We all know how the people of Pompeii died. But what about how they lived? __________In 24 hours, Pompeii will vanish. The morning of the eruption was a day like any other. Julia Felix opens her tavern for another day of business, defying every conve...Loe edasi...
A readable and very informative history packed with a wealth of splendid detail Joyce Tyldesley OBE, author of TutankhamunA brilliantly concise, but also entertaining, summary - in all its complexities - of an empire that spanned more than five ce...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040889794)
This book systematically examines Chinese astroarchaeology from the Neolithic period onward, aiming to reconstruct premodern knowledge systems and articulate the intellectual foundations of traditional Chinese culture.As an interdisciplinary field, C...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040889879)
This book systematically examines Chinese astroarchaeology from the Neolithic period onward, aiming to reconstruct premodern knowledge systems and articulate the intellectual foundations of traditional Chinese culture.As an interdisciplinary field, C...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300289480)
An engaging, wide-ranging exploration of the end of Roman Britain and the beginnings of England In 410 CE, Roman rule of Britain collapsed, bringing a centuries-long occupation to an end. A century later, Britain was dividing into two areas with co...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111237169)
The Bibliotheque Nationale de France preserves an extraordinary document: a fourth-century CE papyrus codex from Upper Egypt. This handbook is over seventy inscribed pages long and is equivalent in length to four or five normal-sized papyrus rolls....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110728903)
While intersections between Greek literature and medicine have become a focal point of considerable research among Classicists in the last ten years, little work has been done in the field of Latin literature, with particular regard to poetry. And ye...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111237558)
The Bibliotheque Nationale de France preserves an extraordinary document: a fourth-century CE papyrus codex from Upper Egypt. This handbook is over seventy inscribed pages long and is equivalent in length to four or five normal-sized papyrus rolls....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110728811)
While intersections between Greek literature and medicine have become a focal point of considerable research among Classicists in the last ten years, little work has been done in the field of Latin literature, with particular regard to poetry. And ye...Loe edasi...
Annemarie de Villiers, Stephen Harrison, Grant Parker
Sari: Trends in Classics - Pathways of Reception
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111710792)
Since ancient times, land has had a defining influence on human culture, from the political and the social to the agricultural, the metaphysical and the creative. In both Augustan Rome and contemporary Southern Africa, the land question is ever prese...Loe edasi...
Annemarie de Villiers, Stephen Harrison, Grant Parker
Sari: Trends in Classics - Pathways of Reception
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111710907)
Since ancient times, land has had a defining influence on human culture, from the political and the social to the agricultural, the metaphysical and the creative. In both Augustan Rome and contemporary Southern Africa, the land question is ever prese...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197823200)
One of three surviving collections of Latin bucolic poetry, the seven Eclogues transmitted under the name of Calpurnius Siculus are generally assigned to the reign of Nero, although the debate on dating continues, with proposals ranging between the l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197823217)
One of three surviving collections of Latin bucolic poetry, the seven Eclogues transmitted under the name of Calpurnius Siculus are generally assigned to the reign of Nero, although the debate on dating continues, with proposals ranging between the l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040864142)
This book offers the first verse translation of Sedulius 5th-century biblical epic, the Carmen paschale, a versification of the Gospels in the style of Vergils Aeneid, one that was well known and much admired throughout Europe for the better part o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040864111)
This book offers the first verse translation of Sedulius 5th-century biblical epic, the Carmen paschale, a versification of the Gospels in the style of Vergils Aeneid, one that was well known and much admired throughout Europe for the better part o...Loe edasi...
Aquileia is the largest archaeological site in Northern Italy, which once stood at the geo-political crossroad of cultural exchanges between Italy, the central-eastern Mediterranean and continental Europe. This book explores its beginnings as a Latin...Loe edasi...
Aquileia is the largest archaeological site in Northern Italy, which once stood at the geo-political crossroad of cultural exchanges between Italy, the central-eastern Mediterranean and continental Europe. This book explores its beginnings as a Latin...Loe edasi...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EMPEROR OF ROME AND SPQRThe rock star scholar of Ancient Rome FINANCIAL TIMES The reigning Queen of Classics SPECTATORWhats exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or some pots of paint abandoned in the er...Loe edasi...
The assemblage of Roman footwear from Vindolanda is one of the most extraordinary and unique groups of archaeological objects from anywhere in the Roman Empire. Nearly 5,000 shoes have been preserved in the archaeological deposits at Vindolanda, a Ro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786167)
Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman womans relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals, women discover ways to resist without relying on t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501786174)
Women and Resistance in the Annals of Tacitus explores how Tacitus often represents a Roman womans relationship to the imperial household and its members as one of resistance. Throughout his Annals, women discover ways to resist without relying on t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691281773)
A landmark account of the Prometheus story as myth and archetypeThe god Prometheus stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver until Herakles freed him. F...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691281803)
A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible lifeNo other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historia...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691281810)
A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetypeTo the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerenyi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691290690)
A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible lifeNo other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historia...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691281865)
A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth centuryThe Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691291659)
A landmark account of the divine physician of the Greeks in myth and archetypeTo the physicians of classical antiquity, Asklepios was the ideal of their existence as healers. In this book, acclaimed mythologist and historian of religion Carl Kerenyi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691290669)
A landmark study of the archetypal father, husband, and wife in Greek religion and mythWhat did Zeus mean to the Greeks of antiquity? Who was Hera, archetypally united with Zeus as if they were a human couple? Examining the word Zeus and its Greek sy...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691290676)
A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth centuryThe Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from...Loe edasi...
