Diodor stellt in seinem Werk »Bibliotheke« die gesamte Geschichte vom Beginn der Menschheit bis in seine eigene Zeit dar und nimmt dabei die ganze bekannte Welt in den Blick.
Lustrum Band 59 enthält zwei Beiträge zu rhetorischen Themen: Pierre Chiron, den Lustrum-Lesern als Experte auf diesem Gebiet bereits aus dem Jahrgang 2011 (Hermogène) bekannt, gibt einen Überblick über die Forschungsarbeiten zu den griechischen und lateinischen ›Progymnasmata‹ sowie deren Rezeption in der Neuzeit, ein Thema, das so umfassend und systematisch bisher nie bearbeitet wurde.
In this volume, we try to understand the "e;Mamluk Empire"e; not as a confined space but as a region where several nodes of different networks existed side-by-side and at the same time.
Ancient Greece comes alive in this recreation of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor.
George Rawlinson's 'PARTHIA (Illustrated)' is a comprehensive exploration of the ancient Parthian Empire, providing an in-depth look at its history, culture, and influence on the surrounding regions.
Am Beginn der Geschichte der griechisch-römischen Antike steht eine Migrationsbewegung, die mit bahnbrechenden Entwicklungen einherging: etwa der Entstehung der Polis, der Wiederentdeckung der Schrift oder der Entfaltung von Kunst und Seefahrt.
Patchworkfamilien in der Spätantike thematisiert das Phänomen der Wiederverheiratung nach Scheidung oder Verwitwung in Gesellschaft, Recht und Mentalität der jüdischen, heidnischen und römisch-christlichen Antike.
How, over the course of five centuries, one particular god and one particular Christianity came to dominate late Roman imperial politics and piety The ancient Mediterranean teemed with gods.
In ›Die Erfindung der Namen‹ taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, in der die Bedeutung von Namen nicht nur eine kulturelle Nuance ist, sondern eine grundlegende Rolle im menschlichen Dasein spielt.
This unique full-length English biography of Varus reassesses how he has been held responsible for one of the most infamous and humiliating defeats in Roman history.
Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League - the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras - to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America.
Homo sapiens a constaté qu’après un certain temps de macération, les fruits, les agrumes ou les graminées se commuaient en un breuvage qui le métamorphosait.
In this revealing book, Roman historian and archaeologist Andrew Tibbs uncovers the earliest Roman fortifications in Scotland and examines the landscape and context in which they were built.
These case studies offer new approaches to the analysis and interpretation of symbols in a variety of media and as expressed on a range of objects at different scales.
An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West and modern storytelling as we have come to understand it today.
This book discusses 20th- and 21st-centuries' literary retellings of biblical texts, focusing on how fiction and poetry fill the extant narrative gaps present in the often-sparse biblical accounts and align the narratives with theological and/or cultural expectations of modern interpreting communities.
To date, mourning has not featured prominently in studies of ancient Roman society, and this book redresses this by presenting a comprehensive analysis of who mourners were and what mourners did, as well as investigating the social, cultural and ritual significance of mourning.
The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for the Carthaginian invasion of Rome.
This book offers a historical-materialist reading of the opening chapters of the book of Genesis in an attempt to revive their potential to engage people in truthful discussions about power and pleasure.
Feldherr, Aristokrat, Wohltäter: Eine fesselnde Geschichte voller Intrigen und Genüsse Sein Ruf als Gourmet ist bis heute sprichwörtlich, sein Rang als Politiker hingegen völlig vergessen: Lucullus gehört zu den letzten Verteidigern einer freien römischen Republik.
Narrates and analyzes an oft-neglected war between Sparta and an unlikely alliance of Athens, Persia, Thebes, Corinth and Argos all while including detailed analysis of the battles of Haliartus, Nemea, Cnidus, Coronea and Lechaeum.
Narrates and analyzes an oft-neglected war between Sparta and an unlikely alliance of Athens, Persia, Thebes, Corinth and Argos all while including detailed analysis of the battles of Haliartus, Nemea, Cnidus, Coronea and Lechaeum.
This unique full-length English biography of Varus reassesses how he has been held responsible for one of the most infamous and humiliating defeats in Roman history.
An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West and modern storytelling as we have come to understand it today.
