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Overview
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This book offers a portfolio of photographs of 200 ancient coins with depictions of animals. There is also a discussion of ancient attitudes toward and treatment of animals wild and domesticated and the various roles animals played in ancient life, culture, religion, and mythology. All coins are illustrated with greatly enlarged photographs. Jasper Burns is the author and illustrator of more than 50 books. His titles include The 'Archaic Smile' and Greek Coins (Pietas), Irish Hammered Pennies of Edward IV-Henry VII (Pietas), Fossil Collecting in the Mid-Atlantic States (Johns Hopkins), Vipsania: A Roman Odyssey (Pietas), Coin Stories (Pietas), and Great Women of Imperial Rome (Routledge).
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Burns, Jasper
- ISBN: 9781979100939
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.65
- Number Of Pages: 308
- Publication Year: 2017
Language:
English