The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, mul...Loe edasi...
Investigates the ways in which rabbinic knowledge was transmitted and compiled in the Talmud Yerushalmi, contributing to late antique scholasticism...Loe edasi...
An exploration of the Hellenistic Peloponnese from a range of new perspectives, challenging and supplementing previous views and shedding new light on interstate relations, contemporary politics and modes of representation. This...Loe edasi...
An examination of the language used by native and non-native writers of Greek in the Roman Empire, while considering language as a means of establishing identity and social standing. Examining the identity and belonging of native...Loe edasi...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It f...Loe edasi...
This book explores the circumstances surrounding Socrates’ death, critically analysing conflicting sources to establish a framework for understanding his intellectual activities in the cultural, political, and religious context of 5th-century BC A...Loe edasi...
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social margi...Loe edasi...
The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period....Loe edasi...
This book explores how philosophical and religious communities in the Roman Empire of the first and second centuries CE engaged with and were shaped by their relationship to texts and tradition in their quest for true religious knowledge, or ultimat...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective....Loe edasi...
The studies of this book deal with religious groups and notions in late antique Arabia (ca. 150–750 CE), drawing especially on inscriptions and other contemporary sources. They explore the religious and societal dynamics of Arabia during this pivo...Loe edasi...
The Roman Empire was shaped and consolidated by pro-Roman and imperialistic discourses, but also by the words and actions of its enemies and critics. Discourses and actions of opposition to Rome had an impact on how Rome was conceived and forced the...Loe edasi...
A landmark new two thousand year history of the entire Roman Empire - from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century...Loe edasi...
In LAdministration Memphite de la Vème Dynastie, Mallaury Guigner offers an analysis of the Memphite administrative structures and the identification of a part of the new elite in the Old Kingdom (2700-2160), based on a critical study and building o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674997790)
Eclectic essays on ethics, education, and much else besides.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45–120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia, in central Greece. He is renowned for his forty-six Parallel Lives, biographies planned to be...Loe edasi...
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a cont...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691263557)
The first book-length study of dream interpretation in classical GreeceLong before Freud, dreams and how to make sense of them fascinated ancient thinkers. In The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams, Mirjam Kotwick traces a cont...Loe edasi...
This book is a masterpiece in the field of archaeology and ancient Chinese culture studies. It develops a deep understanding of agriculture, economic, religious,...Loe edasi...
Reimagines the Scythians as highly mobile cultural innovators.The Scythians offers a bold new take on the horse-riding peoples who once inhabited the vast steppe lands from the Black Sea to the Siberian Altai. Drawing on archaeo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198994756)
A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram introduces interested general readers to the richness and weirdness of the ancient world through its own social media (little poems called epigrams, of which we have thousands)....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226848617)
A fresh perspective revealing how ethnographic thinking shaped the sociocultural landscape of the ancient Mediterranean. With this book, Philip A. Harland presents a large-scale rereading of social and cultural life in the eastern pa...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226848594)
A fresh perspective revealing how ethnographic thinking shaped the sociocultural landscape of the ancient Mediterranean. With this book, Philip A. Harland presents a large-scale rereading of social and cultural life in the eastern part of the ancien...Loe edasi...
From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the worlds most precious relics...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691195827)
What caused the world’s great republics to fall—and what their fate reveals about the dangers facing modern democracies todayIn this timely book, distinguished historian Thomas Madden explores the people, events, and factors that le...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the interconnection of space and experience in Roman Antiquity, Byzantium, and the Middle Ages, ca. 100 BCE – 1500 CE....Loe edasi...
The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, mul...Loe edasi...
Follow the Romans through Kingship, Republic, and Empire. Understand their society, their values, their heroes, their victories, and their defeats. The name “Rome” brings to mind an array of images: a Senate, an empire, an army, the Seven Hills, the...Loe edasi...
Investigates the ways in which rabbinic knowledge was transmitted and compiled in the Talmud Yerushalmi, contributing to late antique scholasticism...Loe edasi...
An exploration of the Hellenistic Peloponnese from a range of new perspectives, challenging and supplementing previous views and shedding new light on interstate relations, contemporary politics and modes of representation. This...Loe edasi...
An examination of the language used by native and non-native writers of Greek in the Roman Empire, while considering language as a means of establishing identity and social standing. Examining the identity and belonging of native...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847925343)
How did Christianity grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it? Remarkable A joy to read JOSEPHINE QUINN, author of How the World Made the West Dazzling Will change how you see Rome, and Christianit...Loe edasi...
Sumeromania uncovers the dramatic and complex story behind one of the British Museums most important holdings: its vast collection of objects from the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu (modern Tello, Iraq). From statues of rulers to thousands of cuneif...Loe edasi...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests. This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It f...Loe edasi...
This book explores the circumstances surrounding Socrates’ death, critically analysing conflicting sources to establish a framework for understanding his intellectual activities in the cultural, political, and religious context of 5th-century BC A...Loe edasi...
The book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in identity formation and expression in the Byzantine provinces, as well as those researching the social history of the poor in Byzantium, and the mechanisms of hierarchies, social margi...Loe edasi...
The Greek Language after Antiquity offers an in-depth look at the diachrony of the Greek language, focusing on a period relatively neglected by modern scholarship: the more than 1,000 years between the end of Antiquity and the early modern period....Loe edasi...
This book explores how philosophical and religious communities in the Roman Empire of the first and second centuries CE engaged with and were shaped by their relationship to texts and tradition in their quest for true religious knowledge, or ultimat...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel approach to the study of the Roman imperial cult, disrupting the traditional Eurocentric narrative and tendency to relativise the cults religious dimension in favour of its political implications. Instead, this collection ar...Loe edasi...
This Handbook is the first to consider the interrelated subjects of gender and sexuality in the Eastern Roman empire from an interdisciplinary perspective....Loe edasi...
The studies of this book deal with religious groups and notions in late antique Arabia (ca. 150–750 CE), drawing especially on inscriptions and other contemporary sources. They explore the religious and societal dynamics of Arabia during this pivo...Loe edasi...
