Author: Pausanias
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Pausanias
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Author: University of California (System). Institute of Library Research
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: Pausanias
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Chiara Maria Mauro
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 178969129X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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A study of the archaeology and history of ancient harbours, with particular focus on the Greek world during the Archaic and Classical eras. It questions what locations were the most propitious for the installation of harbours; what kinds of harbour-works were built and for what purpose; and what harbour forms were documented.

Author: Olga Tribulato
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029317
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the languages of ancient Sicily by an international team of experts.

Author: Gaius Secundus
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ISBN: 9781977527585
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Gaius Plinius Secundus, better known as Pliny the Elder was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of the emperor Vespasian. Spending most of his spare time studying, writing, and investigating natural and geographic phenomena in the field, Pliny wrote the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia (Natural History), which became an editorial model for encyclopedias. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote of him in a letter to the historian Tacitus: For my part I deem those blessed to whom, by favour of the gods, it has been granted either to do what is worth writing of, or to write what is worth reading; above measure blessed those on whom both gifts have been conferred. In the latter number will be my uncle, by virtue of his own and of your compositions. Pliny the Younger refers to Tacitus's reliance upon his uncle's book, the History of the German Wars. Pliny the Elder died in AD 79, while attempting the rescue, by ship, of a friend and his family, in Stabiae, from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which already had destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The wind caused by the sixth and largest pyroclastic surge of the volcano's eruption did not allow his ship to leave port, and Pliny probably died during that event. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

Author: Frank Santi Russell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472110643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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"Information Gathering in Classical Greece opens with chapters on tactical, strategic, and covert agents. Methods of communication are explored, from fire-signals to dead-letter drops. Frank Russell categorizes and defines the collectors and sources of information according to their era, methods, and spheres of operation, and he also provides evidence from ancient authors on interrogation and the handling and weighing of information. Counterintelligence is also explored, together with disinformation through "leaks" and agents. The author concludes this fascinating study with observations on the role that intelligence-gathering has in the kind of democratic society for which Greece has always been famous"--Publisher description.

Author: Henry Cabot Lodge
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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