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In "The History of Roman Literature," Charles Thomas Cruttwell offers a comprehensive exploration of the substantial literary contributions of ancient Rome, spanning from its early beginnings to the……続きを見る

Offering a comprehensive study into the perceptions of ancient and medieval Iran in the Byzantine empire, this book explores the effects of Persian culture upon Byzantine intellectualism, society an……続きを見る

This book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious revisions to previous accounts. Examines the critic……続きを見る

It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourceboo……続きを見る

Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical Creation Accounts argues that the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the story of the first humans in Genesis 2-3 both draw directly on Plato’s famous account of……続きを見る

This book demonstrates that living martyrdom was an important spiritual aspiration in the late antique Latin west and argues that, consequently, attempts to define, study, or locate martyrdom must m……続きを見る

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible for the first time compares the ancient law collections of the Ancient Near East, the Greeks and the Pentateuch to determine the legal antecedents for the ……続きを見る

Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase o……続きを見る

Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the……続きを見る

What did dreams mean to Egyptian Christians of the first to the sixth centuries? Alexandrian philosophers, starting with Philo, Clement and Origen, developed a new approach to dreams that was to hav……続きを見る

Iconoclasm, the debate about the legitimacy of religious art that began in Byzantium around 730 and continued for nearly 120 years, has long held a firm grip on the historical imagination. Byzantium……続きを見る

Debates over the 'end of art' have tended to obscure Hegel's work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art's indispensability to Hegel's conception of modernity……続きを見る

This is the first general introduction to Pliny's Letters published in any language, combining close readings with broader context and adopting a fresh and innovative approach to reading the letters……続きを見る

This wide-ranging and informative survey of 'outsider' groups in the Roman Empire will contribute greatly to our understanding of Roman social history. Examining men such as as Viriatus, Tacfarinus,……続きを見る

Heinrich Schliemann is perhaps the best-known name in archaeology as the result of his excavations and publications on the Aegean World and Mycenaean civilization. Despite his fame, and the many bi……続きを見る

As one of the few surviving archaeological sites from the medieval Christian kingdom of Nubia, Qasr Ibrim is critically important in a number of ways. It is the only site in Lower Nubia that remaine……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,7, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Veranstaltung: Rom und Karthago i……続きを見る

Acclaimed scholar James A. Brundage, collects, translates and annotates a series of primary sources from the era of the Crusades to the Holy Land. 続きを見る

L'Égypte ancienne... côté cœur Les pyramides, les temples et les sépultures rappellent aujourd'hui aux visiteurs la grandeur de la civilisation égyptienne. Mais qu'en est-il du peuple qui, au cours ……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: keine, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2+, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Historisches Seminar, LMU), Veranstaltung: Pros……続きを見る

The Student Study Guides are important and unique components that are available for each of the books in The World in Ancient Times series. Each of the Student Study Guides is designed to be used wi……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Historisches Seminar / Abteilung Alte Geschichte……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Alte Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Die Punischen Kr……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 1,3, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Die Stadt und ih……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2,0, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Veranstaltung: Antike……続きを見る

This collection of essays, by leading historian Jairus Banaji, provides a stimulating rebuttal to the prevailing minimalism in late antique studies. Together, they strike a balance between the wide ……続きを見る

Berenice II Euergetis (267/6-221 BCE), the daughter of King Magas of Cyrene (Libya) and wife of King Ptolemy III of Egypt, was queen at an important juncture in Hellenistic history. This collection ……続きを見る

Dies ist eine kurzweilige Informations-Reise vom „Morse-Alphabet“ bis hin zum „bit“ der Quantenphysik, die deutlich macht, weshalb Information eine zentrale Säule der heutigen Physik darstellt und d……続きを見る

Traditionally attributed to Apollodorus of Athens, ‘The Library’ is a first or second century encyclopaedia of Greek mythology and heroic legends, written in a concise and unembellished style, close……続きを見る