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The emergence of cities in the different regions of the ancient world presents two problems. First, in areas of common c

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City in the Ancient World
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This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when books” were clay tablets and

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Bisexuality was intrinsic to the cultures of the ancient world. In both Greece and Rome, sexual relationships between me

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Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by “material” sites of memory. Some of these sites were

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