text Palmyra : an irreplaceable treasure
- Summary
- In this concise and elegiac book, Paul Veyne, one of Palymra’s most important experts, offers a beautiful and moving look at the history of this significant lost city and why it was—and still is—important. Today, we can appreciate the majesty of ... Read more
- Contents
- Riches in the desert -- A monumental ancient city -- Being a capitalist back then -- Antiquity in antiquity -- Palmyra: a subject of the Caesars -- A Syrian tribe and a Hellenized city -- Saving the empire -- The Palmyrene saga -- A hybrid identit... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- ix, 88 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press 2017
| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 939 VEY in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 939 VEY in Adult Non-fiction | Available |