Best Selling Books by Hazel Dodge

An authoritative account of Roman imperial, military and political power, and of classical Rome''s influence on Western culture, architecture and art.

This book is written and illustrated by Professor Zeki Findikoglu. The author is a Turkish American artist and scholar from a small village in Turkey who is now living in Washington, D.C. Zeki Findikoglu has been creating art work based on Turkish designs and culture for four decades. As one of the last remaining storytellers of traditional Turkish folktales, the author has endeavored to protect and revive this tradition by collecting and recording more than five hundred Turkish folktales and folksongs during his career. Findikoglu has gathered these from his grandmother and his mother, as well as from traveling minstrels and shadow puppet performers. .This book contains two folktales, "Bird of Heaven" and "Siblings", which were told to the author by his mother. The accompanying artworks were created as limited edition prints. Zeki Findikoglu''s extensive collection of prints and paintings has been exhibited in many museums and galleries and in several publications.

An introduction to warfare, government, conquest, power and leadership in ancient Rome, this work presents full-colour photographs, illustrations, maps, battle plans and diagrams that bring military campaigns, invasions, victories and defeats to life.

Bevölkerungsgeschichte - Wirtschaftsgeschichte - Religionsgeschichte.

Gladiatorial combat, animal displays, naumachiae (staged naval battles) and spectacular executions were all an important part of Roman culture. The provision of a wide range of purpose-built buildings (from theatres to amphitheatres to circuses) as venues across the empire is testimony to the popularity and significance of these displays. This book offers an introduction to the main forms of spectacle in the Roman world (human and animal combat, chariot racing, aquatic displays), their nature, context and social importance. It will explore the vast array of sources, from literary to archaeological material, that informs the subject. It will examine the spectacles with special emphasis on their physical setting, and will also consider the variation in the provision of venues and their context across the Empire. A final section will review the modern reception of Roman spectacles, especially those involving gladiators.

An illustrated military and political chronicle of the world''s greatest Empire: its leaders generals, wars and campaigns.

This sourcebook uniquely gathers a wide range of texts that illustrate the physical structures of the city, the rhythms of its daily life and the interaction between topography, monuments and the people from Rome''s earliest days, through its imperial heyday until its transformation into the Western Christian capital. The chapters examined within this comprehensive introduction include: the early and republican city the emperor art and architecture leisure, life and death religion and late antiquity. Ancient City of Rome is designed to be directly relevant to those studying Roman civilization, or the city of Rome, at school or university level.