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This title was first published in 2001. These collected essays by Patricia Cox Miller identify new possibilities of meaning in the study of religion in late antiquity. The book addresses the topic o……続きを見る

Although a great deal has been written on Plato's ethics, his cosmology has not received so much attention in recent times and its importance for his ethical thought has remained underexplored. By o……続きを見る

Iconic author, poet and anthropologist Hugh Fox was connecting the dots on contacts between the ancient cultures, across the globe, in prehistoric and post-Flood eras long before recent evidence sur……続きを見る

This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped people's lives and experiences across the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. Exploring how gender was linked with other socio-politic……続きを見る

Mediterranean Heritage, first published in 1978,offers a wide-ranging and perceptive discussion of the often concealed links between English culture and the common heritage of Western Europe: the Gr……続きを見る

How did Christianity compare and compete with the cults of the pagan gods in the Roman Empire? This scholarly work from award-winning historian, Robin Lane Fox, places Christians and pagans side by ……続きを見る

The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, ce……続きを見る

Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading ……続きを見る

In this innovative study, Erica Fox Brindley examines how, during the period 400 BCE–50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples referred to as the Yue/Viet along i……続きを見る

Interdisciplinary and ecumenical in scope, Poetry and Prayer offers theoretical discussion on the profound connection between poetic inspiration and prayer as well as reflection on the work of indiv……続きを見る

Im Zentrum des Buches stehen die reisenden Zeitgenossen Homers: euböische Griechen des 8. Jahrhunderts, die als Seefahrer und Piraten rund um das Mittelmeer unterwegs waren, Handel trieben und neue ……続きを見る

Few documents in world history can match the inspirational impact of the New Testament. For all its variety - gospels, letters and visions - this firstcentury collection of texts keeps always at its……続きを見る

US conservatives have repeatedly turned to classical Greece for inspiration and rhetorical power. In the 1950s they used Plato to defend moral absolutism; in the 1960s it was Aristotle as a means to……続きを見る

Originally published in 1978, this book contatins the 'Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid' - a canto of six humdred and thirty lines, written at Pavia in 1428, with a side by side translation and critica……続きを見る

The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architecture, drama and epic, philosophy and politics -- the……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE FOR HISTORY 2015 A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographies Augustine is the person……続きを見る

**A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists** Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the ta……続きを見る

»Auf jeder Seite zeigt uns Lane Fox, warum wir die Antike so lieben.« Die Welt Ein großartiges Panorama antiker Geschichte, so fulminant erzählt wie ein historischer Roman. Auf den Spuren des antik……続きを見る

Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense adventure of conquest and of the unknown. When he died in 323 BC aged thirty-two, ……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Frühgeschichte, Antike, Note: 2,0, Universität Mannheim (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Ägypten unter den Ptolemä……続きを見る

Mit Scharfsinn und überraschenden Einsichten klärt Robin Lane Fox Fragen, auf die die Bibel bewusst die Antwort verweigert: Wer waren die Autoren der Heiligen Schrift, wie ist sie entstanden, und we……続きを見る

Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. ……続きを見る

"Robin Lane Fox' neues meisterhaftes Buch kommt gerade im rechten Augenblick: eine lebendig geschriebene Geschichte der Medizin im antiken Griechenland." Edith Hall, Literary Review Eindrucksvoll sc……続きを見る

América empezó a poblarse hace miles de años y los pueblos originarios crearon muchos modos de vivir, estar en sociedad, gobernarse. En 1492, Colón abrió un camino por donde no dejaron de llegar eur……続きを見る

This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek lite……続きを見る

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021 Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oa……続きを見る

Focusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not o……続きを見る