Ancient history

This volume addresses the problem of small, irregular, and unconventional war across time and around the globe.

Town and Country in Roman Britain (1964) is a study of the effects of Roman rule on the lowland zone of Britain and of the relationship between town and country.

In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state.

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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.

This volume deals with the formative period of Islamic art (to c.

Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing.

Diese anonyme Schrift, lange Cicero zugeschrieben, ist das wohl älteste Handbuch der Rhetorik in lateinischer Sprache.

Lauren Monroe argues that the use of cultic and ritual language in the account of the Judean King Josiah's reforms in 2 Kings 22-23 is key to understanding the history of the text's composition, and illuminates the essential, interrelated processes of textual growth and identity construction in ancient Israel.

Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions: Rome and the Neighborhood, A.

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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Kaiser Pertinax und die Thronbesteigung seines Nachfolgers im Lichte der Herodiankritik" verfügbar.

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

A History of the Greek and Roman World (1926) is a single-volume sweeping examination of the Greek and Roman civilisations from 2000 B.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true.

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world.

It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield.

This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of ethics in the ancient Greek novel, demonstrating how their representation of the cardinal virtue sophrosune positions these texts in their literary, philosophical and cultural contexts.

Das Vorkommen fiktionaler direkter Reden ist für den modernen Leser das wohl auffallendste Merkmal antiker Geschichtswerke.

Embark upon a fascinating journey through ancient Greece from its rise and fall to its lasting legacy throughout the Western world.

In recent years, there has been intense debate about the reality behind the depiction of maritime cityscapes, especially harbours.

Self-restraint or self-mastery may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire.

The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha argues that perspectives drawn from literary-critical theories of the fantastic and fantasy are apt to explore Hebrew Bible religious narratives.

This book draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explain why Athens was a remarkably well-ordered society.

Cultural Genealogy explores the popularization in the Renaissance of the still pervasive myth that later cultures are the hereditary descendants of ancient or older cultures.

Examines the role of psychoanalysis within Latin literary studies, focusing on what psychoanalytic theory has to contribute to interpretation.

An interesting and very detailed history of ancient Egypt with an emphasis on the architecture.

Originally published in 1990.

Many of the wars of the Late Republic were largely civil conflicts.

A groundbreaking new interpretation of the relationship between Greek and Oscan, two of the most widely spoken languages of pre-Roman Italy.

Reinterpretation of the Danube frontier in Late Antiquity, drawing on literary, archaeological, and numismatic sources.

Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher--but we do not have this final dialogue.

Utilising new methodological approaches to understanding not only the poor as a social and economic group but also of the internal means of stratification which informed social organisation within local communities, this book looks at the place of the poor within the multi-layered hierarchies of Byzantine society using evidence from archaeology, art, architecture, as well as narrative, theological, and legal texts.

The most detailed glimpse to date of daily life in a small town at the end of the Roman Empire.

The first fully-fledged English translation of perhaps Archimedes'' most attractive mathematical work, with comments on his scientific style.

This book examines John Chrysostom's role as preacher and his pastoral activites as deacon, presbyter and bishop.

Argues that Herodotus is key to understanding genre and the relationship between past and present in Apollonius of Rhodes'' Argonautica.

A Companion to South Asia in the Past provides the definitive overview of research and knowledge about South Asia s past, from the Pleistocene to the historic era in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal, provided by a truly global team of experts.

The anonymous theologian known as Pseudo-Dionysius, who was responsible for arranging the angelic hierarchy into nine orders, had a significant influence on mediaeval European mysticism.