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Crisis and Conflict in Han China 104 BC to AD 9

Crisis and Conflict in Han China 104 BC to AD 9

This book first published in 1974 studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9) a time of great intellectual religious and political change. The struggle between Reformists and Modernists is analysed using texts contemporary to the time and this struggle was a key point in Chinese history leading as it did to enormous change including to economics and foreign policy. | Crisis and Conflict in Han China 104 BC to AD 9

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The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age

The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age

With the emergence and structuring of the Lucanian ethnos during the fourth century BC a network of cult places set apart from habitation spaces was created at the crossroads of the most important communication routes of ancient Lucania. These sanctuaries became centers of social and political aggregation of the local communities: a space in which the community united for all the social manifestations that in urban societies were usually performed within the city space. With a detailed analysis of the archaeological record this study traces the historical and archaeological narrative of Lucanian cult places from their creation to the Late Republican Age which saw the incorporation of southern Italy into the Roman state. By placing the sanctuaries within their territorial political social and cultural context Battiloro offers insight into the diachronic development of sacred architecture and ritual customs in ancient Lucania. The author highlights the role of material evidence in constructing the significance of sanctuaries in the historical context in which they were used and crucial new evidence from the most recent archaeological investigations is explored in order to define dynamics of contact and interaction between Lucanians and Romans on the eve of the Roman conquest. | The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places Fourth Century BC to the Early Imperial Age

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Carthage A Biography

Carthage A Biography

Carthage tells the life story of the city both as one of the Mediterranean’s great seafaring powers before 146 BC and after its refounding in the first century BC. It provides a comprehensive history of the city and its unique culture and offers students an insight into Rome’s greatest enemy. Hoyos explores the history of Carthage from its foundation traditionally claimed to have been by political exiles from Phoenicia in 813 BC through to its final desertion in AD 698 at the hands of fresh eastern arrivals the Arabs. In these 1500 years Carthage had two distinct lives separated by a hundred-year silence. In the first and most famous life the city traded and warred on equal terms with Greeks and then with Rome which ultimately led to Rome utterly destroying the city after the Third Punic War. A second Carthage Roman in form was founded by Julius Caesar in 44 BC and flourished both as a centre for Christianity and as capital of the Vandal kingdom until the seventh-century expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate. Carthage is a comprehensive study of this fascinating city across 15 centuries that provides a fascinating insight into Punic history and culture for students and scholars of Carthaginian Roman and Late Antique history. Written in an accessible style this volume is also suitable for the general reader. | Carthage A Biography

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Ebla Archaeology and History

Ebla Archaeology and History

In Ebla Paolo Matthiae presents the results of 47 years of excavations at this fascinating site providing a detailed account of Ebla’s history and archaeology. Ebla grew from a small Early Bronze Age settlement into an important trading and political centre which endured until its final destruction in c. 1600 BC . The destruction of its royal palace c. 2300 BC was particularly significant as it preserved the city’s rich archives offering a wealth of information on its history economy religion administration and daily life. The discovery of Ebla is a pivotal moment in the history of archaeological investigations of the twentieth century and this book is the result of all the excavation campaigns at Tell Mardikh- Ebla from 1964 until 2010 when field operations stopped due to the war in Syria. Available for the first time in English Ebla offers a complete account of one of the largest pre-classical urban centres by its discoverer making it an essential resource for students of Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and history. | Ebla Archaeology and History

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Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

The achievements of the Greek cavalry on the battlefield were monumental and yet until now the heavy infantry - the hoplite - has received by far the most attention from military historians. This book traces the history of the Greek cavalry offering a reassessment of the place of mounted troops in the warfare of Ancient Greece. Its historical sweep is broad with coverage which extends from 1400 BC through the Archaic period to the Classical period. | Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

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The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN

The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN

MUL. APIN written sometime before the 8th century BC was the most widely copied astronomical text in ancient Mesopotamia: a compendium including information such as star lists descriptions of planetary phases mathematical schemes for the length of day and night a discussion of the luni-solar calendar and rules for intercalation and a short collection of celestial omens. This book contains an introductory essay followed by a new edition of the text and a facing-page transliteration and English translation. Finally the book contains a new and detailed commentary on the text. This is a fascinating study and an important resource for anyone interested in the history of astronomy. | The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL. APIN

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The Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire

The Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire

The aim of this book is to explore the significance of the concept of ‘monument’ in the context of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC) with particular reference to the Royal Ensemble of Persepolis founded by Darius I and built together with his son Xerxes. While Persepolis was built as an ‘intentional monument’ it had already become an ‘historic monument’ during the Achaemenid period. It maintained its symbolic significance in the following centuries even after its destruction by Alexander of Macedonia in 330 BC. The purpose of building Persepolis was to establish a symbol and a common reference for the peoples of the Empire with the Achaemenid Dynasty transmitting significant messages and values such as peace stability grandeur and praise for the dynastic figure of the king as the protector of values and fighting falsehood. While previous research on Achaemenid heritage has mainly been on archaeological and art-historical aspects of Persepolis the present work focuses on the architecture and design of Persepolis. It is supported by studies in the fields of archaeology history and art history as well as by direct survey of the site. The morphological analysis of Persepolis including the study of the proportions of the elevations and the verification of a planning grid for the layout of the entire ensemble demonstrate the univocal will by Darius to plan Persepolis following a precise initial scheme. The study shows how the inscriptions bas-reliefs and the innovative architectural language together express the symbolism values and political messages of the Achaemenid Dynasty exhibiting influence from different lands in a new architectural language and in the plan of the entire site. | The Concept of Monument in Achaemenid Empire

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A History of Chinese Martial Arts

A History of Chinese Martial Arts

Chinese martial arts have a long meaningful history and deep cultural roots. They blend the physical components of combat with strategy philosophy and tradition distinguishing them from Western sports. A History of Chinese Martial Arts is the most authoritative study ever written on this topic featuring contributions from leading Chinese scholars and practitioners. The book provides a comprehensive overview of all types of Chinese martial arts from the Pre-Qin Period (before 222 BC) right up to the present day in the People’s Republic of China with each chapter covering a different period in Chinese history. Including numerous illustrations of artefacts weaponry and historical drawings and documents this book offers unparalleled insight into the origins development and contemporary significance of martial arts in China. This is a fascinating read for researchers and students working in sports history Chinese sport and Chinese Studies.

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The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD. The Parthians were Rome’s great opponents in the east but comparatively little is known about them. The Parthians focuses on the rise expansion flowering and decline of the Parthian Empire and covers both the wars with the Romans in the west and the nomads in the east. Sources include the small amount from the Empire itself as well as those from outside the Parthian world such as Greek Roman and Chinese documents. Ellerbrock also explores the Parthian military social history religions art architecture and numismatics all supported by a great number of images and maps. The Parthians is an invaluable resource for those studying the Ancient Near East during the period of the Parthian Empire as well as for more general readers interested in this era. | The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

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Excavating Pilgrimage Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World

Excavating Pilgrimage Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World

This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world focusing in particular on Classical and Hellenistic Greece the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. It thus discusses how archaeological evidence can be used to advance our understanding of ancient pilgrimage and ritual experience. The volume brings together a group of scholars who explore some of the rich archaeological evidence for sacred travel and movement such as the material footprint of different activities undertaken by pilgrims the spatial organization of sanctuaries and the wider catchment of pilgrimage sites as well as the relationship between architecture art and ritual. Contributions also tackle both methodological and theoretical issues related to the study of pilgrimage sacred travel and other types of movement to from and within sanctuaries through case studies stretching from the first millennium BC to the early medieval period. | Excavating Pilgrimage Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Travel and Movement in the Ancient World

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Poems from Korea From the Earliest Era to the Present

Poems from Korea From the Earliest Era to the Present

The Koreans according to the Chinese chronicles are ‘the people who enjoy singing and dancing’ and who regaled their gods with dance and song. Since then poetry has been an essential part of Korean life and has been regarded as the highest of the arts. In this first comprehensive anthology of Korean poetry in English first published in 1974 Peter Lee has selected and translated a wide variety of poems ranging from the Silla Dynasty in 57 BC to the middle of the twentieth century. The poems chosen reflect not only the native Korean tradition but also the great tradition of Chinese poetry. They often possess a deep lyrical quality many are rich in religious overtones or derive their beauty from contemplation of nature and through many of the poems runs the feeling of the closeness of Korean life to the earth. | Poems from Korea From the Earliest Era to the Present

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Damascus A History

Damascus A History

Damascus first published in 2005 was the first account in English of the history of the city bringing out the crucial role it has played at many points in the region’s past. It traces the story of this colourful significant and complex city through its physical development from the its emergence in around 7000 BC through the changing cavalcade of Aramaean Persian Greek Roman Byzantine Arab Turkish and French rulers to independence in 1946. This new edition has been thoroughly updated using recent scholarship and includes an additional chapter placing the events of the Syrian post-2011 conflict in the context of the city’s tumultuous experiences over the last century. This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in the sweep of Syrian history and archaeology and is an ideal partner to Burns’ Aleppo (2016). Lavishly illustrated Damascus: A History remains a unique and compelling exploration of this fascinating city. | Damascus A History

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Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

The study of Syria as a Roman province has been neglected by comparison with equivalent geographical regions such as Italy Egypt Greece and even Gaul. It was however one of the economic powerhouses of the empire from its annexation until after the empire’s dissolution. As such it clearly deserves some particular consideration but at the same time it was a major contributor to the military strength of the empire notably in the form of the recruitment of auxiliary regiments several dozens of which were formed from Syrians. Many pagan gods such as Jupiter Dolichenus and Jupiter Heliopolitanus Dea Syra and also Judaism originated in Syria and reached the far bounds of the empire. This book is a consideration based on original sources of the means by which Syrians whose country was only annexed to the empire in 64 BC saw their influence penetrate into all levels of society from private soldiers and ordinary citizens to priests and to imperial families. | Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

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New Songs from a Jade Terrace An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry Translated with Annotations and an Introduction

New Songs from a Jade Terrace An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry Translated with Annotations and an Introduction

This book first published in 1982 was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell’s incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing courtly love poetry. In particular the reader’s attention is drawn to the many and varied artistic uses of imagery in the poems. Major poets are noted for their artistic achievement and for their contribution to the development of the genre. Dr Birrell also supplies a valuable section of notes on the poems to guide the reader through unfamiliar historical events legends anecdotes and famous places and people and there is a similar section of notes on the poets offering biographical details. | New Songs from a Jade Terrace An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry Translated with Annotations and an Introduction

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Rethinking Prehistoric Central Asia Shepherds Farmers and Nomads

Rethinking Prehistoric Central Asia Shepherds Farmers and Nomads

The peoples of Inner Asia in the second half of the first millennium BC have long been considered to be nomads engaging in warfare and conflict. This book which presents the findings of new archaeological research in southeastern Kazakhstan analyzes these findings to present important conclusions about the nature of Inner Asian society in this period. Pots animal bones ancient plant remains and mudbricks are details from the material record proving that the ancient folk cultivated wheat barley and the two millets and also husbanded sheep goats cattle and horses. The picture presented is of societies which were more complex than heretofore understood: with an economic foundation based on both herding and farming producing surplus agricultural goods which were exported and with a hierarchical social structure including elites and commoners made cohesive by gift-giving feasting and tribute rather than conflict and warfare. The book includes material on the impact of the first opening of the Silk Route by the Han emperors of China. | Rethinking Prehistoric Central Asia Shepherds Farmers and Nomads

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The World of the Oxus Civilization

The World of the Oxus Civilization

This collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia. First discovered in the 1970s the Oxus Civilization or the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) has engendered many different interpretations which are explored in this volume by an international group of archaeologists and researchers. Contributors cover all aspects of this fascinating Bronze Age culture: architecture; material culture; grave goods; religion; migrations; and trade and interactions with neighboring civilizations from Mesopotamia to the Indus and the Gulf to the northern steppes. Chapters also examine the Oxus Civilization’s roots in previous local cultures explore its environmental and chronological context or the possibly coveted metal sources and look into the reasons for its decline. The World of the Oxus Civilization offers a broad and fascinating examination of this society and provides an invaluable updated resource for anyone working on the culture history and archaeology of this region and on the multiple interactions at work at that time in the ancient Near East.

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Bronze Age Worlds A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Bronze Age Worlds A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

Bronze Age Worlds brings a new way of thinking about kinship to the task of explaining the formation of social life in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Britain and Ireland’s diverse landscapes and societies experienced varied and profound transformations during the twenty-fifth to eighth centuries BC. People’s lives were shaped by migrations changing beliefs about death making and thinking with metals and living in houses and field systems. This book offers accounts of how these processes emerged from social life from events places and landscapes informed by a novel theory of kinship. Kinship was a rich and inventive sphere of culture that incorporated biological relations but was not determined by them. Kinship formed personhood and collective belonging and associated people with nonhuman beings things and places. The differences in kinship and kinwork across Ireland and Britain brought textures to social life and the formation of Bronze Age worlds. Bronze Age Worlds offers new perspectives to archaeologists and anthropologists interested in the place of kinship in Bronze Age societies and cultural development. | Bronze Age Worlds A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland

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Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

The Liangzhu Culture (3 300-2 300 BC) represented the peak of prehistoric cultural and social development in the Yangtze Delta. With a wide sphere of influence centred near present-day Hangzhou City Liangzhu City is considered one of the earliest urban centres in prehistoric China. Although it remains a mystery for many in the West Liangzhu is well known in China for its fine jade-crafting industry; its enormous well-structured earthen palatial compound and recently discovered hydraulic system; and its far-flung impact on contemporary and succeeding cultures. The archaeological ruins of Liangzhu City were added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in July 2019. Liangzhu Culture contextualises Liangzhu in broad socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and provides new first-hand data to help explain the development and structure of this early urban centre. Among its many insights the volume reveals how elites used jade as a means of acquiring social power and how Liangzhu and its centre stand in comparison to other prehistoric urban centres in the world. This book the first of its kind published in the English language will be a useful guide to students at all levels interested in the material culture and social structures of prehistoric China and beyond. | Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

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The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1 400 years of Roman history from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin Greek Syriac Armenian and Arabic and relying on a host of inscriptions archaeological data and the evidence from ancient art architecture and coinage The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad brings to the fore the men and women who chronicled the story of the city and its empire. Richly illustrated with 71 maps and 228 illustrations—including 20 in colour—and featuring a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading this volume examines a broad range of topics including ancient climate change literature historiography slavery war and conquest the development of Christianity the Jewish revolts and the role of powerful imperial women. The author also considers the development of Islam within a Roman historical context examines the events that led to the formation of the post-Roman states in Western Europe and contemplates aff airs on the imperial periphery in the Caucasus Ethiopia and the Arabian Peninsula. Emphasising the voices of antiquity throughout The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the beguiling history of the world’s most famous empire. | The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

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Pytheas of Massalia Texts Translation and Commentary

Pytheas of Massalia Texts Translation and Commentary

Pytheas of Massalia (Marseille) mariner explorer geographer and astronomer made a pioneering voyage into the then unknown Atlantic around 325 BC reaching Britain and the Baltic; this book collects and translates the references to him and his book (which is lost) and discusses and explains them. The Greeks of Pytheas' time knew virtually nothing of northern Europe beyond the often-fantastical stories of traders and Pytheas was the first person to provide factual first-hand information on this region. His journey covered Iberia France Britain from where he travelled so far north that he encountered ice floes; he then reached the Baltic. It was he who recorded Thule and his astronomy enabled him to locate it on the Arctic Circle. Two thirds of our references to Pytheas come from Pliny and Strabo; their methods of work as well as the perils of manuscript transmission are explored in this volume. Scott also includes discussions and appendices on these areas to enable the scope of available references to be understood as a whole. There are some details of Pytheas' voyage that are lost but the book offers balanced reasons for proposing how we may reasonably fill them in. The breadth of Pytheas' achievements and the areas and topics his work covers mean that he has a wide range of appeal within classical studies and ancient history. This volume provides an invaluable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of early geography and astronomy and Greece’s knowledge of and relationship to the rest of Europe in this period. | Pytheas of Massalia Texts Translation and Commentary

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The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History

The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History

This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 196 maps starting with the worldwide migration of the Jews from ancient Mesopotamia and coming up into the first decades of the twenty-first century. It presents a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted the Jewish story as well as Jewish achievements. The themes covered include: Prejudice and Violence – from the destruction of Jewish independence between 722 and 586 BC to the flight from German persecution in the 1930s. Also covers the incidence of anti-Semitic attacks in the Americas and Europe. Migrations and Movements – from ancient dispersals from the promised land to new maps on the ingathering of exiles from Arab and Muslim lands from 1948 and from the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1992. Society Trade and Culture – from Jewish trade routes between 800 and 900 the geography of the Jews of China of India to communal life in the ghettoes and the situation of world Jewry in the opening years of the twenty-first century. Politics Government and War – from the Court Jews of the fifteenth century to the founding and growth of the modern State of Israel. This new edition now includes an additional 39 of Martin Gilbert’s maps across the whole range of Jewish history originally published across a range of publications now gathered in this one volume for the first time. Over 50 years on from its first publication this book is still an indispensable guide to Jewish history. | The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History

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Rome Persia and Arabia Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad

Rome Persia and Arabia Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad

Rome Persia and Arabia traces the enormous impact that the Great Powers of antiquity exerted on Arabia and the Arabs between the arrival of Roman forces in the Middle East in 63 BC and the death of the Prophet Muhammad in AD 632. Richly illustrated and covering a vast area from the fertile lands of South Arabia to the bleak deserts of Iraq and Syria this book provides a detailed and captivating narrative of the way that the empires of antiquity affected the politics culture and religion of the Arabs. It examines Rome’s first tentative contacts in the Syrian steppe and the controversial mission of Aelius Gallus to Yemen and takes in the city states kingdoms and tribes caught up in the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Persia including the city state of Hatra one of the many archaeological sites in the Middle East that have suffered deliberate vandalism at the hands of the ‘Islamic State’. The development of an Arab Christianity spanning the Middle East the emergence of Arab fiefdoms at the edges of imperial power and the crucial appearance of strong Arab leadership in the century before Islam provide a clear picture of the importance of pre-Islamic Arabia and the Arabs to understanding world and regional history. Rome Persia and Arabia includes discussions of heritage destruction in the Middle East the emergence of Islam and modern research into the anthropology of ancient tribal societies and their relationship with the states around them. This comprehensive and wide-ranging book delivers an authoritative chronicle of a crucial but little known era in world history and is for any reader with an interest in the ancient Middle East Arabia and the Roman and Persian empires. | Rome Persia and Arabia Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad

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Greek Medical Literature and its Readers From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium

Greek Medical Literature and its Readers From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium

This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s) offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership methodology and mode of exposition. One of the volume’s overarching aims is to add to our understanding of the role of the reader in the contextualisation of Greek medical literature in the light of interesting case-studies from various – often radically different – periods and cultures including the Classical (such as the Hippocratic corpus) and Roman Imperial period (for instance Galen) and the Islamic and Byzantine world. Promoting as it does more in-depth research into the intricacies of Greek medical writings and their diverse revival and transformation from the fifth century BC down to the fourteenth century AD this volume will be of interest to classicists medical historians and anyone concerned with the reception of the Greek medical tradition. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/OA+PDFs+for+Cara/9781472487919_oachapter3. pdfChapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/OA+PDFs+for+Cara/9781472487919_oachapter6. pdfChapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/OA+PDFs+for+Cara/9781472487919_oachapter9. pdf | Greek Medical Literature and its Readers From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium

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