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.
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.
Placing Alexander the Great's leadership, command skills, and grand strategy within the context of twenty-first century military challenges, and thus showing continuities in leadership and warfare since his time, this volume demonstrates how and why Alexander is relevant to the modern world by emphasizing the need for human leadership in our digital era.
Placing Alexander the Great's leadership, command skills, and grand strategy within the context of twenty-first century military challenges, and thus showing continuities in leadership and warfare since his time, this volume demonstrates how and why Alexander is relevant to the modern world by emphasizing the need for human leadership in our digital era.
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.
The greatest danger to Roman emperors was the threat of deadly conspiracies arising among the Senate, the imperial court or even their own families All the emperors that reigned from Augustus to the end of the first century AD faced such efforts to overthrow or assassinate them.
Seitdem Theodor Mommsen 1847 seinen grundlegenden Akademieantrag für ein Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum vorlegte, haben sich die Methoden und Praktiken der Inschriftenedition in der Altertumskunde, auch abhängig von der Vielfalt der Inschriftengattungen, stark ausdifferenziert.
This book investigates the complex reception of Terence in Ovid and a number of allusions to the Terentian comedies in the love elegies and the exilic elegiac epistle Tristia 2.
Die gesammelten Beiträge von Werner Eck erörtern unter sehr verschiedenen sachlichen Gesichtspunkten die Frage, wie die zahlreichen regionalen Gesellschaften und einzelne reichsweite Personengruppen im Imperium Romanum durch die kaiserzeitliche Politik in Religion, Sprache, Familie, Recht oder auch bei den Begräbnissitten beeinflusst wurden.
Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity.
This concise history of how the Christian Church grew between 32 and 380 focuses on the anonymous Christians who formed diverse congregations as they guided their communities through the age of the Apostles, violent martyrdoms, and to the establishment of the Roman Church.
