Ancient history

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region.

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region.

Fully illustrated, this study investigates the origins, evolution and use of the mail and scale armour worn by the soldiers and gladiators of Imperial Rome.

Fully illustrated, this study investigates the origins, evolution and use of the mail and scale armour worn by the soldiers and gladiators of Imperial Rome.

"e;The Hellenistic Age"e; covers all significant aspects of the Hellenistic civilization.

ROMAN MYTHOLOGYWhy did the Roman Empire fall?

This volume offers a wide-ranging study on perception in the Timaeus, not only discussing senses such as touch, taste, and olfaction alongside audition and vision but also engaging with Timaeus' wider cosmological project.

This volume offers a wide-ranging study on perception in the Timaeus, not only discussing senses such as touch, taste, and olfaction alongside audition and vision but also engaging with Timaeus' wider cosmological project.

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences.

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences.

According to legend, Rome was a settlement of warlike young men, from Alba, an area in the Alban Hills just southeast of Rome.

A remarkable life story.

The historical Jesus is as elusive as he is appealing.

Dieser Band bietet eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Konzept der „Krise“ in der Geschichtsschreibung.

Facsimile of volume of detailed catalog prepared by Flinders Petrie on artifacts largely collected from his Egyptian explorations of a series of glass stamps of Egyptian manufacture that were used from the Roman to Abbasid period variously as tokens, counters, weights, or attached to glass cups as indications of measure.

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1921 corpus of prehistoric pottery and slate palettes from pre-dynastic, prehistoric Egypt.

Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1917 pioneering typological catalog of Egyptian metal, wooden and composite tools and weapons, one of a number of such catalogs to be reissued in this new series.

To date, the pathbreaking medical contributions of the early Mesopotamians have been only vaguely understood.

In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible-the ancient Near East-came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met.

A lively combination of scholarship and unorthodoxy makes these studies in ancient history and literature unusually rewarding.

The figure of the dog is a paradox.

Although scholars have long studied how Muslims authenticated and transmitted Muhammad's sayings and practices (hadith), the story of how they interpreted and reinterpreted the meanings of hadith over the past millennium has yet to be told.

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides.

During the period from Rome's Stone Age beginnings on the Tiber River to its conquest of the Italian peninsula in 264 B.

What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated?

Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union.

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions.

Throughout the ancient world, origin stories were told across the ancient world in many different ways: through poetry, prose, monumental and decorative arts, and performance in civic and religious rituals.

What made the Romans laugh?

This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present.

The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning, admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life.

This is the third volume of Getzel Cohen's important work on the Hellenistic settlements in the ancient world.

The sea is omnipresent in Greek life.

Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences for exercising free speech.

Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean.

This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics-John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor-to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion.

Why did you have to learn about wars, especially one that happened centuries ago.

It's interesting to know that despite the absence of great technological feats and volumes of information, the Aztecs were able to create a highly progressive government and society.

Did you know that the Ancient Egyptians were not just good at running their government, but were excellent inventors too?

Ancient Mesopotamia is often referred to as the "e;cradle of civilization"e; and there's good reason to it.

Did you know that slaves played a big role in the ancient African society?

The Aztec made strides in terms of the technology art work that they produced.

Jump back in time with the help of this highly educational book.

Wow!

Let's go visit the ancient people and see the world as they see it.

How was trade and commerce different in Ancient Mesopotamia?

The Mayan Empire was a civilization rich in stories.

Who were the Babylonians and where did they come from?

Did you know that there's so much you can learn from the early civilizations that are applicable today?

Does your kid love to see the world but is not old enough to fly in a plane yet?