Nascido em Cefn Cribwr, País de Gales, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones é professor de História Antiga na Universidade de Cardiff e diretor do Programa do Irã Antigo para o Instituto Britânico de Estudos Persas. Anteriormente, lecionou na Universidade de Edimburgo, na qual foi professor de História do Irã e da Grécia Antiga. É especialista em história e cultura da Pérsia, do Oriente Próximo e da Grécia. Participou de programas nos canais BBC e Channel 4, além de contribuir com textos para o jornal The Times e outros veículos de imprensa. Este é seu primeiro livro pelo selo Crítica da Editora Planeta.
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Andrew Erskine & Andrew Erskine: Creating a Hellenistic World
Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire had far-reaching impact, in space and time. Much of the territory that he seized would remain under the control of Macedonian kings until the arrival of the …
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Andrew Erskine & Andrew Erskine: Hellenistic Court
Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places of refinement, learning and luxury, an …
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€127.61
LLoyd Llewellyn-Jones & James Robson: Ctesias’ 'History of Persia’
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the …
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€76.92
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones & Calum Maciver: Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras
A wide examination of the ways in which the Greeks constructed, de-constructed, engaged with and relied on their pasts This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers present …
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€128.21
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE
Explores Achaemenid kingship and argues for the centrality of the royal court in elite Persian society The first Persian Empire (559-331 BCE) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seate …
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€38.23
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE
Explores Achaemenid kingship and argues for the centrality of the royal court in elite Persian society The first Persian Empire (559-331 BCE) was the biggest land empire the world had seen, and seate …
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€38.74
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones & James Robson: Ctesias’ 'History of Persia’
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the …
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€47.51
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones & James Robson: Ctesias’ 'History of Persia’
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the …
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€47.62
Glenys Davies & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z
Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar’s wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga?If, as many claim, the importanc …
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€62.87
Glenys Davies & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z
Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar’s wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga?If, as many claim, the importanc …
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€62.91
Sian Lewis & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Culture of Animals in Antiquity
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all ce …
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€56.50
Sian Lewis & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Culture of Animals in Antiquity
The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all ce …
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€56.40
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Aphrodite’s Tortoise
Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this meticulous study, one with interesting implications for the origins of Western civilisation. The Greeks, popularly (and rig …
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€35.96
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World
The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women’s history has been little studied. In this collection of …
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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Designs on the Past
In the period 1916-1966, during its so-called Golden Age, Hollywood developed a passion for the ancient world and produced many epic movie blockbusters. The studios used every device they could find …
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€39.66
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Persians
THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world’s first superpower.The Great Kings of Persia ruled over the largest Empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the Steppes …
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€7.99
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones & Alex McAuley: Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period
Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world.Th …
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€51.34
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones & Alex McAuley: Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period
Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world.Th …
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€51.48
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Os persas
A história oficial do Império Persa, a primeira superpotência do mundo Tudo o que sabemos do grande Império Persa veio por intermédio de escritores gregos, sobretudo Heródoto. Não havia ainda uma his …
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Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther
Esther is the most visual book of the Hebrew Bible and largely crafted in the Fourth Century BCE by an author who was clearly au fait with the rarefied world of the Achaemenid court. It therefore pro …
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€28.93
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther
Esther is the most visual book of the Hebrew Bible and largely crafted in the Fourth Century BCE by an author who was clearly au fait with the rarefied world of the Achaemenid court. It therefore pro …
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€28.93
Ferdowsi: Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
A fresh and compulsively readable new translation of the Persian epic Shahnameh, for fans of Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. A combination of myth and history, Shahnameh …
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€42.99
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Cleopatras
’A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues’ SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORECleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt’s greatest queen.A woman more myth than history, immo …
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€14.99
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Designs on the Past
In the period 1916-1966, during its so-called Golden Age, Hollywood developed a passion for the ancient world and produced many epic movie blockbusters. The studios used every device they could find …
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€39.81
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Perșii
O ISTORIE COMPREHENSIVĂ, DEFINITORIE A IMPERIULUI PERSAN, VĂZUT CA ÎNTÂIA SUPERPUTERE MONDIALĂ Marii Regi ai Persiei au domnit peste cel mai mare imperiu al Antichității, care se întindea din Libia p …
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