Here is a list of titles added to the collection in the past week many of these titles came from a recent bequest to the library made by an ancient history enthusiast.
1700: scenes from London life /Maureen Waller. Waller captures the grit and excitement of London in 1700. Combining investigative reporting with popular history, she portrays London’s teeming, sprawling urban life and creates a brilliant cultural map of a city poised between medievalism and empire.
69 A.D.: the year of four emperors /Gwyn Morgan. A strikingly vivid account of ancient Rome, 69 AD is an original and compelling account of one of the best known but perhaps least understood periods in all Roman history. It will engage and enlighten all readers with a love for the tumultuous soap opera that was Roman political life.
A history of London /Stephen Inwood. The Romans built it, the Angles and Saxons invaded it, the Vikings ravaged it, the Normans conquered it. The history of London may indeed be a history of printing, the theater, newspapers, museums, pleasure gardens, music halls, international finance, and the novel, but for Inwood it is a history of the people whose tastes, talents, philosophies, and pocketbooks have created it — and sometimes threatened to destroy it.
Akhenaten, Egypt’s false prophet /Nicholas Reeves. Reeves argues that Akhenaten cynically used religion for purely political ends in a calculated attempt to reassert the authority of the king, thus concentrating power in his own hands. Ultimately his revolution failed as political, financial, and moral corruption overwhelmed the regime. His traditionalist successors showed little mercy, and with a ruthless determination systematically expunged all traces of Akhenaten’s existence.
Ancient goddesses: the myths and the evidence /editors, Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris. In Ancient Goddesses, historians and archaeologists write accessibly about this intriguing and controversial topic. Considering a number of significant early civilizations these experts review the most recent evidence so that readers can make up their own minds.
Jesus according to the New Testament /James D.G. Dunn. In this small, straightforward book designed for a lay audience, Dunn focuses his fifty-plus years of scholarship on the central question posed by the New Testament–who is Jesus? Dunn surveys the New Testament books from Matthew to Revelation, exploring and unpacking what they actually say about Jesus. Dunn’s Jesus according to the New Testament points to the wonder of those first witnesses and enriches our understanding of who Jesus is to us today.
Roman Britain: a new history /Guy de la Bédoyère. This illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province sets the Roman conquest and occupation of the island within the larger context of Romano-British society and how it functioned. The author first outlines events from the Iron Age period immediately preceding the conquest in AD 43 to the emperor Honorius’s advice to the Britons in 410 to fend for themselves. He then tackles the issues facing Britons after the absorption of their culture by an invading army, including the role of government and the military in the province, religion, commerce, technology, and daily life. The superb illustrations feature reconstruction drawings, dramatic aerial views of Roman remains, and images of Roman villas, mosaics, coins, pottery, and sculpture.
Roman Gaul and Germany /Anthony King. Drawing on many recent excavations throughout Gaul and Germany, this generously illustrated book—co-published with the British Museum—brings a wealth of archaeological findings to bear upon a crucial period in Roman history. King has interpreted the most recent research data available to reconstruct the Romanization of the provinces until its eventual decline.
Sailing the wine-dark sea: why the Greeks matter /Thomas Cahill. Cahill escorts the reader on another entertaining—and historically unassailable—journey through the landmarks of art and bloodshed that defined Greek culture nearly three millennia ago. Granting equal time to the sacred and the profane, Cahill rivets our attention to the legacies of an ancient and enduring worldview.
Temples of the last pharaohs /Dieter Arnold. Using the great work Description de l’Egypt, published in Paris in 1809-1928 as his primary source, Arnold has reconstructed and redrawn all of the lost buildings of the Late Period–some in computer
assisted images–and redrawn all other available plans. These, along with superb photographs of extant temples dating to Ptolemaic and Roman times, are included in this book on the formal and stylistic development of Egyptian temple architecture. The study places special emphasis on the survival of Egyptian building elements in Roman and Medieval European architecture and includes descriptions of building volume, stylistic evaluations, and foreign connections of the monuments as well as a detailed account of all known building activities from the end of the New Kingdom (c 716 BC) to the end of the Roman period.
The complete Tutankhamun: the king, the tomb, the royal treasure /by Nicholas Reeves ; foreword by the Seventh Earl of Carnarvon. Here is the fullest account yet published of this fabulous archaeological discovery.T ells the story of the boy-king, and describes his burial, the quest for his tomb, the riches found there, and the legendary curse
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