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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Moses and Homer explores the eradication of the Jewish tradition from German intellectual history between 1770 and 1800 and analyzes the numerous ruptures triggered by the exclusion of the representatives of Judaism from the German-speaking...Loe edasi...
This is the first full-length biography of Sulpicia, the earliest extant female author of classical Latin poetry. Unmentioned by her contemporaries, Sulpicia belonged to the pinnacle of the Roman aristocracy and wrote openly about her life and love a...Loe edasi...
An enchanting and beautifully illustrated memoir of personal struggle and the joy of exploring ancient landscapes, which uncovers the wonder of Britains megaliths alongside a story of grief, hope and love....Loe edasi...
A stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of important new discoveries and the authors own translations of source material from twelve ancient languages...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-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: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197800621)
The representation of the ancient world in film has long been an established site of scholarly interest, but animation remains understudied. Given the mediums popularity and its role as an access point to ancient history for young audiences, it dese...Loe edasi...
This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles Antigone from the 20th and 21st century, investigating the thematic evolution of Antigone in Mexico and its cumulative impact on Mexican heritage discourse....Loe edasi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
An entertaining and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history, covering the people, events, art and mythology that have shaped the Western world....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...
Come face-to-face with Denisovans, the newly identified third man on Homo sapiens family treeand how their miraculous discovery is rewriting the human story ...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...
Facsimile reissue of part III of complete catalogue of the inscribed stelae, reliefs and paintings in the Petrie Museum, detailed over 140 Late Period monuments. Major sourcebook for mostly unpublished Late Kingdom inscribed stelae, relief...Loe edasi...
Detailed, illustrated, examination of the system of proportion used in Egyptian art, based on standardisation of the natural relations of various parts of human anatomy. First detailed exposition of the system of proportions used in painti...Loe edasi...
Important corpus of eclectic range of less well known Egyptian statues of varying quality and subject matter, including examples in wood.This facsimile reissue of Anthea Page’s catalog of the stone and wooden statuary in the Petrie Mus...Loe edasi...
Major sourcebook for mostly unpublished New Kingdom inscribed stelae, reliefs and paintings with detailed descriptions and translations.This is a facsimile reissue of part I of H.M. Stewart’s three part complete catalogue of the inscri...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...
Giouli Korobili, Kassandra J. Miller, Philip J. van der Eijk
Sari: Chronoi
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112235683)
Chronoi: Time, Time Awareness, Time Managementis a book series that presents the work of the Einstein Center Chronoi. The center is dedicated to the investigation of time and time-related subjects such as time awareness, time management, time percep...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...
Charlotte Roberts, Keith Manchester, Mary Lewis, Jacalyn Duffin
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052066)
The Archaeology of Disease shows how the latest scientific and archaeological techniques can be used to identify the common illnesses and injuries that humans suffered from in antiquity....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366197)
Illuminates the geographic and cultural diversity of ancient rhetoricThe Gods Themselves examines ancient myth as a source of rhetorical precept and a tool of human persuasion. In this provocative work, Shawn D. Ramsey extends...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643366500)
Illuminates the geographic and cultural diversity of ancient rhetoricThe Gods Themselves examines ancient myth as a source of rhetorical precept and a tool of human persuasion. In this provocative work, Shawn D. Ramsey extends...Loe edasi...
Bestselling author Harry Sidebottom takes readers on a thrilling journey through a day in the life of the most iconic figure of the ancient world: the Roman gladiator Wonderfully panoramic endlessly informative, rich with unexpected det...Loe edasi...
Gladiator meets The Hurricane Wars in the second book of this juicy saga about a Roman Princess and her Goth warlord husband. An addictive enemies-to-lovers romance set in the last days of the Roman empire t...Loe edasi...
