The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"-and for good reason. It was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and bureaucracy, diplomacy and state-sponsored warfare, mathematics and literature. This Very Short Introduction offers a fascinating account of this momentous period in human history.
The Mysteries of Eleusis and Bacchus
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Greek Drama
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Classical Mythology
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The Chinese Must Go
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The Dawn of Political History
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Women Holding Things & Still Life with Remorse
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The Book of the Ancient Greeks : An Introduction to the History and Civilization of Greece from the Coming of the Greeks to the Conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.
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How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
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The Classical World
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Pollution is Colonialism
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Red Land, Black Land
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Ovid
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