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Libraries in the ancient world by Casson, Lionel, 1914-2009

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings : the ancient Near East -- The beginnings : Greece -- The library of Alexandria -- The growth of libraries -- The beginnings : Rome -- Libraries of the Roman Empire : the city of Rome -- Libraries of the Roman Empire : outside the city of Rome -- From roll to codex -- Toward the Middle Ages.…”
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Novel translations the European novel and the German book, 1680-1730 / by Wiggin, Bethany, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "little French books" and the European novel -- Fashion restructures the literary field -- Curing the French disease -- 1688 : the Roman becomes both poetical and popular -- 1696 : bringing the Roman to market -- Conclusion : Robinson Crusoe sails on the European market.…”
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Novel Translations The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730 / by Wiggin, Bethany, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "little French books" and the European novel -- Fashion restructures the literary field -- Curing the French disease -- 1688 : the Roman becomes both poetical and popular -- 1696 : bringing the Roman to market -- Conclusion : Robinson Crusoe sails on the European market.…”
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Sexing the world : grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Rome / by Corbeill, Anthony, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Latin grammatical gender is not arbitrary -- Roman scholars on grammatical gender and biological sex -- Roman poets on grammatical gender -- Poetic play with sex and gender -- Androgynous gods in archaic Rome -- Appendix to chapter 4: male/female pairs of deities -- The prodigious hermaphrodite.…”
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Ancient Rome by Dunstan, William E.

Table of Contents: “…Early Italy -- Origins of Rome -- The young republic -- Roman conquest of Italy -- Duel with Carthage -- Roman conquest of the Mediterranean world -- Impact of overseas conquests on the senatorial oligarchy -- Impact of overseas conquests of the economic and social organization of Italy -- Greek cultural influences on Rome -- Rival conceptions of state and society plague Roman politics : from the Gracchi to the Social War -- Sulla -- Pompey and Caesar -- Antony and Octavian wrestle for empire : final dissolution of the old republican order -- Economic, social, and cultural climate of the late republic -- Augustus and the founding of the Roman Empire -- Augustan social and religious policy -- Augustan art and literature and the Augustan legacy.…”
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Bengel's New Testament commentary / by Bengel, Johann Albrecht, 1687-1752

Table of Contents: “…Matthew--Acts -- v. 2. Romans--Revelation.…”

Judaism from Cyrus to Hadrian / by Grabbe, Lester L.

Table of Contents: “…The Persian and Greek periods -- v. 2. The Roman period.…”

Problems in ancient history.: the ancient near East and Greece/ Kagan, Donald by Kagan, Donald

Table of Contents: “…The ancient Near East and Greece.--v. 2. The Roman world.…”

Revelation 19 in historical and mythological context by Thomas, David Andrew, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Roman triumph -- Nero redivivus -- The Parthians and the great king -- Conclusion : synthesis and ramifications.…”
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Syracuse, city of legends a glory of Sicily / by Dummett, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…Foundation and the rule of Gelon and Hiero I -- Athenian expedition to Sicily -- Dionysius I: tyrant and warlord -- Five more tyrants -- Hiero II and the Roman siege -- Cicero and the rise of Rome -- Saint Lucia and the early Christians -- Byzantium and the Arab Siege -- Outline to 1945 -- Modern Syracuse -- The Greek era -- The Roman era -- The early Christian era -- Baroque Syracuse -- Other important monuments.…”
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The myth of Rome in Shakespeare and his contemporaries by Chernaik, Warren L.

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1. The Roman historians and the myth of Rome; 2. The wronged Lucretian and the early Republic; 3. …”
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The studia Philonica annual studies in Hellenistic Judaism /

Table of Contents: “…Articles -- Special section : Philo and Roman imperial power -- Bibliography section -- Book review section.…”
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Oikos--domos--household : the many lives of a common word / by O'Rourke, David K.

Table of Contents: “…The classical background -- Households in post Roman Europe -- The rise of the household word -- The multiple births of the American households.…”
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The Ears of Hermes : Communication, Images, and Identity in the Classical World / by Bettini, Maurizio

Table of Contents: “…Hermes' ears : places and symbols of communication in ancient culture -- Brutus the fool -- Mos, mores, and mos maiorum : the invention of morality in Roman culture -- Face to face in ancient Rome : the vocabulary of physical appearance in Latin -- Sosia and his substitute : thinking the double at Rome -- Ghosts of exile : doubles and nostalgia in Vergil's Parva troia -- Death and its double : imagines, ridiculum, and honos in the Roman aristocratic funeral -- Argumentum.…”
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Holocaust odysseys the Jews of Saint-Martin-Vésubie and their flight through France and Italy / by Zuccotti, Susan, 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Jewish immigrants and political refugees in France, 1933-1939 : Jacques and Paulette Samson, Lya Haberman, William Blye, and Charles Roman -- Jewish immigrants and political refugees in Belgium and Luxembourg before the war : Menahem Marienberg, Miriam Löwenwirth, Sigi Hart, Boris Carmeli, and Walter Marx -- Flight to southern France, May and June 1940 : Sigi Hart, Menahem Marienberg, Boris Carmeli, Miriam Löwenwirth, Lya Haberman, and Walter Marx -- Jewish refugees in the unoccupied zone, May 1940-August 1942 : Sigi Hart, Charles Roman, Menahem Marienberg, Walter Marx, Miriam Löwenwirth, and Boris Carmeli -- Arrests in the occupied zone, 1941-1942 : Jacques and Paulette Samson -- Arrests in the unoccupied zone, August 1942 : William Blye, Charles Roman, and Menahem Marienberg -- Narrow escapes and subsequent arrests in the unoccupied zone, August-November 1942 : Miriam Löwenwirth, Boris Carmeli, Sigi Hart, Charles Roman, and Walter Marx -- Saint-Martin-Vésubie, November 1942-September 1943 -- Crossing the Alps after September 8, 1943 -- Those who stayed behind -- The first week in Italy, September 11-17, 1943 -- The roundup in Valdieri and Borgo San Dalmazzo, September 18, 1943 -- Deportation from Borgo San Dalmazzo : the Marx and Marienberg families and Boris Carmeli -- Hiding in the province of Cuneo : William Blye, Charles Roman, Walter Marx, and Menahem Marienberg -- Resistance : Walter Marx and William Blye -- Traveling to and hiding in Florence, September and October 1943 : Miriam Löwenwirth, Sigi Hart, and Lya Haberman -- Arrests and narrow escapes in Florence, November 1943 : Sigi Hart, Miriam Löwenwirth, and Lya Haberman -- Traveling to and hiding in Rome, January-June 1944 : Charles Roman and Jacques Samson -- Auschwitz : Sigi Hart and Boris Carmeli -- After the war : Jacques and Paulette Samson, Charles Roman, Lya Haberman, and Miriam Löwenwirth -- After the war : William Blye, Walter Marx, Menahem Marienberg, Sigi Hart, and Boris Carmeli -- Journeys back.…”
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A glass darkly medicine and theology in further dialogue /

Table of Contents: “…The problem and the resources -- pt. 2. Roman Catholic responses -- pt. 3. Evangelical and Free Church responses.…”
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Counterfeit miracles / by Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge, 1851-1921

Table of Contents: “…. - Patristic and mediaeval marvels. - Roman Catholic miracles. - Irvingite gifts. - Faith-healing. - Mind-cure. - Notes.…”

History and the Enlightenment by Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003

Table of Contents: “…The historical philosophy of the Enlightenment -- The Scottish Enlightenment -- Pietro Giannone and Great Britain -- Dimitrie Cantemir's Ottoman history and its reception in England -- From deism to history: Conyers Middleton -- David Hume, historian -- The idea of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire -- Gibbon and the publication of the Decline and fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1976 -- Gibbon's last project -- The romantic movement and the study of history -- Lord Macaulay: the history of England -- Thomas Carlyle's historical philosophy -- Jacob Burckhardt.…”
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Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768 by Halfond, Gregory I.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Abbreviations and note on translations -- Introduction: A Roman institution in a post-Roman world -- Sources of conciliar history -- The physical world of the frankish councils -- The reflection of reality in conciliar legislation -- The enforcement of conciliar rulings -- From councils to canon law -- Continuity and change in the eighth century -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- A. …”
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Demystifying China new understandings of Chinese history /

Table of Contents: “…Chronology of China's Rulers -- Notes on Romanization, Names, and Chinese Characters -- Introduction: The Creation of History in China / Naomi Standen -- Part I. …”
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