Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z (Häftad)
avLiza Cleland, Glenys Davies, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
ISBN: 9780415542807 - UTGIVEN: 201205From abolla (a thick woollen cloak) to zostra (a type of decorated hairband) this encyclopedia contains a vast amount of information about dress in the classical world. As well as practical information about garments jewellery and so on, it also covers social attitudes towards clothing, with entries[...]
Ctesias' 'history of Persia' (Häftad)
avLloyd Llewellyn-Jones, James Robson
ISBN: 9780415629478 - UTGIVEN: 201208Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world's most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of P[...]
King and Court in Ancient Persia (559 to 331 BCE) (Häftad)
avLloyd Llewellyn-Jones
ISBN: 9780748641253 - UTGIVEN: 201301This book explores Achaemenid kingship and argues for the centrality of the royal court in elite Persian society. The first Persian Empire (559-331 BC) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seated at the heart of its vast dominions, in the south of modern-day Iran, was the person of th[...]
The Clothed Body in the Ancient World (Häftad)
avLiza Cleland, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Mary Harlow
ISBN: 9781842171653 - UTGIVEN: 200503
Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras (Inbunden)
avJohn (EDT) Marincola, Lloyd (EDT) Llewellyn-Jones, Calum (EDT) Maciver
ISBN: 9780748643967 - UTGIVEN: 2012-08A wide examination of the ways in which the Greeks constructed, de-constructed, engaged with and relied on their pasts. This volume in "The Edinburgh Leventis Studies" series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classi[...]
