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The Lost World of Byzantium

By Jonathan Harris

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Hardcover:

9780300178579 | Yale Univ Pr, October 27, 2015, cover price $38.00

Paperback:

9780300223538 | Yale Univ Pr, October 25, 2016, cover price $25.00

9780441574827, titled "Night of the Living Shark" | Ace Books, October 1, 1991, cover price $3.99 | also contains Night of the Living Shark

Wandering Greeks: The Ancient Greek Diaspora from the Age of Homer to the Death of Alexander the Great

By Robert Garland

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Hardcover:

9780691161051 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 21, 2014, cover price $35.00

Paperback:

9780691173801 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, September 6, 2016), cover price $29.95

The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century Ce to the Third

By Edward N. Luttwak

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9781421419442 | Rev upd edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 22, 2016), cover price $69.95

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9781421419459 | Rev upd edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 22, 2016), cover price $29.95

Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425

By Kyle Harper

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9780521198615, titled "Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425: An Economic, Social, and Institutional Study" | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 20, 2011, cover price $140.00

Pericles and the Conquest of History: A Political Biography

Product Description: As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as representative of values like liberty and equality, Loren J...read more

By Loren J. Samons, II

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9781107110144 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 5, 2016, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day.

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9781107526020 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 8, 2016, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day.

The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-states

Product Description: Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek Economy brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics. Marshaling a wide array of evidence, these essays investigate and analyse the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world, demonstrating the central importance of markets for production and exchange of goods and services during the Classical and Hellenistic periods...read more

By Mark Woolmer (editor)

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9781107035881 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2015, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek Economy brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics.

Boiotia in Antiquity: Selected Papers

By Hans Beck (contributor)

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9781107053243 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 5, 2016, cover price $135.00

A History of the Jewish War: Ad 66-74

By Steve Mason

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9780521853293, titled "A History of the Jewish War: A.D. 66-74" | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 24, 2016, cover price $150.00

Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up

By Mary Beard

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Hardcover:

9780520277168 | Univ of California Pr, June 25, 2014, cover price $29.95

Paperback:

9780520287587 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, September 15, 2015), cover price $18.95

9780533132188, titled "Why God Is God" | Vantage Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $6.95 | also contains Why God Is God

1177 B.c.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

By Eric H. Cline

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9780691140896 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 23, 2014, cover price $29.95

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9780534973643, titled "Precalculus" | Custom edition (Brooks/Cole Pub Co, October 1, 2000), cover price $105.95 | also contains Precalculus

Sophist Kings: Persians As Other in Herodotus

Product Description: Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology. The Persians as the Greek 'other' have a crucial role throughout Herodotus' Histories, but their characterisation is far divorced from historical reality...read more

By Vernon L. Provencal

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9781780936130 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, July 30, 2015, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: Sophist Kings: Persians as Other sets forth a reading of Herodotus' Histories that highlights the consistency with which the Persians are depicted as sophists and Persian culture is infused with a sophistic ideology.

9780313236525, titled "Luther, Erasmus and the Reformation: A Catholic Protestant Reappraisal" | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1969, cover price $55.00 | also contains Luther, Erasmus and the Reformation: A Catholic Protestant Reappraisal

Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism

Product Description: In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire. Beginning with Herodotus, he analyzes key encounters between Greeks and Egyptian priests, the bearers of Egypt's ancient traditions...read more

By Ian S. Moyer

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9780521765510 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 15, 2011, cover price $124.99 | About this edition: In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire.

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9781107542891 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 9, 2015, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: In a series of studies, Ian Moyer explores the ancient history and modern historiography of relations between Egypt and Greece from the fifth century BCE to the early Roman empire.

The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium

Product Description: This is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann reveals the complex and fascinating interplay between the natural environment and human activities in the Maeander valley...read more

By Peter Thonemann

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9781107006881 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 14, 2011, cover price $124.99 | About this edition: This is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD.

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9781107538139 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 2, 2015, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: This is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD.

Stesichorus in Context

By P. J. Finglass (editor) and Adrian Kelly (editor)

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9781107069732 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 29, 2015, cover price $110.00

An Introduction to Greek Art: Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Archaic and Classical Periods

Product Description: The four centuries between the composition of the Homeric epics and the conquests of Alexander the Great witnessed an immensely creative period in Greek art, one full of experimentation and innovation. But time has taken its toll; damaged statues have lost their colour and wall paintings have been totally destroyed...read more

By Susan Woodford

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9781472523648 | 2 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 23, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The four centuries between the composition of the Homeric epics and the conquests of Alexander the Great witnessed an immensely creative period in Greek art, one full of experimentation and innovation.

Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age

By Eric W. Robinson

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9780521843317 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 21, 2011, cover price $99.99

Paperback:

9781107694828 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 11, 2015, cover price $29.99

Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes

Product Description: This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes. Drawing on both textual and material evidence from the fourth- and fifth-century Greek world, it examines three layers of costume: the bodysuit worn by the actors, the characters' clothes, and the additional layering of disguise...read more

By Gwendolyn Compton-engle

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9781107083790 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2015, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity

By Julia Hillner

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9780521517515 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $115.00

Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States

Product Description: Inspired by the New Fiscal History, this book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world. What emerges is a rich variety of institutions, including experiments with sophisticated instruments such as sovereign debt and fiduciary money, challenging the notion of a typical premodern stage of fiscal development...read more

By Walter Scheidel (editor)

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9781107089204 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2015, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Inspired by the New Fiscal History, this book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world.

The Freedman in the Roman World

Product Description: Freedmen occupied a place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and full citizens on the other. Playing an extremely important role in the economic life of the Roman world, they were also a key instrument for replenishing and even increasing the size of the citizen body; but their position between slave and citizen was of course not unproblematic...read more

By Henrik Mouritsen

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9780521856133 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2011, cover price $99.99

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9781107519084 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 9, 2015), cover price $31.99 | About this edition: Freedmen occupied a place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and full citizens on the other.

The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law

By David Johnston (editor)

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9780521895644 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2015, cover price $110.00

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9780521719940 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2015, cover price $36.99

Livy's Political Philosophy: Power and Personality in Early Rome

Product Description: This volume explores the political implications of the first five books of Livy's celebrated history of Rome, challenging the common perception of the author as an apolitical moralist. Ann Vasaly argues that Livy intended to convey through the narration of particular events crucial lessons about the interaction of power and personality, including the personality of the Roman people as a whole...read more

By Ann Vasaly

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9781107065673 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 18, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This volume explores the political implications of the first five books of Livy's celebrated history of Rome, challenging the common perception of the author as an apolitical moralist.

Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War

By Dexter Hoyos

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9780199860104 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 13, 2015, cover price $29.95

The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present

Product Description: This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curse tablets to U...read more

By David J. Collins (editor)

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9780521194181 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 2, 2015, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West.

Collecting Early Christian Letters from the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity

Product Description: Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman world to a more wide-ranging correspondence by bishops and monks, as well as emperors and Gothic kings...read more

By Pauline Allen (editor)

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9781107091863, titled "Collecting Early Christian Letters: From the Apostle Paul to Late Antiquity" | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 2, 2015, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman world to a more wide-ranging correspondence by bishops and monks, as well as emperors and Gothic kings.

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