In these studies Gary Vikan has opened new perspectives on the daily life and material culture of Late Antiquity - more specifically, on icons and relics, and on objects revealing of the world of pilgrimage, the early cult of saints, and marriage.
This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of Galileo Galilei's engagement with the Almagest, Claudius Ptolemy's second-century scientific work on the motions of stars and planetary paths.
Robert Eisler's "e;Orpheus - The Fisher: Comparative Studies in Orphic and Early Christian Cult Symbolism"e; offers a profound exploration into the intricate and symbolic worlds of Orphic and early Christian traditions.
The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith's previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam.
Figure emblématique de la philosophie cynique, Diogène de Sinope est un sage de l’Antiquité grecque qui incarne, à travers sa pratique, l’idée que le bonheur réside tout simplement dans la poursuite d’une vie vertueuse, en accord avec la nature.
This volume gathers together a series of widely -scattered articles concerned with the great tradition of Platonic scholarship "e; The Golden Chain"e; from the time of Plato himself up into the period of Middle Platonism.
In recent decades the study of the ancient economy and ancient warfare have both been transformed by ground-breaking new studies and methodological approaches.
