Ancient History from Diatrope Books

American Journal of Ancient History (AJAH), 2003. Paperback. Good. Ex-library. Text unmarked. Includes "Irano-Hellenic Notes. 3. Iranians and Alexander" by A. Shapur Shahbazi, "Livy's Evidence for the Apamean Settlement (188 B.C.)" by Sviatoslav Dmitriev, "Iconography and Ideology: The Statue Group in the Temple of Mars Ultor" by Duncan Fishwick, and "The Politics of Agrippina the Younger's Birthplace" by… Read more about this item

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. Unmarked text. Covers excavations, site, and history. Beautifully illustrated. Map. Plan. 68p. Measures 5.5x8.25 inches. The Palace of Nestor was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and is described in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor's kingdom of "sandy Pylos.

Salih Zeki, 1987. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Some age tanning. Illustrated throughout. Maps. 48p. Measures 6.5x9 inches. Text in English.

Philipp von Zabern, 1995. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Notes inside back cover. Corner crease on cover. 48 pages with 26 color and 13 B/W illustrations. Includes a loose floor plan, photographs, drawings, and descriptive text. Also a sections on friezes (e.g. The Telephus Frieze), the Attalids, etc.

Editions du Patrimoine, nd. Paperback. Very Good. 8x4x0. Unmarked. Illustrated throughout. The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites near the south coast of Brittany in northwestern France, consisting of stone alignments, dolmens, tumuli and single menhirs. Measures 4.5x9 inches. 64p. Foldout covers, with a plan inside the front cover and a chronology inside the… Read more about this item

BC Scribe Publications, 1977. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Maps. Color plates. 48p. Measures 8.5x11 inches. .Bibliography. The author is an Egyptologist.

University of Chicago Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. One hundred-first year. Includes The Lyric in the Renaissance: The Use of Ghazals in Persian and Turkish Masnavis by Robert Dankoff, Some Graffitti in the Reign of Hatshepsut by Edward F. Wente, and more.

Getty, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Illustrated in color. Generously illustrated with ancient art from museums around the world, this is an engrossing, accessible biography of a legendary man. 176p. Measures 7.25x10.25 inches. Alexander III of Macedon (356 BCE-323BCE), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient… Read more about this item

University of Chicago Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. A few pencil marks in the books received section. Illustrated. Articles topics include Brinkman on Mesopotamia; Donner on early Arabic inscriptions from Al-Hanakiyya; Ritner on a Uterine amulet in the Oriental Institute Collection; Killean on the development of Western grammars of Arabic; Zittler on the small shrine of Enlil at… Read more about this item

National Gallery of Art, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Rubbed cover, like new internally. This is a publication by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), the National Gallery's research institute. Illustrated. Nine essays, representing widely different fields, address the visual aspects of narrative art from various cultures. Authors include Elizabeth L. Meyers,… Read more about this item

Anness Publishing, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated in color. This magnificent illustrated military history of Alexander The Great: covering the rise of Macedonia, the battles, campaigns and tactics of Alexander, and the collapse of his vast empire after his early death, all depicted in more than 250 pictures. 128p. Index. Measures 9x12 inches. Alexander III of Macedon… Read more about this item

University of Chicago Press, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. A few "X's" in the books received section. B/W illustrations and a map. Articles include "Islamic Civilization and the Legend of Political Failure" by Christie Hess Andrew, "The Cult of Aserah / Elat at Sidon" by John Wilson Betlyon, "Mernaptah's Israel" by W. W. Ahlstrom and D. Edelman, and… Read more about this item

University of Chicago Press, 1971. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. "X" mark in the table of contents. Some age tanning on edges. B/W illustrations throughout. Articles include "Documents concerning a cult of Arsinoe Philadelphos at Memphis" by Jan Quaegebeur, "Radiocarbon Chronology for Egypt and North Africa" by Robin M. Derricourt, "Mesopotamian Elements in the Middle Bronze II Culture of… Read more about this item

Getty Publications, 2012. Hardcover. Like New/as new. Factory sealed. This lavishly illustrated volume--featuring the works of artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, Chasseriau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, Dali, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol--surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection. 264p. Illustrated in black/white and… Read more about this item

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated in color and black/white. Maps. Objects range from prehistory to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Chronology. Schematic drawings of seal impressions. Bibliography. 280p.

British Museum, 1961. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Originally published in 1922, and revised in 1950, this is the 1961 reprint. Measures 9.75x12 inches. Reproduces the stone and cartouche examples that were used to decipher the stone. 8p.

University of Chicago Press, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Includes "Structuralist Interpretations of Pre-Islamic Poetry: Critique and New Directions" by Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, "Omen Texts Concerning Lesser Known Parts of the Lungs" by Ivan Starr, "Wall Paintings from Dur Kurigalzu" by Yoko Tomabechi, "Parallels between the Gilgamesh Epic and Plato's Symposium" by George F. Held, and Book… Read more about this item

University of Chicago Press, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Illustrated. Articles include "You Can't offer your sacrifice and Eat it too: A polemical poem from the Aramaic text in Demotic Script" by Steiner and Nims, "New Evidence for the History of Astrology" by Rochberg-Halton, "The Travels of the Ark: A Religio-Political Composition" by Ahlstrom, "A Marriage Deed from… Read more about this item

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2012. Hardcover. Like New/as new. Unmarked. Factory Sealed. 228p. Catalogs the rare and ancient images of people, animals, and landscapes made by the Egyptians who lived prior to the age of the pharaohs, when the formal conventions of Egyptian art had not yet fully evolved. Comprehensive texts explore the origins and early development of… Read more about this item

The Wisconsin Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Good. Unmarked booklet for April 13-May 4, 1975 exhibition celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies. Sun faded spine. Maps. Black and white images throughout. Bibliography. 48p. The exhibition gathered together artifacts from ancient Biblical sites and attempted to show the… Read more about this item