Roger - Ancient History 1

The holy grail stands as one of the most captivating and enduring mysteries in human history, a symbol that bridges the worlds of religion, mythology, and cultural imagination. Traditionally believe……続きを見る

Britain has a rich urban history with many of its towns and cities overlying Roman period archaeology and incorporating Roman remains. In further cases, Roman towns now lie beneath fields and agricu……続きを見る

Despite the Mycenaean Linear B script having been deciphered some seventy years ago, much has remained uncertain regarding the ritual ideology of Mycenaean society that the Linear B documents reveal……続きを見る

The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, 2nd edition provides in-depth data and analysis of the production and reception of the canonical writings of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, and also of the……続きを見る

Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers – the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point fo……続きを見る

In "Rick and Ruddy Out West," Garis likely tells the story of Rick, a young protagonist, and his loyal dog Ruddy as they embark on an adventure in the American West. The novel would depict their exp……続きを見る

This volume covers two closely related themes. Essays in the first section deal with the varieties of clerics and their hierarchical arrangements in the churches of western Europe in the early Middl……続きを見る

The theology of sacred or clerical orders of the Latin Church in the high and later Middle Ages developed from an amalgam of texts written from late patristic antiquity through to the early 12th cen……続きを見る

The two themes brought together in this volume - the canon law and the liturgy of the early medieval Latin Church - have close links, as these articles reveal. At the basis of this lies that fact th……続きを見る

Most of the everyday writing from the ancient worldーthat is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distributionーhas perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the h……続きを見る

Roger Beck, a world authority on Mithraism, brings together his major writings on the Mysteries of Mithras in the context of the culture and religions of imperial Rome. In these studies he opens new……続きを見る

Since its first publication in 1995, Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History has proved to be an invaluable resource for students of the ancient world looking to integrate papyrological evidence int……続きを見る

Byzantine chronicles have traditionally been regarded as a somewhat inferior form of Byzantine history writing, especially in comparison with 'classicizing' historians. The aim of many of these pape……続きを見る

The only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology, this innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of Mesopotamian archaeology from its orig……続きを見る

In the 660s BC Egypt was a politically fragmented and occupied country. However, this was to change when a family of local rulers from the city of Sais declared independence from the Assyrian Empire……続きを見る

Ascanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil's Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the cit……続きを見る

Despite many churches claiming that the Bible is highly significant for their doctrine and practice, questions about how we read the Bible are rarely made explicit. Based on ethnographic research in……続きを見る

This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed a……続きを見る

Robert William Rogers' The History of Assyria is a concise history of the rise and fall of the Assyrian Empire. 続きを見る

Robert William Rogers' The History of the Chaldean Empire is a fascinating, brief history of the Mesopotamian empire. 続きを見る

Rogers The History of Assyria, is a fantastic chronology of the Assyrian Empire, including the reigns of its most famous kings. A table of contents is included for easier navigation, as is a chronol……続きを見る

Adapa was a Babylonian mythical figure who unknowingly refused the gift of immortality. The story is first attested in the Kassite period (14th century BCE). The story of Adapa and the Food of Life ……続きを見る

Rogers The History of Babylonia , is a fascinating quick read on the history of Babylonia and the Kassite and Isin dynasties. A table of contents is included for easier navigation. 続きを見る

In this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon conceptually modeled on the performance……続きを見る

This book provides a comprehensive account of the Athenians' conception of women during the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Though nothing remains that represents the authenti……続きを見る

The games comprised gladiatorial fights, staged animal hunts (venationes) and the executions of convicted criminals and prisoners of war. Besides entertaining the crowd, the games delivered a powerf……続きを見る

Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular belief……続きを見る

Sophocles: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1996, contains a diverse collection of reflection, ranging from the 16th century to the 20th, on one of the three great Attic tragedians, the au……続きを見る

Historians bound by their singular stories and archaeologists bound by their material evidence donOt typically seek out broad comparative theories of religion. But recently Harvey WhitehouseOs Omode……続きを見る

A casual reader enters a bookshop looking for a Bible. However, not all the Bibles on display have the same contents! Some have more books than others, some are study editions, some use gender-free ……続きを見る