Hughes, Bettany
Summary: Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul-- one city, where stories and histories collide. The gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. Hughes takes us on an historical journey from the Neolithic to the present, exploring the ways that Istanbul's influence has spun out to shape the wider world. This is the story not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.1 HUGHughes, Bettany.
Summary: For close to three thousand years, Helen of Troy has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. Because of her double marriage to the Greek king Menelaus and the Trojan prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for an enduring enmity between East and West. But who was she? Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.352 HUGHughes, Bethany.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bright Sky Press 2009