Ancient history

This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria's Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.

Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can we compare the two traditions?

Friedell schildert größtenteils das Alltagsleben, die Landschaft, Architektur, Literatur und Sprache.

Considering the striking similarities between the treatment of the dead and conceptions of the netherworld in ancient Egypt and China, how can we compare the two traditions?

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.

The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts.

In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation.

This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West.

This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West.

Britain has a rich urban history with many of its towns and cities overlying Roman period archaeology and incorporating Roman remains.

In New England today there are megalithic stones, stone chambers and structures, carvings and petroglyphs, even an unidentified skeleton in armor that defy easy explanation.

First Published in 1956 The Greek Tyrants is concerned primarily with an early period of Greek history, when the aristocracies which ruled in the eighth and seventh centuries were losing control of their cities and were very often overthrown by a tyranny, which in its turn gave way to the oligarchies and democracies of the classical period.

First Published in 1956 The Greek Tyrants is concerned primarily with an early period of Greek history, when the aristocracies which ruled in the eighth and seventh centuries were losing control of their cities and were very often overthrown by a tyranny, which in its turn gave way to the oligarchies and democracies of the classical period.

This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world's first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium.

This book invites a close textual encounter with the first 11 chapters of Genesis as an intimate drama of marginalised peoples wrestling with the rise of the world's first grain states in the Mesopotamian alluvium.

This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great's image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century.

The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERMake room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys there's a new history book in town.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Now with a fun pub quiz*'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The TimesThe nation's favourite historians, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask .

This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time and the role of artwork in Roman imperial systems.

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First published in 1966, Latin Historians gives an account of some of the most important Latin historians.

Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great's death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships.

Constantine and the Council of Nicaea plunges students into the theological debates confronting early Christian church leaders.

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.

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.

This volume by the late Bernd J.

This volume by the late Bernd J.

Das Konzept der 'Kontingenz' liefert neue Erkenntnisse zum Übergang zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter abseits altbekannter Meistererzählungen und Forschungsnarrative.

How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries?

The geographical position between the gulfs of Naples and Salerno made pre-Roman Sorrento a fundamental point of passage.

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.

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.

Ancient civilisations exercise an intense fascination for people the world over.