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Cleopatra
The life of one of history’s most powerful women, retold through seven crucial episodes that shook the ancient worldCleopatra: A Woman of Power is a major new biography of one of history’s most misunderstood figures. Far from the common portrayal of her as seductress and betrayer, Cleopatra emerg...
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From eve to dawn, a history of women in the world, volume i
A readable guide to the beginnings of women's history, from the best-selling author Marilyn French.
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Gymnastics of the mind
This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and w...
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Love, war, and diplomacy
From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near EastIn 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king Akhenaten’s capital city, a site no...
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Motherhood and early childhood in ancient egypt
"A masterpiece of seminal, meticulous, and groundbreaking scholarship."—Midwest Book ReviewA richly nuanced analysis of how ancient Egyptian society regarded and dealt with pregnancy, mothers, birth, and childrenIn ancient Egypt, a woman’s primary role was that of mother, and as such she ensured ...
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Private life in new kingdom egypt
Much of the literature on ancient Egypt centers on pharaohs or on elite conceptions of the afterlife. This scintillating book examines how ordinary ancient Egyptians lived their lives. Drawing on the remarkably rich and detailed archaeological, iconographic, and textual evidence from some 450 yea...
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The last pharaohs
The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the P...
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The riddle of the rosetta
A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century EuropeIn 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a ...
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The rise of coptic
Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time of the Arab conquest of Egypt in 641, Coptic had almost achieved official status, but only after an unusually prolonged period of stagnation. Jean-Luc...
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