Henry Bradleys The Story of the Goths from the Earliest Times to the End of Gothic Dominion in Spain is a concise history of the Goths from before their invasion of Rome until the 8th century A.D. ……続きを見る
The complete and definitive history of how Roman generals carved out the greatest and longest-lasting empire the world has ever seen.
The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in ……続きを見る
著者:Walter Goffart
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2010年11月25日
The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the……続きを見る
著者:Fritz Graf
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2008年10月16日
Fritz Graf here presents a survey of a god once thought of as the most powerful of gods, and capable of great wrath should he be crossed: Apollo the sun god.
From his first attestations in Homer, th……続きを見る
Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world
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The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the wor……続きを見る
King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales ……続きを見る
A remarkable tale about a historical expedition. Here, in one of the most famous books by Xenophon, the author gives first hand account of the celebrated march of ten thousand Greeks towards Persia ……続きを見る
This book presents an up-to-date overview of the main new directions taken by ancient philosophy in the first century BC, a period in which the dominance exercised in the Hellenistic age by Stoicism……続きを見る
著者:Peter Toohey
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年04月15日
Didactic Epic was enormously popular in the ancient world. It was used to teach Greeks and Romans technical and scientific subjects, but in verse. Epic Lessons shows how this scientific poetry was i……続きを見る
*Includes pictures of the stele on which the Code of Hammurabi is inscribed. *Includes the Code of Hammurabi. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. A lot of ink……続きを見る
著者:Daniel J. Kapust
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought develops readings of Rome's three most important Latin historians - Sallust, Livy and Tacitus - in light of contemporary discussions of republica……続きを見る
著者:George Smith
出版社: AppsPublisher
発売日: 2012年12月18日
The Chaldean Account of the Deluge
by George Smith
A historic article in which the discovery of the Babylonian Deluge account was announced, an episode from the Gilgamesh myth.
"This paper, which wa……続きを見る
*Includes Platos The Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, and fragments attributed to him, Marcus Aurelius The Meditations, and George Longs M. Aurelius Antoninus……続きを見る
In modern times there have been studies of the Roman Republican institutions as a whole as well as in-depth analyses of the senate, the popular assemblies, the tribunate of the plebs, the aedileship……続きを見る
This book equips both lawyer and historian with a complete history of Roman law, from its beginnings c.1000 BC through to its re-discovery in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth ……続きを見る
Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC - a time of anarchy and instability for the Roma……続きを見る
From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Command’s 1944 Nuremberg Raid – the RAF’s bloodiest night of the Second World Wa……続きを見る
著者:Hesiod
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年04月12日
Along with Homer, Hesiod was one of the Ancient Greeks first epic bards, and one of their best. Hesiod is believed to have lived between 750 and 650 B.C., and along with Homer it was Hesiods work th……続きを見る
Robert William Rogers, noted historian and professor or theology, writes of the decipherment of the ancient cuneiform languages. A history of previous excavations in the Middle East is also discuss……続きを見る
Magic has always been a widespread phenomenon in Greek Society, starting from Homer’s Circe (the first ‘evil witch’ in western history) and extending to the pervasive belief in the ‘evil eye’ in the……続きを見る
Sallust (86–c. 35 bc) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive, a senator of the Roman Republic and younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey and Julius Caesar. His Catiline’s War……続きを見る
著者:Trevor Bryce
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2009年09月10日
This 500,000 word reference work provides the most comprehensive general treatment available of the peoples and places of the regions commonly referred to as the ancient Near and Middle East – exten……続きを見る
Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo.
L'Histoire naturelle est une œuvre en 37 volumes de Pline l'Ancien, qui souhaitait compiler le plus grand nombre possible d’informati……続きを見る
*Includes pictures of Babylonian artifacts depicting the kings, the Hanging Gardens, and the Code of Hammurabi. *Explains the legends and mysteries surrounding the kings, including Biblical accounts……続きを見る
著者:H.P. Blavatsky
出版社: Charles River Editors
発売日: 2012年02月18日
H.P. Blavatsky was born August 12th 1831 in Yekaterinoslav, Russia. After leaving Russia after an unconsummated arranged marriage, Helena became a prolific world traveler. She traveled the world wit……続きを見る
Crawfords A History of Southern Italy: The Rulers of the South is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of southern Italy and Sicily. Its over 300 full-length chapters start with th……続きを見る
Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel here……続きを見る
The history of European drama began at the festivals of Dionysus in ancient Athens, where tragedy, satyr-drama and comedy were performed. Understanding this background is vital for students of class……続きを見る