This is the first volume of the famous series "e;Story of the World"e;, which teaches children and juveniles the history of our planet and the most important countries and civilizations.
This volume collects a set of papers on ancient Platonism that span the nine centuries between Plato himself and his commentator Olympiodorus in the 6th century, many of them less easy to obtain.
A study of why the ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean took different paths to peace and stability and its lessons for international order today In this book Amitav Acharya and Manjeet S.
This collection of articles by Professor Bosworth contains a series of studies on the Arab-Persian heartland of the medieval Islamic world, from the Levant to Afghanistan and the borderlands with India.
Ciceros Verteidigungsrede für den ehemaligen Statthalter der Provinz Gallia Transalpina, Marcus Fonteius, ist nach wie vor eine der bedeutendsten Quellen, will man sich mit der besagten römischen Provinz näher befassen.
Professor Spieser deals here with a number of the transformations that took place in the world of Late Antiquity - and early Christianity - focusing upon notions of space.
This volume of studies by the late Milton Anastos contains his major articles published after his previous collection appeared, along with the first publication of a portion of 'The Mind of Byzantium', Anastos's projected multi-volume survey of Byzantine intellectual history.
Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of Mesopotamian history.