Ancient History 54

Here Jerome Murphy-O'Connor presents a completely new, and much more vivid and dramatic account of the life of Paul than has ever previously been attempted. From his childhood in Tarsus and his year……続きを見る

*Explains Sparta's military society and battle tactics.*Includes pictures of important people, places, and events in Spartan history and culture.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Include……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Des Hommes Illustres De La Ville De Rome rassemblent quatre-vingt-six biographies de célèbre personnage étant passé par Rome Une tabl……続きを見る

The Cambridge History of India, Ancient India is an authoritative history of India from the beginning of history until the time after Alexander the Greats conquest. 26 chapters and over 500 full-len……続きを見る

Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Ath……続きを見る

Titus Flavius Josephus (37 circa 100) was a 1st-century Roman-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century ……続きを見る

The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - bot……続きを見る

The first volume of John Lord's 'Beacon Lights of History', this book covers the history of ancient civilisations, such as the Egyptian empire, religions and philosophers. 続きを見る

Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Ath……続きを見る

In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was co……続きを見る

In this fascinating and revealing A-to-Z, John G. Younger examines the sexual practices, expressions and attitudes of the Greeks and Romans, from Catullus and Caligula, to orgies and obscenity, and ……続きを見る

It was fall and the late summer rains had produced an overly-abundant grape harvest. Such a large harvest was driving down grape prices but, since volumes were up, the grape producers would probably……続きを見る

This unexpurgated and uniquely illustrated anthology has been compiled by www.Bybliotech.org and optimised for e-readers. It includes an active table of contents for ease of navigation, and features……続きを見る

Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history. Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret hist……続きを見る

The museums of the world are full of statues and other artefacts of the Greeks and the Romans. All are given a date. But how are these dates arrived at. What is the evidence? This study provides the……続きを見る

The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies. Focused on civilizations clustered mainly around the Med……続きを見る

Replete now with its own scholarly traditions and controversies, Roman slavery as a field of study is no longer limited to the economic sphere, but is recognized as a fundamental social institution ……続きを見る

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First published in 1984. Written by a well-respected Professor of Egyptology at University College, London in the latter half of the nineteenth century, this is a scholarly but readable account of t……続きを見る

This book teaches students and scholars of Greco-Roman medical history how to use and critically assess archaeological materials. Ancient medicine is a subject dominated by textual sources, yet ther……続きを見る

In the eighth century, The Vikings, the water-borne warriors of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, conquered much of the British Isles. They pillaged the coast of France, pushed inland to sack Paris, and ……続きを見る

Attila the Hun - godless barbarian and near-mythical warrior king - has become a byword for mindless ferocity. His brutal attacks smashed through the frontiers of the Roman empire in a savage wave o……続きを見る

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Extrait : Où êtes-vous, à cette minute, ô voyageuse que j’attends ? Sur quelle page de l’atlas faut-il que je cherche le lac, la forê……続きを見る

When Pope Leo rode out of Rome in 452 to meet Attila the Hun, he had no arms, no army, no bodyguards, no great retinue of ambassadors and advisers. Only a few churchmen and lesser officials of the e……続きを見る

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. ……続きを見る

The Enuma Elish (The Epic of Creation) translated by L. W. King When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, And the primeval Apsu, who begat them, And cha……続きを見る

Like other volumes in this series, Ancient History from Coins demystifies a specialism, introducing students (from first year upwards) to the techniques, methods, problems and advantages of using co……続きを見る

First published in 1973, Arena discusses the Year AD 80, when the Colosseum opened with quite the longest and most nauseating organized mass orgy in history. It was a mammoth celebration on the gran……続きを見る

The Vita Merlini by Geoffrey of Monmouth Translated by John Jay Parry "Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, is a work by Geoffrey of Monmouth composed in Latin around AD 1150. It retells incidents f……続きを見る

This photo tour is selected from photos I took on a trip to Egypt in November 2010. I have tried to show a different perspective with my 40+ photographs of the places that I visited. See such things……続きを見る