Diliana Angelova argues that from the time of Augustus through early Byzantium, a discourse of ';sacred founders'articulated in artwork, literature, imperial honors, and the built environmenthelped legitimize the authority of the emperor and his family.
Christian communities flourished during late antiquity in a Zoroastrian political system, known as the Iranian Empire, that integrated culturally and geographically disparate territories from Arabia to Afghanistan into its institutions and networks.
Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca.
In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesuss body: Was it corruptible prior to its resurrection from the dead?
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "e;archaic states"e; whose distinctive feature was divine kingship.
It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia.
The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other CRM professionals.
Being Christian in Vandal Africainvestigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca.
In the first modern biography of Red jacket, Christopher Densmore sheds light on the achievements of this formidable Iroquois diplomat who, as a representative of the Seneca and Six Nations, met and negotiated with American presidents from George Washington to Andrew Jackson.
Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands.
Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League - the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras - to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America.
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern inventions?
The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period-as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish.
This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond.
Athens' decision to invade Sicily in 415 BCE marked an important turning point in its war with Sparta, which led ultimately to Athens' defeat and the collapse of its empire.
The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "e;Germans"e; pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight.
L'union des trônes et des autels assujettit la population qui ne peut que souhaiter se vêtir d'un manteau juridique à même de protéger l'essentiel : sa vie et sa liberté d'action.
C'est en observant comment les dieux vivent leur passion, comment ils se comportent, que nous pouvons imaginer ce que vivaient nos ancêtres au temps d'Homère et d'Hésiode.
En commettant le plus horrible parricide, Oreste semble bien perpétuer la célèbre « Malédiction des Atrides » condamnant à tout jamais la progéniture de Tantale à s'entretuer de façon atroce.
En étudiant Poséidon, on s'aperçoit que les légendes ont surtout servi à imposer un état d'esprit tout en écartant ce qui pouvait contredire l'ordre nouveau que les aèdes voulaient imposer.
The story of Egypt is the story of history itself-the endless rise and fall, the life and death and life again of the eternal human effort to endure, enjoy, and understand the mystery of our universe.
