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Special edition for Sandpiper Books. "Traces the diffusion of the Greek city as a political institution throughout the lands of the Roman Empire bordering the Eastern Mediterranean over a period extending from Alexander's conquest of the East to the sixth century.Professor Jones describes the restrictive effect of centralized administrative policy on some dynasties and the growth of cities in their dominions, and various aspects of the relations between cities and central government, including the cities' role in the economic life of the Empire." Pp.xvi576/2(publisher's catalogue), 6 folding map pages incorporating 8 maps. Dark blue cloth, dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 2013 or 2014. xii, 270pp. Map, b&w ills. "Berenice II (c. 264-221 BCE), daughter of King Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, came to embody all the key religious, political, and artistic ideals of Ptolemaic Alexandria. Though she arrived there nearly friendless, with the taint of murder around her, she became one of the most accomplished and powerful of the Macedonian queens descended from the successors of Alexander the Great. She was at the center of a group of important poets and intellectuals associated with the Museum and Library, not the least of which was Callimachus, the most important poet of the age. These men wrote poems not just for her, but about her, and their eloquent voices projected her charisma widely across the Greek-speaking world. Though the range of Berenice's interests was impressive and the quantity and quality of the poetry she inspired unparalleled, today she is all but known. Assimilating the scant and scattered evidence of her life, Dee L. Clayman presents a woman who was more powerful and fascinating than we had previously imagined. Berenice II and the Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt offers a portrait of a woman who had access to the cultural riches of both Greece and Egypt and who navigated her way carefully through the opportunities and dangers they presented, ultimately using them to accrue unprecedented honors that were all but equal to those of the king." The book is in excellent condition with minor shelfwear to corners, no inscriptions.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First UK edition-first printing. Fine condition.Constable,2004.First UK edition-first printing.Tan hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the back cover) with Dj(a couple of scratches,nicks and crease on the Dj cover),both in fine condition.Illustrated with two b/w maps.Nice and clean pages as new with two pencil marks impressions and scratch on the edge of the first blank page of the book,two small nicks on the edges of the pages.Nice and clean book.357pp.Price un-clipped. This is another paragraph Product Description: The civil wars that have consumed both Rome and Egypt are about to reach their climax in the fabled city of Alexandria, capital of Egypt. Gordianus will witness the death throes of the old world, and play a crucial role in the birth of the world to come. For years, across seas and continents, the rival Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have engaged in a contest for world domination. Now Pompey, his forces destroyed at the battle of Pharsalus in Greece, flees to Egypt, hoping to make a last desperate stand on the banks of the Nile. But Egypt is a treacherous land, torn apart by the murderous rivalry between Queen Cleopatra and her brother King Ptolemy. Caesar, too, is on his way to Egypt, where his legendary encounter with the goddess-queen will spark a romance that reverberates down the centuries. Into this hothouse atmosphere of intrigue and deception comes Gordianus the Finder, seeking a cure for his wife Bethesda in the sacred waters of the Nile. But when his plans go awry, he finds himself engaged in an even more desperate pursuit - to prove the innocence of the son he once disowned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 4to (27.5 cm), 164 pp. Publisher's cloth & dust jacket. From the blurb: "The history of the mapping of the Holy Land epitomizes the history of cartography itself. Situated at the crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe, the Holy Land has been the focus of intense interest for countless generations; under its various names--Canaan, The Promised Land, Palestine, or Terra Sancta -- it evinces the longest unbroken sequence of mapping in the world. Two principal cartographic traditions dominate this fascinating history: the religious one, based primarily on the Bible and its exegeses; and the classical tradition, represented by Ptolemy, which laid the foundations of modern cartography. The present volume brings together for the first time an historical panorama of these maps: from a 6th-century mosaic from Jordan; through early Hebrew, Christian, and Islamic maps; to maps of the recent past. We see the 13th-century Hereford World Map, with Jerusalem at its center, and the 14th-century Catalan Atlas, drawn on vellum. Anonymous Czech and Italian maps of the 16th century are followed by German, Netherlandish, British, and French maps from the Age of Enlightenment. We arrive ultimately at cartographic representations of the 19th and 20th centuries, culminating in the advent of high-tech satellite imaging. These graphic representations manifest the geographical and political changes that have marked this region over the centuries, suggesting at one time physical realities, and at another persistence of imagination in its creative shaping of the world. Evidenced throughout, Holy Land in Maps is a testament to the painstaking craftsmanship and often delicate beauty that is a hallmark of the mapmaker's discipline at its best.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper, pp.xviii, 331. Illustrated inc maps. Traces the journeys taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity - Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy - through seven cities over a thousand years. In so doing the author also traces the links between the Islamic world and Christendom, preserving and transforming astronomy, mathematics and medicine from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Wrapper priceclipped, with a couple of very small closed edge splits to top edge in places. Contents crisp and bright. Inscription on half title. Near fine in near fine wrapper.

Softcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Minor scuffing along spine. Scholar's name to ffep (Jenifer Neils). Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). Upper corner of book creased. Pen underlining and marginalia to a few pages. ; CHAPTER 1: PERSIA, FROM XERXES TO ALEXANDER: Xerxes and his successors; enterprise of Cyrus; battle of Cunaxa; retreat of the Ten Thousand to Trapezus (Kurdistan etc.) ; From Trapezus to Pergamum; Great king and his Satrapies; Artaxerxes III and the reconquest of Egypt CHAPTER II: THE ASCENDACY OF SPARTA: Lysander's settlement; spartan home affairs; Sparta's dependents in the greek homeland (Thebes, Athens, Thessaly etc.) ; Sparta's relations with Persia; Persian Thalassocracy; Corintian War (fall of Pausanias, battle of Corinth etc.) ; New Pact between Sparta and Persia (Thrasybulus etc. ) ; CHAPTER III THE SECOND ATHENIAN LEAGUE : General condition of Greece in 386 B. C. ; Sparta's Policy of Precautions; Rise of Thebes; New Athenian Thalassocracy; Jason of Pherae (siege of Corcyra etc. ) CHAPTER IV THEBES The Battle of Leuctra; theban ascendacy in Northern Greece; disruption of the Peloponnesian league; diplomatic failures of Thebes; Failure of Arcadian Imperialism; Battle of Mantinea; Decline of the Athenian Naval League; CHAPTER V DIONYSIUS OF SYRACUSE: Carthaginian invasions 409-406 B. C. ; Rise of Dionysius, 405 B. C. ; dionysius and the Sicels, 403 B. C. ; First war with Carthage, 398-392 B. C. ; Italian wars of Dionysius and his later wars with Carthage; Relations with Eastern Greece; Death of Dionysius, 367 B. C. ; Estimate of Dionysius; CHAPTER VI EGYPT TO THE COMING OF ALEXANDER: The Achaemenid Rule (Athenians in Egypt Herodotus jews at Syene etc.) ; last native Monarchy; Coming of Alexander; Retrospect (Libyans, and Ethiopians Demotic literature, Egyptian religion etc.) ; CHAPTER VII: THE INAUGURATION OF JUDAISM: Historical outlines (Nehemiah, benevolence of Persia, Samaritan schism, Ezra etc. ) ; jews and their neighbours; Edom and Samaria (desolation of Judah and Jerusalem etc.) ; Religious tendencies (Jewish self-consciousness etc. ) ; Priestly source and the Pentateuch; CHAPTER VIII THE RISE OF MACEDONIA Greek World at the Accession of Philip; early years of Philip's reign, 359-356 B. C. ; war of Athens and her allies, 357-5 B. C. ; sacred war down to 353 B. C. ; philip's activities in Thrace and Thessaly down to 352 B. C. ; Athenian policy: Aristophon, Eubulus, Demosthenes; Sacred war continued; olynthian war; peace of philocrates, and the end of the sacred war; CHAPTER IX MACEDONIAN SUPREMACY IN GREECE: Years of Nominal Peace between Philip and Athens, 346-3 B. C. ; relations of Philip and the greek cities with Persia; struggle in Thrace and the Chersonese, 342-339 B. C. ; Amphissean War: Chaeronea (338 B. C. ) ; After Chaeronea; death of Philip. Characters of Philip and Demosthenes; CHAPTER X: SICILY, 367 TO 330 B. C. Dionysius the Second (plato Dion etc.) ; Enterprise of Dion; Timoleon: delivery of Syracuse (Carthaginian activity) ; Timoleon Settlement of Sicily; Southern italy; CHAPTER XI: THE ATHENIAN PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS: philosophy of Socrates; Plato the early dialogues; Academy dialogues of the middle period (Republic Phaedo, meno, Symposium, Phaedrus) ; Later dialogues (Timaeus, Philebus) ; Aristotle; Form and matter, the actual and potential; objects and methods of science; cosmology; biology and psychology; ethics and politics; peripatetic school at Athens; CHAPTER XII: ALEXANDER: THE CONQUEST OF PERSIA Alexander's early years; preparations for invading persia; granicus and asia minor; battle of issus; administration of asia minor; tyre and egypt; battle of Gaugamela; death of Darius; CHAPTER XIII: ALEXANDER CONQUEST OF THE FAR EAST: Alexander, Philotas, and Parmenion; conquest of Turkestan; Cleitus, Callisthenes, and alexander's divine descent; india, from Bactria to the Jhelum; India from Jhelum to Beas; to Patiala; Punjab, Punjabi; Gedrosia and Susa; Alexander's Deification and death (Arabia and Arabian Expedition) ; Alexander's character and policy; finance and new cities (coinage) ; Empire: Alexander's personality; CHAPTER XIV: GREECE 335 TO 321 B. C. : the Feeling in Greece (antipater etc.) ; lycurgus and Athens; Agis III of Sparta; Prosecution of Demosthenes (Ctesiphon, on the Crown etc. ) ; Affair of Harpalus; lamian War (Hellenic league etc.) ; CHAPTER XV: THE HERITAGE OF ALEXANDER: Question of the succession; perdiccas; antipater's regency; polyperchon and Greece; eumenes and antigonus; cassander and the coalition; antigonus' first struggle for the empire; kingdom; cassander and Ptolemy; Defeat and Death of Antigonus; CHAPTER XVI; GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT AND THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY: Political thought of the fourth century; Xenophon and Isocrates; Plato and Aristotle; end of the Polis, and its political theory; CHAPTER XVII: Greek Art and Architecture: Classical Sculpture (Praxiteles, Scopas, Timotheus: Cephisodotus, Lysippus Attic grave reliefs; Fourth Century Doric Architecture; Corinthian capital; ionic architecture in Asia; civil buildings LIST OF TABLES, MAPS, PLANS : March of the Ten Thousand; Asia Minor; Second Athenian League; Central and north eastern peloponnese; plain of Mantinea and Tegea; Dominions of Dionysius; Central Greece; Alexander's Route; plans of temples etc. ; Cambridge Ancient History Series; 37 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didn't stop there. Until now, scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance - the basis of our modern Western world - came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece and Rome. However, a stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that a sophisticated Chinese delegation visited Italy in 1434, sparked the Renaissance, and forever changed the course of Western civilization. After that date the authority of Aristotle and Ptolemy was overturned and artistic conventions challenged, as was Arabic astronomy and cartography. Florence and Venice of the 15th century attracted traders from across the world. Menzies presents astonishing evidence that a large Chinese fleet, official ambassadors of the Emperor, arrived in Tuscany in 1434 where they met with Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. A mass of information was offered by the Chinese delegation to the Pope and his entourage - concerning world maps (which Menzies argues were later given to Columbus), astronomy, mathematics, art, printing, architecture, steel manufacture, civil engineering, military machines, surveying, cartography, genetics, and more. It was this gift of knowledge that sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance - Da Vinci's inventions, the Copernican revolution, Galileo, etc. Following 1434, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, which formed the basis of European civilization just as much as Greek thought and Roman law. In short, China provided the spark that set the Renaissance ablaze. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 151pp; blue cloth; no evident shelf wear. Facsimile reproduction of book first printed in 1507. Ex-library volume with customary markings and labels. Contents clean, tight, textually unmarked. Book is best known for having given the New World its name, "America", based on information supplied by the voyages of Amerigo Vespucci. The first part of the book is the facsimile reprint; second part is its English translation entitled, "INTRODUCTION TO COSMOGRAPHY WITH CERTAIN NECESSARY PRINCIPLES OF GEOMETRY AND ASTRONOMY TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE FOUR VOYAGES OF AMERIGO VESPUCCI. A REPRESENTATION OF THE ENTIRE WORLD, BOTH IN THE SOLID AND PROJECTED ON THE PLANE, INCLUDING ALSO LANDS WHICH WERE UNKNOWN TO PTOLEMY, AND HAVE BEEN RECENTLY DISCOVERED.

28.0 x 24.0cms 192pp b/w & colour illusts very good hardback & dustwrapper This history of map making and scientific invention including the work of Pythagoras Ptolemy Marco Polo Galileo Newton John Harrison Captain Cook NASA Apollo 8 and recent record that show eroded framlands depleted rainforests etc.

Zustand: Good. ANCIENT WORLD. World according to Ptolemy AD150. Sketch map. BARTHOLOMEW 1901. Antique map; John Bartholomew (1901). 12.5 x 20.0cm, 4.75 x 8 inches. Condition: Good. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain.

Double Page Map Overall size: 16 x 10.5 inches In very good condition. A few faint foxing spots.

very good dust-jacket, cover price $30.00, attractive copy, very good red hardcover, appears unused. MOLLER, VIOLET. The map of knowledge: a thousand-year history of how classical ideas were lost and found. New York: Doubleday, 2019, stated First American edition, and 1st printing number line starting with 1, xvii, 312pp., . "The foundations of modern knowledge--philosophy, math, astronomy, geography--were laid by the Greeks, whose ideas were written on scrolls and stored in libraries across the Mediterranean and beyond. But as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean--rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts. In 8th century Baghdad, Arab discoveries augmented Greek learning. Exchange within the thriving Muslim world brought that knowledge to Cordoba, Spain. Toledo became a famous center of translation from Arabic into Latin, a portal through which Greek and Arab ideas reached Western Europe. Salerno, on the Italian coast, was the great center of medical studies, and Sicily, ancient colony of the Greeks, was one of the few places in the West to retain contact with Greek culture and language. Scholars in these cities helped classical ideas make their way to Venice in the 15th century, where printers thrived and the Renaissance took root. The Map of Knowledge follows three key texts--Euclid's Elements, Ptolemy's The Almagest, and Galen's writings on medicine--on a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world". ISBN 9780385541763.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age. Britains leading cartographic author takes us on a historical journey through how the greatest maps were created. Exploring key cartographers and mapmaking methods, as well as fascinating interludes on subjects such as the very first maps, deliberate mistakes, and superlative maps, this comprehensive guide explores how the techniques and technology have developed throughout human history: Evolving methods of surveying: from the Roman groma, through the naval instruments of the magnetic compass, astrolabes and sextants, to the 20th century revolution of aerial photography Drawing tools and materials: from Babylonian maps carved in clay, to digital maps created via touchscreen The introduction of various mapping conventions and key components of a map: from Ptolemy's introduction of longitude and latitude, through the 13th century origins of having north at the top, to the various projections used to represent the Earth. With visually stunning historic maps and antique instruments, this book will engross readers with its fascinating stories of how we came to chart our world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 'A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsIn The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba to Catholic Toledo, from Salerno s medieval medical school to Palermo, capital of Sicily s vibrant mix of cultures, and finally to Venice, where that great merchant city s printing presses would enable Euclid s geometry, Ptolemy s system of the stars and Galen s vast body of writings on medicine to spread even more widely. In tracing these fragile strands of knowledge from century to century, from east to west and north to south, Moller also reveals the web of connections between the Islamic world and Christendom, connections that would both preserve and transform astronomy, mathematics and medicine from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Vividly told and with a dazzling cast of characters, The Map of Knowledge is an evocative, nuanced and vibrant account of our common intellectual heritage.'An endlessly fascinating book, rich in detail, capacious and humane in vision.' Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Read less.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Ancient India as Described by Ptolemy with two expandable maps: Ptolemy's World Map in colour and an additional Map depicting Ptolemy's Ancient India (Revised with an introduction and notes, newly composed text edition) || Ancient India is a collection of personal accounts originally written in Greek by Ptolemy and translated into English by John W. McCrindle. It is regarded as a classic work on the ancient geography of India. This edition also comes with a commentary and an introduction by the translator who has time and again pointed out that Ptolemy majorly relied on Indian sources even in his description of other parts of Asia and this work further explains that the people of Central Asia were known to the Sanskrit scholars. Ancient India as described by Ptolemy is illuminating for the serious student and layperson alike.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sweep ranging from Ptolemy to Twitter, Garfield explores the legendary, impassable (and non-existent) mountains of Kong, the role of cartography in combatting cholera, the 17th-century Dutch craze for Atlases, the Norse discovery of America, how a Venetian monk mapped the world from his cell and the Muppets' knack of instant map-travel. Along the way are pocket maps of dragons, Mars, murders and more, with plenty of illustrations and prints to signpost the route. From the bestselling and widely-adored author of Just My Type, On The Map is a witty and irrepressible examination of where we've been, how we got there and where we're going. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didnt stop there. Until now, scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance the basis of our modern Western world came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece and Rome. A stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that a sophisticated Chinese delegation visited Italy in 1434, sparked the Renaissance, and forever changed the course of Western civilization. After that date the authority of Aristotle and Ptolemy was overturned and artistic conventions challenged, as was Arabic astronomy and cartography. Florence and Venice of the 15th century attracted traders from across the world. Menzies presents astonishing evidence that a large Chinese fleet, official ambassadors of the Emperor, arrived in Tuscany in 1434 where they met with Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. A mass of information was given by the Chinese delegation to the Pope and his entourage concerning world maps (which Menzies argues were later given to Columbus), astronomy, mathematics, art, printing, architecture, steel manufacture, civil engineering, military machines, surveying, cartography, genetics, and more. It was this gift of knowledge that sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance Da Vinci's inventions, the Copernican revolution, Galileo, etc. Following 1434, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, which formed the basis of European civilization just as much as Greek thought and Roman law. In short, China provided the spark that set the Renaissance ablaze. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. pp. 72.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. xiv, [6], 394, [2], 13, [3] pages Signed by author sticker on front. Color illustrations of a reconstruction of Alexandia; an Aerial view of Alexandria; the inhabited world as Cleopatra knew it; 4 busts of Cleopatra; and a bust of Cleopatra as the goddess Isis. Signed by the author on the title page. Chapters cover That Egyptian Woman; Dead Men Don't Bite; Cleopatra Captures the Old Man by Magic; The Golden Age Never Was the Present Age; Man Is by Nature a Political Creature; We Must Often Shift the Sails When We Wish to Arrive in Port; An Object of Gossip for the Whole World; Illicit Affairs and Bastard Children; and The Wickedest Woman in History. Also includes Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index, and Reading Group Guide, Questions and Topics for discussion, as well as a map of Alexandria in Cleopatra's day and a map of the Mediterranean in Cleopatra's day. In Cleopatra: A Life, the author has managed to create a masterpiece: both a hugely readable portrait of a fascinating, unscrupulous, and powerful woman, and a brilliant explanation of the politics that lay behind her actions. Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies; her biography of Vera Nabokov, the wife and muse of the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has written biographies of French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the key figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-93 in colonial Massachusetts. Derived from a Kirkus review: A Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a swift, sympathetic life of one of history's most maligned and legendary women. Schiff acknowledges that our image of Cleopatra VII arrives through the distorted lenses of biased (male, Roman) history, romanticized and melodramatic stage productions and films and the distortion of time itself. Cleopatra. During that time, she took into her bed some of the most powerful men in history (Julius Caesar, Mark Antony), maneuvered through a male world with intelligence, skill and sanguinary brutality, met and failed to charm Herod and bore children to both Caesar and Antony. Schiff reminds us that Cleopatra and her family were not related to the Egyptian pharaohs but descended from Ptolemy, a Macedonian general with Alexander the Great. She also reminds us that Caesar's Rome was not the Rome of later glories and depravities. The Coliseum did not yet stand, nor did the Pantheon or any number of other Roman architectural marvels. Born in 69 BCE, Cleopatra entered a family for whom the word internecine was surely invented-killing family members standing in the way was routine, and Cleopatra was not above it. The young girl was intellectually quick, savvy and willing to learn, and she soon made her first significant conquest: Caesar. She came to Rome to see him, causing uproar, for Rome was an empire that had a gender test for human rights (women need not apply). Schiff notes that Caesar's assassination was a political disaster for Cleopatra, but she quickly recovered, won Antony and enjoyed a number of amazingly powerful and profligate years before history and the forces of Octavian brought her down. Schiff finds a remarkably complex woman-brutal and loving, dependent and independent, immensely strong but finally vulnerable. First Black Bay Paperback Edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Sehr gut. Auflage: Annotated. 250 Seiten Fresh and clean hardcover copy with original dustjacket in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Hardcover-Exemplar mit Original-Schutzumschlag in gutem Zustand. Contents: Introduction / Richard Hunter --Map of Theocritus' World --Thyrsis' Lament for Daphnis --The Sorceress --The Serenade --The Two Herdsmen --Goatherd and Shepherd --Damoetas and Daphnis --The Harvest Festival --The Reapers --The Cyclops' Serenade --The Beloved --The Story of Hylas --Aeschinas and Thyonichus --The Women at the Festival --The Graces --In Praise of Ptolemy --The Marriage Song for Helen --The Dioscuri --The Childhood of Heracles --The Bacchantes --The Distaff --To a Boy -- To Another Boy -- Explanatory Notes / Richard Hunter. ISBN 9780198152903 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 320.

London, Harper Collins, 2008, 368 pag., plates, paperback (as new). = In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didn't stop there. Until now, scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance - the basis of our modern Western world - came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece and Rome. However, a stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that a sophisticated Chinese delegation visited Italy in 1434, sparked the Renaissance, and forever changed the course of Western civilization.After that date the authority of Aristotle and Ptolemy was overturned and artistic conventions challenged, as was Arabic astronomy and cartography. Florence and Venice of the 15th century attracted traders from across the world. Menzies presents astonishing evidence that a large Chinese fleet, official ambassadors of the Emperor, arrived in Tuscany in 1434 where they met with Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. A mass of information was offered by the Chinese delegation to the Pope and his entourage - concerning world maps (which Menzies argues were later given to Columbus), astronomy, mathematics, art, printing, architecture, steel manufacture, civil engineering, military machines, surveying, cartography, genetics, and more. It was this gift of knowledge that sparked the inventiveness of the Renaissance - Da Vinci's inventions, the Copernican revolution, Galileo, etc. Following 1434, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, which formed the basis of European civilization just as much as Greek thought and Roman law. In short, China provided the spark that set the Renaissance ablaze.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Feels unread. For some 24 years in the 1500s map makers included Australia on their world maps - long before Australia was actually 'discovered' by Europeans, according to conventional history. This book presents evidence that the ancient Greeks landed in the Americas and circumnavigated the world more than 1300 years before the voyage of Magellan. This great expedition was recorded by the Greeks and the resultant maps and scrolls stored in the Great Library of Alexandria. There they remained until 340-345AD when Roman troops removed selected items and took them back to Italy. History sadly records that in 390AD the then Bishop of Alexandria ordered the library's entire contents, some 700,000 scrolls, maps and other artefacts, burnt or smashed. This research traces what really happened in those turbulent times and explains how some of these records were not destroyed but remained intact for map makers to rediscover more than one thousand years later. Importantly, it explores how the magnificent works of ancient master map maker Claudius Ptolemy were found and redrawn in the 1300s. Strangely, though the original ancient maps were found, it is clear that those who drew new maps from them did not fully understand the extent of what the ancient Greek voyagers had achieved.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Feels unread. For some 24 years in the 1500s map makers included Australia on their world maps - long before Australia was actually 'discovered' by Europeans, according to conventional history. This book presents evidence that the ancient Greeks landed in the Americas and circumnavigated the world more than 1300 years before the voyage of Magellan. This great expedition was recorded by the Greeks and the resultant maps and scrolls stored in the Great Library of Alexandria. There they remained until 340-345AD when Roman troops removed selected items and took them back to Italy. History sadly records that in 390AD the then Bishop of Alexandria ordered the library's entire contents, some 700,000 scrolls, maps and other artefacts, burnt or smashed. This research traces what really happened in those turbulent times and explains how some of these records were not destroyed but remained intact for map makers to rediscover more than one thousand years later. Importantly, it explores how the magnificent works of ancient master map maker Claudius Ptolemy were found and redrawn in the 1300s. Strangely, though the original ancient maps were found, it is clear that those who drew new maps from them did not fully understand the extent of what the ancient Greek voyagers had achieved.

Wraps. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No dust jacket issued. Joseph Hunwick (Photography) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. Format is approximately 6.25 inches by 8.25 inches. 24 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some in full color). Map. Diagram. Drawings. One of the most unusual temples of Ancient Egypt, Kom Ombo was mainly built during the Ptolemaic Dynasty from 180 - 47 BCE, although there is evidence that it is stood upon an earlier temple. The temple is unique for its dedication to two different deities: the local crocodile-headed god Sobek, and the first "god of the Kingdom", the falcon-headed god Horus the Elder (also called Haroeris). This double dedication was deliberate. Not only is it architecturally duplicated, with two sets of courts, hypostyle halls and sanctuaries, the twin temple is symbolic of the local and universalist themes that the two different deities represented. While much of Kom Ombo temple has been destroyed over the millennia, it has been reconstructed in part, and it is still home to a number of well-preserved and fascinating reliefs, including some intricately carved columns and friezes divided between the two gods. The layout of the complex - apart from being a double temple - is similar to that of the Temple of Edfu. The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple in the town of Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt. It was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, 180-47 BC. Some additions to it were later made during the Roman period. The building is unique because its 'double' design meant that there were courts, halls, sanctuaries and rooms duplicated for two sets of gods. The southern half of the temple was dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek, god of fertility and creator of the world with Hathor and Khonsu. Meanwhile, the northern part of the temple was dedicated to the falcon god Haroeris ("Horus the Elder"), along "with Tasenetnofret (the Good Sister, a special form of Hathor or Tefnet/Tefnut) and Panebtawy (Lord of the Two Lands)." The temple is atypical because everything is perfectly symmetrical along the main axis. The texts and reliefs in the temple refer to cultic liturgies which were similar to those from that time period. The temple itself had a specific theology. The characters invoked the gods of Kom Ombo and their legend. Two themes were present in this temple: the universalist theme and the local theme. The two combine to form the theology of this temple. A temple was already built in the New Kingdom to honor these gods, however, this site gained in importance during the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Little remains of the New Kingdom temple. The existing temple was begun by Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-145 BC) at the beginning of his reign and added to by other Ptolemies, most notably Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator (51-47 BC), who built the inner and outer hypostyles. The scene on the inner face of the rear wall of the temple is of particular interest, and "probably represents a set of surgical instruments." Much of the temple has been destroyed by the Nile, earthquakes, and later builders who used its stones for other projects. Some of the reliefs inside were defaced by Copts, who once used the temple as a church. All the temples buildings in the southern part of the plateau were cleared of debris and restored by Jacques de Morgan in 1893. A few of the three hundred crocodile mummies discovered in the vicinity are displayed in The Crocodile Museum. In April 2018, the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced the discovery of the head of the bust of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius during work to protect the site from groundwater. In September 2018, the Egyptian antiquities ministry announced that a sandstone sphinx statue had been discovered at the temple. The statue, measuring approximately 11 in in width and 15 in in height, likely dates to the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

Small folio. [240pp.] Colour and b/w. illustrations. Paperback in original navy wrapps. lettered in orange. Includes: The Medieval Texts of the 1486 Ptolemy Edition by Johann Reger of Ulm. By Margriet Hoodvliet; Maps of the World for Ottoman Princes? Further Evidence and Questions Concerning 'The Mappamondo of Hajji Ahmed'. By Benjamin Arbel; Draft Town Maps for John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. by Sarah Bendall. ISBN 0905776275 US$22.

Zustand: New. pp. 72.

Second map of the Arabian peninsula ever published, in its first state. It was originally engraved as part of the extraordinary 1478 Rome edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, and the map was preceded by only the one published in the less detailed and crudely engraved Bologna edition published in 1477. It shows the city of Medina (Lathrippa) and the archaeological sites of Zubarah (Catara), and Al-Dur (Domana). The association of Macoraba with Mecca is disputed.The 1478 Geographia was created under the direction of Conrad Sweynheym, who together with Arnold Pannartz introduced printing to Italy, and after his death in 1477 finished by his successor Arnold Buckinck. The edition was planned as early as 1474 and possibly even 1473 and the plates were likely engraved before the publication of the 1477 Bologna edition. These two atlases contain the earliest copperplate maps ever produced and Sweynheym's careful experiments clearly paid off: "its firm, sure lines and crisp impression are in sharp contrast to the rather crudely engraved and muddily printed Bologna edition" (Karrow). "Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578" (Shirley). Christopher Columbus bought a copy.The map was reprinted unchanged in the Rome edition of 1490, published by De Turre, and again in a 1507 edition, reissued in 1508. It is here printed on two folio leaves, each watermarked with a cardinal's hat (the two slightly different and probably the twins of a single paper stock). They are very close to Briquet 3391 (Florence 1491), so our map probably comes from the 1490 edition.Some faint stains along the edges of the paper and in the gutter, small restoration in gutter of the lower margin and a very minor tear near the upper left corner. In good condition.l Campbell, Earliest printed maps, map 141 & atlas D42 (pp. 131-133), cf. pp. 122-127, 223-225; Nordenskiöld 201, map 21; Tibbetts 4 note; cf. Al Ankary 3 (1511?); Karrow 32/B1 (atlas, 1478 ed.); Shirley, Maps in atlases T.POL-2c (atlas, 1490 ed.); Shirley, Mapping of the world 4 note (atlas, 1490 ed.). Mounted on paper board, in a modern gilt frame (50.5 x 67 cm). Engraved map of the Arabian peninsula (topographic image 25.5 x 46 cm) printed, as usual, on two joined folio leaves (together 39.5 x 56 cm).

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Condition Notes: A touch faded at the spine of the dust wrapper with a peculiar, possibly damp, marking to the spine verso. The contents complete, clean and tight; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 6¼" (1 kg); pp (xiii) 330; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Street plans; Black & white photographs, within the text; Colour photographs, on individual leaves; Black & white drawings; Diagrams; Maps; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203640 ||.

Map. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Ptolemy's Map of the World H. Kiepert.