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| Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
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Susan Walker & Peter Higgs, eds.
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| Publisher: Princeton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780691088358. Daedalus Item Code: 21452 |
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| Fabled for her sexual allure and cunning intelligence, Cleopatra VII of Egypt has fascinated generations of admirers and detractors since her tumultuous life ended in suicide in 30 BC. This lavishly ... (Read More)
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| Discourses on Livy
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Niccolo Machiavelli.
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| Publisher: Dover. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780486461892. Daedalus Item Code: 04217 |
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| This influential study contrasts the practices of ancient Rome with those of the author's 16th-century contemporaries. While Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince offers advice on ruling a kingdom, ... (Read More)
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| Egypt: 4000 Years of Art
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Jaromir Malek.
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| Publisher: Phaidon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780714842004. Daedalus Item Code: 12401 |
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| This thick, beautifully photographed book presents a chronological selection of the finest works of ancient Egyptian art and architecture produced from about 4000 BC, when the first sophisticated ... (Read More)
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| Egypt and the Ancient Near East
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Peter F. Dorman, intro.
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| Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780300098372. Daedalus Item Code: 21928 |
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| From Neo-Assyrian winged lions of the 9th century BC to the stunning silver head of a 4th-century AD Sasanian king, this beautifully photographed book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the ... (Read More)
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| Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum
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Edna R. Russman et al.
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| Publisher: California. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780520230866. Daedalus Item Code: 30490 |
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| An ideal introduction to the enormous and varied legacy of ancient Egypt, this oversized book presents more than 140 objects in detailed descriptions and color photographs, many with multiple views. ... (Read More)
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| Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy
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Kostas Vlassopoulos.
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| Publisher: Oxford. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780195380897. Daedalus Item Code: 13728 |
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| Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization that "gave" the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. It is ... (Read More)
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| The Queens of Ancient Egypt
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Rosanna Pirelli. Dorothea Arnold, intro.
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| Publisher: White Star Publishers. Format: slipcased.
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| ISBN: 9788854403345. Daedalus Item Code: 12910 |
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| Presented in an oversized, slipcased edition with color photos (up to 20 x 14 inches) of tombs, art, jewelry, and artifacts, this is a fascinating exploration of the role and status of the female ... (Read More)
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| Ramses II: An Illustrated Biography
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Christiane Desroches Noblecourt.
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| Publisher: Flammarion. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9782080300430. Daedalus Item Code: 13476 |
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| More than three thousand years ago, the pharaoh Ramses II was revered in Egypt as the incarnation of a god, during an extraordinary 67-year reign that produced many monuments and an enduring legacy ... (Read More)
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| Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily
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A.D. Trendall.
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| Publisher: Thames & Hudson. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780500202258. Daedalus Item Code: 12122 |
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| The finely made vases produced by the Greek colonists in South Italy and Sicily in the later 5th and 4th centuries BC, typically decorated with red figures against a black background, were at first ... (Read More)
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| Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs: A Brief History of Ancient Egypt
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Barbara Mertz.
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| Publisher: Robinson. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781849012805. Daedalus Item Code: 31044 |
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| Elizabeth Peters, author of the Amelia Peabody series of archaeological mysteries, is in fact the internationally renowned Egyptologist Barbara Mertz. In this book, originally published in the 1960s ... (Read More)
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| Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
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Donald Kagan.
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| Publisher: Viking. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780670021291. Daedalus Item Code: 21766 |
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| "Yale professor of classics [Donald] Kagan thoroughly examines Thucydides' life and work to successfully demonstrate that the Athenian historian was the first to utilize a truly professional (i.e., ... (Read More)
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| Travelling Heroes: In the Epic Age of Homer
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Robin Lane Fox.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780679444312. Daedalus Item Code: 12046 |
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| The 8th century BC was the formative age of the great epics of Homer—a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. Here the author of Alexander the Great, Pagans and Christians, and ... (Read More)
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