Ancient history

In this book, Mark K.

In Antiquity (500 BCE-500 CE), leisure was always more significant than simply a short break from the hardships of everyday life.

Comprised of debates among the rabbis of late antiquity in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.

A WARREN OF WEIRD AND WONDERFUL FACTS AND TALES RESCUED FROM OBSCURITY Read the first trivia book from the team behind the hit history podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives, investigating the provenance of historical objects, real and metaphorical, with intelligence and humour 'Compulsively dip-in-able' The Times----Ever fallen down a rabbit hole?

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons, and myths identified with the planet Venus.

An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek.

Zadokite Propaganda in the Late Second Temple Period is a monumental epoch-breaking work of scholarship in ancient history and Jewish studies.

Comprised of debates among the rabbis of late antiquity in the aftermath of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.

Zadokite Propaganda in the Late Second Temple Period is a monumental epoch-breaking work of scholarship in ancient history and Jewish studies.

The Mythology of Venus is a collection of essays that summarizes the archaeoastronomy, calendar associations, religious and cultural icons, and myths identified with the planet Venus.

An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek.

Aristotle's Eudemus aims to present a dramatically new view of the content of Aristotle's lost Eudemus.

This monograph adapts terms and concepts from linguistics, structuralism and semiotics to develop a grammar for the ten extant, complete dramas from first-century Rome and five Humanist plays from Renaissance Italy.

The earliest history of the miaphysite church is extraordinarily rich in documents.

Any encounter with colonial archives leaves one deeply aware that the voices of the oppressed have been rendered mute.

Guarding the Caesars is the story of the survival of the Flavian emperors in Rome.

Guarding the Caesars is the story of the survival of the Flavian emperors in Rome.

Scholars have long noted the strikingly visual aspects of Statius' poetry.

Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age.

The first part of Book 30 of Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae is devoted to the military and diplomatic struggle for Armenia between Valens, emperor of the East, and king Sapor II of Persia.

Book 29 opens with the judicial terror in Antioch following the discovery of a plot against the emperor in the East, Valens, who played an active role in hunting down and executing the culprits.

The interplay between nature, science, and art in antiquity and the early modern period differs significantly from late modern expectations.

The studies included in Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual - written in honor of Professor Demetrios Yatromanolakis, a pioneering and influential scholar - shed new light on a variety of areas: the encounters of ancient Greece with other societies and cultures in antiquity; the interplay between art (vase-painting and sculpture) and broader ideological developments/ mentalities in antiquity; ritual in ancient Greek contexts; political ideologies and religion; history of scholarship, textual criticism/critical editing, and hermeneutics; the reception of myth and of archaic and classical Greek culture and philosophy in diverse discursive, mediatic, and sociocultural contexts - from early twentieth-century painting, to modernism and the avant-garde, to Foucauldian thought.

Allusions to the epic poets Virgil and Lucan in the writing of the Roman historian Tacitus (c.

Wahrend sich Rom schon in der spaten Republik zur wichtigsten Seemacht des Mittelmeers entwickelte, lat sich erstmals im fruhen Prinzipat in den Gewassern Nordwesteuropas beobachten, da Rom das gesamte Spektrum der Operationen zur See beherrschte und Operationen unternahm, an denen hunderte von Schiffen und tausende von Mannern beteiligt sein konnten.

After decades of controversy, there is now a growing consensus that Greek warfare was not singular and simple, but complex and multiform.

This volume is a companion to the author's new Loeb edition of Seneca's tragedies (vol.

The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade.

The distinction that Praxagoras of Cos (4th-3rd c.

Eastern Wines on Western Tables: Consumption, Trade and Economy in Ancient Italy is an interdisciplinary and multifaceted study concerning wine commerce and the Roman economy during Classical antiquity.

The Odyssey is 'ein Epos des Raums'.

This timely volume brings together leading scholars and rising researchers in the field to examine the role played by the law in thinking and practice in the legal system of classical Athens.

Recently there has been a welcome revival of scholarly interest in the economy of classical Greece.

What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield?

On Simples, a medicinal text of the first century A.

The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present.

This book investigates the various paraphrastic techniques employed by Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD) for his poetic version of the Gospel of John.

The goal of this inscription-based study is to shed new light on Hellenistic and Roman Delphi by placing inscribed honours at the front and centre of the investigation.

Amyrtaeus, only pharaoh of the Twenty-eighth Dynasty, shook off the shackles of Persian rule in 404 BCE; a little over seventy years later, Ptolemy son of Lagus started the 'Greek millennium' (J.