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Etruscan Civilization : Cultural History (00 Edition)
by Sybille Haynes  Publisher Comments This comprehensive survey of Etruscan civilization, from its origin in the Villanovan Iron Age in the ninth century B.C. to its absorption by Rome in the first century B.C., combines well-known aspects of the Etruscan world with new discoveries and fresh...
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Etruscan Art (World of Art)
by Nigel Jonath Spivey Synopsis A critical survey which attempts to bring to life the enigmatic Etruscan people and their art. Archaeological evidence survives of this cultured and socially adept civilization with the emergence of richly frescoed tombs, exquisite jewelry and sculpture,...
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Pompeii Day a City Died
by Robert Etienne Synopsis Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries "RM" volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed...
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
by Peter Watson Publisher Comments The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the...
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Daily Life of the Etruscans
by Jacques Heurgon Publisher Comments The Etruscans were the most important--and remarkable--of the peoples who inhabited early Italy. But when the Romans gained supremacy, the distinctive Etruscan culture gradually disappeared. This masterly re-creation of the lives of a now-forgotten...
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Ancient Sicily: Monuments Past and Present (Monuments Past and Present)
by Gaetano Messineo Publisher Comments This new book in the popular Monuments Past and Present series explores historic sites in Sicily, illustrating important monuments and districts as they appear today, with overlays indicating how the sites are thought to have looked in ancient times. The...
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The Town of Hercules: A Buried Treasure Trove
by Joseph Jay Deiss Publisher Comments In A.D. 79, Herculaneum, a small resort town on Italy's western coast, was buried, along with its larger neighbor Pompeii, under an avalanche of lava and ash by Mount Vesuvius. So deep were the towns buried that over the centuries even the memory of them...
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
by Peter Watson Publisher Comments The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the...
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Discoveries: Search for Ancient Rome (Discoveries)
by Claude Moatti Synopsis Though Rome has been destroyed and rebuilt over and over again, traces of the ancient city--the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Trajan's Column--have never completely disappeared. Scholars and treasure hunters, archaeologists and artists, popes and poets have...
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Pompeii: The Vanished City
by Time Life Books Publisher Comments Readers assume the role of archaeologists, uncovering secrets of ancient civilizations. Stunning photographs and illustrations, plus detailed cutaways, maps and diagrams....
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Colosseum
by Keith Hopkins Publisher Comments Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series Byron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and...
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Rome: History and Treasures of an Ancient Civilization (Treasures Ancient Civilization)
by Maria Teresa Guaitoli Publisher Comments An evocative pictorial journey into the origins of Rome covers its formative years to the crisis of fifth-century BC, evaluating historical, architectural, and artistic facets of key periods to trace the influence of the many cultures that were absorbed...
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Protohistoric Settlement on Citadella
by Robert Leighton Publisher Comments Excavations conducted at Morgantina by Princeton University and the University of Illinois have revealed substantial Iron Age remains beneath the Greek town on the Cittadella hilltop. In this volume Robert Leighton presents a full study of this extensive...
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The Etruscans
by Graeme Barker Publisher Comments This is the first full account of the Etruscan peoples and the society that fluorished in Italy before the rise of the Roman Republic. This book incorporates the findings of recent extensive archaeological investigations by Italian, Swedish and British...
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Roman Italy
by T W Potter Publisher Comments This is the first general survey of Roman Italy that brings together the wealth of evidence available from literary sources, inscriptions, and the exciting recent discoveries in Roman archaeology. Written in a lively prose with the lay reader as well as...
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Roman Pottery
by Kevin Greene Publisher Comments The sheer abundance of pottery found on Roman sites throughout Europe and Asia makes it essential to our understanding of the ancient societies that created it. This book explains how traditional methods of classification have been supplemented by modern...
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Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum (J. Paul Getty Museum)
by Victoria C Coates Publisher Comments Beginning in 1709, when their antiquities first were recovered, Pompeii and Herculaneum have exercised the historical imagination of the West. This volume presents a diverse array of response to the sites, tracing how perceptions of the past have changed...
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Etruscan
by Larissa Bonfante Publisher Comments Before the rise of Rome, the Etruscans dominated central Italy commercially and culturally. Significantly, it was the Etruscans who passed the alphabet on to the Romans. But in the first century B.C., when they had become Roman citizens and begun to...
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Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum: Great Britain 2 Cambridge
by Richard V Nicholls Synopsis The Corpus Speculorum Etruscorum is an international project with the objective of publishing all known Etruscan mirrors. The Cambridge volume is the first British fascicule to appear. It provides a detailed account of the ancient Etruscan bronze mirrors...
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Art in the Roman Empire
by Michael Grant Synopsis In this engaging study, Michael Grant presents some of the most outstanding manifestations of art from all over the enormous territory which was the Roman empire. He has selected items which particularly represent the special achievements and functions...
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