Dieses Buch bietet eine Untersuchung von Gershom Scholems frühen Schriften zur Frage der Sprache und entwickelt eine neue Methodologie, um Texte des modernen jüdischen Denkens in Bezug auf Gender-Fragen zu lesen.
Für alle Liebhaber der antiken Geschichte und diejenigen, die sich für kulturelle Entwicklungen interessieren, ist 'Kulturgeschichte des Altertums' von Egon Friedell ein absolutes Muss.
Alexander Moszkowski's Buch "Das Buch der 1000 Wunder" ist eine faszinierende Sammlung von Erzählungen über die aufregendsten und unerklärlichsten Phänomene der Welt.
Im Jahre 1794 wurden in Dresden die Gipsabgüsse, die knapp zehn Jahre zuvor aus dem Nachlass Anton Raphael Mengs‘ für die Kunsthochschule angekauft worden waren, im Johanneum aufgestellt.
Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.
Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete.
Der New York Times-Bestseller von Mary Beard über die römischen Kaiser - von Augustus bis Caligula, von Nero bis Commodus, der sich zum Gladiator ausbilden ließ.
This book, which followed "e;The House of the Hidden Places"e;, was and still is one of the deepest insights into the real meaning of the Pyramids and their significance as places of initiation for the ancient religion of Egypt.
Designed for instructors in schools and universities, as well as stakeholders and policy-makers in education everywhere, this book is a systematic guide to contemporary school teaching of classical languages, literature and civilisation in major countries across the world.
In dem historischen Roman 'Der Kaiser' von Georg Ebers tauchen die Leser in das antike Rom ein, um die faszinierende Geschichte eines jungen Mannes zu erleben, der überraschend zum Kaiser ernannt wird.
In Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, Benjamin and Karen Foster tell the fascinating story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements ten thousand years ago to the Arab conquest in the seventh century.
The issue of leadership is crucial to Polybius' desire to explain the rise of Rome over almost the entire known world and provide benefit and utility to readers who may have to assume positions of responsibility.
Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of those scripts from their domains during the Roman Period.
In this ground-breaking analysis of the world's first private banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself.
This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences.
In his seminal work, 'The Greatest Empires & Civilizations of the Ancient East,' George Rawlinson delves into the rich and complex history of ancient civilizations in the Middle East.
