Ancient history

It is often forgotten that many people in Late Antique Syria were bilingual in Syriac and Greek.

This volume aims to merge theoretical models with methodological approaches on ceramic technology and artisanal networks in the Classical world.

Von Alexander dem Großen bis Konstantin, von Buddha bis Jesus: Die erste vergleichende Universalgeschichte der Antike»Das ist die ganz, ganz große Leistung, die erzählerische und auch die methodische Leistung: Diese Fülle an Material, die in der alten Geschichte auch immer hergeleitet werden muss […] auf eine so kompakte Weise erzählen zu können, [ist] wirklich sehr bewundernswert.

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo Gonz lez analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth.

Amid the vibrant culture and deep-rooted traditions of India thrive hundreds of Indigenous tribes and ethnic communities.

This book is concerned with the concepts of Christian holiness and spirituality, from Late Antiquity through to the Middle Ages.

The book deals with some major aspects of Zoroastrianism in Iran during the Sasanian period, including the important distinctions between the spritual and the material modes of existence, the idea that Ahreman, the Evil Spirit, does not belong in the material world, and the widely current myth of Zurvan.

Liturgical ritual was a major element of the Christian cultures of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

The focus of this book is on the legal status of the Jews within the Roman Empire and the changes that it underwent when the empire became Christian.

By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history.

Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte Maltas, einer kleinen Insel, die eine zentrale Rolle in der Entwicklung mediterraner Zivilisationen spielte.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Inschriften von den Dorischen Inseln" verfügbar.

This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors.

Hold the gloryand infamyof ancient Rome in the palm of your hand with this ';brilliant combination of history and storytelling' (Conn Iggulden, author of the Emperor series) as it explores history's greatest superpower, as told through humanity's most universal object: the coin.

Roman Emperors is a concise chronological guide to the emperors who ruled the Roman Empire.

The author of this book was an American teacher in the Provincial College near Peking, China, and the stories are based on legends picked up among Chinese children.

Egypt, with its ever-growing wealth of evidence from the papyri, has in recent decades been one of the liveliest areas of scholarship on the later Roman Empire.

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