Ancient history

Scepticism, a philosophical tradition that casts doubt on our ability to gain knowledge of the world and suggests suspending judgement in the face of uncertainty, has been influential since is beginnings in ancient Greece.

Work in Progress offers an in-depth study of the role of literary revision in the compositional practices and representational strategies of Roman authors at the end of the republic and the beginning of the principate.

Otto Hofler (1901-1987) was an Austrian Germanist and Scandinavist.

Spanning more than two millennia, Reflections of Osiris opens a small window into a timeless world, capturing the flavor of life in ancient Egypt through vivid profiles of eleven actual people and the god Osiris.

Originally published in 1987, this book contains the full Greek text of Longinus on the Sublime, alongside the English translation.

Argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress.

The author argues that Doric architecture originated in a disruptive shift in urbanism, land use, and colonization in Archaic Greece.

This volume treats systematically the variation found in the successive stages of the development of all ancient Greek dialects.

Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities.

Psychoanalysis and Euripides' Suppliant Women applies the "e;tragic"e; reading of politics, presented by Euripides in his play, The Suppliant Women, to the contemporary world.

By examining Greek-alphabet Oscan inscriptions, this book shines light on the linguistics, bilingualism and epigraphy of ancient Southern Italy.

The use of stone in vast quantities is a ubiquitous and defining feature of the material culture of the Roman world.

This is the second volume of Sir E.

The study of emotions and emotional displays has achieved a deserved prominence in recent classical scholarship.

In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to their interpretation afterwards.

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.

"e;An illuminating and highly readable narrative about the role of women at the center of imperial Rome-fascinating and important.

A riveting biography of the legendary founder and first king of Rome.

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability.

In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike.

The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus) is sometimes presented either as a reflection of an indigenous spirituality wrapped in borrowed (Byzantine) forms or, by contrast, as merely a provincial version of its Byzantine original.

The Roman aristocracy under the Republic was pervaded by a dense network of personal ties between its members.

Originally published in 1983 and as a second edition in 1993, this book deals with 3 universal but culturally variable phenomena: the family, women and death.

Since the calls of the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholic theologians have sought to overcome an overarching problem facing Jewish-Christian relations, the concept of "e;supersessionism"e;; the idea that God has revoked the spiritual and historical promises made to the Jewish people in favour of granting those same privileges to a predominantly Gentile Church.

This book analyzes the history of magic''s changing role in the West from antiquity to the present day.

Echeñique discusses Aristotle''s views on moral agency and voluntariness and presents a theory of moral responsibility that is both original and compelling.

Building on and updating some of the issues addressed in Starting to Teach Latin, Steven Hunt provides a guide for novice and more experienced teachers of Latin in schools and colleges, who work with adapted and original Latin prose texts from beginners' to advanced levels.

Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction that reviews related scholarship of the past twenty years, Erich Gruen's classic study of the late Republic examines institutions as well as personalities, social tensions as well as politics, the plebs and the army as well as the aristocracy.

Professor Spieser deals here with a number of the transformations that took place in the world of Late Antiquity - and early Christianity - focusing upon notions of space.

For those within the fields of art history and Byzantine studies, Professor Henry Maguire needs no introduction.

The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980's, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage.

Explores future visions under a universalizing empire that many thought would never die.

Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period.

H.

In Vergiliana Egil Kraggerud collects together over 100 new, revised, and previously published discussions of textual issues in Vergil's Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid.