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Peter Thonemann

    The Birth of Classical Europe
    The Hellenistic World
    The Lives of Ancient Villages
    An Ancient Dream Manual
    • This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and pre-modern rural societies.

      The Lives of Ancient Villages2022
      4,0
    • An Ancient Dream Manual

      • 256 Seiten
      • 9 Lesestunden

      Accompanying the new translation of Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams in the Oxford World's Classics series, this volume aims to provide the non- specialist reader with a readable and engaging road-map to this vast and complex text and to the theory and practice of dream-interpretation in antiquity.

      An Ancient Dream Manual2020
      4,3
    • The Hellenistic World

      • 260 Seiten
      • 10 Lesestunden

      An accessible, vivid and up-to-date student-level introduction to the coinage and history of the Hellenistic world (323-31 BC).

      The Hellenistic World2016
    • The Birth of Classical Europe

      A History From Troy To Augustine

      • 416 Seiten
      • 15 Lesestunden

      This comprehensive, readable survey of the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it ranges from the Aegean world of the second millenium BC to Augustine's City of God . More than that, it considers not only how the ancient world is remembered today but also how the Greeks and Romans perceived and felt the influence of their own past.

      The Birth of Classical Europe2011