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Living in Ancient Mesopotamia
Focuses on two ideal periods set in about 3500 BC (Sumer) and 1000 to 500 BC (Assyria and Babylonia). This book examines several aspects of daily life across various strata of society, from the kings and priests to the slaves; from food to religious beliefs. It is useful for students who want to learn more about life in ancient Mesopotamia.
- GenresHistory
96 pages, Hardcover
First published September 30, 2007
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Roger Kean
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Film maker, journalist, magazine and book publisher, Roger M. Kean settled down to pen gay fiction. To date he has written Felixitations, Thunderbolt:Torn Enemy of Rome, and the “Empire Trilogy” of late Victorian action-adventure novels A Life Apart, Gregory's Story, and Harry's Great Trek. In between battling through the deserts of Sudan, he wrote the 30,000-word novella about British Premier League football (soccer) What's A Boy Supposed to Do.
Both Felixitations and A Life Apart have been M/M Romance Group Books of the Month.
Writing under the pen name of his lifelong partner, internationally renowned gay artist Zack (a.k.a Oliver Frey), Kean’s “Boys of…” series extends to five full-length novels, graphically illustrated by Zack. The Adventures of Gil Graham and Mike Smith are set in the early 1980s: Boys of Vice City, Boys of Disco City, Boys of Two Cities, Boys of the Fast Lane, and Boy of the West End. After the demise of publisher Bruno Gmümder, these titles and some others under the ZACK pen name are either out of print or only available at ludicrous prices, but selected titles will be republished in due course during 2020.
Due to the same circumstances the BOYS OF IMPERIAL ROME series written under the name of Zack are also out of print in the original illustrated editions, but are now available under Roger M. Kean and Reckless Books imprint (not illustrated due to KDP print restrictions on graphic content):
Deadly Circus of Desire
The Satyr of Capri
The Wrath of Seth
The Wrath of Seth
Film maker, journalist, magazine and book publisher, Roger M. Kean settled down to pen gay fiction. To date he has written Felixitations, Thunderbolt:Torn Enemy of Rome, and the “Empire Trilogy” of late Victorian action-adventure novels A Life Apart, Gregory's Story, and Harry's Great Trek. In between battling through the deserts of Sudan, he wrote the 30,000-word novella about British Premier League football (soccer) What's A Boy Supposed to Do.
Both Felixitations and A Life Apart have been M/M Romance Group Books of the Month.
Writing under the pen name of his lifelong partner, internationally renowned gay artist Zack (a.k.a Oliver Frey), Kean’s “Boys of…” series extends to five full-length novels, graphically illustrated by Zack. The Adventures of Gil Graham and Mike Smith are set in the early 1980s: Boys of Vice City, Boys of Disco City, Boys of Two Cities, Boys of the Fast Lane, and Boy of the West End. After the demise of publisher Bruno Gmümder, these titles and some others under the ZACK pen name are either out of print or only available at ludicrous prices, but selected titles will be republished in due course during 2020.
Due to the same circumstances the BOYS OF IMPERIAL ROME series written under the name of Zack are also out of print in the original illustrated editions, but are now available under Roger M. Kean and Reckless Books imprint (not illustrated due to KDP print restrictions on graphic content):
Deadly Circus of Desire
The Satyr of Capri
The Wrath of Seth
The Wrath of Seth
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March 20, 2025
Not bad. Good illustrations. The glossary was a little lacking.
October 10, 2023
Wow, this book is incredible.
It covers an immense period of history in an amazing amount of detail. Topics include commerce, daily life, technology, the building of houses and temples, religious worship, warfare, taxation, the development of writing, schooling, etc. Every section is accompanied by a beautiful full-spread diagram showing a scene from the ancient world. Each diagram is labelled and explained in detail, and really shows you what it was like to live in those times. I daydreamed a lot looking at those images, and I felt that it really helped me understand what life was like for some of the earliest civilized people on Earth.
It covers an immense period of history in an amazing amount of detail. Topics include commerce, daily life, technology, the building of houses and temples, religious worship, warfare, taxation, the development of writing, schooling, etc. Every section is accompanied by a beautiful full-spread diagram showing a scene from the ancient world. Each diagram is labelled and explained in detail, and really shows you what it was like to live in those times. I daydreamed a lot looking at those images, and I felt that it really helped me understand what life was like for some of the earliest civilized people on Earth.
April 4, 2019
This is a nice companion to any history of Mesopotamia. Helps me to get more into the world that I am learning about.
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