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The Court of Comedy : Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens / by Major, Wilfred E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Sicilian pioneers of comedy and rhetoric and their transmission to Athens -- Old comedy and proto-rhetoric in Athens before 425 B.C.E. : the age of Pericles -- The young comic playwrights attack, 425-421 B.C.E. -- The years of confidence, 421-414 B.C.E. -- Crawling from the wreckage, 411 B.C.E. -- Tongues, frogs, and the last stand.…”
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Homosexuality & civilization by Crompton, Louis, 1925-2009

Table of Contents: “…Early Greece: 776-480 BCE -- Judea: 900 BCE-600 CE -- Classical Greece: 480-323 BCE -- Rome and Greece: 323 BCE-138 CE -- Christians and pagans: 1-565 CE -- Darkness descends: 476-1049 -- Medieval world: 1050-1321 -- Imperial China: 500 BCE-1849 -- Italy in the Renaissance: 1321-1609 -- Spain and the Inquisition: 1497-1700 -- France from Calvin to Louis XIV: 1517-1715 -- England from the Reformation to William III: 1533-1702 -- Pre-Meiji Japan: 800-1868 -- Patterns of persecution: 1700-1730 -- Sapphic lovers: 1700-1793 -- The Enlightenment: 1730-1810.…”
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Tel Dan in its northern cultic context / by Davis, Andrew R., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…The site of Tel Dan and its sacred precinct -- Area T, Stratum III: a ninth-century-B.C.E. cult site -- Area T, Stratum II: an eighth-century-B.C.E. cult site -- Part II. …”
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Cuisine and empire : cooking in world history / by Laudan, Rachel, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Mastering grain cookery, 2,000-300 B.C.E -- The barley-wheat cuisines of the ancient empires, 500 B.C.E.-400 C.E -- Buddhism transforms the cuisines of eastern Asia, 200 B.C.E.-800 C.E -- Islam transforms the cuisines of central and west Asia, 800-1650 C.E -- Christianity transforms the cuisines of Europe and the Americas, 100-1650 C.E -- Prelude to modern cuisines: Europe, 1650-1840 -- Modern cuisines in the industrializing regions, 1810-1920 -- The globalization of modern cuisines, 1920-2000.…”
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The family a world history / by Maynes, Mary Jo

Table of Contents: “…Domestic life and human origins (to 5000 BCE) -- The birth of the gods: family in the emergence of religions and cosmologies -- Ruling families: kinship at the dawn of politics (ca. 3000 BCE to 1450 CE) -- Family dynamics in a global frame (1400-1750) -- Families in global markets (1600-1850) -- Families in revolutionary times (1750-1920) -- Powers of life and death: families in the era of state population management (1880 to the present).…”
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Masculinities in Chinese history / by Hinsch, Bret

Table of Contents: “…Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE) : separation of the sexes -- Han Dynasty (206 BCE 220 ce) : honor culture -- Jin Dynasty (265-420) : Buddhism and changing masculinity -- Tang Dynasty (618-907) : masculine honor and women -- Song Dynasty (960-1279) : cultural capital and manhood -- Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) : marginal heroes -- Late qing and republican eras : modernizing masculinity -- Revolution, reform, and beyond.…”
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Secular cycles by Turchin, Peter, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the theoretical background -- Medieval England : the Plantagenet cycle (1150-1485) -- Early modern England : the Tudor-Stuart cycle (1485-1730) -- Medieval France : the Capetian cycle (1150-1450) -- Early modern France : the Valois cycle (1450-1660) -- Rome : the Republican cycle (350-30 BCE) -- Rome : the Principate cycle (30 BCE-285 CE) -- Russia : the Muscovy cycle (1460-1620) -- Russia : the Romanov cycle (1620-1922) -- General Conclusions.…”
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A day apart how Jews, Christians, and Muslims find faith, freedom, and joy on the Sabbath / by Ringwald, Christopher D.

Table of Contents: “…From Sinai to Sunday: the Holy Day in three religions and three families -- The birth of the Sabbath: from creation to Mount Sinai and into the Promised Land in 1100 BCE -- The fight for the Sabbath: from the monarchy to Jesus and the age of the rabbis: 1000 BCE to 200 CE -- The Lord's Day: Easter to 1600 -- Islam's Day of Judgment -- Citizens and Sabbatarians: 1600 to 1890 -- The Sabbath defeated, reborn, converted: 1890 to the present -- The window on eternity -- Give me a break: work, rest, equality, play, and place -- The promise of peace: sharing the Holy Day.…”
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China its environment and history / by Marks, Robert, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Problems and perspectives -- China's natural environment and early human settlement to 1000 BCE -- States, wars, and farms: environmental change in ancient and early imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE -- Deforesting the north and colonizing the south in the middle imperial period, 300-1300 CE -- Empire and environment: China's borderlands, islands, and inner peripheries in the late imperial period, 1300-1800 CE -- Environmental degradation in modern China, 1800-1949 -- Controlling nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-present -- China and its environment in world historical perspective.…”
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Dynamics of production in the Ancient Near East : 1300-500 BC /

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Paul and ancient views of sexual desire Paul's sexual ethics in 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 Corinthians 7 and Romans 1 / by Ellis, J. Edward

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Views of sexual desire in Jewish literature from 200 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. -- Views of sexual desire among Greek and Roman moralists and philosophers -- 1 Corinthians 7 in light of the Greek romantic novels -- Summary, implications, and avenues for further research.…”
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Sport and democracy in the ancient and modern worlds by Christesen, Paul, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Sport and society in sixth- and fifth-century BCE Greece; 10. Sport and democratization in sixth- and fifth-century BCE Greece; 11. …”
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Religion in human evolution from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age / by Bellah, Robert Neelly, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Religion and reality -- Religion and evolution -- Tribal religion : the production of meaning -- From tribal to archaic religion : meaning and power -- Archaic religion : God and king -- The Axial Age I : introduction and ancient Israel -- The Axial Age II : ancient Greece -- The Axial Age III : China in the late first millennium BCE -- The Axial Age IV : ancient India -- Conclusion.…”
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Speech on behalf of Publius Sestius by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Table of Contents: “…Ciceronian chronology, 58-56 BCE -- Appendix 2. Clodius' 'incest' -- Appendix 3. …”
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Egypt a short history : with a new afterword by the author / by Tignor, Robert L.

Table of Contents: “…The land and people -- Egypt during the Old Kingdom -- The Middle and New Kingdoms -- Nubians, Greeks, and Romans, circa 1200 BCE-632 CE -- Christian Egypt -- Egypt within Islamic empires, 639-969 -- Fatimids, Ayyubids, and Mamluks, 969-1517 -- Ottoman Egypt, 1517-1798 -- Napoleon Bonaparte, Muhammad Ali, and Ismail : Egypt in the nineteenth century -- The British period, 1882-1952 -- Egypt for the Egyptians, 1952-1981 : Nasser and Sadat -- Mubarak's Egypt -- Conclusion : Egypt through the millennia.…”
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Coastal shrines and transnational maritime networks across India and Southeast Asia / by Ray, Himanshu Prabha

Table of Contents: “…Culture, the written word and the sea, 3rd century BCE to 4th century CE -- Maritime cultural landscapes and expanding networks, 4th to 7th century -- Travelling relics -- From the Tamil Coast to Vietnam : the king and the temple -- The coastal shrine and maritime networks, 7th to 13th century CE -- The Buddhist 'cosmopolis' re-examined -- Shipwrecks sites : connecting the dots -- From religious shrines to monuments : national identity to transnational heritage.…”
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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals : History, Memory, and Transnationalism / by Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering.…”
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West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals : History, Memory, and Transnationalism / by Njoku, Raphael Chijioke

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- On Origins of Masking: History, Memory, and Ritual Observances -- Aspects of Society and Culture in the Biafra Hinterland -- Bantu Migrations and Cultural Transnationalism in the Ancient Global Age, c. 2500 BCE-1400 CE -- Bight of Biafra, Slavery, and Diasporic Africa in the Modern Global Age, 1400-1800 -- Igbo Masquerade Dances in the African Diasporas:Symbols and Meanings -- Unmasking the Masquerade: Counterideologies and Contemporary Practices -- Idioms of Religion, Music, Dance, and African Art Forms -- Memory and Masquerade Narratives: The Art of Remembering.…”
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Judah and the Judeans in the neo-Babylonian period

Table of Contents: “…Zorn -- Settlement of the Jews at Elephantine and the Arameans at Syene / Bezalel Porten -- The representation of foreigners in neo- and late-Babylonian legal documents (eighth through second centuries B.C.E.) / Ran Zadok.…”
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A companion to Terence

Table of Contents: “…Hanchey 7. opera in bello, in otio, in negotio: Terence and Rome in the 160s BCE John H. Starks, Jr. 8. Religious Ritual and Family Dynamics in Terence T. …”
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