Ancient history

Recent antiquarian research, in the hands of a greatly expanded scholarship, has completely revolutionized ancient Oriental history.

The stories by Franz Kafka, illustrated by Hanna Koch, resemble fairy tales, enabling childrento discover the beauty of this prose.

The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, mercantile activities, and waterways that have been politicized.

This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology.

This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology.

This book examines African Latin Christianity from the fifth to the thirteenth century, exploring the complex interactions between local Christian communities and Vandals, Byzantines, and Arabs.

This book offers a reassessment of argumentation in classical rhetoric, foregrounding its rational dimension.

Plutarch's Lives continues its exploration of character and consequence in this third volume, examining figures whose lives were shaped by uncertainty, ambition, and political danger.

This volume shifts perspective to the everyday aspects of ancient rhetoric-its teaching, exercises, and daily life-and concentrates on persons less visible in narratives of rhetoric's history: teachers, slaves and freedmen, speech performers, political dissidents, mavericks, and dropouts.

This vintage book contains a collection dialogues by the classical Greek philosopher Plato.

First published in 2005.

Using Roman literary and legal sources, this book assesses Roman penal policy through an in-depth examination of six high-profile criminal cases, ranging from the Bacchanalian trials in 186 BC to the trials for treason and magic in the fourth century.

To observe the Celts through the eyes of the Greeks and Romans is the first aim of this book.

This book covers the development of mosaics in Britain from the invasion to the end of Roman Britain.

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In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy.

In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy.

An intriguing examination of what we can learn about life in Roman Britain, using one woman's third-century tombstone as a starting point.

Gibt es eine Beziehung zwischen Bildern an der Wand und der Tapete im Kopf ihrer Betrachter?

This sourcebook provides an expansive picture of medicine, health, and healing in ancient Greece and Rome.

David Price Williams is a well-known Middle Eastern archaeologist and 'An Ancient Land: Genesis of an archaeologist' is an account of his work in the Holy Land, especially about his four-year multi-disciplinary expedition to find for the first time the effects of climatic change on human cultural and physical evolution.

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Niklas Holzberg, Jahrgang 1946, Professor für Klassische Philologie i.

Aspasia und Perikles gehören zu den schillerndsten Paaren der Weltgeschichte.

Philosophus orator – der Philosoph und der Redner, der Philosoph als Redner.

Sun Tzu - Die Kunst des KriegesDie Weisheiten der chinesischen Kriegskunst, verfasst von den genialen Generälen Sun Tzu und Wu Tzu vor über 2000 Jahren.

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Das Historische zu beschreiben, ist nicht einfach, schon ausufernden Gegenständlichkeit alles "Historischen" wegen.