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Excavations at Nemea III

The Coins

By: Robert C. Knapp,John D. Mac Isaac

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Excavations at Nemea III

The Coins

By: Robert C. Knapp,John D. Mac Isaac

Since 1974 the University of California at Berkeley has been sponsoring extensive excavations at the Panhellenic athletic festival center of ancient Nemea in the modern Greek province of Korinthia. With its well-documented excavation and clear historical context, the site offers an excellent opportunity for investigation and analysis. This volume, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than three thousand legible coins from all over the ancient world that have been unearthed there. The coins, which are mostly bronze but show an unusually high proportion of silver, reflect the periods of greatest activity at the site—the late Archaic and Early Classical, the Early Hellenistic, the Early Christian, and the Byzantine. More than a compendium of data, the study breaks new ground with its analysis and contextualization of numismatic evidence in an archaeological setting.

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357

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Univ of California Press

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0520927907

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9780520927902

The Hill

The brutal fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete

By: Robert Kershaw

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The Hill

The brutal fight for Hill 107 in the Battle of Crete

By: Robert Kershaw

From the critically acclaimed author of Dünkirchen 1940, this is a groundbreaking history of the epic three-day battle for Hill 107 that changed the course of the war in the Mediterranean. In this remarkable history, we discover each of the individuals whose actions determined the outcome of the battle for Hill 107, the key event that decided the campaign to capture the vitally strategic island of Crete in May 1941. All the events are narrated through the filter of these eyewitnesses. The Allied perspective is from the summit of Hill 107. We experience the fear and the adrenalin of a lowly platoon commander, Lieutenant Ed McAra, perilously positioned at the top of the hill, alongside the combat stress and command fatigue of the battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Andew. In contrast, the German view is looking up from below as they cling to the slopes while simultaneous dazzled by the morning glare and decimated by defensive fire. We join the regimental doctor, Dr Heinrich Neumann, as he assumes command of one battalion and leads a daring nighttime charge towards the summit. The Hill details what was felt, heard or seen throughout the battle for both attacker and defender. Drawing upon original combat reports, diary entries, letters and interviews, the battle is brought vividly to life. The narrative reads like a Shakespearean tragedy, the soldiers revealing their stories in and around the shadows of Hill 107.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472864522

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9781472864529

Excavations at Nemea III

The Coins

By: Darice Elizabeth Birge,Robert C. Knapp,John D. Mac Isaac

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Excavations at Nemea III

The Coins

By: Darice Elizabeth Birge,Robert C. Knapp,John D. Mac Isaac

Annotation The authors describe Nemea, one of the five Greek sites of ancient athletic games, and examine in great detail the coins discovered there, from the classical period to the Early Christian period and after.

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Univ of California Press

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0520231694

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9780520231696

Serçe Limani, Vol 2

The Glass of an Eleventh-Century Shipwreck

By: George F. Bass,Berta Lledo,Sheila Matthews,Robert H. Brill

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The Glass of an Eleventh-Century Shipwreck

By: George F. Bass,Berta Lledo,Sheila Matthews,Robert H. Brill

For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serçe Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. Known as "the Glass Wreck," it bore cargo that included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels and eighty pieces of intact glassware, along with various artifacts of ship life. This second volume of the discovery’s investigation focuses on the excavation, conservation, and study of the glass found in the wreckage. The extensive catalog will be a valuable tool for archaeologists and scholars of Islamic glass and Islamic trade. Further, the systematic methodology and presentation of such a large undertaking will serve as a model for future study across many disciplines.

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Texas A&M University Press

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160344064X

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9781603440646

Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass

By: David Whitehouse,Robert H. Brill

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Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass

By: David Whitehouse,Robert H. Brill

No Sasanian glass collection of comparable size and variety has yet been published, and thus the objects at Corning provide a starting point for anyone who wishes to study the glass made in the Sasanian Empire.

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Hudson Hills

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0872901580

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9780872901582

Carpe Diem

The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature

By: Robert A. Rohland

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Carpe Diem

The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature

By: Robert A. Rohland

Carpe diem – 'eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!' – is a prominent motif throughout ancient literature and beyond. This is the first book-length examination of its significance and demonstrates that close analysis can make a key contribution to a question that is central to literary studies in and beyond Classics: how can poetry give us the almost magical impression that something is happening here and now? In attempting an answer, Robert Rohland gives equal attention to Greek and Latin texts, as he offers new interpretations of well-known poems from Horace and tackles understudied epigrams. Pairing close readings of ancient texts along with interpretations of other forms of cultural production such as gems, cups, calendars, monuments, and Roman wine labels, this interdisciplinary study transforms our understanding of the motif of carpe diem.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009040987

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Book's by Robert A. von der Osten

Excavations at Nemea III

Excavations at Nemea III

The Hill

The Hill

Excavations at Nemea III

Excavations at Nemea III

Serçe Limani, Vol 2

Serçe Limani, Vol 2

Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass

Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Glass in the Corning Museum of Glass

Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem

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