Ancient history

Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity.

Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.

Daniel Tubau nos acerca en Maldita Helena a este fascinante personaje admirado y odiado por poetas, dramaturgos, filosofos y eruditos, que la han considerado el simbolo de la belleza y la pasion, pero que tambien la han acusado de adultera, traidora a su patria y causante de una guerra espantosa.

Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents.

Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later.

By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary history.

This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabo's life, times and cultural context.

In recent decades the study of the ancient economy and ancient warfare have both been transformed by ground-breaking new studies and methodological approaches.

A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states.

What happened to Alexander the Great's empire when he died, and to the generals and companions that had conquered that empire with him?

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**Gods and Men**The year is 31 A.

Delve into the intricate landscape of ancient Indian burial practices, spanning Mesolithic to Neolithic epochs.

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

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.

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

Originally published in 1960, and the first of three volumes on the history of the Jews during the dispersal, this book covers briefly the period from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 down to Hadrian's suppression of Simeon's insurrection in 135.

**The Final Conquest**Following the assassination of Emperor Gaius Caligula in 41 A.

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.

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