Kinship diplomacy in the ancient world / Christopher P. Jones.
Kinship diplomacy in the ancient world / Christopher P. Jones.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N306.8309495/1
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English
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193 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The Language of Kinship Diplomacy -- 2. The Beginnings -- 3. The Classical Age of Greece -- 4. Two Northern Kingdoms -- 5. Cities, Leagues, and Kings -- 6. Lycians and Jews -- 7. The Roman Republic -- 8. Two Cities -- 9. The Roman Empire -- 10. Late Antiquity -- Conclusion: The Human and Other Fa...
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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"Heroic figures such as Heracles, Perseus, and Jason were seen by the Greeks not as mythical figures but as real people who in a bygone age traveled the world, settled new lands, and left descendants who, generation after generation, could trace their ancestry back to the "time of heroes." From the Homeric age to Byzantium, peoples and nations shar...
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Kinship diplomacy in the ancient world / Christopher P. Jones.
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Revealing antiquity ; 12.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-188) and index.
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N306.8309495/1
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74VvW6xpGl8Z
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0674505271 (alk. paper)
9780674505278 :
0674505271 :
9780674505278 (alk. paper)
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306.8309495
306.830938
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991011893059702626
