Suffering and tragic situations have always been a part of human experience. This volume features essays from varying philosophical views on responses to tragedy, suffering and evil....Loe edasi...
Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures explores diverse caninehuman relationships in ancient and contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia....Loe edasi...
First published in 2002, Germain Boffrands Livre dArchitecture is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France. Translated for the first time the text is accompanied by an extensive introduction and notes which explain Bof...Loe edasi...
Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire....Loe edasi...
War and Violence in Early and High Medieval Venice presents a comprehensive collection of primary sources, providing insight into all aspects of Venetian warfare and internal conflict during this formative period....Loe edasi...
This new English edition of Roman Building makes available the most up-to-date revision of the text to a new generation of English scholars of Roman architecture and technology....Loe edasi...
This book reveals how sociocultural and political debates today are still heavily influenced by ancient mythology. It explores how ancient stories shape how our modern secular society thinks about the interconnected geopolitical, technological, and...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel twist, combining intra-/inter-disciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences by transforming two distinct disciplinary concepts (liminality from social anthropology and space from cultural geography) into me...Loe edasi...
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concer...Loe edasi...
This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of his fierce critique of atomism, which is the most emblematic and disputed example of his polemical accounts, and demonstrates his reliability....Loe edasi...
This volume analyzes the Carthaginian policy towards Sicily from the earliest recorded contacts in the 6th century to the expulsion of Punic influences by the Romans in the 3rd century....Loe edasi...
This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine. Suitable for scholars and students of late antique Christianit...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature....Loe edasi...
This book explores the experience of labour for ancient Greek farming communities using historical, archaeological, bioarchaeological, and ethnographic data. It offers a compelling and methodologically innovative approach using the moral economy, ta...Loe edasi...
This book traces the transformation of the Baltic Rim in this period through a focus on the self-image of a number of communities: urban and regional, cultic, missionary, legal, and political....Loe edasi...
This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome...Loe edasi...
This book builds on more than a decade of fieldwork, providing an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the late medieval period....Loe edasi...
Through a look at the family, this book discusses the intersections between Roman and Christian legal culture, thought, and political power after the collapse of the Roman Empire....Loe edasi...
This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity....Loe edasi...
As this book demonstrates, early medieval Romanness encompassed a sense of belonging to an ethnic group, which allowed Romans in Iberia and Gaul to adopt Gothic or Frankish identities in a more nuanced manner than has been previously acknowledged...Loe edasi...
This book explores a major step-change in Eurasian history: the revolutionary boom in standardised objects at the start of the Roman era....Loe edasi...
This volume presents a batch of incisive new essays on the relationship between Roman imperial power and ideology and Christian and Jewish life and thought within the empire....Loe edasi...
Pottery is the one industry in ancient Athens of which we have some detailed knowledge. In Potter and Patron in Classical Athens, originally published in 1972, Professor Webster examines the workshops, the painted pots and their purchasers over the...Loe edasi...
The Hellenistic age is the link between classical Greece and Rome. Originally published in 1964, this book traces the history of Hellenistic poetry and art as parallel phenomena....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1936, revised here in 1969, An Introduction to Sophocles starts with a chapter on the life of Sophocles and the chronology of his plays. It goes on with accounts of his thought, characters, plots, songs and style. An appendix...Loe edasi...
This book first published in 1956 and updated in 1970, is based on an expert knowledge of Greek plays and monuments. Scenery, staging and costumes are the three main topics. These are treated chronologically within geographical areas, and evidence i...Loe edasi...
