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