The modern age is not the only one in which Romans and visitors to Rome have been fascinated with the city's striking juxtapositions of past and present.
When Romans applied the term "e;parasite"e; to contemporaries in dependent circumstances, or clientes, they were evoking one of the stock characters of ancient Greek comedy.
Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor.
"e;Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over a city without either great wealth, size, or strategic importance.
"e;At the close of the Victorian era, two generations of intrepid women abandoned Grand Tour travel for the rigors of archaeological expeditions, shining the light of scientific exploration on Old World antiquity.
The modern age is not the only one in which Romans and visitors to Rome have been fascinated with the city's striking juxtapositions of past and present.
"e;At the close of the Victorian era, two generations of intrepid women abandoned Grand Tour travel for the rigors of archaeological expeditions, shining the light of scientific exploration on Old World antiquity.
When Romans applied the term "e;parasite"e; to contemporaries in dependent circumstances, or clientes, they were evoking one of the stock characters of ancient Greek comedy.
"e;Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over a city without either great wealth, size, or strategic importance.
Der Erste Attische Seebund zahlt zu den zentralen Forschungsfeldern der Alten Geschichte und gilt als ein Schlusselbeispiel fur die Analyse vormoderner Herrschaftsordnungen.
The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium provides a systematic and comprehensive commentary on the various ways that Byzantium has been responded to in the modern world and introduces the reader to areas of Byzantine reception not covered to date through its international case studies.
The Routledge Handbook of the Modern Reception of Byzantium provides a systematic and comprehensive commentary on the various ways that Byzantium has been responded to in the modern world and introduces the reader to areas of Byzantine reception not covered to date through its international case studies.
Decline, Invasion, and Survival follows Egypt through one of the most turbulent periods in its long history, when the power of the New Kingdom faded and the civilization of the pharaohs was forced to confront economic crisis, political division, foreign dynasties, and invasion.
Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars, Eric Adler's book examines popular polemics including those by Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role of classical studies in these conflicts.
A groundbreaking, now classic book that transformed our understanding of the people of Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Mesopotamia-the area now called Iraq-has always received less attention from scholars and the general public than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations.
A groundbreaking, now classic book that transformed our understanding of the people of Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Mesopotamia-the area now called Iraq-has always received less attention from scholars and the general public than ancient Egypt and other long-extinct and more spectacular civilizations.
Beginning with a short intellectual history of the academic culture wars, Eric Adler's book examines popular polemics including those by Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza, and considers the oddly marginal role of classical studies in these conflicts.
The Empire of the Pharaohs explores the moment when Egypt rose from restoration to supremacy, transforming itself into the greatest imperial power of the ancient Near East.
Almost everyone carries a picture of it: a great hall of columns and scrolls, consumed in a single catastrophic blaze, the knowledge of antiquity turning to smoke, a thousand years of progress stolen in a night.
The Hyksos and the War for Egypt tells the dramatic story of one of the most decisive turning points in ancient Egyptian history: the age when foreign rulers rose in the Delta, Egypt fractured into rival kingdoms, and Thebes transformed from a regional power into the force that would reunify the land.
Before the jungle reclaimed its towers and explorers called it "e;lost,"e; there was a civilization that transformed water into empire and faith into stone.
The Birth of Egypt explores the remarkable transformation of the Nile Valley from scattered prehistoric communities into one of the world's first great centralized civilizations.
Inspired by a classical education, wealthy Romans populated the glittering interiors of their villas and homes with marble statuettes of ancestors, emperors, gods, and mythological figures.
For five hundred years the Roman Empire was the largest, richest, most durable state the western world had ever seen — a machine of roads and legions and law that ran from the moors of Britain to the sands of Arabia.
