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The Alexander Mosaic: Stories of Victory and Defeatby Ada CohenISBN 0521563399 (0-521-56339-9)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Ancient Romeby Susan AltmanISBN 0613539117 (0-613-53911-7)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Ancient Rome: A Military And Political Historyby Christopher MackayISBN 0521809185 (0-521-80918-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's Historyby Seton LloydISBN 0520220420 (0-520-22042-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's History'Book summary:Seton Lloyd's lively account of Turkey's early history is for the ever-increasing number of people visiting the ancient sites of this fabled land. Written by an archaeologist who has spent much of his life in the Near East, the book is not a conventional "guide" to the antiquities of Anatolia, nor is it a textbook. It is instead Lloyd's attempt to share his profound interest in an antique land, its inhabitants, and the surviving monuments that link the present to the past.[via]
Lloyd traces the many different cultures that have been a part of Turkey from prehistoric times to the Christian era. He recounts the exploits of the Hittite kings, the confrontation of Croesus and the Persian king Cyrus, the conquests of Alexander the Great, and Mithridates' epic resistance against Rome. Archaeological landmarks discussed include the discovery of the Alaca Hüyük tombs, the attempts to establish the location of Troy, and the opening of the Tomb of Midas. Lloyd shows how each successive culture has left its mark on an astonishing variety of sites, from the shrines of Çatal Hüyük to the temples of Ephesus and the churches founded by St. Paul.More editions of Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's History:
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The Annals of Tacitusby Cornelius Tacitus, A. J. Woodman, Ronald H. MartinISBN 0521552176 (0-521-55217-6)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Annals of Tacitus'Book summary:The Annals of Tacitus, which chronicle the years AD 14-68, are arguably the greatest work of the greatest Roman historian. Book 3 of The Annals covers the years AD 20-22, a period including the trial of Calpurnius Piso for treason and the alleged murder of Germanicus. The editors are the first to compare a recently discovered record of this trial with Tacitus' narrative of the same events. Throughout the volume attention is paid to literary matters, and textual. linguistic and historical issues are treated fully. [via]
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Annals of Tacitus, Books 1-6by Cornelius Tacitus, Francis Richard David GoodyearISBN 0521085845 (0-521-08584-5)
Hardcover, University Press
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Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, David BevingtonISBN 052161287X (0-521-61287-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Richard Madelaine explains how the challenging complexity of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the past twenty years. His introduction and commentary, presented alongside the New Cambridge edition of the text, provide the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare. [via]
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Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Antony and Cleopatra: ISBN 0521094690 (0-521-09469-0)
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Antony and Cleopatraby David BevingtonISBN 0521272505 (0-521-27250-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:In this edition of the play David Bevington shows how the theatrical design and imaginative vision of Antony and Cleopatra make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. A substantial critical introduction synthesises the best criticism of the play and presents a fresh consideration of its erotic and political complexities. The edition is throughout attentive to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeare's shaping of his source material in Plutarch's Lives. [via]
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Antony and Cleopatraby Mary Berry, Michael ClampISBN 0521445841 (0-521-44584-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antony and Cleopatra'Book summary:Like every other play in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, Antony and Cleopatra has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. This version aims to be different from other editions of the play. It invites you to bring the play to life in your classroom through enjoyable activities that will help increase your understanding. You are encourage to make up your own mind about the play, rather than have someone else's interpretation handed down to you. Whatever you do, remember that Shakespeare wrote his plays to be acted, watched and enjoyed. [via]
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The Art of Rome, C. 753 B.C.-A.D. 337: Sources and Documentsby J. J. PollittISBN 052127365X (0-521-27365-X)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Augustusby John WilliamsISBN 0670141127 (0-670-14112-7)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Augustus'Book summary:A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs.
A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power -- Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony -- young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man's dream to liberate a corrupt Rome from the fancy of the capriciously crooked and the wildly wealthy.
Augustus won the 1973 National Book Award for fiction. [via]More editions of Augustus:
Buried City of Pompeii: What It Was Like When Vesuvius Explodedby Shelley TanakaISBN 061336242X (0-613-36242-X)
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Chambers Murray Latin-English Dictionaryby John Lockwood, William SmithISBN 0550190031 (0-550-19003-1)
Softcover, Chambers Harrap Pub Ltd
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Cicero: On Dutiesby M.T. Griffin, E.M. AtkinsISBN 0521348358 (0-521-34835-8)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cicero: On Duties'Book summary:De Officiis (On Duties) is Cicero's last theoretical work and contains his analysis, in a Greek theoretical framework, of the political and ethical values of the Roman governing class in the late Republic. It has often been treated merely as a key to the Greek philosophical works that Cicero used, but this volume aims to render De Officiis, which had a profound impact upon subsequent political thinkers, more intelligible by explaining its relation to its own time and place. All the standard series features are present, including a wholly new translation, a concise introduction by a leading scholar, select bibliography, chronology, notes on vocabulary and brief biographies of the most prominent individuals mentioned in the text. [via]
Classical Mythologyby Robert J. Lenardon, Mark P. O. MorfordISBN 0582280044 (0-582-28004-4)
Softcover, Longman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Mythology'Book summary:Morford and Lenardon's best-selling introduction to classical mythology is a comprehensive survey focusing on the literary tradition of Greek and Roman mythology. It offers extensive translations of original mythological sources as well as comparative and interpretive approaches to the myths. In this package, Classical Mythology, 6/e is bundled with the Oxford World's Classic Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra--three of Sophocles' most influential and famous works. The vivid translations combine elegance and modernity and are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy. The selection of these three works presents in one volume the two plays dominated by a female heroic figure and the experience of the two great dynasties featured in Greek tragedy--the houses of Oedipus and Agamemnon. [via]
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Commentaries on Romans, 1532-1542by T. H. L. ParkerISBN 0567085368 (0-567-08536-8)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans: 1532-1542by T. H. L. ParkerISBN 0567093662 (0-567-09366-2)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews A Historyby James CarrollISBN 0618219080 (0-618-21908-0)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Constructing the World: A Study in Paul's Cosmological Languageby Edward AdamsISBN 0567086895 (0-567-08689-5)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Coriolanusby William Shakespeare, Lee BlissISBN 0521294029 (0-521-29402-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coriolanus'Book summary:This edition presents a new look at Coriolanus in accordance with the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English and developments at GCSE and A level. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers the play as theater and the text as script, enabling pupils to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in an accessible, meaningful and creative way. [via]
A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romansby William SandayISBN 0567050262 (0-567-05026-2)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Cults of the Roman Empireby Antonia Nevill, Robert TurcanISBN 0631200460 (0-631-20046-0)
Hardcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited
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The Cults of the Roman Empireby Robert Turcan, Antonia NevillISBN 0631200479 (0-631-20047-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Daily Life in Ancient Romeby Florence Dupont, Christopher WoodallISBN 0631193952 (0-631-19395-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Daily Life in Ancient Rome'Book summary:Florence Dupont examines the institutions, actions and rituals of day-to-day life in pre-imperial Rome. The society and culture of ancient Rome is illuminated by the character of the Roman citizen in various guises as soldier, land-owner, employer, father, priest, banqueter and elector. The book considers the divisions between the different groups in Roman society, revealing a highly divided society with legal status dependent upon wealth and honour. The freedom of the Roman citizen is contrasted with the inferiority of the slave, an inferiority which was physically and also psychologically vital to Roman society. The author also investigates Roman notions of space and time and shows that every sphere of life, be it the family, the army, politics or farm work, was imbued with religion. There was a time and place for everything, every activity having an attendant god to whom Romans would appeal for advice, backing or consent. Roman ideas about their own bodies, hygiene, clothing, food and sexuality are also considered, and, as throughout the whole book, Florence Dupont draws on a broad selection of vivid contemporary accounts to illustrate her argument. [via]
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A Dictionary of Ancient Historyby Graham SpeakeISBN 0631180699 (0-631-18069-9)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Dictionary of Classical Mythologyby John Edward ZimmermanISBN 0553257765 (0-553-25776-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Double Tongueby William GoldingISBN 0571175260 (0-571-17526-0)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Double Tongue'Book summary:A short novel, left in draft form when the author died suddenly in 1993. Portraying a woman's experience - something rare in Golding's oeuvre - the story features one of his finest creations, Arieka the Pythia. [via]
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The Eagles' Broodby Jack WhyteISBN 0670845213 (0-670-84521-3)
Hardcover, Viking
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Favorite Greek Mythsby Mary Osborne, Troy HowellISBN 0590413384 (0-590-41338-4)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Favorite Greek Myths'Book summary:Here are twelve Greek myths, retold in an accessible style and magnificently illustrated with classic elegance. Full color. [via]
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The Fort at River's Bendby Jack WhyteISBN 0613278313 (0-613-27831-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fort at River's Bend'Book summary:Merlyn Britannicus, leader of the Colony known as Camulod, is faced with the task of educating his younger charge, Arthur, future King of the Britons. Fearing for the life of his nephew when an assassination attempt goes awry, Merlyn takes Arthur and his boyhood companions Gwin Ghilleadh, and Bedwyr on a journey that will take then to the ruins of a long-abandoned Roman fort--far from Camulod and the only place where Merlyn feels they will be safe. It is there that Merlyn will enlist the help of this close-knit group of friends to help Arthur learn the skills of a warrior and the tough lessons of justice, honor, and the responsibilities of leadership. Arthur is just a boy..but the day is not far off when he will have to claim the sword that is his birthright: Excalibur.[via]More editions of The Fort at River's Bend:
Gardner's Art Through the Ages With Infotrac: The Western Perspectiveby Richard G. Tansey, Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. KleinerISBN 0534610935 (0-534-61093-5)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Gardners Art Through the Ages With Infotracby Richard G. Tansey, Christin J. Mamiya, Fred S. KleinerISBN 0534167055 (0-534-16705-5)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward Gibbon, Rosemary WilliamsISBN 0528810146 (0-528-81014-6)
Hardcover, Rand McNally
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Greek and Roman Architectureby Donald Struan RobertsonISBN 0521094526 (0-521-09452-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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How Would You Survive As an Ancient Romanby Anita Ganeri, David Salariya, John JamesISBN 0531153053 (0-531-15305-3)
Softcover, Scholastic Library Pub
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I, Claudiusby Robert GravesISBN 0613172973 (0-613-17297-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Claudius'Book summary:Having never seen the famous 1970s television series based on Graves' historical novel of ancient Rome and being generally uneducated about matters both ancient and Roman, I wasn't prepared for such an engaging book. But it's a ripping good read, this fictional autobiography set in the Roman Empire's days of glory and decadence. As a history lesson, it's fabulous; as a novel it's also wonderful. Best is Claudius himself, the stutterer who let everyone think he was an idiot (to avoid getting poisoned) but who reveals himself in the narrative to be a wry and likable observer. His story continues in Claudius the God. [via]
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Insomniaby Stephen KingISBN 0670855030 (0-670-85503-0)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Introducing the New Testament,by Archibald MacBride HunterISBN 0664249655 (0-664-24965-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing the New Testament,'Book summary:Archibald Hunter has thoroughly revised and updated this work. At the same time, he has preserved its outline and organization. This widely acclaimed book has already become a standard reference for teachers, ministers, college, and seminary students.
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Istanbulby John FreelyISBN 0670859729 (0-670-85972-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Istanbul'Book summary:This is a biography of the city originally known as Byzantium, later renamed Constantinople and now called Istanbul. With a population of 10 million, it's the largest city in Turkey, adorned with splendid monuments of both Ottoman and Byzantium empires. This book gives an account of the city's history from the time of its founding up to the present day along with notes on the monuments that have survived from the successive epochs of its past. It's a biography rather than a political or architectural city with the emphasis on the life of the people and of the city. [via]
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Julius Caesarby Tim SewardISBN 0521409039 (0-521-40903-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Julius Caesarby William Shakespeare, Marvin SpevackISBN 0521222206 (0-521-22220-6)
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Luther's Works Lectures on Roman Glosses and Schoiliaby Martin LutherISBN 0570064252 (0-570-06425-2)
Hardcover, Concordia Pub House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Luther's Works Lectures on Roman Glosses and Schoilia'Book summary:Luther s Works: The American Edition, published by Concordia and Fortress Press between 1955 and 1986, comprises fifty-five volumes. These are a selection representing only about a third of Luther s works in the Latin and German of the standard Weimar Edition, not including the German Bible.
When Luther was prevailed upon to write a preface to the projected complete edition of his Latin writings in 1545, about a year before his death, he took the opportunity to review the high points of his career to show that he really never had the time and talent to produce literature worth preserving, that in publishing these works he was now merely yielding to his friends' argument that his works would be published in any case, if not with his cooperation, then possibly by men who had no real understanding of them. That was one thing. But in that preface Luther also implored the reader of his Latin writings "for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself to read those things judiciously, yes, with great commiseration". With Luther's lectures on the Epistle to the Romans he had a splendid opportunity to share with his students the great find of his life, "that place in Paul which was for me truly the gate of Paradise."
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Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertISBN 0553213415 (0-553-21341-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madame Bovary'Book summary:This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary. [via]
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Madame Bovaryby Victor HugoISBN 0582454085 (0-582-45408-5)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Narrative Dynamics in Paul: A Critical Assessmentby Bruce W. LongeneckerISBN 0664222773 (0-664-22277-3)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Needful Thingsby Stephen KingISBN 0613096010 (0-613-09601-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Needful Things'Book summary:Leland Gaunt is a stranger in Castle Rock--and he calls his new shop Needful Things, where there is something for everyone. Mr. Gaunt takes pleasure in seeing how much people will pay for their most secret dreams and desires, and he knows that almost everything is for sale: love, hope, even the human soul. [via]
Paul For Everyone: Romans Part 2 Chapters 9-16by Tom WrightISBN 0664227996 (0-664-22799-6)
Softcover, Westminster John Knox Pr
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The Penguin Encyclopedia of Classical Civilizationsby Arthur CotterellISBN 0670826995 (0-670-82699-5)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Plutarch's Lives: The Dryden Translationby Plutarch, Arthur Hugh Clough, John DrydenISBN 0553585959 (0-553-58595-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Lettersby Ovid, Peter GreenISBN 0520242602 (0-520-24260-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Letters'Book summary:In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile--permanently, as it turned out--at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's subsequent efforts to secure either a reprieve or, at the very least, a transfer to a less dangerous place of exile failed. Two millennia later, the agonized, witty, vivid, nostalgic, and often slyly malicious poems he wrote at Tomis remain as fresh as the day they were written, a testament for exiles everywhere, in all ages.[via]
The two books of the Poems of Exile, the Lamentations (Tristia) and the Black Sea Letters (Epistulae ex Ponto), chronicle Ovid's impressions of Tomis--its appalling winters, bleak terrain, and sporadic raids by barbarous nomads--as well as his aching memories and ongoing appeals to his friends and his patient wife to intercede on his behalf. While pretending to have lost his old literary skills and even to be forgetting his Latin, in the Poems of Exile Ovid in fact displays all his virtuoso poetic talent, now concentrated on one objective: ending the exile. But his rhetorical message falls on obdurately deaf ears, and his appeals slowly lose hope. A superb literary artist to the end, Ovid offers an authentic, unforgettable panorama of the death-in-life he endured at Tomis.More editions of The Poems Of Exile: Tristia And The Black Sea Letters:
Propertius in Love: The Elegiesby David R. Slavitt, Sextus Propertius, Matthew S. SantiroccoISBN 0520228790 (0-520-22879-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Quest For Paul's Gospel: A Suggested Strategyby Douglas CampbellISBN 056708292X (0-567-08292-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Religions of Rome: A Historyby Mary Beard, John A. North, Simon R. F. PriceISBN 0521316820 (0-521-31682-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Religions of Rome Vol. 2 : A Sourcebookby Mary Beard, John North, Simon PriceISBN 0521456460 (0-521-45646-0)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Roman Paintingby Roger LingISBN 0521315956 (0-521-31595-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Roman Religionby Valerie M. WarriorISBN 0521532124 (0-521-53212-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roman Religion'Book summary:Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony of the ancient Romans to describe traditional Roman religion. The ancient testimony recreates the social and historical contexts in which Roman religion was practised. It shows, for example, how, when confronted with a foreign cult, official traditional religion accepted the new cult with suitable modifications. Basic difficulties, however, arose with regard to the monotheism of the Jews and Christianity. Carefully integrated with the text are visual representations of divination, prayer, and sacrifice as depicted on monuments, coins, and inscriptions from public buildings and homes throughout the Roman world. Also included are epitaphs and humble votive offerings that illustrate the piety of individuals, and that reveal the prevalence of magic and the occult in the spiritual lives of the ancient Romans. [via]
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Satyricaby Petronius, Daniel Kinney, R. Bracht BranhamISBN 0520211189 (0-520-21118-9)
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Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chroniclesby Jack WhyteISBN 0670845221 (0-670-84522-1)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Saxon Shore: The Camulod Chronicles'Book summary:The story of The Saxon Shore, the fourth novel in Jack Whyte's Camulod Chronicles, is largely that of Merlyn, who continues his struggle to preserve the refuge of Camulod and protect the infant king, Arthur. Merlyn, in Whyte's version, is a fascinating mix of pragmatism and naïveté, blending the observational skills of Sherlock Holmes with the oratorical gifts of Marc Antony. Because he thinks a bit more deeply than most around him, thinking things through and staying a step ahead, it's easy to see how he gains a bit of a reputation as a magician. He also has his failings, most particularly an over-confidence that leads him to believe he is just as right about matters he is ignorant of (such as leprosy) as he is about things he actually understands. It's also interesting to note that Merlyn's failings are in many ways the failings of his community. Preserving Roman ways has meant preserving Roman attitudes toward outsiders and barbarians, and on a trip to Eire and a later journey through the south of Britain, Merlyn learns just how out of touch Camulod has become with its new neighbours.
Thus the story leads us inexorably to a new generation that knows little or nothing of Roman culture. In this way, The Saxon Shore continues with the same strength as preceding volumes. Jack Whyte's most splendid achievement is the creation of an historical period so well grounded in fact that the legend becomes real and Arthur lives again. --Greg L. Johnson [via]
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See You Later, Gladiatorby Jon Scieszka, Adam McCauleyISBN 0670893404 (0-670-89340-4)
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The Sorcererby Jack WhyteISBN 0613280806 (0-613-28080-6)
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Three Hands in the Fountainby Not AvailableISBN 0606196846 (0-606-19684-6)
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The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatraby William Shakespeare, George SkillanISBN 0573001219 (0-573-00121-9)
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Tragedy of Coriolanusby William Shakespeare, John Dover WilsonISBN 0521094720 (0-521-09472-0)
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesarby William ShakespeareISBN 0521535131 (0-521-53513-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of Julius Caesar'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's most political plays, Julius Caesar continued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed in Titus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later play Antony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, Julius Caesar has been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Urban Image of Augustan Romeby Diane FavroISBN 0521646650 (0-521-64665-0)
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Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architectureby Michael Dewar, Ingrid D. Rowland, Pollio Vitruvius, Thomas Noble Howe, Vitruvius PollioISBN 0521553644 (0-521-55364-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture'Book summary:For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius' style, this new edition includes examples from archaeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. Rowland's new translation and Howe's critical commentary and illustrations provide a new image of Vitruvius, who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ingrid D. Rowland is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Thomas Noble Howe is a professor in the Department of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. [via]
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Vitruvius Ten Books on Architectureby VitruviusISBN 0521002923 (0-521-00292-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vitruvius Ten Books on Architecture'Book summary:For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius' style, this new edition includes examples from archaeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. Rowland's new translation and Howe's critical commentary and illustrations provide a new image of Vitruvius, who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ingrid D. Rowland is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Thomas Noble Howe is a professor in the Department of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. [via]
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Western Civilizationby Jackson J. SpielvogelISBN 0534600077 (0-534-60007-7)
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Western Civilization To 1715by Jackson J. SpielvogelISBN 0534646034 (0-534-64603-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Western Civilization To 1715'Book summary:Best-selling text, WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million students learn about the present by exploring the past. Jack Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. Each chapter offers a substantial introduction and conclusion, providing students a context for these disparate themes. The clear narrative of a single gifted author makes it easy for students to follow the story of Western civilization. Spielvogel gives the book depth by including over 150 maps and excerpts of over 200 primary sources--including official documents, poems, and songs--that enliven the past while introducing students to source material that forms the basis of historical scholarship. Available in many split options: WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Comprehensive, 6th Edition (Chapters 1-29), ISBN: 0534646026; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume I, To 1715, 6th Edition (Chapters 1-16), ISBN:0534646034; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume II, Since 1500, 6th Edition (Chapters 13-29), ISBN:0534646042; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume A: To 1500, 6th Edition (Chapters 1-12), ISBN: 0534646050; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume B: 1300-1815, 6th Edition (Chapters 11-19), ISBN:0534646069; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume C: Since 1789, 6th Edition (Chapters 19-29), ISBN: 0534646077; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Since 1300, 6th Edition (Chapters 11-29), ISBN:0534646085. [via]
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Women's Bible Commentaryby Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. RingeISBN 066425781X (0-664-25781-X)
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The World According to Garpby John IrvingISBN 0525237704 (0-525-23770-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World According to Garp'Book summary:"Garp was a natural storyteller," says the narrator of John Irving's incandescent novel, referring to the book's hero, the novelist Garp, who has much in common with Irving himself. "He could make things up one right after the other, and they seemed to fit."
Irving packs wild characters and weird events into his classic--officially recognized as such in a Modern Library edition with a new introduction by the author--while amazingly maintaining the rough feel of realism in every scene and the pulse of life in every heart. Many novelists of his time might have populated a novel with a novelist protagonist whose life and books comment on each other and the novel we're reading. Transsexual football players, ball turret gunners lobotomized in battle, multiple adultery, unicycling bears, mad feminists who amputate their tongues in sympathy with the celebrated victim of a horrifying rape--Irving made them all people. Even the bear is a fitting character.
In a crucial episode, Garp's wife's seduction of a young man coincidentally occurs at the moment when Garp is delighting their young sons with a reckless car trick (one of the few scenes beautifully, eerily, heartbreakingly captured in the film version as well). Many authors would have been content with the harsh comedy of the scene, but Irving respects its integrity, and he builds the rest of the book on the consequences of the event. How does he get away with his killer cocktail of slapstick and horror? Because it's simply what we all face daily, rearranged into soul-satisfying art. "Life is an X-rated soap opera," according to Garp, and who can contradict him?
Rereading Garp 20 years later, one is struck by how elegantly Irving structures his bizarre and complex story. Take the two most celebrated bits in the book, the Under Toad and Garp's story "The Pension Grillparzer," which shimmers like an exquisite Kafkaesque insect in the amber of the novel. When Garp warns his son about the "undertow" at the beach, the boy imagines a monster out of Beowulf who lurks beneath the waves to suck you under: the "Under Toad." It's funny at first, but we soon find that the Under Toad is a metaphor with teeth--he connects with a prophetic dream of death in "The Pension Grillparzer," set in Vienna. Garp's son's last words are, "It's like a dream!" And as Irving--who studied at the University of Vienna--can certainly tell you, the German word for "death" sounds precisely like the English word "toad."
All that death, and yet Garp is mainly exuberant. This story is, as Garp's stuttering writing teacher puts it, "rich with lu-lu-lunacy and sorrow." It enriches literature, and our lives. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Tacitus Bk. IV : Annalsby R. H. Martin, Cornelius Tacitus, A. J. Woodman, P. E. Easterling, Philip HardieISBN 0521315433 (0-521-31543-3)
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Virgil: The Georgics, Books I and IIby Richard F. ThomasISBN 0521261767 (0-521-26176-7)
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Virgil Vol. 1, Bks. I-II : The Georgicsby Virgil, Richard F. Thomas, P. E. Easterling, Philip Hardie, Richard HunterISBN 0521278503 (0-521-27850-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virgil Vol. 1, Bks. I-II : The Georgics'Book summary:These two volumes provide a commentary, with text, on Virgil's Georgics, a poem in four books probably written between 35 and 29 BC. The introduction, in Volume 1, treats the poem's historical background and its relationship to the early years of Augustan Rome, Virgil's use of prior literary material, his stylistic and metrical expertise, and questions of poetic structure. There is also a section interpreting the poem in light of recent scholarship, which seeks to consider the poem as part of the broad unity of Virgil's career, rather than from a narrow didactic approach. A new Latin text of the poem is followed by extensive line-by-line commentary, explaining difficult passages, interpreting poetic intent, and tracing the influence of Virgil's Greek and Roman antecedents. A subject index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each volume. [via]
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Virgil Vol. 2, Bks. III-IV : The Georgicsby Virgil, Richard F. Thomas, P. E. Easterling, Philip Hardie, Richard HunterISBN 0521346789 (0-521-34678-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Virgil Vol. 2, Bks. III-IV : The Georgics'Book summary:These two volumes provide a commentary, with text, on Virgil's Georgics, a poem in four books probably written between 35 and 29 BC. The introduction, in Volume 1, treats the poem's historical background and its relationship to the early years of Augustan Rome, Virgil's use of prior literary material, his stylistic and metrical expertise, and questions of poetic structure. There is also a section interpreting the poem in light of recent scholarship, which seeks to consider the poem as part of the broad unity of Virgil's career, rather than from a narrow didactic approach. A new Latin text of the poem is followed by extensive line-by-line commentary, explaining difficult passages, interpreting poetic intent, and tracing the influence of Virgil's Greek and Roman antecedents. A subject index and indexes of important Greek and Latin words conclude each volume. [via]
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