Ancient history

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.

The Book is written straight from the compassion of my heart and spirit to enlighten young people and older.

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.

Le banquet est un thème riche tant sur le plan religieux, anthropologique et sociologique que philosophique, littéraire et iconographique ; il est à la fois lieu de sociabilité, de réflexion, de justice ou d'antagonisme, de manifestation et de contestation du pouvoir.

La grotte de Lascaux est un jalon fondamental dans l'histoire de l'art, les découvertes plus récentes n'affectent en rien ce jugement.

Ce livre fait revivre le dialogue passionnant entre citoyens athéniens et romains à travers leurs procès politiques.

« L'origine des États se perd dans un mythe auquel on doit croire et qu'on ne doit pas discuter », écrivait Marx en 1848.

Les IVe, Ve et VIe siècles de notre ère constituent une période typique de transition.

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