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1) Spartacus
Author
Series
Revealing antiquity volume 19
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
American ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 177 pages : maps ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Separate[s] the man from the myth. . . . Both the newcomer and the experienced Roman historian will find a wealth of entertainment and information." (Publishers Weekly)
Spartacus (109?–71 bce) has been a source of endless fascination, the subject of myth-making in his own time, and of movie-making in ours. In this riveting, compact account, Aldo Schiavone rescues Spartacus from the murky regions of legend and brings him squarely into the arena...
Author
Series
Revealing antiquity volume 21
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to the panoply of public entertainment that flourished in Palestine from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE. Drawing on a trove of original archaeological and textual evidence, Zeev Weiss reconstructs an ancient world where Romans, Jews, and Christians intermixed amid a heady brew of shouts, roars, and applause to watch a variety of typically pagan spectacles.
Author
Series
Revealing antiquity volume 5
Physical Desc
ix, 225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
12) Greek virginity
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
240 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English