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Ancient Geography
The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome
E-bok, 2015
409 kr
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Before Columbus there was Eratosthenes: 'inventor' of the discipline of geography as it is known today. There was Alexander the Great: the man who sought to reach the very ends of the known world and whose empire spanned three continents. And there was Strabo: author of the Geographica, a 17-volume …
Diodoros of Sicily: Bibliotheke Historike
Books 21-40: From the Battle of Ipsos (301 BC) to the Catilinarian Conspiracy (62 BC)
Inbunden, 2025
1476 kr
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Diodoros' Bibliotheke Historike, written in the last half of the first century BC, is a major source for ancient history from earliest times to his own era. This is the first English translation of Books 21-40 (301-62 BC) in seventy years, and the first ever commentary on those portions of the …
A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo
Inbunden, 2018
3220 kr
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Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author's The Geography of Strabo, the first …
Through the Pillars of Herakles
Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic
Häftad, 2008
845 kr
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In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century, Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean.Roller chronicles a detailed account of the series of …
Cleopatra's Daughter
and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
Inbunden, 2018
720 kr
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The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome. This …
Cleopatra's Daughter
and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
E-bok, 2018
245 kr
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The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome. This …
Cleopatra's Daughter
and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
E-bok, 2018
245 kr
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The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome. This …
Empire of the Black Sea
The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World
Inbunden, 2020
390 kr
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What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties not …
Empire of the Black Sea
The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World
E-bok, 2020
151 kr
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What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties not …
Empire of the Black Sea
The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World
E-bok, 2020
151 kr
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What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties not …
Cleopatra's Daughter
and Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era
Häftad, 2021
406 kr
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The Roman emperor Augustus gave his name to the age he dominated, from the latter half of the first century BC until the second decade of the following century. Yet he shared the age with several royal women who ruled parts of the Mediterranean world, in a symbiotic relationship with Rome. This …
The Empire of the Black Sea
Häftad, 2023
458 kr
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What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the southern, eastern, and northern littoral, becoming one of the most important Hellenistic dynasties not …
Cleopatra
A Biography
E-bok, 2010
117 kr
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Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and …
Cleopatra
A Biography
E-bok, 2010
117 kr
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Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and …
Cleopatra
A Biography
Häftad, 2012
267 kr
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Few personalities from classical antiquity are more famous--yet more poorly understood--than Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt. In this major biography, Duane Roller reveals that Cleopatra was in fact a learned and visionary leader whose overarching goal was always the preservation of her dynasty and …
Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation
Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus
Inbunden, 2021
2882 kr
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This volume is a translation and commentary on the works of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage, from around 500 BC; the author of the Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes, from the last half of the second century BC; and Avienus, from the fourth century AD.The modern …
World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene
Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier
Inbunden, 2003
2581 kr
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Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC- AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the cliet kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife K'eopatra Selene, daughter of Marcus Anthonius and Kleopatra VII, he established a rich, multicultural environment at their …
Through the Pillars of Herakles
Greco-Roman Exploration of the Atlantic
Inbunden, 2005
2128 kr
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In this first study of the Greek and Roman exploration for over half a century, Duane W. Roller presents an important examination of the impact of the Greeks and Romans on the world through the Pillars of Herakles and beyond the Mediterranean.Roller chronicles a detailed account of the series of …
World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene
Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier
Häftad, 2015
950 kr
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Raised and educated in Rome, Juba II (48 BC- AD 23) was sent to uphold Roman interests in northwest Africa as ruler of the cliet kingdom of Mauretania. Together with his wife K'eopatra Selene, daughter of Marcus Anthonius and Kleopatra VII, he established a rich, multicultural environment at their …
Building Program of Herod the Great
Inbunden, 1998
742 kr
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Herod the Great, King of Judaea from 444 B.C., is known as one of the world's great villains. This notoriety has overshadowed his actual achievements, particularly his role as a client king of Rome during Augustus's reign as emperor. An essential aspect of Herod's responsibilities as king of Judaea …
Eratosthenes' Geography
Av Eratosthenes, Duane W. Roller
Inbunden, 2010
811 kr
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This is the first modern edition and first English translation of one of the earliest and most important works in the history of geography, the third-century Geographika of Eratosthenes. In this work, which for the first time described the geography of the entire inhabited world as it was then …
Ancient Geography
The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome
E-bok, 2015
409 kr
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The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been …
Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation
Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus
E-bok, 2021
757 kr
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This volume is a translation and commentary on the works of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage, from around 500 BC; the author of the Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes , from the last half of the second century BC; and Avienus, from the fourth century AD. The modern …
Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation
Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus
E-bok, 2021
757 kr
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This volume is a translation and commentary on the works of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage, from around 500 BC; the author of the Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes , from the last half of the second century BC; and Avienus, from the fourth century AD. The modern …
Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria
An Analysis
E-bok, 2023
838 kr
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This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide , whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography. Written near the middle of the second century ad, the …
Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria
An Analysis
E-bok, 2023
838 kr
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This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide , whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography. Written near the middle of the second century ad, the …
Three Ancient Geographical Treatises in Translation
Hanno, the King Nikomedes Periodos, and Avienus
Häftad, 2024
684 kr
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This volume is a translation and commentary on the works of three geographers from Greco-Roman antiquity: Hanno of Carthage, from around 500 BC; the author of the Periodos Dedicated to King Nikomedes, from the last half of the second century BC; and Avienus, from the fourth century AD.The modern …
Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria
An Analysis
Inbunden, 2023
2590 kr
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This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.Written near the middle of the second century ad, the …
Geographical Guide of Ptolemy of Alexandria
An Analysis
Häftad, 2025
728 kr
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This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.Written near the middle of the second century ad, the …
A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder
Inbunden, 2022
1837 kr
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This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the longest in Latin, and represents the geographical knowledge of that era, when the Roman Empire was the dominant force in the Mediterranean world. The work serves …
