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      The Cleopatras

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      A remarkable insight into the real story of the seven Queen Cleopatras of Ancient Egypt

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      Shahnameh

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      A fresh and compulsively readable new translation of the Persian epic Shahnameh, for fans of Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology and Edith Hamilton's Mythology.

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      The Cleopatras

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history's most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But…

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      Persians: The Age of The Great Kings

      Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      A definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world’s first superpower.

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      The Cleopatras

      Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      A remarkable insight into the real story of the seven Queen Cleopatras of Ancient Egypt

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      Persians

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      A "brilliant feat of resurrection" (Tom Holland, author of Dominion), offering a stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over…

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      Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      First published in 2022 by Wildfire, an imprint of Headline Publishing Group, an Hachette UK company. –Title page verso.

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      Persians: The Age of The Great Kings

      Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      A definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world’s first superpower.

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      Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University, UK)

      Esther is the most visual book of the Hebrew Bible and largely crafted in the Fourth Century BCE by an author who was clearly au fait with the rarefied world…

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      Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Alex McAuley

      This first full-length study of sister-queens Kleopatra II and Kleopatra Thea explores the roles and ideology of ancient queensship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of…

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      King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      The first Persian Empire (559-331 BC) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seated at the heart of its vast dominions, in the south of modern-day Iran…

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      King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      This book explores the representation of Persian monarchy and the court of the Achaemenid Great Kings from the point of view of the ancient Iranians themselves and through the sometimes…

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      Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      Explore how history was brought to life on the silver screen and how the Hollywood’s epic movies dictated our vision of the past. This lively study analyses how Hollywood producers…

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      Designs on the Past: How Hollywood Created the Ancient World

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      Explore how history was brought to life on the silver screen and how the Hollywood’s epic movies dictated our vision of the past. This lively study analyses how Hollywood producers…

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      Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this major study. The Greeks, rightly credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part…

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      Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World

      The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women’s history has been little studied. In…

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      Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther: Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Cardiff University, UK)

      Esther is the most visual book of the Hebrew Bible and largely crafted in the Fourth Century BCE by an author who was clearly au fait with the rarefied world…

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      Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period: Kleopatra Thea and Kleopatra III

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Alex McAuley

      This first full-length study of sister-queens Kleopatra II and Kleopatra Thea explores the roles and ideology of ancient queensship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of…

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      The Culture of Animals in Antiquity: A Sourcebook with Commentaries

      Sian Lewis,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly-presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known and others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to the part…

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      The Culture of Animals in Antiquity: A Sourcebook with Commentaries

      Sian Lewis,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly-presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known and others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to the part…

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      Creating a Hellenistic World

      Andrew Erskine,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. But Macedonian power also brought with it Greeks and Greek culture. This book explores the creation of…

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      Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z

      Glenys Davies,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then this alphabetized compendium of styles and accessories that form the well-known classical image is a book that…

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      Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z

      Glenys Davies,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then this alphabetized compendium of styles and accessories that form the well-known classical image is a book that…

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      The Clothed Body in the Ancient World

      Liza Cleland,Mary Harlow,Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

      The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The sixteen contributors present on-going research into the…

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      Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians

      This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference, It engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek…

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      The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra

      Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander.

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      Luxury and power: Persia to Greece

      James Fraser

      An eye-opening publication that contrasts perceptions of luxury - together with its positive and negative connotations - in imperial Persia, democratic Athens and the Hellenistic world between 600 and 200…

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      Ctesias’ ‘History of Persia’: Tales of the Orient

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,James Robson (The Open University, UK)

      Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his twenty-three book History of Persia in the fifth century BC. Presented here in English translation for the first time with commentaries and illustrations, Ctesias’ History…

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      Ctesias’ ‘History of Persia’: Tales of the Orient

      Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones,James Robson (The Open University, UK)

      Offers insights into the history of Persia in the fifth century BC. This book describes the workings of Persian court life and the gossip and scandal surrounding Persian history and…

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