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Heroes

Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming v...

The Golden Bull of Hungary

Promulgated by Andrew II of Hungary 800 years ago, the Golden Bull (1222) is the best known but also most misunderstood medieval Hungaria...

Fate of Rome - Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Ro...

The Scythians - Nomad Warriors of the Steppe

The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from bur...

300,000 Kisses - Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World

Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close...

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

Detailed historical coverage from the early Stone Age to the Romans. 25 halftones and maps.

A late Roman exarchate of Urbs Romae

This study took as its theme a specific historical curiosity, notwithstanding modelling for later epochs an establishment which might be ...

The Fall of Troy

Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Soph...

Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome - A Hands-on Guide

Bestselling author Philip Matyszak explores how the Greeks and Romans used magic, who performed it ¿ and why. Magic was everywhere in the...

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination for archaeologists, historians, artists and film makers. Now this lavishly illustrate...

Caesar and Cleopatra: A history

The twelwe Caesars

Ancient civilizations and ruins of Turkey

Ancient indian magic and folklore

Ancient Egyptian Religion

Ancient Egypt (its culture and history)

Ancient Indian Glass: Archaeology and Technology

Gifts of the Nile - Ancient Egyptian Faience

This publication documenting the RISD's international loan exhibition is the the first in-depth American study of faience, a non-clay cer...

Byzantium-Greatness and Decline

When Egypt Ruled the East

The Penguin Book to ancient Egypt

The gallic war and other writings

The complete writings of Thucydides

Ancient Eygpt

The People of the Ancient World

A History of Greece to 322 B. C.

Ancient Israel I-III.

Words and Sounds

These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace es...

Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination

This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical rea...

Tacitus' History of Politically Effective Speech: Truth to Power

Ancient Japan

The "Haus am Hang" at Hattula - A Late Hittite State Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collections

During the first excavations in Lower City of ¿attuSa, conducted by H. Winckler and Th. Makridi in 1907, Makridi discovered a palace buil...

Outlooks on the International Koiné Style - Hybrid Visual Idiom from New Kingdom Elite Iconography

The Near Eastern Late Bronze Age is known for heightened political and economic interconnectivity as kings of wealthy states like Egypt a...

Forschungsgeschichte als Aufbruch - Beiträge zur Geschichte der Christlichen Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte, XXIV. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche Archäologie, Bonn, 10.-12. Mai 2018

Die Beiträge entstanden im Rahmen der XXIV. Tagung der ¿Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche Archäologie zur Erforschung spätantiker, frühmitt...

Seleukid Royal Women - Creation, Representation and Distortion of Hellenistic Queenship in the Seleukid Empire

The study of royal women has been one of the most dynamic fields of inquiry into the Hellenistic world (ca. 336-30 BC) and has dramatical...

Egypt from prehistory to the Romans

The architecture of the pharaohs represents some of the most impressive creative work ever produced in Egyptian art and yet it has never ...

Empire and Domestic Economy

We are both immensely pleased to have played supporting roles in the archaeological research that led to this volume. As a faculty member...

Homer's Iliad

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents t...

Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside - Essays on the Urban and Rural Worlds of Early Christianity

Ever since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable a...

Empire, Hegemony or Anarchy? - Rome and Italy, 201-31 BCE

During the period between the end of the Hannibalic War and Octavian's decisive victory in the battle of Actium in 31 BC, the Italian pen...

Transmission and Organization of Knowledge in the Ancient Mediterranean World

The role of transmission and organization of knowledge is essential to our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world. This collect...

The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Akrai/Acrae, Sicily

This multiple authors volume, edited by Roksana Chowaniec and Marta Fitula, describes the results of interdisciplinary archaeological res...

The Egyptian Priests of the Graeco-Roman Period - An Analysis on the Basis of the Egyptian and Graeco-Roman Literary and Paraliterary Sources

Throughout Egyptian history, high-ranking Egyptian priests were the scholars responsible for the creation of the very material that const...

Exploring 'Dark Ages' - Archaeological Markers of Transition in the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Early Islamic Period

This book is the result of a workshop organized by the editors on April 5, 2018, during the 11th International Congress on the Archaeolog...

Daily Life in a Cosmopolitan World. Pottery and Culture During the Hellenistic Period - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of IARPotHP Lyon, November 2015, 5th-8th

Der Band versammelt die Vorträge der zweiten Tagung der "International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period e.V....

Seleukid Ideology - Creation, Reception and Response

Seleukid Perspectives explore the largest successor kingdom to Alexander the Great's empire. Seleukid kings established their power on th...

Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

The scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.

The House of the Two Skeletons at Morgantina

The House of the Two Skeletons is located in a quarter at the western border of the Hellenistic city of Morgantina in Sicily. It was part...

A Culture of Civil War? - "bellum civile" and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome

The civil wars of the first century BCE disrupted Roman society, which in turn was a major cause of the destabilisation of the political ...

Spoils in the Roman Republic - Boon and Bane

Warfare was a common occurrence in the Ancient World, and the Roman Republic was no exception in this regard. Rome was exceptionally succ...

Söldner und Berufssoldaten in der griechischen Welt - Soziale und politische Gestaltungsräume

Söldner und Berufssoldaten wurden bislang fast ausschließlich aus militärhistorischer Sicht und aus der Perspektive der griechischen Poli...

Cupid and Psyche - The Reception of Apuleius¿ Love Story since 1600

Apuleius¿ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamo...

Der Alpen-Adria-Raum und das Imperium Romanum in der hohen Kaiserzeit - Neue wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellungen

This volume offers new insights from economic and social history, with a focus on the area between the Alps and the Adriatic. Alongside r...

Marcus Furius Camillus, fatalis dux - A documentary study

Marcus Furius Camillus is the dominant figure in our traditional history of the Roman Republic in the early fourth century. He has been f...

Perduring Protest? - Perspectives on the History of Remonstrance in China

Early Chinese inscriptions show that already the kings of the Western Zhou period (1045-771 BCE) called upon officials to submit remonstr...

Aspects of Roman Dance Culture - Religious Cults, Theatrical Entertainments, Metaphorical Appropriations

The fourteen chapters of this book examine Roman dance by looking at its role in Roman religion, by following it into the theatre and the...

Animals and Humans through Time and Space - Investigating Diverse Relationships./ Essays in Honour of Joris Peters

This volume dedicated to Joris Peters on the occasion of his 65th birthday contains a bibliography, a foreword, greetings, eulogies, an a...

Medical Traditions - Exploring the Field

Medical traditions encapsulate the knowledge of life, health, nutrition, diseases and their treatment patiently assembled by populations ...

Adventures On The Roof Of The World

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in it...

Hadrian's Wall - Creating Division

Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figurativ...