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Orbis Terrarum 20 (2022)

Die Erforschung der Geographie der Alten Welt ist eine interdisziplinäre Wissenschaft. Der Orbis Terrarum bietet Raum für Publikationen i...

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...

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...

Slaves of the People - A Political and Social History of Roman Public Slavery

Slavery played a crucial economic and social role in the Roman history. Unfree individuals were employed to perform a wide range of dutie...

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...

Tierkulte Im Pharaonischen Ägypten Und Im Kulturvergleich

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...

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...

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...

Forschungen zur Gewalt in der römischen Antike

Dem facettenreichen Phänomen der antiken Gewalt nähern sich zehn Beiträge deutsch- und englischsprachiger Autoren aus verschiedenen Persp...

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.

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, ...

Roman Law and Latin Literature

This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature. Despite there being perio...

Gargilius Martialis - The Agricultural Fragments

Becoming Asian American - Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities

In Becoming Asian American, Nazli Kibria draws upon extensive interviews she conducted with second-generation Chinese and Korean American...

Speak My Name - Investigating Egyptian Mummies

The Roots of the Federal Reserve: Tracing the Nephilim from Noah to the US Dollar

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 - ...

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.

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 Pharaoh's Kitchen - Recipes from Ancient Egypts Enduring Food Traditions

Beautifully illustrated with scenes from tomb reliefs, objects and artifacts in museum exhibits, and modern photographs, the recipes are ...

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

Marcus Aurelius - A Life

Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2009.

History of the Peloponnesian War: Translated From the Greek of Thucydides

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.

Constantine the Emperor

An authoritative and vibrant new account of the extraordinary life of Constantine.

The Life and Times of Takabuti in Ancient Egypt - Investigating the Belfast Mummy

The mummy of Takabuti is one of the best known antiquities in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Modern scientific investigations have revealed ...

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

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...

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 Assassination of Julius Caesar - A People's History of Ancient Rome

Parenti presents a story of popular resistance against entrenched power and wealth. As he carefully weighs the evidence in the murder of ...

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome - The History of a Dangerous Idea

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politi...

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...

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 Etruscans - 9th-2nd Centuries BC

Ancient Rome had deep roots in the 'Villanovan' culture that we call today the Etruscans. Their long-lived civilization can be traced to ...

The History of Philosophy

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

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt - Six Queens of Egypt

This riveting paperback explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra, and shines a piercing light o...

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...

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...

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...

A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil

Excerpt: ...amidst a crowd of honest people seeking recreation after a long day’s work, groups of older girls walking and talking g...

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...

Alexander the Great - The Anabasis and the Indica

Arrian's account of Alexander's life and campaigns, published as the Anabasis and its companion piece the Indica, is our prime source for...

Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Meditations - with selected correspondence

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a private notebook of philosophical reflections with universal significance. Drawing on Stoic philosophy,...

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...

Clay Figurines in Context - Crucibles of Egyptian, Nubian, and Levantine Societies in the Middle Bronze Age (2100-1550 Bc) and Beyond

Since prehistory, ancient Egyptians crafted figurines depicting humans, animals, and other subjects. However, scholars have largely overl...

Silchester Insula IX: Oppidum to Roman City C. A.D. 85-125/150 - Final Report on the Excavations 1997-2014

Silchester (Calleva) experienced major disruption in the late first century A.D. as the Iron Age oppidum was transformed into the Roman c...

T&t Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume One

The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at s...

T&t Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volume Two

The T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism provides a comprehensive reference resource of over 600 scholarly articles aimed at s...

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...

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

Gizeh and Rifeh

Facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie's account of the excavation of Egyptian tomb cemeteries at Gizeh and Dier Rifeh and the ruins of two...

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 ...

Ancient Egyptians (2 Vols)

Written in 1836, this two-volume study has enduring importance in the field of Egyptology. Covering topics including Egyptian homes, cere...

The Sophists

This book offers a new way of looking at the 5th century BCE Sophists, rejecting the bad reputation they have had since antiquity and pre...

Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden - (Re)Framing the Hortus

This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a ...