Ancient history

For more than three thousand years, the civilization of Ancient Egypt flourished along the banks of the Nile, leaving behind one of the most remarkable legacies in human history.

The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th-12th centuries upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this volume.

This fully revised, new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilisation from the age of Homer to the Hellenistic period.

It's 16 BCE, Sabinus is promoted to Legionary Legate by Caesar and sent to Gallia Belgica to reinforce the frontier with Germania, as a well as a secret mission, which becomes personal when his adopted son Garthago is kidnapped.

Wer war der vierte Evangelist?

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world.

This book sheds new light on labor and laboring in the Roman world.

Presenting a wide range of new scholarly approaches, this is the first volume to critique the highly influential television series Xena: Warrior Princess.

An in-depth exploration of Rome's third-century crisis, examining its internal turmoil, external pressures, and transformative reforms.

An in-depth exploration of Rome's third-century crisis, examining its internal turmoil, external pressures, and transformative reforms.

In this sequel to Joyce Andrew's popular book, Bible Legacy of the Black Race: The Prophecy Fulfilled, three questions are raised:What happened to the history of Ham and his descendants (African Black nation)?

Exploring life, death, and the afterlife in Mesopotamia, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman examine how life and death experiences continually developed over the course of nearly three millennia of Mesopotamian history.

Lucian's writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these questions through close readings of Lucian's dialogues and stories.

In obedience to Jesus' command, 'Do this in remembrance of me', the ritual repetition of the Lord's Supper down through the ages and across multiple Christian cultures in the liturgies of East and West, has given rise, inevitably, to innumerable diversities of shape, text, cultural context, and theological interpretation, as well as to debates, sometimes heated, among modern experts as to the methodologies for resolving the problems arising from these differences.

This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political history.

Die Sesshaftwerdung des Menschen markiert einen der bedeutendsten Wendepunkte der Menschheitsgeschichte.

Die Apostelgeschichte könnte auch den Titel tragen: "Die Taten von Jesus, 2.

Human olfaction - the sense of smell - enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable.

Hadrian – ein Kaiser, dessen Visionen die römische Geschichte nachhaltig prägten.

Biografía breve del famoso rey de Macedonia y conquistador de Asia (356-323 a.

Focusing on the Greek world during the high Roman Empire between the 1st and 3rd centuries CE, this edited volume examines the representation of space in literary, rhetorical, and mythographic texts of the period.

The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history.

This fully revised, new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilisation from the age of Homer to the Hellenistic period.