This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world's first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium.
This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world's first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium.
The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.
This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time and the role of artwork in Roman imperial systems.
Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values.
Im Jahre 1794 wurden in Dresden die Gipsabgüsse, die knapp zehn Jahre zuvor aus dem Nachlass Anton Raphael Mengs‘ für die Kunsthochschule angekauft worden waren, im Johanneum aufgestellt.
While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women have been glaringly missing.
The History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a seminal historical work that chronicles the devastating conflict between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies from 431 to 404 BCE.
Breve historia de la mitología en la Hispania prerromana se centra en realizar un estudio contextualizado de la mitología de los diversos pueblos que habitaron la Península Ibérica antes de la llegada de los romanos.
Die Wände der ägyptischen Schausäle im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien beeindrucken durch großformatige ägyptische Wandmalereien, die einem Felsgrab in Beni Hassan (Mittelägypten) nachempfunden sind.
Während er für Hannibal die römischen Machenschaften in Sagunt ausspioniert, verfällt der berühmte karthagische Geschichtenerzähler Jahon der Tochter des römischen Ex-Konsuls Gaius Lutatius Catulus.
During the 2020-2023 years of the pandemic, when it came to the workplace, public librarians creatively adjusted their practices and their praxis to keep communities engaged with a myriad of virtual information services and distal information delivery during lockdown, lasting for often long and uncertain timeframes.
This book collects essays by international scholars who engage with Roman-period architecture outside Rome and the Italian Peninsula, looking at the regions that formed part of the Roman Empire over a broad time frame: from the second century BCE to the third century CE.
This book collects essays by international scholars who engage with Roman-period architecture outside Rome and the Italian Peninsula, looking at the regions that formed part of the Roman Empire over a broad time frame: from the second century BCE to the third century CE.
La vida de Aleso da un vuelco cuando, sin pretenderlo, se ve involucrado en una conspiración en la que está implicado su padre, un caudillo de la tribu tectosaga del sur de la Galia.
Das Konzept der 'Kontingenz' liefert neue Erkenntnisse zum Übergang zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter abseits altbekannter Meistererzählungen und Forschungsnarrative.
This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions.
This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him.
This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him.
Although the Montaukett were among the first tribes to establish relations with the English in the seventeenth century, until now very little has been written about the evolution of their interaction with the settlers.
This volume contains editions of 35 texts, which have been excavated nearly 100 years ago in the ancient Egyptian village of Karanis, and which were still waiting publication.
The period between the Roman take-over of Egypt (30 BCE) and the failure of the Jewish diaspora revolt (115-117 CE) witnessed the continual devaluation in the status of the Jews in Egypt, and culminated in the destruction of its Jewish community.
›Die Erfindung der Überbevölkerung‹ ist eine tiefgründige Analyse, die sich mit einem der drängendsten globalen Probleme unserer Zeit auseinandersetzt.
This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which religious and mythical ideas, including the knowledge and practice of magic, were transmitted and adapted through time and across Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, and Egyptian cultures.
