The History of Babylon and Assyria presents a fascinating historical study of two of the greatest kingdoms of the ancient world: Babylon and Assyria, whose civilizations arose more than four thousand years ago on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia.
In the writings of ancient Christians, the near-ubiquitous references to the fear of God have traditionally been seen as a generic placeholder for piety.
In Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood.
In the midst of profound political changes in late seventh-century Egypt, after the end of Roman hegemony and during Islamic rule, a bishop named John from the city of Nikiu sat down to pen a chronicle.
"e;A Gift to the Sons of the Age on the History of the Kings of Egypt"e; is a fascinating historical encyclopedia that smoothly narrates the various stages Egypt went through, from the dawn of its ancient Pharaonic civilization to the rise of the Alawite dynasty led by Muhammad Ali Pasha the Great.
This volume provides a new assessment of Athens' military capabilities and war efforts in the fourth century BC, highlighting the close connection between its democracy and military affairs.
This volume provides a new assessment of Athens' military capabilities and war efforts in the fourth century BC, highlighting the close connection between its democracy and military affairs.
This volume highlights current trends in interdisciplinary scholarship on seals and sealing practices in the ancient world, touching on fields of art history, archaeology, Assyriology, and anthropology.
This volume highlights current trends in interdisciplinary scholarship on seals and sealing practices in the ancient world, touching on fields of art history, archaeology, Assyriology, and anthropology.
The publication of Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry in 1974 inaugurated Michael Silk (1941-) as a Hellenist of exceptional learning and critical acumen, as a strenuous and ambitious theorist of literature, and as a comparatist of wide reach within the Western tradition.
The publication of Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry in 1974 inaugurated Michael Silk (1941-) as a Hellenist of exceptional learning and critical acumen, as a strenuous and ambitious theorist of literature, and as a comparatist of wide reach within the Western tradition.
