Ancient history

'Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to!

'Bold, dazzling and provocative' - Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'This book uncovers what was lost when Christianity won' - The TimesIn The Darkening Age, historian Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'.

For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world.

Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kingdoms of Judah and Israel.

Romanzo storico sulla guerra civile tra Cesare e Pompeo e le conseguenze disastrose che ebbe per Cicerone.

Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem.

Until his death in 4 BCE, Herod the Great's monarchy included territories that once made up the kingdoms of Judah and Israel.

In his revolutionary book Cross Vision, Gregory A.

Sex, violence, power, and redemption.

Following the Second Punic War in 202 B.

Anna Lee Waldo, author of SACAJEWEA said about PICTURE MAKER that she did not want the story to end.

The heartwarming and inspirational tale of a golden retriever, Bingo, and his beloved boy, Javlin, The Shared Halo will leave paw prints on your soul.

A thorough account of the war between Athens and Sparta by the historian who witnessed it.

One of the masterworks of Western civilization from the Ancient Greek author and orator known as the "e;Father of History.

New York Times Bestseller: A breathtaking saga of ancient Greece and one of history's most influential political couples, Aspasia and Pericles.

A provocative and fascinating exploration of male-female relationships by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth.

The adoption of Christianity by the Egyptian populace was well underway by the late third century, but evidence for its presence in the archaeological record from the Nile valley is sparse.

A unique and accessible history of England from one of the country's preeminent thinkersPublished in 1917, A Short History of England is a "e;popular book of history"e; told through the layman's eyes.

Drawing on untapped archives, as well as aggregating a wide range of existing published sources, this book recalibrates the understanding of women artists' roles, outputs and receptions in London during what was indubitably a vibrant and innovative period in the history of British art, and in which the work of their male contemporaries is so well understood.

This volume unites scholars of classical epigraphy, papyrology, and literature to analyze the documentary habit in the Roman Empire.

A brilliant collection of thought-provoking essays on gender, nature, passion, and society from an acclaimed feminist, philosopher, and poetIn The Eros of Everyday Life, one of America's most provocative writers and thinkers offers insightful and compelling views on a wide range of social, ecological, and gender issues.

A masterwork of feminist ideology, brilliantly exposing pornography as the antithesis of free expression and the enemy of libertyIn this powerful and devastating critique, poet, philosopher, and feminist Susan Griffin exposes the inherent psychological horrors of pornography.

A seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society's mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth's ecological well-beingWoman and Nature draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the relationship between the denigration of women and the disregard for the Earth.

A powerful feminist examination of the deeply ingrained roots of rape in our shared cultural valuesRape is the most frequently occurring violent crime in America.

Can there be good social policy?

"e;Lyrical, intelligent, and passionately written, Whisper Tapes reignites a long dormant conversation about the urgency of global feminism.

A stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system.

It is more than fifty years since Betty Friedan diagnosed malaise among suburban housewives and the National Organization of Women was founded.

Flavius Aetius: Twilight of Empire The story of Flavius Aetius: The Last Conqueror continues in this sequel bringing to life in sweeping color and romance the last years of the Western Roman Empire.

Changing Gears is the journal of a research-travel odyssey undertaken in eastern Greece and western Turkey during summer, 1984.

In the Ancient World the fundamental institutions of Property, Patriarchy and Slavery were never questioned.

When we hear Parimies (Greek for proverbs and sayings) we often say I remember my grandmother saying that, but we probably never fully captured the power and depth of these words.

Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant's commercial and personal activities.

Despite siginificant advances in annual chronology, the Old Assyrian trade fundamentally lacked a regime of time at the level of the merchant's commercial and personal activities.

Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life.

Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life.

Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible.

Scholars often assume that the nature of Mesopotamian kingship was such that questioning royal authority was impossible.

These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used by the modern historian to attain, if not a reliable record of histoire evenementielle, a comprehensive picture of how the ancients understood their history.

These essays represent a summation of Piotr Steinkeller's decades-long thinking and writing about the history of third millennium BCE Babylonia and the ways in which it is reflected in ancient historical and literary sources and art, as well as of how these written and visual materials may be used by the modern historian to attain, if not a reliable record of histoire evenementielle, a comprehensive picture of how the ancients understood their history.

The Prolegomena provide an introduction to the Basler Iliad commentary.

The Prolegomena provide an introduction to the Basler Iliad commentary.

This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology.

This volume presents a broad array of contributions on Byzantine literature and culture, in which well-known Byzantinists approach topics of ceremonial, education, historiography, hagiography, homiletics, law, philology, philosophy, prosopography, rhetoric and theology.

This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets.

With a clear comparative approach, this volume brings together for the first time contributions that cover different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses.