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SPQR - A History of Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths a...

The Darkening Age - The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the...

A History of Ancient Rome in 100 Lives

Discover the lives of the ancient Romans, pieced together from inscriptions, discarded letters, biographies and myth over two thousand ye...

Pandora's Jar - Women in the Greek Myths

Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and th...

The History of Philosophy

AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES 'A cerebrally enjoya...

Venus and Aphrodite - History of a Goddness

Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this imm...

The Origin of Empire - Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138)

Rome's transformation from republic to world empire is considered with attention to the key timeframe of this transition. Meets the upsur...

Four Lost Cities - A Secret History of the Urban Age

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the dee...

Roman Frontier Studies 2009 - Proceedings of the XXI International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Limes Congress) held at Newcastle upon Tyne in August 2009

Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (LIMES XXI), hosted by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums, Newcastle...

Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie, Band 28 (2022)

The journal "Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie" was founded in 1995 and is published regularly once a year. In addition to the - ...

The Tetrarchy as Ideology - Reconfigurations and Representations of an Imperial Power

The 'Tetrarchy', the modern name assigned to the period of Roman history that started with the emperor Diocletian and ended with Constant...

Anastasii Bibliothecarii Historia Ecclesiastica Sive Chronographia Tripertita: Ex Ms. Codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae: Collata Ad Ms. Exemplar Longobard

Marburger Beiträge zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 41, 2023

The present volume of the journal contains seven papers and nine reviews. The contributions deal with further Greek professional titles, ...

Ishtar and Izdubar, the Epic of Babylon: Or, the Babylonian Goddess of Love and the Hero and Warrior King, Restored in Mod. Verse by L.L.C. Hamilton

Nonzero - The Logic of Human Destiny

In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wri...

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities - A Natural History

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence an...

The Hydaspes 326 BC - The Limit of Alexander the Great's Conquests

The first dedicated examination of Alexander the Great's final battle and acknowledged tactical masterpiece. In the years that followed A...

The History Behind Game of Thrones - The North Remembers

A history of Scotland explained through the abundant parallels to the big events that underpin the world of George R. R. Martin's "Game O...

The Book of the Dead of Bakenwerel - (pHavana [MNBA Cuba 94-47]/pHood B)

The most important Egyptian collection in Latin America contains the Papyrus Havana (pHavana). This Book of the Dead, along with the rest...

Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

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

A Political History of the Arameans: From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities - From Their Origins to the End of Their Polities

K Lawson Younger Jr. presents a political history of the Arameans from their earliest origins to the demise of their independent entities...

Athenaze, Workbook II - An Introduction to Ancient Greek

Workbook I by Gilbert Lawall, James F. Johnson, Luigi Miraglia; Workbook II by Gilbert Lawall, James F. Johnson, Cynthia King.

Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction

Liba Taub gives an overview of the major developments in early science between the 8th century BC and 6th century AD. Focussing on Greece...

The Greek Achievement - The Foundation of the Western World

Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entire course of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from the Mycenaean a...

Rom's Christliche Katakomben Nach Den Ergebnissen Der Heutigen Forschung

Second Punic War in Iberia 220-206 BC - From Hannibal at the Tagus to the Battle of Ilipa

The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch pad for the Carthaginian...

Greece - Biography of a Modern Nation

"For many, 'Greece' is synonymous with 'ancient Greece, ' the civilization that gave us much that defines Western culture today. But how ...

Gargilius Martialis: The Agricultural Fragments - The Agricultural Fragments

The History of Sexuality: 2 - The Use of Pleasure

'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of Books The second volu...

The Invention of Medicine - From Homer to Hippocrates

Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021 Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrat...

The New Documents in Mycenaean Greek 2 Volume Hardback Set

An accessible survey written by fourteen of the world's leading experts of work in recent years on the Linear B tablets, deciphered by Mi...

Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for pe...

Carrhae 53 BC - Rome's Disaster in the Desert

Explores the critical battle of Carrhae, a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its mo...

Taken at the Flood - The Roman Conquest of Greece

Addressing a marginalized era of Greek and Roman history, Taken at the Flood offers a compelling narrative of Rome's conquest of Greece.

A Companion to the Hellenistic World

Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this...

Children in the Bible and the Ancient World - Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children

Children in the Bible and the Ancient World is a helpful introduction to any who study children and childhood in the ancient world.

Wisdom of the Ancients - Life lessons from our distant past

THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMES From the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places comes this inspiring and ...

Ancient Greek Horsemanship

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cult...

Speak My Name - Investigating Egyptian Mummies

Explores four mummies and three coffins from the Chau Chak Wing Museums Mummy Project, which has undertaken interdisciplinary research th...

Marcus Aurelius - A Life

Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2009.

Tierkulte Im Pharaonischen Ägypten Und Im Kulturvergleich

Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy

The relationship of soul to body was one of the earliest and most persistent questions in ancient thought. The essays cover connected iss...

Juvenal Satires Book III

The first edition of Book 3 of Juvenal's Satires as a unit by itself contains a detailed introduction, Latin text and translation, and co...

Julius Caesar: The Gallic War Books V-VI

A new English translation with the Latin text of Julius Caesar's The Gallic War Books V-VI. The commentary provides explanatory notes on ...

The Children of Athena - Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC-AD 400

A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome. In 146 B...

The Roman Provinces, 300 Bce-300 CE - Using Coins as Sources

"Makes a complex subject easy for instructors and students to understand and shows how the provincial coinage can illustrate many aspects...

Soldiers and Silver - Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest

A detailed comparative study of resources and military mobilizations in the ancient Mediterranean, this book examines how Rome achieved h...

Homer and the Tradition of Political Philosophy - Encounters with Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche

This book demonstrates the crucial role played by Homer as a philosophic thinker in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche conc...

A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East - Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam

Douglas R. Frayne was Associate Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, where he also worked as ...

At the Origins of Politics - Formation and Growth of the State in Syro-Mesopotamia

This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamia's urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentalit...

The World of the Gladiator

The world of the gladiator

Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity - The Cappadocian Fathers and the Rhetoric of Masculinity

By exploring gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek mas...

The Last Dynasty - Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra

A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. When Alexander ...

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 3, Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy

This volume of The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings focuses on early Christian reflection on Christ as God incarnate from th...

The Falls of Rome - Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity

This book is essential reading for understanding what happened to Rome at the end of antiquity. By focusing on the actions of senatorial ...

Ovid Fasti: Books I-III

Ovid's calendar poem the Fasti is a vivid journey through ancient Rome via the calendar. The reader triumphantly tours the monuments of t...

The Remarkable Life, Death, and Afterlife of an Ordinary Roman - A Social History

When we think of Romans, Julius Caesar or Constantine might spring to mind. But what was life like for everyday folk, those who gazed up ...

Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies, volume 15 (2023)

What the Greeks Did for Us

An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture

The Children of Athena - Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 Bc0-400 AD

A brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece y...