Since large-scale excavations began in the mid-19th century, scholarly studies of houses in Pompeii have emphasised the ’public’ nature of their design. Most Pompeian dwellings are viewed as spaces with high levels of transparency and permeability to...Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series, New Perspectives on the History of Political Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807769)
Elucidates the shared insight into the critique of tyrannical rule among Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. Universal Tyranny offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the critique of tyranny in the thought of Socratess greatest stud...Loe edasi...
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009487788)
The Element adopts a historical approach to explore the psychological functioning of Cleopatra VII, the last ruler of the Ptolemaic royal house. It investigates key themes that emerge from the data, including childhood trauma and displacement, sibli...Loe edasi...
An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the dynamic Book XXIII of the Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, helping studen...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107150157)
An edition, fully accessible to undergraduates and graduate students, of the dynamic Book XXIII of the Iliad. Provides extensive help with language, meter, and style while also situating the poem in its historical and poetic contexts, helping studen...Loe edasi...
Randall Lesaffer, Jesper Eidem, Jacob Giltaij, Kaius Tuori
Sari: The Cambridge History of International Law
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108484930)
This volume looks at the existence and scope of international law in Antiquity across the Middle East and Mediterranean. It considers forms of what we could now consider international law in Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman and Byzantine territorie...Loe edasi...
Dieser Band versammelt die wichtigsten Aufsätze Robert L. Fowlers über griechische Mythologie, Mythographie und Historiographie (insbesondere Herodot), samt zwei neuen Essays, die speziell für diese Aufsatzsammlung geschrieben worden sind....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009714709)
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? This book considers, not emperors and bishops, but those who served the state as courtiers, bureaucrats, and governors and argues that that they could be seen-and indeed, could see themselves-as...Loe edasi...
How did the state become Christian in late antiquity? This book considers, not emperors and bishops, but those who served the state as courtiers, bureaucrats, and governors and argues that that they could be seen-and indeed, could see themselves-as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009644136)
Beyond the rise and collapse of powerful cities and states were the long-distance connectivities that enabled the movements of people and animals, and the interlinked exchanges of commodities and ideas. These connectivities exhibited markers of glob...Loe edasi...
Beyond the rise and collapse of powerful cities and states were the long-distance connectivities that enabled the movements of people and animals, and the interlinked exchanges of commodities and ideas. These connectivities exhibited markers of glob...Loe edasi...
For 700 years, Rome and Persia clashed as the superpowers of the Ancient World. The final phase of their great war is one of the most dramatic, surprising, and critical events in world history. The victor would endure for another eight centuries, the...Loe edasi...
In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed. Their leader, a fortune-teller named Eunus, was declared king (taking t...Loe edasi...
Although Julius Caesar was winning the ongoing civil war with the Pompeian faction, his murder on the Ides of March (44 BC) plunged the Republic into a further civil war and one closer to Rome itself. Although Julius Caesar was winning the on...Loe edasi...
The revolt of gladiators and slaves led by Spartacus is one of the most famous events of ancient history. Often cast in ideological terms, it is frequently removed from the actual political, social, and economic context in which it happened and port...Loe edasi...
Since the time of ancient Rome, science has explained many phenomena, including the rotation of the Earth around the Sun. But the Romans, who built the first roads, aqueducts, baths, and security walls, didnt have the comfort of an earth sciences te...Loe edasi...
Fossils of Arabia explores how Arabian palaeontology has contributed to our understanding the story of life, from its earliest beginnings to the emergence of Homo sapiens. Arabia is one of the hottest and driest regions in the world, but it has not a...Loe edasi...
