Emblems of Antiquity – serie
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Medusa's Gaze
The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese
Inbunden, 2013
602 kr
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The banded agate bowl known as the Tazza Farnese is one of the most famous and admired objects from classical antiquity. That it has survived at all is a miracle. In this, the first book-length account of the "life" of this renowned masterpiece, art historian Marina Belozerskaya takes readers on a …
The Throne of Adulis
Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
Inbunden, 2013
652 kr
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Just prior to the rise of Islam, in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. The Jewish kingdom, composed of ethnic Arabs who had converted to Judaism more than a century before, had launched a bloody pogrom against Christians …
After Thermopylae
The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars
Inbunden, 2013
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357 kr
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The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the …
