Politics and diplomacy have always been as much about the social and cultural contexts within which political actors operate as they are about the political structures themselves.
Roman emperors have long functioned--and continue to function--in the western imagination as paradigms of imperial leadership to be emulated or avoided.
Roman emperors have long functioned--and continue to function--in the western imagination as paradigms of imperial leadership to be emulated or avoided.
Students of ancient Athenian politics, governance, and religion have long stumbled over the rich evidence of inscriptions and literary texts that document the Athenians' stewardship of the wealth of the gods.
Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor.
Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor.
Thirty years ago Robert Kaster's Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity investigated ancient Greco-Roman grammarians as social agents within their social and cultural context.
The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity.
The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture.
For the first time, this volume by two leading historians offers a comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central institution of ancient Greek society.
Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics was until recently treated as a poor cousin of the better-known Nicomachean Ethics - poor enough even to have to borrow its three central books (IV-VI) from the latter.
This is the first of four volumes that present the results from the University of Cincinnati's archaeological excavations of the Porta Stabia neighborhood at Pompeii.
A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of the largest collection of Greek manuscripts in America, including 110 codices and fragments ranging from the fourth to the nineteenth century.
The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture.
The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity.
Soon after the death of Alexander the Great, the priest Berossus wrote the first known narrative and comprehensive history of his native Babylon, and the priest Manetho likewise wrote the first such history of his native Egyptian civilization.
Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics was until recently treated as a poor cousin of the better-known Nicomachean Ethics - poor enough even to have to borrow its three central books (IV-VI) from the latter.
Beneath the sandstone walls of the Temple of Edfu lies one of the most enigmatic archives of the ancient world: a set of vast hieroglyphic inscriptions describing a homeland that rose from the waters, flourished, was struck by catastrophe, and was rebuilt by survivors.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Historisches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Hausarbeit ist es, herauszuarbeiten, wie sich die Herrschaftsrepräsentation von Theoderich auf dem Senigallia-Medaillon im Spannungsfeld zwischen römischen und gotischen bzw.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Altertum, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Basiskurs: Eine Republik der Verschwörungen?
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Fragestellung der vorliegenden Arbeit ist in zwei Teile zu gliedern.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,0, Universität Potsdam (Alte Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Proseminar Griechische Tyrannis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Laufe dieser Arbeit soll die Leitfrage "Inwiefern verhalfen Peisistratos' Mittel der Legitimation zur Errichtung seiner drei Tyrannis über Athen?
The Voices of the Consul is the first book-length study of the rhetoric of "e;On the Agrarian Law"e; I and II, the first two speeches that the great Roman orator Cicero gave on his ascension to the leadership of the Roman state-the first to the senate, the second to the people.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,7, Universität Münster (Seminar für alte Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Monarchische Herrschaft im Altertum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die Leistungen Philipp II.
This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millars 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.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,00, Universität Kassel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Römer und ihre Bundesgenossen haben in Form des römischen Bundesgenossensystems eine lange gemeinsame Historie.
Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre.
Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre.
Mirrors of the Divine brings into focus how four influential authors of the late ancient world--Tertullian of Carthage, Clement of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine of Hippo--employ language of vision and of mirrors in their discursive struggles to construct Christian agency, identity, and epistemology.
Mirrors of the Divine brings into focus how four influential authors of the late ancient world--Tertullian of Carthage, Clement of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, and Augustine of Hippo--employ language of vision and of mirrors in their discursive struggles to construct Christian agency, identity, and epistemology.
Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time.
This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human Image of God (formerly known as On the Making of Man, De hominis opificio) and the first English translation since the nineteenth century.
Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian.
The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth presents forty chapters about the unique and terrifying creatures from myths of the long-ago Near East and Mediterranean world, featuring authoritative contributions by many of the top international experts on ancient monsters and the monstrous.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,0, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Alte Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Epochenmodul Antike, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Haben reiche Landbesitzer mit ihrer frühen Etablierung von Sklavenarbeit auf ihren Landgütern die Entstehung der bekannten Polisgesellschaft Athens und die stärkere Wahrnehmung von Bürgerrechten ergo eine größere Abgrenzung von Frei und Unfrei, Bürger und Nicht-Bürger verursacht?
