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Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East

Jerry Toner - History - 2013 - 239 pages
A seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way ...
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The Day Commodus Killed a Rhino: Understanding the Roman Games

Jerry Toner - History - 2015 - 198 pages
In ancient times, the Roman games—that heady cocktail of mass slaughter, gladiatorial combat, and chariot racing—made strong political, social, and cultural statements. The ...
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The Ancient World: Ideas in Profile

Jerry Toner - History - 2015
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics This introduction to the ancient world, part of the Ideas in Profile series, covers all its different cultures, from the ...
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Infamy: The Crimes of Ancient Rome

Jerry Toner - History - 2019 - 281 pages
Rome is an empire with a bad reputation. From its brutal games to its depraved emperors, its violent mobs to its ruthless wars, its name resounds down the centuries like a ...
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Popular Culture in Ancient Rome

J. P. Toner - History - 2013 - 264 pages
The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population. Much ancient history, however, has focused on the lives, politics and culture of the minority elite ...
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Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches

Neville Morley - History - 2002 - 258 pages
Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by ...
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