Ancient history

This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in biblical studies, to demonstrate the productivity of 'wisdom' as a literary category.

This volume gathers together 17 articles published over the last 30 years, together with one appearing here for the first time.

This study of the recruitment techniques used by the philosophical schools of Hellenistic Greece.

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact-a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE.

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.

Hesiod's concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths - Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der antiken Mythen und kosmischen Ursprünge!

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der vorislamischen arabischen Königreiche und entdecken Sie die kulturellen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Errungenschaften einer oft übersehenen Epoche.

Das Kolosseum ist weit mehr als ein antikes Bauwerk – es ist ein Symbol für die Größe und den Ehrgeiz des Römischen Reiches, ein Meisterwerk der Ingenieurskunst und eine Bühne für die Geschichte der Menschheit.

Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction.

150 Jahre intensiver archäologischer Forschung im Alten Vorderen Orient haben dem Erdboden unzählig viele Zeugnisse aus jener Zeit entrissen: Texte, Gebrauchsgegenstände und andere Spuren des menschlichen Lebens.

Renowned poet and acclaimed translator Charles Martin faithfully captures Euripides's dramatic tone and style in this searing tale of revenge and sacrifice.

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, managing witness/source bias, falling into historical error and creating or confronting propaganda.

This book examines Clement of Alexandria's interdisciplinary approach to nature contemplation-which he terms "e;physiology"e; and "e;physics"e;-showing its internal consistency even in the absence of a clear methodological outline.

Der Krieg Alexanders des Großen gegen das Persische Reich stellt einen der bedeutendsten und folgenreichsten militärischen Konflikte der Antike dar.