Ancient history

Reading Plato offers a concise and illuminating insight into the complexities and difficulties of the Platonic dialogues, providing an invaluable text for any student of Plato's philosophy.

The Title An Arabic-English Lexicon (8Th Vol) written/authored/edited by Edward William Lane, Edited By Stanley Lane-Poole, published in the year 2017.

The little-known story of a fierce rebellion against the Romans:“A very good read for anyone interested in ancient military history and historiography.

An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us.

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades.

Explores for the first time the deep and significant interactions between classical philology and theology.

The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, mercantile activities, and waterways that have been politicized.

A highly accessible survey of life in the capital of the Roman Empire, the largest metropolis of its day.

Eindrucksvolle Zeugnisse antiker Baukunst.

This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius' conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history.

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This comprehensive survey of Jewish-Greek society''s development examines the exchange of language and ideas in biblical translations, literature and archaeology.

The aim of the History of Julius Caesar is to prove that, when Providence raises up such men as Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon, it is to trace out to peoples the path they ought to follow; to stamp with the seal of their genius a new era; and to accomplish in a few years the labour of many centuries.

Erected by man for some long-forgotten purpose, there are large numbers of enigmatic standing stones, stone circles and burial chambers to be found in Wales.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

BARBARA WEINSTOCK LECTURES ON THE MORALS OF TRADE This series will contain essays by representative scholars and men of affairs dealing with the various phases of the moral law in its bearing on business life under the new economic order, first delivered at the University of California on the Weinstock foundation.

From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes.

Exploring Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical, Theological, and Historical Studies brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians, classicists, philosophers, and theologians to offer a holistic exploration of the thought of Gregory of Nyssa.

Women, Gender and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt clarifies the role of women in Egyptian society during the first millennium BCE, allowing for more nuanced discussions of women in the Third Intermediate Period.

La censura de textos fue uno de los medios de los que sirvió la Inquisición en el virreinato peruano para manifestar su poder en el cuerpo social.

The Picts is a survey of the historical and cultural developments in northern Britain between AD 300 and AD 900.

Professor Jean Richard is the doyen of crusade historians.

This book revises the picture of the teacher and educator of princes, Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (c.

Building Mid-Republican Rome offers a holistic treatment of the development of the Mid-Republican city from 396 to 168 BCE.

This title was first published in 2003.

Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship-historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics-the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate.

These six diverse and difficult dialogues are seen together as aspects of Plato''s project of reformulating his theory of Forms.

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

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The rise of Christianity to the dominant position it held in the Middle Ages remains a paradoxical achievement.

The concept of kinship is at the heart of understanding not only the structure and development of a society, but also the day-to-day interactions of its citizens.

Despite the general scholarly consensus about Lucretius' debt to Empedocles as the father of the genre of cosmological didactic epic, there is a major disagreement regarding Lucretius' applause for his Presocratic predecessor's praeclara reperta (DRN 1.

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.

This volume responds to calls in visual and material cultural studies to move beyond the visual and to explore the multi-sensory impact of the image, across a wide range of cultural and historical contexts.

The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium.

Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed ';lived ancient religion' than any other region in the ancient world.

Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity.

When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d.

A study of the two Late Republic slave revolts, exploring their social context, the nature of slavery at the time, and the causes of the conflicts.

In 1963 a collection of fifty-seven silver vessels was discovered during illegal excavations by villagers in Antalya Province, Turkey.

Networks and the Spread of Ideas in the Past: Strong Ties, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange gathers contributions from an international group of scholars to reconsider the role that strong social ties play in the transmission of new ideas, and their crucial place in network analyses of the past.

In Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World, Carl J.

This definitive study from the author of From the Gracchi to Nero, examines the period from the foundation of Rome to the fall of Carthage.

Inspiring reverence and blasphemy, combining paternal benignity with sexual violence, transcendent universality with tribal chauvinism, Jupiter represents both the best and the worst of ancient religion.

Provides an accessible overview of the achievement of Edward Gibbon (1737–94), one of the world''s greatest historians.