Ancient history

This volume investigates the central role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender constructions, and visual imagery in creating and sustaining religious meaning in antiquity.

Exploring the military, legal, social and literary aspects of ancient warfare, this study examines the multifaceted nature of the siege phenomenon in the Ancient Near East.

This book explores the experience of labour for ancient Greek farming communities using historical, archaeological, bioarchaeological, and ethnographic data.

This book explores the experience of labour for ancient Greek farming communities using historical, archaeological, bioarchaeological, and ethnographic data.

From the ashes of an empire, a new world struggles to emerge.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic-rather than historical-approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternization, as well as their meaningful diversity.

This volume investigates the central role of physical bodies, ritual technologies, healing practices, gender constructions, and visual imagery in creating and sustaining religious meaning in antiquity.

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic-rather than historical-approach to ancient Greek oracular texts, showing their conceptual and formal unity and patternization, as well as their meaningful diversity.

EL MUNDO NATURAL A TRAVÉS DE LOS OJOS DE LOS ESTOICOSCuestiones naturales es una obra en la que, con su habitual lucidez, Séneca aspira a conseguir un conocimiento racional del mundo, entendido como la actividad más digna y liberadora del ser humano y, especialmente, como la única forma de acercamiento a ese dios que se oculta a nuestros ojos y al que solo podemos llegar con la fuerza de la razón.

Even voracious readers are often unaware that women have worked outside the home from the earliest recorded history.

During ancient times, many civilizations such as Egypt, China, Mesopotamia, Europe and others flourished.

In the nineteenth century, the British crown expanded its reach in almost all parts of the world from China to America, overpowering the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and the French.

What Happened in History by V.

This title is a concise version of the English translation of Mahabharata and Ramayana.

This is the fourth revised version of the book, which was first published in 1977.

Hercules Performed explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - on the western stage from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on live theatre, including tragedy, comedy and musical drama.