Animals in Antiquity: The Mythology and Roles of Different Animals in Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome

To the ancient Egyptians, the gods and goddesses were all around them and could be seen daily in nature. Nearly every an

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*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Africa may have given ris

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Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These

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Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third mil

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If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome then keep reading...

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This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greec

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This volume collects and introduces some of the best writing on sexual behaviour and gender differences in ancient Greec

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In the literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity, speaking animals are most prominent in fables, but in fact they are a genre

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This book provides the first systematic study of the role of animals in different areas of the ancient Greek religious e

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Historians of ancient Greece and Rome are sometimes hesitant to engage with the well-documented fact that Greek and Roma

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This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic

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