating herb and vegetable gardening in verse and prose spanning five centuries. In vivid new translations by John Henderson, Virg...

11,109円 Lawrence Keppie's book offers the non-specialist a comprehensive and enjoyable guide to undestanding the texts of Roman inscriptions, as well as explaining the numerous different contexts in which they were produced. Every area of Roman life is covered, including: * the emperor * temples and alta...

8,425円 This revised and expanded edition of the widely-praised A History of Byzantium covers the time of Constantine the Great in AD 306 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Expands treatment of the middle and later Byzantine periods, incorporating new archaeological evidence Includes additional maps...

9,616円 This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period. From 320 BC to AD 400, Karsten Dahmen examines not only Alexander’s own coinage and the posth...

12,933円 There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian’s Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century int...

4,807円 Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent...

10,446円 Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity presents a collection in translation of miracle stories from the ancient world. The material is divided up into four main categories including healing, exorcism, nature and raising the dead. Wendy Cotter, in an introduction and notes to the selections, contextual...