Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World

Searching for the Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World 9781681777078, 9781681776750, 168177707X

A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the

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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World [Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only] 9781400865130

Amazons—fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world—were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greek

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Women in antiquity: real women across the ancient world 9781138808362, 9781315621425, 1138808369

This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physi

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The Amazons

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Olive Odyssey: Searching for the Secrets of the Fruit That Seduced the World 9781771000062, 1771000066

When Julie Angus visits her relatives in Syria, where they continue a centuries-old tradition of making olive oil, she u

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Cities of the Ancient World

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Searching for the Oldest Stars - Ancient Relics from the Early Universe 978-0691165066

Astronomers study the oldest observable stars in the universe in much the same way that archaeologists study ancient art

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Terentia, Tullia and Publilia: The Women of Cicero's Family (Women of the Ancient World) 0203698541, 9780415351782, 9780415351799, 9780203698549

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Searching for the Oldest Stars - Ancient Relics from the Early Universe 978-0-691-16506-6

Astronomers study the oldest observable stars in the universe in much the same way that archaeologists study ancient art

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Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World 1350050105, 9781350050105

Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination

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