Ancient history

California Studies in Classical Antiquity: Volume 3 offers a diverse and thought-provoking collection of essays that delve into key aspects of ancient Greek and Roman culture, history, and art.

Levanna was a famous and well-visited archaeological site in central New York, along the eastern side of Cayuga Lake, during the Great Depression.

The first English commentary on Strabo''s seventeen-book Geography, the single most important source for the history of Greek geography.

Incorporating the latest scholarly developments to offer an in-depth account of the history of the Byzantine Empire, this revised edition sheds new light on the Empire's culture, theology, and economic and socio-political spheres.

This fully illustrated history chronicles the evolution of Hellenistic warfare from the death of Alexander the Great to Rome’s conquest of the region.

In Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain, first published in 1991, Professor Dorothy Watts sets out to distinguish possible Pagan features in Romano-British Christianity in the period leading up to and immediately following the withdrawal of Roman forces in AD 410.

This tightly focused collection of essays, from an invited seminar of international specialists, centres on the question of the apocalyptic worldview around the time of the Maccabean revolt.

Demonstrates how the invention of extended deductive argumentation by Parmenides depended on his use of poetic road imagery.

Eager to be Roman is an important investigation into the ways in which the population of Pontus et Bithynia, a Greek province in the northwestern part of Asia Minor (on the southern shore of the Black Sea), engaged culturally with the Roman Empire.

This book demonstrates how oaths influence dramatic plots by compelling characters to behave in certain ways.

Ajax, the archetypal Greek warrior, has over the years been trivialized as a peripheral character in the classics through Hollywood representations, and by the use of his name on household cleaning products.

Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?

The linguistic analysis of runic inscriptions on the Continent tends to focus on individual texts or on groups of texts seen as parallel.

This new volume in the Oasis Papers series marks the 40th anniversary of archaeological fieldwork in the Dakhleh Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert under the leadership of Anthony J.

In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum, whether the law-court or the Assembly, cannot be separated from the notion of performance.

In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea.

In Ancient Marbles to American Shores, Stephen L.

Examines Porphyry of Tyre''s critical engagement with Hellenism in late antiquity, emphasizing philosophical translation as the key to his thought.

First published in Rome in 1535, Leone Ebreo's Dialogues of Love is one of the most important texts of the European Renaissance.

The Philebus is an extraordinarily creative and profound examination of what makes for a good human life, containing some of Plato's most sophisticated discussions of moral psychology, knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophical methodology.

The contributors to this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what shaped it, and how it both structured and reflected Roman society.

John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the eighth century.

Elisha's Profile in the Book of Kings uses the tools of literary criticism to read the Elisha narrative as an integral component of the Deuteronomistic History compiled in the aftermath of the Babylonian invasion and destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being 'sexually exploitable.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Sozialutopisches Denken in der griechischen Antike" verfügbar.

For more than 3,000 years, the Amazons have been a recognised symbol that transcends mythology and has influenced history itself.

Much of the evidenceliterary, historical, documentary, and pictorialfrom ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subject matter, and intended audience.

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

Giving access to the latest critical thinking on the subject, Medea is a comprehensive guide to sources that paints a vivid portrait of the Greek sorceress Medea, famed in myth for the murder of her children after she is banished from her own home and replaced by a new wife.

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire.

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time.

Delatores (political informants) and accusatores (malicious prosecutors) were a major part of life in imperial Rome.

This is a collection of essays by leading scholars examining the period of transition between Persian and Greek rule of Judah, ca.

Presents the first comprehensive study of the ''Byzantine Google'' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.

Rufinus' vivid account of the battle between the Eastern Emperor Theodosius and the Western usurper Eugenius by the River Frigidus in 394 represents it as the final confrontation between paganism and Christianity.

Indexes are invaluable tools for navigating scholarly works, and the Album of Dated Latin Inscriptions addresses this need by providing comprehensive, user-friendly indexes.

This comprehensive study establishes the importance of an unexpected genre, tragedy, in the career of the most mercurial Western poet.

Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhesia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire.

First published in 1962, this book is the first of two volumes which bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines.

Fresh new look at the life of Cicero, Rome's greatest orator and one of the key figures of the 1st century.

Of the many ancient civilizations we are aware of, few are smaller than the ancient Kingdom of Israel.

Ash re-examines the question of the relationship between Egypt and Palestine during the time of David and Solomon.

Examines how Xenophon instructs his elite readers concerning the values and skills needed to lead the Athenian democracy.