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Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History
Series: Approaching the Ancient World
The ancient Mediterranean world brought to us by Herodotus, Thucydides and Tacitus is one of politics, war and the power elite of Greece and Rome. There was another ancient world, in which ordinary people made a living, sold land, ran their towns and sued one another. This is the world that the...
Published October 4th 1995 by Routledge
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Art, Artefacts and Chronology in Classical Archaeology
Series: Approaching the Ancient World
The museums of the world are full of statues and other artefacts of the Greeks and the Romans. All are given a date. But how are these dates arrived at. What is the evidence?This study provides the student with an introduction and explanation of the ways scholars date the archaeological remains of...
Published November 11th 1992 by Routledge
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The Uses of Greek Mythology
Series: Approaching the Ancient World
In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality - which are discernable through myth, as well as...
Published September 9th 1992 by Routledge
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