著者:Martin M. Winkler
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Apollo was the ancient god of light and the divine patron of the arts. He is therefore a fitting metaphor for cinematography, which is the modern art of writing with moving light. This book interpre……続きを見る
Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar's wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga?If, as many claim, the importan……続きを見る
The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek.
Long accepted as a straightforward historical acco……続きを見る
In this book, a sequel to Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace (Cambridge, 2002), ten leading Latin scholars provide specially commissioned in-depth discussions of the poetry of Catullus,……続きを見る
著者:Percy Newberry
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
First published in 2005. The seals collected by Captain Timins of Cairo are here catalogued, reproduced and described by Professor Newbery to make an attractive and useful book. The original collect……続きを見る
著者:Troy D. Allen
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2008年07月25日
Scholars in Egyptology have often debated the following question: was the ancient Egyptian society organized along patrilineal or matrilineal lines? In taking a fresh and innovative look at the anci……続きを見る
著者:Lionel Casson
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2012年02月01日
This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when books” were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a……続きを見る
Aristotles' 'Metaphysics' is one of the most important texts in Ancient Philosophy. This GuideBook looks at the Metaphysics thematically and takes the student through the main arguments found in the……続きを見る
著者:Cecil Blake
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年07月01日
Through a critical analysis of ancient African texts that predate Greco-Roman treatises Cecil Blake revisits the roots of rhetorical theory and challenges what is often advanced as the "darkness met……続きを見る
No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of th……続きを見る
著者:Andrea Falcon
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
This book is a full study of the remaining evidence for Xenarchus of Seleucia, one of the earliest interpreters of Aristotle. Andrea Falcon places the evidence in its context, the revival of interes……続きを見る
著者:E. A. Budge
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年06月17日
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of anci……続きを見る
著者:Peter Schäfer
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2002年12月26日
The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. ……続きを見る
This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of th……続きを見る
In this book Professor Mastronarde draws on the seventeen surviving tragedies of Euripides, as well as the fragmentary remains of his lost plays, to explore key topics in the interpretation of the p……続きを見る
著者:David Shotter
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2004年08月17日
Taking into account the latest research on the subject, David Shotter has updated this second edition of Tiberius Caesar throughout and provides a concise and accessible survey of the character and ……続きを見る
`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced……続きを見る
1997 was the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls explores the evidence about calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Hebrew Bible and other an……続きを見る
Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek wed……続きを見る
Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a p……続きを見る
著者:Gerald Massey
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年10月15日
First published in 2005. This expansive and fascinating treatment of ancient Egyptian mythology and its influence on the traditions that followed from it includes explorations of sign-language in my……続きを見る
著者:Nicholas Postgate
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2016年03月18日
This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles an……続きを見る
The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe. This guide provides: · Coverage of all the important si……続きを見る
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La Lettre à Ménécée est une lettre écrite par le philosophe Épicure à son disciple Ménécée. Le texte résume la doctrine éthique d'Épi……続きを見る
著者:Otto Kiefer
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
First published in 2001. The psychological basis of the Roman Empire was a ruthless, frequently sadistic 'will to power'. This impulse is highly manifest in Ancient Roman attitudes towards sex. Afte……続きを見る
This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion o……続きを見る
著者:Jon R. Stone
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年04月15日
This revised and updated edition includes a brand new foreword by Richard LaFleur and more than fifteen hundred new entries and abbreviations. Organized alphabetically within the categories of verba……続きを見る
This book is a systematic study of the importance of Greek tragedy as a fundamental 'intertext' for Vergil's Aeneid. Vassiliki Panoussi argues that the epic's representation of ritual acts, especial……続きを見る
In this illuminating history, Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces the development of Jewish history from ancient times to the present day. Containing over 100 maps and 30 photographs, this is a comprehensive at……続きを見る
著者:Eric W. Robinson
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes have been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy - for which ……続きを見る