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$5.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States TRANSLATE Arabic Chinese French German Greek Indonesian Italian Hindi Japanese Korean Swedish Portuguese Russian Spanish[RARE. OUT-OF-PRINT] Looking at ... moreLovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art 100 BC– AD 250" by John R. Clarke. NOTE: We have 75.000 books in our library, almost 10,000 different titles. Odds are we have other copies of this same title in varying conditions, some less expensive, some better condition. We might also have different editions as well(some paperback, some hardcover, oftentimes international editions) If you don’t see what you want, please contact us and ask. We’re happy to send you a summary of the differing conditions and prices we may have for the same title. DESCRIPTION: Hardback with Dust Jacket: 406 pages. Publisher: University of California Press; 1998) This animated and readable book will surprise readers who assume that erotic art is universal in its meaning. Author John R. Clarke asks. what did sex mean to the Romans? In offering his provocative and thoughtful answer, Looking at Lovemaking” examines Roman attitudes toward sex and toward race, ethnicity, physical deformity, and humor as well; and shows how radically the Roman’s conception of these ideas differs from ours today. This richly illustrated volume is the first study of ancient erotic art and sexuality to set these works, many of them newly discovered and previously unpublished, in their ancient context, and the first to define the difference between modern and ancient concepts of sexuality using clear visual evidence. To characterize a work of art as“erotic” summons ideas of illicit images to be kept out of public view. And yet Clarke shows us that Roman depictions of sex. In all its diversity, were very much in demand. Visual representations of sex between men, between women, and between men and women, all in a variety of positions and groupings, were produced in a range of media, from fine cameo-glass and silver vessels to wall-paintings and mosaics, to mass-produced ceramics. These works were
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$6.49 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States It was these stories that unlocked the mystery of Frobisher’s lost colony. This fascinating history seamlessly moves from Elizabeth I's court to 19th-century ... morewhaling boats to the modern descendants of the Inuit whom both Frobisher and Hall encountered.
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$6.49 Shipping Condition: Brand New Location: Lummi Island, United States REVIEW :During the years 1576 to 1578, Queen Elizabeth I of England sent three expeditions under Martin Frobisher to find the fabled Northwest Passage ... morethat led to China. Ruby, an editor with the Baltimore Sun, chronicles in lively prose an incredible saga of man against nature in the failed quest to place a colony in the far north.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States Seven boat pits have been identified around the Great Pyramid. Five of which belong to the Great Pyramid proper. The other 2 are associated with the pyramid ... moreof Hetepheres and the pyramid of the Ka.
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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Ferndale, United States It is well-known that Greek vases are among the greatest artistic legacy of antiquity. Both aspects of bronze artistry are reflected in the thirty-eight ... morepieces of the William Herbert Hunt Collection.
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$7.99 Shipping Condition: Like New Location: Lummi Island, United States Scythia and the Scythians. Scythia was a loose state that originated as early as 8th century BC. Little is known of them and their rulers. The year 339 ... moreBC was a culminating year for the Second Scythian Kingdom, and the beginning of its decline.
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$5.99 Shipping Location: Lummi Island, United States The known history of Babylon, then, begins with its most famous king: Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.). I found myself unable to put this book down. However, ... moreI feel that the title is a bit misleading in that while it does cover the Babylonians it also covers a whole lot more.
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