Brill, 2016. — 904 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies). The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the "pagan" Dionysiaca , the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a "Christian" hexameter Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 books), is no...
Routledge, 2021. — 320 p. Addressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of case studies which examine the epistemic value and significance of divination in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Focusing on diverse types of divination, including oracles, astrology, and the reading of omens and signs in...
University of Michigan Press, 2022. — 238 p. Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were everyday methods of coping with the difficulties of life in antiquity. While ancient magic is most often studied through texts like surviving Greco-Egyptian...
University of Michigan Press, 2022. — 238 p. Magic was a fundamental part of the Greco-Roman world. Curses, erotic spells, healing charms, divination, and other supernatural methods of trying to change the universe were everyday methods of coping with the difficulties of life in antiquity. While ancient magic is most often studied through texts like surviving Greco-Egyptian...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 224 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity , explores peace in the period from 500 BC to 800 AD. As with all the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 224 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity , explores peace in the period from 500 BC to 800 AD. As with all the...
Greenwood Press, 2006. — xxxii, 276 p. — ISBN: 0-313-33003-4. The ways of life of four great ancient civilizations― Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Celtic―are illuminated here through their foodways. As these cultures moved toward settled agriculture, a time of experimentation and learning began. Cities emerged, and with them consumer societies that needed to be supplied. Food...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 504 p. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to explore the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears in the history, religion, art and literature of Greek communities from Antiquity to Byzantium and beyond. What makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 504 p. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to explore the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears in the history, religion, art and literature of Greek communities from Antiquity to Byzantium and beyond. What makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 300 p. Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves introduced scholars, students, and general readers to an exciting new area of inquiry: women in classical antiquity. Almost fifty years later, New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World builds upon and moves beyond Pomeroy's seminal work to represent...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 300 p. Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves introduced scholars, students, and general readers to an exciting new area of inquiry: women in classical antiquity. Almost fifty years later, New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World builds upon and moves beyond Pomeroy's seminal work to represent...
University of California Press, 1961. — 342 p. Based on ancient Greek sources and especially Xenophon, the author examines all issues related to the breeding and training of the horse in ancient Greece, both in peacetime and in war. John Kinloch Anderson (1924 - 2015) was Professor of Classics and Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Emeritus at University of California.
University of California Press, 1985. — 192 p. This book is concerned with hunting for sport among the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially the practical details described in the texts and illustrated by the archaeological evidence. John Kinloch Anderson (1924 - 2015) was Professor of Classics and Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Emeritus at University of California.
Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 304 p. 12 essays by international experts look at how cognition is explicitly or implicitly conceived of as distributed across brain, body and world in Greek and Roman technology, science, medicine, material culture, philosophy and literary studies. A range of models emerge, which vary both in terms of whether cognition is just embodied or...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 233 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 143).
Recent research on the text of the Psalms and Gospels in Greek and in certain versions, principally Coptic, Georgian and Armenian, reveals common characteristics when attempting to separate later editions of a text from its earliest forms. The essays in this collection give concrete examples of the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. — 230 p. "Ax' Aufsätze, die er über die letzten Jahrzehnte als scharfsinniger "Doxograph und Rekonstrukteur" antiker Grammatik und Rhetorik verfaßt hat und die nun erfreulicherweise in "Lexis und Logos" zusammenfassend dokumentiert vorliegen, sind als wichtiger und bedeutender ideengeschichtlicher und textkritisch-rekonstruierender Beitrag zur...
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. — 200 p., illus. — (Sather Classical Lectures). — ISBN: 9780520267022. Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world--that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution--has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall...
Classical Press of Wales, 2013. — 232 p. Ancient consolatory writings offer us a window onto alien forms of loss and grief, as experienced in a world where death happened, in most cases, much earlier and with less reliable warning than in developed countries today. Here, eight original studies explore the topic of bereavement in consolatory writings from ancient Greece, Rome,...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 336 p. A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient era, Olympia was renowned for far more than its athletic contests. In Olympia ,...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 336 p. A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient era, Olympia was renowned for far more than its athletic contests. In Olympia ,...
T&T Clark, 2021. — 424 p. Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin. Clothing, jewellery, cosmetics, and hairstyles are among the many aspects examined to show the variety of functions of...
Profile, 2013. — 279 p.
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history,...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions).
We are all classicists — we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original reality?...
Routledge, 2021. — xxxvi + 620 p. This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a...
Routledge, 2021. — 656 p. This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a...
Brill, 2021. — 410 p. — (Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World 13; Mnemosyne, Supplements 442). This edited volume, arising from the 2019 conference "Orality and Literacy: Repetition", explores some of the many forms and uses of repetition, in poetry, philosophy, and inscriptions, from Homeric epic through the Latin novel and the Gospels to reception in the twentieth...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 276 p. Just as the story of an epic poem is woven from characters and plot, so too the individual similes within an epic create a unique simile world. Like any other story, it is peopled by individual characters, happenings, and experiences, such as the shepherd and his flocks, a storm at sea, or predators hunting prey. The simile world that...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. — 258 p. Does art merely imitate reality, or does it also create reality? Where does imagination come into the creative process? How do the arts portray movement through time and space? In Literature and the Visual Arts in Ancient Greece and Rome, D. Thomas Benediktson looks to the ancient Greek and Roman worlds to see how these and other...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. — 272 p. The famous polymath Plutarch often discussed the relationship between spouses in his works, including Marriage Advice, Dialogue on Love , and many of the Parallel Lives . In this collection, leading scholars explore the marital views expressed in Plutarch's works and the art, philosophy, and literature produced by his contemporaries...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 320 p. - Innovative application of the concept of "historical culture" - Cultural history of Italy before and during the time of early Roman expansion - Accessible presentation of recent archaeological discoveries Long before the emergence of Roman historical writing, the societies of Iron Age Italy were actively engaged in transmitting and...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 320 p. - Innovative application of the concept of "historical culture" - Cultural history of Italy before and during the time of early Roman expansion - Accessible presentation of recent archaeological discoveries Long before the emergence of Roman historical writing, the societies of Iron Age Italy were actively engaged in transmitting and...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 110 p. Interne Konflikte bewältigten Griechen und Römer - anders als wir - nicht durch "Aufarbeitung", sondern durch Verdrängung: Politisch verordnetes kollektives Vergessen war eine Option, die Aussöhnung und inneren Frieden stiften sollte und konnte. Amnestien etwa waren eine präemptive Maßnahme, um ein Wiederaufleben von Konflikten zu verhüten,...
Maurizio Bettini, 2013. — 384 p. If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles’s birth - and was turned into a weasel by Hera as...
Maurizio Bettini, 2013. — 384 p. If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles’s birth - and was turned into a weasel by Hera as...
Routledge, 2018. — 242 p. This volume deals with the interaction between public intellectuals of the late Hellenistic and Roman era, and the powerful individuals with whom they came into contact. How did they negotiate power and its abuses? How did they manage to retain a critical distance from the people they depended upon for their liveli-hood, and even their very existence?...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 424 p. Festivals were the heartbeat of Greek and Roman society and fulfilled significant roles in its social and political organization and within its institutions. Setting the rhythm of the year, festivals were a common denominator for a wide-ranging series of phenomena that concerned a large area of social relationships: social and political...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 354 p. — (Impact of Empire 19).
In Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography colleagues and students honor Richard J.A. Talbert for his numerous contributions and influence on the fields of ancient history, political and social science, as well as cartography and geography. This collection of original and useful examinations is focused...
C.H.Beck Verlag, 1996. — 128 p.
Zu den Sieben Weltwundern gehören die Pyramiden von Ägypten, die Mauern von Babylon und die Hängenden Gärten in derselben Stadt, die Statue von Zeus von Olympia, der Tempel der Artemis von Ephesos, das Mausoleum von Halikarnaß und der Koloß des Helios von Rhodos. Die meisten dieser legendären Bauten und Kunstwerke sind nicht erhalten, sie...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire. This is a wide remit, dealing with a wide range of sources in two ancient languages, and in the full range of contexts...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. This volume provides an overview of some of the salient aspects of emotions and their role in life and thought of the Greco-Roman world, from the beginnings of Greek literature and history to the height of the Roman Empire. This is a wide remit, dealing with a wide range of sources in two ancient languages, and in the full range of contexts...
Classical Press of Wales, 2005. — 265 p. — ISBN-10 1905125011, ISBN-13 978-1905125012. A distinguished cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society;...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — 270 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) 59). The study of ancient emotion has become a substantial and thriving sub-discipline in the fields of Classics and Ancient History, enabling Classicists to make a significant contribution to the wider upsurge in interest in the emotions that has taken place across a...
Oxford University Press, 2004. American classical studies Abbreviations An Anonymous Ancient Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses? The Greek Sources of Hyginus and Narrator Mythological Summaries and Companions Narrator and His Greek Predecessors Historiae and Source References Bogus Citations Myth in the Margins Mythographus Vergilianus Myth and Society The Roman Poets Appendix...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 372 p. This book presents a radically revised version of some of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy. Much new material has been added to the account of the "Wandering Poets " from early Byzantine Egypt, and earlier judgment on their paganism is nuanced....
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 123 p. — (SpielRäume der Antike 3). "Konnten Christen 'Dialoge führen'?" Mit dieser Frage verknüpft Averil Cameron ein starkes Plädoyer für eine intensivere Auseinandersetzung mit einer Gattung christlicher Literatur, die in der Spätantike eine ungeheure Produktivität entfaltete. Dialoge und Debatten, die sich gegen Häretiker, Juden, Manichäer und...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 650 p. The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative chapters on 33 topics by leading scholars in their fields. As well as an introduction to, and a survey of, each topic, it provides guidance on...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 650 p. The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative chapters on 33 topics by leading scholars in their fields. As well as an introduction to, and a survey of, each topic, it provides guidance on...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 286 p. Bisexuality was intrinsic to the cultures of the ancient world. In both Greece and Rome, sexual relationships between men were acknowledged, tolerated, and widely celebrated in literature and art. For the Greeks and Romans, homosexuality was not an exclusive choice, but alternative to and sometimes simultaneous with the love of a woman....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 418 p. This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considers how ancient practices of democracy differ from our own. The origins of democracy can be traced in a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 418 p. This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of ancient societies throughout Antiquity. It examines the experiences of those living in democratic communities and considers how ancient practices of democracy differ from our own. The origins of democracy can be traced in a...
Brill Academic Publisher, 2023. — 425 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements 467). How was the unique character of the island of Cyprus perceived in antiquity? This volume aims to engage with this question by examining references to Cyprus in ancient texts and by exploring authors connected to the island. The readers can thus find literary interpretations on a wide range of Greek and...
Collection of Articles. — Leiden: Brill, 2023. — 252 p. — (Euhormos. Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation 4). Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the ‘superspreader’ of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of clamp...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 296 p. - The first book to focus on positive emotions in ancient Greek and Roman thought and literature - Includes 11 studies of emotions like hope, joy, good will, and mercy that show some of the complexity these emotions play in ancient literature and thought - Considers how positive emotions are described, their relationship to other...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 296 p. - The first book to focus on positive emotions in ancient Greek and Roman thought and literature - Includes 11 studies of emotions like hope, joy, good will, and mercy that show some of the complexity these emotions play in ancient literature and thought - Considers how positive emotions are described, their relationship to other...
Routledge, 2021. — 228 p. Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a wide range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question. On tombstones, curse or oracular tablets, in contracts, petitions, letters, treatises, biographies, novels, and poems,...
Liverpool University Press, 2023. — 304 p. A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity. By applying the category of the technosoma to the ‘natural’ body, this volume explicitly narrows down the discussion of the technical and the natural to the physiological body. In...
Liverpool University Press, 2023. — 304 p. A collection of papers that introduces the notion of the technosoma (techno body) into discussions on the representations of the body in classical antiquity. By applying the category of the technosoma to the ‘natural’ body, this volume explicitly narrows down the discussion of the technical and the natural to the physiological body. In...
University of California Press, 2015. — 296 p. In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late ancient people know about them,...
University of California Press, 2015. — 296 p. In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late ancient people know about them,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 658 p. A Blackwell Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. - Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire - Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 658 p. A Blackwell Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. - Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire - Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 420 p. The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 420 p. The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of...
Archaeological Institute of America, 2017. — 240 p. The essays in this volume engage explicitly in a variety of theoretical and methodological strategies for the interpretation of dress, dressed bodies, and their representations in the ancient world. Focusing on personal ornaments, portraiture, and architectural sculpture, the collected papers investigate the visual, somatic,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 241 p. This volume presents an original framework for the study of video games that use visual materials and narrative conventions from ancient Greece and Rome. It focuses on the culturally rich continuum of ancient Greek and Roman games, treating them not just as representations, but as functional interactive products that require the player to...
University of Michigan Press, 2015. — 328 p. Kinesis: The Ancient Depiction of Gesture, Motion, and Emotion analyzes the depiction of emotions, gestures, and nonverbal behaviors in ancient Greek and Roman texts, and considers the precise language depicting them. Individual contributors examine genres ranging from historiography and epic to tragedy, philosophy, and vase...
Oxbow Books, 2005. — 192 p. The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The sixteen contributors present on-going research into the study of the clothed body in ancient Egypt and the Aegean, Classical Greece, Rome and Late Antiquity. Through literary and artistic evidence...
Brill, 2020. — xvi, 369 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 192). In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad...
De Gruyter, 2024. — 298 p. The debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book. It investigates certain forms of environmental interrelation and 'ecological' sensitivity in the Graeco-Roman world. The notions of environmental depletion, exploitation and loss of plant species, and the ancients' knowledge of species diversity are the...
Logos Verlag Berlin, 2023. — 568 p. The aulos, an extinct musical instrument consisting of a cylindrical-bore pipe with finger holes and a double reed for a mouthpiece, was a very popular wind instrument during antiquity (c.1000 BC-AD 600). Through a comprehensive analysis of written, archaeological, and iconographic sources, this book presents a holistic view of this musical...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 198 p. The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia in the Ancient World for the first time brings together all the available evidence for this topic, from the Homeric period to the early Roman Empire, in one place. The evidence is both literary and visual and is considered in a chronological sequence. Thus the reader can follow the...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 458 p. This is a captivating story of music-making at social recreations from Homeric times to the age of Augustine. It tells about the music itself and its purposes, as well as the ways in which people talked about it, telling anecdotes, picturing musical scenes, sometimes debating what kind of music was right at a party or a festival. In...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 288 p. The Oxford English Dictionary defines koine as 'a set of cultural or other attributes common to various groups'. This volume merges an academic career over a half century in breadth and scope with an editorial vision that brings together a chorus of scholarly contributions echoing the core principles of R. Ross Holloways own unique perspective on...
Michael O'Mara. 2013. 180 pages. ISBN: 184317880X A basic but enjoyable introduction to the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans, from the languages to literature, philosophy, art, and much more. For those who didn't take Classics at school, or who have forgotten most of what they knew, this primer is a look back at classical civilization—how they lived, and...
Michael O'Mara. 2013. 81 pages. ISBN: 184317880X A basic but enjoyable introduction to the study of the culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans, from the languages to literature, philosophy, art, and much more. For those who didn't take Classics at school, or who have forgotten most of what they knew, this primer is a look back at classical civilization—how they lived, and how...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 400 p. Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 400 p. Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 226 p. The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures? Through five case-studies, this book sets ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context. It explores the definition of the techne of medicine in...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 464 p. This book examines dwarfs in myth and everyday life in ancient Egypt and Greece. In both cultures physical beauty was highly admired, even to excess. What happened to those whose appearance did not conform to the 'ideal proportions'? The spectacular forms of dwarfism were always a focus of interest, and it is the most depicted disorder in...
Brill, 2024. — 310 p. — (Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation 5). Plundering and taking home precious objects from a defeated enemy was a widespread activity in the Greek and Hellenistic-Roman world. In this volume literary critics, historians and archaeologists join forces in investigating this phenomenon in terms of appropriation and cultural change. In-depth...
Routledge, 2022. — 340 p. Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory explores the way in which ancient Greeks and Romans represented their past, and in turn how modern literature and scholarship has approached the reception and transmission of some aspects of ancient culture. The contributions, organised into three sections – Political Legacies, Religious Identities, and Literary...
Routledge, 2022. — 340 p. Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory explores the way in which ancient Greeks and Romans represented their past, and in turn how modern literature and scholarship has approached the reception and transmission of some aspects of ancient culture. The contributions, organised into three sections – Political Legacies, Religious Identities, and Literary...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 304 p. How did the Greeks and Romans perceive rape? How seriously was it taken, and who were seen as its main victims? These are two central questions that Rape in Antiquity: Sexual Violence in the Greek and Roman Worlds (1997), edited by Susan Deacy and Karen F. Pierce, aimed to approach in twelve chapters. Setting out to understand if the ancients...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 552 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics responds to, and reflects on, the arts in the ancient world. The history of Western thinking about such matters goes back to the Greeks, when the arts, in one form or another, were a central feature of public life, evaluated and discussed long before Alexander...
I.B.Tauris / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 240 p. What has Alexander the Great to do with Jesus Christ? Or the legendary king's conquest of the Persian Empire (335–23 BCE) to do with the prophecies of the Old Testament? In many ways, the early Christian writings on Alexander and his legacy provide a lens through which it is possible to view the shaping of the literature and...
I.B.Tauris / Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. — 240 p. What has Alexander the Great to do with Jesus Christ? Or the legendary king's conquest of the Persian Empire (335–23 BCE) to do with the prophecies of the Old Testament? In many ways, the early Christian writings on Alexander and his legacy provide a lens through which it is possible to view the shaping of the literature and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 318 p. This is the first scholarly exploration of concepts and representations of Artificial Intelligence in ancient Greek and Roman epic, including their reception in later literature and culture. Contributors look at how Hesiod, Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes, Moschus, Ovid and Valerius Flaccus crafted the first literary concepts concerned with...
Routledge, 1992. — 174 p. — (Approaching the Ancient World).
The author argues in case ofter case how Greek myth was used to justify a certain political situation, so as to gain acceptance for otherwise immoral situations of dominance, to take one example. This is a very different way of approaching myths than, e.g., geomythology, or psychoanalysis. There is no single origin...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 320 p. This volume investigates the form of love letters and erotic letters in Greek and Latin up to the 7th Century CE, encompassing both literary and documentary letters (the latter inscribed and on papyrus), and prose and poetry. The potential for, and utility of treating this large and diverse corpus as a ‘genre’ is examined. To this end, approaches from...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 320 p. This volume investigates the form of love letters and erotic letters in Greek and Latin up to the 7th Century CE, encompassing both literary and documentary letters (the latter inscribed and on papyrus), and prose and poetry. The potential for, and utility of treating this large and diverse corpus as a ‘genre’ is examined. To this end, approaches from...
Routledge, 2020. — 288 p. Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called ‘anatomical votives’. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling vividly the physical and fragile bodies of the past...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 224 p. This is the first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the lived experience of people with disabilities in classical antiquity. The volume is...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 304 p.
Strabo of Amasia, a Greek geographer of the Augusto-Tiberian period, collected his observations of the Roman world of his time in his magnum opus, the Geography, which he described as a 'Kolossourgia', a colossal statue of a work. This term reflects not only the work's size in seventeen books, but also its multi-faceted nature. An...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 320 p. — (Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory). Women played an important part in Pythagorean communities, so Greek sources from the Classical era to Byzantium consistently maintain. Pseudonymous philosophical texts by Theano, Pythagoras' disciple or wife, his daughter Myia, and other female Pythagoreans, circulated in Greek...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 320 p. — (Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory). Women played an important part in Pythagorean communities, so Greek sources from the Classical era to Byzantium consistently maintain. Pseudonymous philosophical texts by Theano, Pythagoras' disciple or wife, his daughter Myia, and other female Pythagoreans, circulated in Greek...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996. — 176 p. Hypatia - brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty - was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new...
Jagiellonian University Press, 2013. — 177 p. The papers collected in the present volume were originally delivered at the conference "Divine Men and Women in the History and Society of Late Hellenism", organised at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków on the 24th–25th June, 2010. The conference was a unique gathering of international scholars, who cherish the tradition of...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 275 s. Auf der Grundlage der Konzepte kulturelles Trauma und kulturelles Gedächtnis untersucht die Autorin erstmals umfassend die antike Erinnerung an Lucius Cornelius Sulla über einen Zeitraum von fast 400 Jahren. Sulla marschierte mit seinem Heer auf Rom, verwüstete Athen und plünderte panhellenische Heiligtümer. Nach dem Sieg im Bürgerkrieg nahm er den...
Leiden: Brill, 1959. — 775 S. — Studies in the History of Religions (Supplements to NVMEN) Volume IV — ISBN 978-90-04-37795-0. Historical Introduction. Phenomenology. Psychology. Non-literate Peoples. Far East. India. Iran. Ancient Egypt. Israel. Greece and Rome. Christianity. Pre-Christian Europe. Islam.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 230 p. How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity challenges prevailing ideas that ancient perceptions of the non-human world rested on a profound belief in universal order, and...
Brill, 2018. — 416 p. — (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean 2). Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores how the theme of visiting the Underworld and returning alive has been treated, transmitted and transformed in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions. The journey was usually a descent (katabasis) into a dark and dull place, where...
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 394 p. This volume aims to merge theoretical models with methodological approaches on ceramic technology and artisanal networks in the Classical world. This convergence of analytical frameworks allowed scholars to explore some traditional archaeological topics that usually have a very low-level of visibility, such as the skillful gestures of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 394 p. This volume aims to merge theoretical models with methodological approaches on ceramic technology and artisanal networks in the Classical world. This convergence of analytical frameworks allowed scholars to explore some traditional archaeological topics that usually have a very low-level of visibility, such as the skillful gestures of the...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 532 p. This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in understanding ancient religion and its...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015. — 437 p. — (Philippika, Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 89). Alexandra Eppingers Monografie bietet den ersten umfassenden Überblick über die vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen des Heros/Gottes Hercules in den Jahren zwischen ca. 250 und 600 n.Chr. In ihrer Vielschichtigkeit ist die...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 284 p. The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about orality, the analysis of the communicative system in a predominantly oral-aural ancient society implies a reassessment and a deep reconsideration of the traces which orality embedded in the texts transmitted to us....
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 284 p. The volume deals with the mechanisms of the oral communication in the ancient Greek culture. Considering the critical debate about orality, the analysis of the communicative system in a predominantly oral-aural ancient society implies a reassessment and a deep reconsideration of the traces which orality embedded in the texts transmitted to us....
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 260 p. This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a reassessment of the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 260 p. This is the second volume on the mechanisms of oral communication in ancient Greece, focused on epic poetry, a genre with deep roots in orality. Considering the critical debate about orality and its influence on the composition, diffusion and transmission of the archaic epic poems, the survey provides a reconsideration and a reassessment of the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 264 p. From Archaic Greece until the Late Roman Empire (c. 800 BCE to c. 500 CE), food was more than a physical necessity; it was a critical factor in politics, economics and culture. On the one hand, the Mediterranean landscape and climate encouraged particular crops – notably cereals, vines and olives – but, with the risks of crop failure...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 264 p. From Archaic Greece until the Late Roman Empire (c. 800 BCE to c. 500 CE), food was more than a physical necessity; it was a critical factor in politics, economics and culture. On the one hand, the Mediterranean landscape and climate encouraged particular crops – notably cereals, vines and olives – but, with the risks of crop failure...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 216 p. How should we talk about "the law" in a period so remote from our own and covering such a huge span of time and space? From the Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1750 BCE) to Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis (529-534 CE), A Cultural History of Law in Antiquity draws upon legal texts and non-textual forms (such as vase-painting, sculpture, and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 226 p. Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 227 p. Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 358 S. — (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 71). Die Ernährung in der Antike war vielfältig, regional verschieden und von der beginnenden Eisenzeit (ca. 1.000 v. Chr.) bis in die Spätantike (ca. 500 n. Chr.) sowohl erstaunlich stabil als auch neuen Einflüssen wie exotischen Gewürzen aus dem Fernhandel und sich ändernden, religiös...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 276 p. Modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy reach back to the time of Homer's Iliad . During the Hellenistic period, in particular, the Greek understanding of fame became more widely known, and adapted, to accommodate or respond to non-Greek understandings of reputation in society and culture. This collection of essays illustrates...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 280 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 109). The question of 'identity' arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one's own specific cultural features...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 280 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 109). The question of 'identity' arises for any individual or ethnic group when they come into contact with a stranger or another people. Such contact results in the self-conscious identification of ways of life, customs, traditions, and other forms of society as one's own specific cultural features...
Leiden, 2016. — 528 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 7). Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle provides a systematic yet accessible account of the reception of Aristotle’s philosophy in Antiquity. To date, there has been no comprehensive attempt to explain this complex phenomenon. This volume fills this lacuna by offering broad coverage of the subject...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. — 248 p. — (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World explores the implications of sex-for-pay across a broad span of time, from ancient Mesopotamia to the early Christian period. In ancient times, although they were socially marginal, prostitutes connected with almost every aspect of daily life. They...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. — 254 p. This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different points of view and sources. Reflections on time were both central and various throughout the history of ancient...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. — 254 p. This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered from different points of view and sources. Reflections on time were both central and various throughout the history of ancient...
Routledge, 2020. — 320 p. Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical and social: how spaces are described by language, what spaces are used for by individuals and communities,...
Routledge, 2020. — 320 p. Over the last two decades, research in cultural geography and landscape studies has influenced many humanities fields, including Classics, and has increasingly drawn our attention to the importance of spaces and their contexts, both geographical and social: how spaces are described by language, what spaces are used for by individuals and communities,...
University of Texas Press, 1999. — 160 p. Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 380 p. What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond....
Brill, 2024. — 348 p. — (Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation 7). This collection of essays explores processes of innovation in Greco-Roman technology and science. It uses the concept of ‘anchoring’ to investigate the microhistories of technological and scientific practices and ideas. The volume combines broad, theoretical essays with more targeted case studies...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 506 p. The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belonging to the same structures, ‘networks’ and communities or at least from finding themselves together...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 506 p. The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belonging to the same structures, ‘networks’ and communities or at least from finding themselves together...
Routledge, 1981. — 438 p. A Brief Survey from Evidence of the Linear B Tablets. The Divided World of Iliad VI. Sapphos Private World. Public and Private in Sapphos Lyrics. Women and Culture in Herodotus Histories. The Conception of Women in Athenian Drama. Travesties of Gender and Genre in Aristophanes Thesmophoriazousae. Could Greek Women Read and Write? Asclepiades Girl...
Routledge, 2021. — 560 p. For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification. This volume offers the first systematic investigation of its myriad roles and manifestations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The twenty-nine contributors represent a broad range of...
Routledge, 2021. — 560 p. For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification. This volume offers the first systematic investigation of its myriad roles and manifestations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The twenty-nine contributors represent a broad range of...
Routledge, 2021. — 560 p. For millennia, people have universally engaged in ecstatic experience as an essential element in ritual practice, spiritual belief and cultural identification. This volume offers the first systematic investigation of its myriad roles and manifestations in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. The twenty-nine contributors represent a broad range of...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 144 p. Network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring and explaining social, economic, and political relationships and connections in past societies. However, in archaeology, the deployment of networks has sometimes been more descriptive than analytical. Methodologies have often depended upon underlying assumptions which inevitably...
University of California Press, 2011. — 223 p. — (Sather Classical Lectures) Where does the notion of free will come from? How and when did it develop, and what did that development involve? In Michael Frede's radically new account of the history of this idea, the notion of a free will emerged from powerful assumptions about the relation between divine providence, correctness of...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 400 p. A brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and...
Pegasus Books, 2023. — 400 p. A brilliant, fascinating portrait of the intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers during the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the Roman general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 768 p. Sport and spectacle in the ancient world has become a vital area of broad new exploration over the last few decades. This Handbook brings together the latest research on Greek and Roman manifestations of these pastimes to explore current approaches and open exciting new avenues of inquiry. It discusses historical perspectives, contest...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 768 p. Sport and spectacle in the ancient world has become a vital area of broad new exploration over the last few decades. This Handbook brings together the latest research on Greek and Roman manifestations of these pastimes to explore current approaches and open exciting new avenues of inquiry. It discusses historical perspectives, contest...
Brill, 2007. — xii, 300 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 283). Exile and displacement are central topics in classical literature. Previous research has been mostly biographical and has focused on the three most prominent exiles: Cicero, Ovid, and Seneca. By shifting focus to a discourse of exile and displacement in early Greek poetry, Greek historiography, Cynicism, consolatory...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 382 p. Despite the Romans' reputation for being disdainful of abstract speculation, Latin poetry from its very beginning was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. Philosophical elements and common places have been identified and appreciated in a wide range of writers, but the extent of the Greek philosophical influence, and in particular...
Brill, 2004. — 394 p. — (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 82). The present volume has been compiled by colleagues and friends as a tribute to Dr. A. Hilhorst, the Secretary of the Journal for the Study of Judaism , on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Its 23 contributions by renowned international experts, reflect the various interests of the honouree, his...
Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 191 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History).
This is a broad-based, comprehensive general study of food in antiquity. The book deals with food as food or nutrition, the discussion revolving around the concrete issues of food availability and the nutritional status of the population. It also treats the nonfood uses of food, focusing on the role...
Brill Academic Pub., 2012. — 645 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 174). Comment prévoir l’inconnu et contrôler l’inattendu ? Les Anciens ont tenté de répondre à ces questions en interprétant des signes dans lesquels il reconnaissaient des messages divins. Ce recueil permet de comparer la diversité de leurs questionnements dans les sociétés polythéistes ou monothéistes...
Brill, 2021. — 384 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 439). Choreonarratives , a collection of essays by classicists, dance scholars, and dance practitioners, explores the uses of dance as a narrative medium. Case studies from Greek and Roman antiquity illustrate how dance contributed to narrative repertoires in their multimodal manifestations, while discussions of modern and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 288 p. A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity covers the period from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE. This period witnessed the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere, and culminated in the fall of the Roman Empire, the end of the Han Dynasty in China, the rise of Byzantium, and the first...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 288 p. A Cultural History of Plants in Antiquity covers the period from 10,000 BCE to 500 CE. This period witnessed the transition from hunter-gatherer subsistence to the practice of agriculture in Mesopotamia and elsewhere, and culminated in the fall of the Roman Empire, the end of the Han Dynasty in China, the rise of Byzantium, and the first...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 356 p. Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal status, and gender. Focusing on the cultures...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 534 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World). Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation – under Christianity's influence – happened in late antiquity. It was then that time...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 240 p. The Ancient Art of Transformation: Case Studies from Mediterranean Contexts examines instances of human transformation in the ancient and early Christian Mediterranean world by exploring the ways in which art impacts, aids, or provides evidence for physical, spiritual, personal, and social transitions. Building on Arnold van Gennep’s notion of...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 239 p. The Ancient Art of Transformation: Case Studies from Mediterranean Contexts examines instances of human transformation in the ancient and early Christian Mediterranean world by exploring the ways in which art impacts, aids, or provides evidence for physical, spiritual, personal, and social transitions. Building on Arnold van Gennep’s notion of...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 380 p. — (Greek culture in the Roman world). This study explores the development of ancient festival culture in the Greek East of the Roman Empire, paying particular attention to the fundamental religious changes that occurred. After analysing how Greek city festivals developed in the first two Imperial centuries, it concentrates on the major...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2016. — 599 p. — (Ancient Magic and Divination 11). In The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence, Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum investigates for the first time the concept of the daimon (daemon, demon), normally confined to religion and philosophy, within the theory and practice of ancient western astrology (2nd century BCE – 7th century CE)....
Routledge, 2024. — 190 p. Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle between Christianity and paganism are reductive. The research...
Routledge, 2024. — 190 p. Late Antiquity was an era of remarkable change as beliefs were shaped and reshaped by the competing philosophies of traditional Greco-Roman religion, Middle and Neoplatonist philosophy, and the theology of the early Church. Current narratives of both peaceful competition and violent struggle between Christianity and paganism are reductive. The research...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 312 p. In this bold book, Jonas Grethlein proposes a new dialogue between the fields of Classics and aesthetics. Ancient material, he argues, has the capacity to challenge and re-orientate current debates. Comparisons with modern art and literature help to balance the historicism of classical scholarship with transcultural theoretical...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 436 p. The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 332 p. The concept of mimesis has dominated reflection on the nature and role, in Greek literature, of representation. Jonas Grethlein, in his ambitious new book, takes this reflection a step further. He argues that, beyond mimesis, there was an important but unacknowledged strand of reflection focused instead on the nuanced idea of apatē...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 378 p. Popular Culture in the Ancient World is the first book to provide an interdisciplinary study of the subject. Traditionally neglected by classical scholars, popular culture provides a new window through which we can view the ancient world. An international group of scholars tackles a fascinating range of subjects and objects - from dice...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 416 p. Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other - Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners - frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich...
Princeton University Press, 2012. — 416 p. Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other - Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners - frequently through hostile stereotypes, distortions, and caricature. In this provocative book, Erich...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 514 p. Greek and Roman biography embraces much more than Plutarch, Suetonius and their lost Hellenistic antecedents. In this book Professor Hägg explores the whole range and diversity of ancient biography, from its Socratic beginnings to the Christian acquisition of the form in late antiquity. He shows how creative writers developed the lives...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2918. — 256 p. Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to clothing across the ancient world. Covering the period 500 BCE to 800 CE and drawing on sources ranging from extant garments and architectural iconography to official...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2918. — 256 p. Whilst seemingly simple garments such as the tunic remained staples of the classical wardrobe, sources from the period reveal a rich variety of changing styles and attitudes to clothing across the ancient world. Covering the period 500 BCE to 800 CE and drawing on sources ranging from extant garments and architectural iconography to official...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages was no different. This volume covers nearly a thousand years of history, from Archaic Greece to the end of the Roman Empire, concentrating on what is now Europe, North Africa, and the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 240 p. Hair, or lack of it, is one the most significant identifiers of individuals in any society. In Antiquity, the power of hair to send a series of social messages was no different. This volume covers nearly a thousand years of history, from Archaic Greece to the end of the Roman Empire, concentrating on what is now Europe, North Africa, and the...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 304 p. This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colorful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs and mosaics. Commonly represented in clothing, textiles are also present in furnishings and through...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 304 p. This volume provides an ambitious synopsis of the complex, colorful world of textiles in ancient Mediterranean iconography. A wealth of information on ancient textiles is available from depictions such as sculpture, vase painting, figurines, reliefs and mosaics. Commonly represented in clothing, textiles are also present in furnishings and through...
Brill, 2018. — 279 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 44). Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced, managed and reasoned about the sensations and...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 351 p. From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds—Plato, Aristotle, the physician Galen, and others—struggled to understand the meaning of dreams. With Dreams and Experience in...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 448 p. From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behaviour while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many...
Oxbow Books, 2020. — 448 p. From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behaviour while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many...
Leuven: Peeters, 2010. — viii + 91 p. Olivier Hekster, Louis van den Hengel and Stephan Mols: Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World Funerary Culture Maria Stamatopoulou: 'Totenmahl' Reliefs of the 4th-2nd Centuries BC and the Archaeology of Feasting in a Funerary Context Ted Kaizer: Funerary Cults at Palmyra Rita Amedick: Sarcophagi and Social Distinction in Roman Culture...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 216 p. Marriage, across cultures, is often defined as a union between consenting adults that lasts for the life of the partners. But is marriage a blessing, or curse? Does marriage represent the union of two hearts, or was it a necessary evil? Did matrimony bring a person a helpmeet for life, or was it a societally approved state entered into to...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 256 p. The wedding ritual of the ancient Romans provides a crucial key to understanding their remarkable civilization. The intriguing ceremony represented the starting point of a Roman family as well as a Roman girl's transition to womanhood. This is the first book-length examination of Roman wedding ritual. Drawing on literary, legal,...
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2016. — 224 p. This festschrift honors UCLA professor emerita Susan Downey and her meticulous scholarship on religious architecture and imagery in the Roman/Hellenistic world. The iconography of gods and goddesses, the analysis of sacred imagery in the context of ancient cult practices, and the design and decoration of sacred spaces are the main...
Aarhus University Press, 2009. — 176 p. Throughout the entire span of Graeco-Roman antiquity, Alexandria represented a meeting place for many ethnic cultures and the city itself was subject to a wide range of local developments, which created and formatted a distinct Alexandrine 'culture' as well as several distinct 'cultures'. Ancient Greek, Roman and Jewish observers...
Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2011. — 180 p. Johann Gustav Droysen nannte 1833 Ionien das „schönste Drittel Griechenlands“. Zwar hatte der Historiker Griechenland nicht selber gesehen, aber die antiken Quellen sind eindeutig. So nennt Thukydides die ionischen Städte die reichsten Griechenlands, und Herodot preist das Klima in diesem mittleren Abschnitt der Westküste...
University of California Press, 2018. — 418 p. Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient...
University of California Press, 2018. — 426 p. Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome , Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient...
4th Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1792 p. For over sixty years, The Oxford Classical Dictionary has been the unrivalled one-volume reference in the field of classics. Now completely revised and updated to include the very latest research findings, developments, and publications, this highly acclaimed reference work will be the most up-to-date and comprehensive...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 447 p. — (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 147).
In Moral Education for Women in the Pastoral and Pythagorean Letters: Philosophers of the Household, Annette Bourland Huizenga examines the Greco-Roman moral-philosophical “curriculum” for women by comparing these two pseudepigraphic epistolary collections. The analysis is organized around four...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 296 p. This book explores ancient efforts to explain the scientific, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of water. From the ancient point of view, we investigate many questions including: How does water help shape the world? What is the nature of the ocean? What causes watery weather, including superstorms and snow? How does water affect health, as...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 296 p. This book explores ancient efforts to explain the scientific, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of water. From the ancient point of view, we investigate many questions including: How does water help shape the world? What is the nature of the ocean? What causes watery weather, including superstorms and snow? How does water affect health, as...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 312 p. This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 312 p. This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 312 p. This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 645 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-3679-2 A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world. The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2019. — 220 p. Barred from political engagement and legal advocacy, the second sophists composed and performed epideictic works for audiences across the Mediterranean world during the early centuries of the Common Era. In a wide-ranging study, author Susan C. Jarratt argues that these artfully wrought discourses, formerly considered vacuous...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2022. — 452 p. This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations. This book provides readers with detailed information, notes, and original translated passages on the fascinating and multi-faceted theme of ancient sexuality. The sources range...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 300 p. This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 312 p. From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Terracotta Army, ancient artifacts have long fascinated the modern world. However, the importance of some discoveries is not always immediately understood. This was the case in 1901 when sponge divers retrieved a lump of corroded bronze from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek...
Harvard University Press, 2013. - 123 p. - (Revealing Antiquity 18).
Heroes and heroines in antiquity inhabited a space somewhere between gods and humans. In this detailed, yet brilliantly wide-ranging analysis, Christopher Jones starts from literary heroes such as Achilles and moves to the historical record of those exceptional men and women who were worshiped after death. He...
Atlantic Books, 2014. — 400 p. — ISBN 9781782395140. The Ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory and the rules of logic and geometry; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and...
Atlantic Books, 2014. — 400 p. — ISBN 9781782395140. The Ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory and the rules of logic and geometry; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 224 p. In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything from...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 224 p. In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything...
Routledge, 2009. — 320 p. Modern western education finds its origins in the practices, systems and schools of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It is in the field of education, in fact, that classical antiquity has exerted one of its clearest influences on the modern world. Yet the story of Greek and Roman education, extending from the eighth century B.C. into the Middle Ages, is...
Routledge, 2009. — 320 p. Modern western education finds its origins in the practices, systems and schools of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It is in the field of education, in fact, that classical antiquity has exerted one of its clearest influences on the modern world. Yet the story of Greek and Roman education, extending from the eighth century B.C. into the Middle Ages, is...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. — 504 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. • A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries. • Comprises...
Berg Publishers, 2009. — 272 p. Animals had a ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world. A Cultural History of Animals In Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BC to 1000 AD, describing how animals were an intrinsic part of the spiritual life of ancient society, how they were hunted, domesticated and used for...
Routledge, 2019. — 248 p. This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world, focusing on literary texts from different genres (epic, theatre, lyric poetry, philosophy, historiography) and archaeological evidence. The material covered spans geographically from Greece and Rome to Judaea, with a chronological range from about 8th c. bce to 1st c. ce. The collection is...
University of California Press, 1997. — 551 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage) What did it mean to be a professional teacher in the prestigious "liberal schools"--the schools of grammar and rhetoric--in late antiquity? How can we account for the abiding prestige of these schools, which remained substantially unchanged in their methods and standing despite the...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 400 p. Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood. Although almost all ancient...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 400 p. Unlike many studies of the family in the ancient world, this volume presents readings of mothers in classical literature, including philosophical and epigraphic writing as well as poetic texts. Rather than relying on a male viewpoint, the essays offer a female perspective on the lifecycle of motherhood. Although almost all ancient...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 354 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World ).
The political instability of the Severan Period (AD 193-235) destroyed the High Imperial consensus about the Roman past and caused both rulers and subjects constantly to re-imagine and re-narrate both recent events and the larger shape of Greco-Roman history and cultural identity. This book...
Brill, 2020. — 360 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 434). In ancient Greece and Rome, nighttime encompassed a distinctive array of cultural values that went far beyond the inversion of daytime. Night was a mythological figure, a locus of specialized knowledge, a socially significant semantic space in various literary genres, and a setting for unique experiences. These facets of...
Routledge, 2014. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0415392438, 9780415392433. The ancient Greeks and Romans lived in a world teeming with animals. Animals were integral to ancient commerce, war, love, literature and art. Inside the city they were found as pets, pests, and parasites. They could be sacred, sacrificed, liminal, workers, or intruders from the wild. Beyond the city domesticated...
Routledge, 2025. — 340 p. This volume offers novel readings of ancient conflict narratives from around the ancient Mediterranean and explores their impact on later habits of understanding and representing war, with an innovative methodological focus on narrative interplay and visualisation. The chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the ways in which interactions between a...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 432 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World ).
Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides an account of the history of the table-talk tradition, derived from Plato's Symposium and other classical...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 500 p.
The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. But books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 480 p. The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 480 p. The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 480 p. The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 383 p. — (Pierides. Studies in Greek and Latin Literature 3). Despite the Romans' reputation for being disdainful of abstract speculation, Latin poetry from its very beginning was deeply permeated by Greek philosophy. Philosophical elements and common places have been identified and appreciated in a wide range of writers, but the extent of...
Cambridge Philological Society, 2006. — 194 p. Karl Marx observed that "just when people seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves... they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service". While the Greek east under Roman rule was not revolutionary, perhaps, in the sense that Marx had in mind, it was engaged in creating something that had not previously existed,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 232 p. This book is about love in the classical world - not erotic passion but the kind of love that binds together intimate members of a family and very close friends, but which may also be extended to include a wider range of individuals for whom we care deeply. The book begins with a discussion of friendship, focusing particularly on the...
Routledge, 2022. — 412 p. The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods. Achaea, often defined by international scholars as "old Greece", was the only Roman province...
Routledge, 2022. — 412 p. The Province of Achaea in the 2nd Century CE explores the conception and utilization of the Greek past in the Roman province of Achaea in the 2nd century CE, and the reception of the artistic, cultural, and intellectual outputs of this century in later periods. Achaea, often defined by international scholars as "old Greece", was the only Roman province...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 432 p. For centuries, statuary décor was a main characteristic of any city, sanctuary, or villa in the Roman world. However, from the third century CE onward, the prevalence of statues across the Roman Empire declined dramatically. By the end of the sixth century, statues were no longer a defining characteristic of the imperial landscape....
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 432 p. For centuries, statuary décor was a main characteristic of any city, sanctuary, or villa in the Roman world. However, from the third century CE onward, the prevalence of statues across the Roman Empire declined dramatically. By the end of the sixth century, statues were no longer a defining characteristic of the imperial landscape....
Aarhus University Press, 2013. — 350 p. — (Aarhus Studies in Mediterranean Antiquity, v. 12) Drawing on both textual and archaeological sources, this book discusses how Christians in Late Antiquity negotiated the sculptural environment of cities and sanctuaries in a variety of ways, ranging from creative transformations to iconoclastic performances. Their responses to pagan...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 258 p. The origins of the modern, Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE. While other forms of currency (shells, jewelry, silver ingots) were in widespread use long before this, the introduction of coinage aided and accelerated momentous economic,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 258 p. The origins of the modern, Western concept of money can be traced back to the earliest electrum coins that were produced in Asia Minor in the seventh century BCE. While other forms of currency (shells, jewelry, silver ingots) were in widespread use long before this, the introduction of coinage aided and accelerated momentous economic,...
Routledge, 2023. — 244 p. This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Indo-Greek kingdom circa 10 AD. The main thesis of this book is the assumption that, despite the presence of mutual...
Routledge, 2023. — 244 p. This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Indo-Greek kingdom circa 10 AD. The main thesis of this book is the assumption that, despite the presence of mutual...
Wyd. 7. — Warszava: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1977. — 610 s. Interdyscyplinarna, wieloaspektowa synteza osiągnięć epoki starożytnej na płaszczyźnie kultur starożytnej Grecji i Rzymu. Zebrane i omówione zostały przez autora dzieje dwóch systemów cywilizacyjnych, różnorodnych i bogatych we własne specyfiki, lecz równocześnie tak pokrewnych i bliskich. Kumaniecki podejmuje w...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 376 p. The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World provides an updated introduction to over 2,000 years of ancient history on this topic. Author Donald G. Kyle takes readers from the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, through Greek and Hellenistic times, and up to the waning days of the Roman Empire. Kyle...
2nd Edition — Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 376 p. The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World provides an updated introduction to over 2,000 years of ancient history on this topic. Author Donald G. Kyle takes readers from the early civilizations of the Ancient Near East, through Greek and Hellenistic times, and up to the waning days of the Roman Empire. Kyle...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 208 p. Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from literary texts and legal sources to archaeological and iconographical evidence as well as comparative...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 208 p. Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population experienced physical or mental conditions that put them at a disadvantage. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from literary texts and legal sources to archaeological and iconographical evidence as well as comparative...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories. The book balances...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories. The book balances...
Routledge, 2017. — 506 p. This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity’ but includes...
Routledge, 2017. — 506 p. This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity’ but includes...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2019. Over the last millennium and a half, the very name of Hypatia of Alexandria has become synonymous with elements such as inspiration, martyrdom, and, above all, heroism, which eventually led to the transformation of her memory into what is likely one of the first, if not the main symbol of Feminism today. However, the historical...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2019. Over the last millennium and a half, the very name of Hypatia of Alexandria has become synonymous with elements such as inspiration, martyrdom, and, above all, heroism, which eventually led to the transformation of her memory into what is likely one of the first, if not the main symbol of Feminism today. However, the historical...
Princeton University Press, 2003. — 320 p. Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. Menander's romantic comedies--which focus on ordinary citizens who marry for love - are...
Princeton University Press, 2003. — 320 p. Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. Menander's romantic comedies--which focus on ordinary citizens who marry for love - are...
Brill, 2011. — 429 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 332). A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become more and more bookish,...
Routledge, 2019. — 254 p. First published 2004. The spectacular hoards of late antique silver - Mildenhall, Thetford, Sevso - discovered since the middle of the last century have aroused much interest in this luxury art form. But what did these pieces mean to their owners, and why was silverware so important in late antiquity? Silver and Society in Late Antiquity examines such...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 350 p. The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformation s traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions, Mark Letteney interrogates the creation of novel and durable structures of knowledge...
Routledge, 2018. — 768 p. The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the...
Routledge, 2018. — 768 p. The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. — 491 S. — (Abhandlungen des Deutschen Palästina-vereins 29). Diese wesentliche Untersuchung des späten hellenistischen und römischen Kultes und der Kultur in den Städten des Decapolis basiert auf der detaillierten Analyse der numismatischen, archäologischen und epigraphischen Erschöpfung. Insgesamt liefert dieses Material unschätzbare Beweise...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018. — 254 p. — (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 13). In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming presents the first interdisciplinary exploration of Late Antique Syrian-Georgian relations available in English. The author takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 300 p. When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century CE Roman sarcophagus - enables Katharina Lorenz to...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 300 p. When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century CE Roman sarcophagus - enables Katharina Lorenz to...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 300 p. When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century CE Roman sarcophagus - enables Katharina Lorenz to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities. The world of work saw marked developments over the course of antiquity. These were driven by social and economic changes, especially growth in market trade and related phenomena like urbanization and specialization. Although the self-sufficient agrarian household continued...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities. The world of work saw marked developments over the course of antiquity. These were driven by social and economic changes, especially growth in market trade and related phenomena like urbanization and specialization. Although the self-sufficient agrarian household continued...
University of California Press, 1981. — 417 p. Gratiarum Actiopage The World of the Panegyristspage Adventuspage The Classical Tradition of Adventus in Actionpage Disruption and Restatement of Adventuspage Consecratiopage Conflicts About the Afterlife of the Emperorpage The Christian Resolutionpage Accessionpage Accession in a Classical Framework: The Consent of Gods and Men,...
University of California Press, 1989. — 198 p. From the hand of Dioscorus of Aphrodito, sixth-century Coptic lawyer and poet, we have the only autograph poems to come down to us on papyrus from the late ancient world. Both the poetry he wrote for special occasions and the documents he produced in his legal career, in Greek and Coptic, reflect the major preoccupations of Dioscorus'...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 480 p. When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration; and when Isadora Duncan and her contemporaries looked for alternatives to the strictures of classical ballet, they looked to ancient Greek vases for models for...
Routledge, 2021. — 238 p. The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not practice human sacrifice, so why then do the myths of...
Routledge, 2021. — 238 p. The Trojan War begins and ends with the sacrifice of a virgin princess. The gruesome killing of a woman must have captivated ancient people because the myth of the sacrificial virgin resonates powerfully in the arts of ancient Greece and Rome. Most scholars agree that the Greeks and Romans did not practice human sacrifice, so why then do the myths of...
Brill, 2021. — 458 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 22). Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the Homeric corpus. Twenty chapters written by a range of experts in the field show how Homeric poems were transmitted, disseminated, adopted, analysed, admired or even...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 280 p. Is power the essence of divinity, or are divine powers distinct from divine essence? Are they divine hypostases or are they divine attributes? Are powers such as omnipotence, omniscience, etc. modes of divine activity? How do they manifest? In which way can we apprehend them? Is there a multiplicity of gods whose powers fill the cosmos or...
Routledge, 2016. — 164 p. Ancient thought, particularly that of Plato and Aristotle, has played an important role in the development of the field of aesthetics, and the ideas of ancient thinkers are still influential and controversial today. Ancient Aesthetics introduces and discusses the central contributions of key ancient philosophers to this field, carefully considering...
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 458 p. — (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 74). An international team of scholars from different academic disciplines address some of the most important issues, texts, and objects in the study of ancient magic. The volume is divided into three primary sections. The first part offers new approaches to some of the major...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 478 p. This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 478 p. This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2002. — 334 p. — (Interpreting Ancient History).
This volume provides essays that represent a range of perspectives on women, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, tracing the debates from the late 1960s to the late 1990s.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 272 p. The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. This volume explores some of the specific ways race was defined and mobilized by different groups-including the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Ethiopians- as they came into contact with...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 272 p. The era generally referred to as antiquity lasted for thousands of years and was characterized by a diverse range of peoples and cultural systems. This volume explores some of the specific ways race was defined and mobilized by different groups-including the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Persians, and Ethiopians- as they came into contact with...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 513 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 393). ‘Where am I?’. Our physical orientation in place is one of the defining characteristics of our embodied existence. However, while there is no human life, culture, or action without a specific location functioning as its setting, people go much further than this bare fact in attributing meaning and value...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 402 p. Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet is also kindly towards mankind and a bringer of luck. His functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 402 p. Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet is also kindly towards mankind and a bringer of luck. His functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and...
Brill, 2012. — 286 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 335). The ninth meeting in the international Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World series - in the fiftieth year since the publication in 1960 of Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales - took as its theme 'Composition and Performance'. This volume contains a selection of those papers, several of which illustrate methodologically...
Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 2002. — xviii, 470 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 141). — ISBN 90-04-10406-2. This volume contains a series of provocative essays that explore expressions of magic and ritual power in the ancient world. The essays are authored by leading scholars in the fields of Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, the Hebrew Bible, Judaica,...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 224 p. The mythological hero Orpheus occupied a central role in ancient Greek culture, but 'the son of Oeagrus' and 'Thracian musician' venerated by the Greeks has also become a prominent figure in a long tradition of classical reception of Greek myth. This book challenges our entrenched idea of Orpheus and demonstrates that in the Classical and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022. — 224 p. The mythological hero Orpheus occupied a central role in ancient Greek culture, but 'the son of Oeagrus' and 'Thracian musician' venerated by the Greeks has also become a prominent figure in a long tradition of classical reception of Greek myth. This book challenges our entrenched idea of Orpheus and demonstrates that in the Classical and...
Routledge, 2917. — 344 p. Warfare has long been central to a proper understanding of ancient Greece and Rome, worlds where war was, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, "both king and father of all". More recently, however, the understanding of Classical antiquity solely in such terms has been challenged; it is recognised that while war was pervasive, and a key concern in...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 268 p. The Sentences of the Syriac Menander appears in two Syriac manuscripts in the British Library, a full version in one codex, and a far shorter version, only a small fraction thereof, in another. This book presents a commentary on the text in its complete version focusing on parallels from both Jewish tradition and the Greco-Roman world, showing that...
De Gruyter, 2011. — 216 p. This book concerns the field of the history of philological-grammatical exegesis and ancient scholarship. Over recent decades this line of research has aroused lively interest, and noteworthy advances in knowledge have been achieved. In comparison with the state and trends of studies in the mid-20th century, the scenario now appears radically changed:...
University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 238 p. Best known for his adventures during his homeward journey as narrated in Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus remained a major figure and a source of inspiration in later literature, from Greek tragedy to Dante's Inferno to Joyce's Ulysses. Less commonly known, but equally interesting, are Odysseus' "wanderings" in ancient philosophy: Odysseus...
University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 238 p. Best known for his adventures during his homeward journey as narrated in Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus remained a major figure and a source of inspiration in later literature, from Greek tragedy to Dante's Inferno to Joyce's Ulysses. Less commonly known, but equally interesting, are Odysseus' "wanderings" in ancient philosophy: Odysseus...
Silence in the Land of Logos, 2000. — 360 p. In ancient Greece, the spoken word connoted power, whether in the free speech accorded to citizens or in the voice of the poet, whose song was thought to know no earthly bounds. But how did silence fit into the mental framework of a society that valued speech so highly? Here Silvia Montiglio provides the first comprehensive...
Routledge, 2022. — 635 p. This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what...
Brepols, 2016. — 420 p. — (Nutrix 10). This book presents a thorough re-examination of Apuleius’ Platonic philosophy, encompassing both his philosophical and literary works. Its primary concern lies in demonstrating how there is no significant gap between the Platonic philosophy of the Opuscula (De deo Socratis, De Platone et eius dogmate, De mundo) and the literary tastes of...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 136 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History). — ISBN10: 0521634164; ISBN13: 978-0521634168. Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an underdeveloped agrarian society? Trade underpinned the growth of...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 284 p. — ISBN10: 0521376114; ISBN13: 978-0521376112 — (Key Themes in Ancient History) The chief purpose of this book is to show how burials may be used as a uniquely informative source for Greek and Roman social history. Burials permit a far wider range of inference and insight than the literary texts produced by and for a...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010 — 457 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 170).
The polytheistic religious systems of ancient Greece and Rome reveal an imaginative attitude towards the construction of the divine. One of the most important instruments in this process was certainly the visualisation. Images of the gods transformed the divine world into a visually...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 476 р. Birds pervaded the ancient world, impressing their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people and figuring prominently in literature and art. They provided a fertile source of symbols and stories in myths and folklore and were central to the ancient rituals of augury and divination. Jeremy Mynott'sBirds...
Routledge, 2022. — 300 p. These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE. The common theme of the chapters is the utopian...
London: Routledge, 2008. — 224 p. — ISBN10: 0415486920; ISBN13: 978-0415486927 Comprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics. Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 902 p. Greek culture matters because its unique pluralistic debate shaped modern discourses. This ground-breaking book explains this feature by retelling the history of ancient literary culture through the lenses of canon, space and scale. It proceeds from the invention of the performative 'author' in the archaic symposium through the 'polis...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 198 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History).
Housing is shaped by culturally-specific expectations about the kinds of architecture and furnishings that are appropriate; about how and where different activities should be carried out; and by and with whom. It is those expectations, and the wider social and cultural systems of which they are a...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 328 p. The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 368 p. The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture. By the second and third centuries AD, Greek festivals were thriving across the eastern Mediterranean. Much of our knowledge of these...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 368 p. The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture. By the second and third centuries AD, Greek festivals were thriving across the eastern Mediterranean. Much of our knowledge of these...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 368 p. The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture. By the second and third centuries AD, Greek festivals were thriving across the eastern Mediterranean. Much of our knowledge of these...
Routledge, 2010. — 160 p. Although reasoned discourse on human-animal relations is often considered a late twentieth-century phenomenon, ethical debate over animals and how humans should treat them can be traced back to the philosophers and literati of the classical world. From Stoic assertions that humans owe nothing to animals that are intellectually foreign to them, to...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 340 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World). — ISBN: 978-1-108-48303-2. The Moon exerted a powerful influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. This book explores the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with special focus on those accounts of the Moon, its...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 1734 p. — ISBN10: 0198662777, ISBN13: 978-0198662778. The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the...
Mohr Siebeck, 2020. — 560 p. — (Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Greco-Roman World, 4). This collection of articles places the frequently discussed question of the introvert Self into a new interdisciplinary context: rather than tracing a linear development from social forms of life with an outward orientation to individual introspection, it argues for significant...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 256 p. As the riches of the Greek Anthology indicate, classical and late antique epigram was predominantly written and read (and probably also performed) by Greeks, but modern ideas about the genre have largely been shaped by the poetry-books of the important Latin epigrammatist Martial. Martial's Romanised version of epigram borrows heavily and...
Mohr Siebeck, 2020. — 357 p. Sixteen hundred years after her death (d. 415 CE), the legacy of Hypatia of Alexandria's life, teaching, and especially her violent demise, continue to influence modern culture. Through a series of focused articles, this volume takes a fresh look at the most well-known ancient female philosopher under three aspects: first, through the evidence...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean. Contributors intentionally place Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek and other reading circles back into...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 288 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World ).
Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by religion. From the first century BC onwards, the traditionally more hostile attitude of Greek and Roman philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book studies that change, not from...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 272 p. In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury made people willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial techniques, even if they originated in a foreign cultural or religious tradition. With...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 272 p. In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury made people willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial techniques, even if they originated in a foreign cultural or religious tradition. With...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 346 p. How was the world generated and how does matter continue to be ordered so that the world can continue functioning? Questions like these have existed as long as humanity has been capable of rational thought. In antiquity, Plato's Timaeus introduced the concept of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god, to answer them. This lucid and...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 714 S. — (Oriens et Occidens 38). Aufstieg und Niedergang großer Reiche haben die Menschen über Jahrtausende hinweg beschäftigt und fasziniert. So wurden im antiken Mesopotamien bereits um 2000 v. Chr. Vorstellungen von Weltherrschaft entwickelt und Reflexionen über die Entstehung und den Verfall von Macht angestellt. Als besonders wirkmächtig...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 360 p.
In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly inquiry and as one of general, popular interest. In Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 346 p. In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy--the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations flourished, including Egypt,...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 346 p. In classical antiquity, there was much interest in necromancy - the consultation of the dead for divination. People could seek knowledge from the dead by sleeping on tombs, visiting oracles, and attempting to reanimate corpses and skulls. Ranging over many of the lands in which Greek and Roman civilizations flourished, including Egypt,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 196 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History).
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman World, using new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy and which factors need to be considered in order to improve our...
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. — XVI, 257 p. — (Studies in manuscript cultures; 15). The volume contains a critical review of data, results and open problems concerning the principal Greek and Coptic majuscule bookhands, based on previous research of the author, revised and updated to offer an overview of the different graphic phenomena. Although the various chapters address the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 280 p. A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 280 p. A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 220 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 124). Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus , a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinions, a consequence of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 304 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 106). It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to...
University of Texas Press, 2021. — 320 p. The eighth and seventh centuries BCE were a time of flourishing exchange between the Mediterranean and the Near East. One of the period’s key imports to the Hellenic and Italic worlds was the image of the griffin, a mythical monster that usually possesses the body of a lion and the head of an eagle. In particular, bronze cauldrons bore...
University of Texas Press, 2021. — 320 p. The eighth and seventh centuries BCE were a time of flourishing exchange between the Mediterranean and the Near East. One of the period’s key imports to the Hellenic and Italic worlds was the image of the griffin, a mythical monster that usually possesses the body of a lion and the head of an eagle. In particular, bronze cauldrons bore...
Indiana University Press, 2007. — 344 p. Drawing upon the latest research in gender studies, history of religion, feminism, ritual theory, performance, anthropology, archaeology, and art history, Finding Persephone investigates the ways in which the religious lives and ritual practices of women in Greek and Roman antiquity helped shape their social and civic identity. Barred...
John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2023. — 446 p. This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. — 262 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology. Supplementary Series 1). This book examines the dress and personal appearance of members of the middle and lower classes in the eastern Mediterranean region during the 4th to 8th centuries. Written, art historical and archaeological evidence is assessed with a view to understanding the way that cloth and...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 240 p. This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a genre defined by and repudiated for its aggressive humor. Worthy of further...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 240 p. This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a genre defined by and repudiated for its aggressive humor. Worthy of further...
Brill, 2018. — 436 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 11). Written by an international cast of experts, The Materiality of Text showcases a wide range of innovative methodologies from ancient history, literary studies, epigraphy, and art history and provides a multi-disciplinary perspective on the physicality of writing in antiquity. The contributions focus on...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. — xviii, 311 c. — ISBN: 9780198143420. A survey of the development of classical philology in antiquity (through the end of the Hellenistic period).
Brill, 2014. — x, 547 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 369). The ‘classical tradition’ is no invention of modernity. Already in ancient Greece and Rome, the privileging of the ancient played a role in social and cultural discourses of every period. A collaboration between scholars in diverse areas of classical studies, this volume addresses literary and material evidence for...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021. — 556 p. — (Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy 7). Brill's Companion to the Reception of Athenian Democracy delivers a fresh and wide-ranging analysis of the uses and reinterpretations of ancient Greek democracy from the late Middle Ages to the XXI century, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 202 p. — (BAR International Series 2980). This monograph analyses human figures that appear in Aegean Bronze Age art, considering the roles and relations between genders, and interpreting differential status or power implications. Susan E. Poole studies a comprehensive range of figures that appear on wall paintings, glyptics (seals, seal impressions and...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 462 p. Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the "father of medicine", he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to him in the so-called "Hippocratic Corpus", although...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 462 p. Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the "father of medicine", he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his relationship to the works attributed to him in the so-called "Hippocratic Corpus", although...
Brill, 2006. — xvi, 248 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 274). This volume investigates the transmission and ancient reception of ancient Greek texts with musical notation. It provides a reconstruction of the dynamics of reception orienting the re-use and re-shaping of musical and poetic tradition in the entertainment culture of the post-classical Greek world. The study makes full...
Routledge, 2018. — 172 p. This book argues that narrations of rhetorical performances in late antique literature can be interpreted as a reflection of the ongoing debates of the time. Competition among cultural elites, strategies of self-presentation and the making of religious orthodoxy often took the shape of narrations of rhetorical performances in which comments on the display...
Routledge, 2018. — 172 p. This book argues that narrations of rhetorical performances in late antique literature can be interpreted as a reflection of the ongoing debates of the time. Competition among cultural elites, strategies of self-presentation and the making of religious orthodoxy often took the shape of narrations of rhetorical performances in which comments on the display...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 332 p. This book looks at a contemporary concept – toxic masculinity – and considers its usefulness for understanding the ancient Mediterranean world. By concentrating on the particular elements that make up this form of masculine behaviour and identity, briefly defined as a performance of masculinity that is harmful to people who should be...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 664 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-8767-1. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families. - Provides...
Routledge, 2012. — 136 p. This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and pharaohs in early Egypt and Mesopotamia. It then traces the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 296 p. In this volume, literary scholars and ancient historians from across the globe investigate the creation, manipulation and representation of ancient war landscapes in literature. Landscape can spark armed conflict, dictate its progress and influence the affective experience of its participants. At the same time, warfare transforms landscapes,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 296 p. In this volume, literary scholars and ancient historians from across the globe investigate the creation, manipulation and representation of ancient war landscapes in literature. Landscape can spark armed conflict, dictate its progress and influence the affective experience of its participants. At the same time, warfare transforms landscapes,...
Methuen Drama, 2019. — 272 p. Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, satyr play, mime and pantomime operate in Antiquity alongside the conception of theatre as both an entertainment for the masses and a vehicle for intellectual, political and...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7425-6778-8; 978-0-7425-6780-1. This engaging yet deeply informed work not only examines Roman history and the multitude of Roman achievements in rich and colorful detail but also delineates their crucial and lasting impact on Western civilization. Noted historian Carl J. Richard argues that although we Westerners...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 358 p.
This important new study looks at the intersection of Greek and Egyptian art forms in the funerary sphere of Roman Egypt. A discussion of artistic change, cultural identity, and religious belief foregrounds the detailed analysis of more than 150 objects and tombs, many of which are presented here for the first time. In addition to the...
Routledge, 2019. — 212 p. Both clothing and gifts in the ancient world have separately been the subject of much scholarly discussion because they were an integral part of Greek and Roman society and identity, creating and reinforcing the relationships which kept a community together, as well as delineating status and even symbolising society as a whole. They have, however,...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 198 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 92). Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mythographers and...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 198 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 92). Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mythographers and...
Brill, 2006. — x, 390 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 279). The third in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fourteen papers address a variety of topics on this theme, and include a variety of methodological approaches—archaeological,...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 296 p. A colossal statue, originally built to honor an ancient pharaoh, still stands today in Egyptian Thebes, with more than a hundred Greek and Latin inscriptions covering its lower surfaces. Partially damaged by an earthquake, and later re-identified as the Homeric hero Memnon, it was believed to "speak" regularly at daybreak. By the middle...
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 160 p. This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement...
Routledge, 2017. — 310 p. Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient...
Routledge, 2017. — 310 p. Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own bodies and to other modes of sensory experience? This volume, the first of its kind to explore the ancient...
Peter Lang AG, 2010. — 556 p. This book is a comprehensive study of the experience of alienation in its many and inter-related manifestations as attested in the late-antique East. It situates Christianity’s enduring legacy in its early historical context and explores the way estrangement from all worldly attributes was elevated to the status of a cardinal religious virtue. The...
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 326 p. Appeal to emotion is a key technique of persuasion, ranked by Aristotle alongside logical reasoning and arguments from character. Although ancient philosophical discussions of it have been much researched, exploration of its practical use has focused largely on explicit appeals to a handful of emotions (anger, hatred, envy, pity)...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 384 p. This is a study of Hellenistic athletics from the perspective of the victors. By analyzing agonistic epigrams as poetry on commission, it investigates how successful athletes and horse owners and their sponsors wanted their victories to be understood. Based on the identification of recurring motifs that exceed the conventions of the...
Brill, 2014. — 399 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 367). The essays in Between Orality and Literacy address how oral and literature practices intersect as messages, texts, practices, and traditions move and change, because issues of orality and literacy are especially complex and significant when information is transmitted over wide expanses of time and space or adapted in new...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 498 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-17171-8. Richard Seaford is one of the most original and provocative classicists of his age. This volume brings together a wide range of papers written with a single focus. Several are pioneering explorations of the tragic evocation and representation of rites of passage: mystic initiation, the wedding, and death...
Peter Lang Inc., 2014. — 206 p. Finding a precious object – a gem, a ring or a coin – inside the belly of a fish is a favorite motif in western literatures that can be traced back to the Greek historian Herodotus. In Herodotus’ account of the rise and fall of the tyrant Polycrates of Samos, the hero cast his beloved ring, his «most precious possession», into the sea in order to...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — xiv + 538 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 126). This volume aims to revisit, further explore and tease out the textual, but also non-textual sources in an attempt to reconstruct a clearer picture of a particular aspect of sexuality, i.e. sexual practices, in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sexual practices refers to a part of the overarching...
Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 344 p. — (Studia Antiqua Australiensia 5). This is a companion volume to Texts of Greek and Latin Authors on the Far East (Brepols 2010) originally compiled by George Coedès and recently translated by John Sheldon. There are nearly one hundred different authors whose writings have been quoted in the text volume. All these authors are...
Brill, 2001. — viii, 248 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 210). Nonnus once vied with Homer for popularity; today his Dionysiaca languishes in obscurity. The Challenge of Epic offers a literary critical rehabilitation of Nonnus' fifth-century AD poem. It argues that modern neglect stems from a failure to appreciate the central position of allusion in late-antique poetry. Attention...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 240 p. The period from the Late Roman Republic to the end of antiquity was marked by a wide interest in divination, and more broadly by an intense belief in the possibility of establishing close and personal connections with the gods. Divinatory practices underwent profound changes, accompanied by new trends in religious belief and...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 352 p. - Treats inscriptions as archaeological objects rather than simply as texts - Identifies modes of reading and reusing ancient epigraphic material in late antiquity - Offers a new methodological approach to well-trodden subjects such as spolia and damnatio memoriae What did people in the early Christian period think about the pagan...
Brill, 2017. — 456 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 396). Voice and Voices in Antiquity draws together 18 studies of the changing concept of voice and voices in the oral traditions and subsequent literate genres of the ancient world. Ranging from the poet's voice to those of characters as well as historically embodied communities, and from the interface between the Greek and Near...
Brill, 2009. — 525 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 307). The fourth in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical Antiquity, this volume examines the negative foils, the anti-values, against which positive value notions are conceptualized and calibrated in Classical Antiquity. Eighteen chapters address this theme from different perspectives - historical,...
Brill, 2012. — viii+486 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 350). How do people respond to and evaluate their sensory experiences of the natural and man-made world? What does it mean to speak of the ‘value’ of aesthetic phenomena? And in evaluating human arts and artifacts, what are the criteria for success or failure? The sixth in a series exploring ‘ancient values’, this book...
Classical Press of Wales, 2005. — 264 p. The philosophers of Late Antiquity have sometimes appeared to be estranged from society. 'We must flee everything physical' is one of the most prominent ideas taken by Augustine from Platonic literature. This collection of new studies by leading writers on Late Antiquity treats both the principles of metaphysics and the practical...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020. — xxiv, 242 p. — (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 19). In The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt Gillian Spalding-Stracey brings the design of crosses in monastic and ecclesiastical settings to the fore. Visual representations of the Holy Cross are often so ubiquitous in Christian art that they are often overlooked as...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 328 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World ).
This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial...
Head of Zeus, 2015. — 288 p. A concise and accessible study of the foundations, development and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome, centred on ten locations of seminal importance in the development of Classical civilisation. Starting with Troy, where history, myth and cosmology fuse to form the origins of Classical civilisation, Nigel Spivey explores the...
Routledge, 2015. — 336 p. It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of...
Routledge, 2015. — 336 p. It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery. Sight and the Ancient Senses is the first thorough introduction to the conceptualization of sight in the history, visual culture, literature and philosophy of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 320 p. How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain as it is or will it undergo a catastrophic change? What role do the gods, human morality, and the forces of nature play in bringing about the end of the world? In Apocalypse and Golden...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 336 p. - Provides a comprehensive discussion of theories of education in late antiquity - Shows how the scope of education was far wider than formal training in established schools - Takes a comprehensive perspective, comparing authors writing in Greek and Latin, and pagan and Christian ideas and arguments Education in Late Antiquity offers the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 336 p. - Provides a comprehensive discussion of theories of education in late antiquity - Shows how the scope of education was far wider than formal training in established schools - Takes a comprehensive perspective, comparing authors writing in Greek and Latin, and pagan and Christian ideas and arguments Education in Late Antiquity offers the...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 336 p. - Provides a comprehensive discussion of theories of education in late antiquity - Shows how the scope of education was far wider than formal training in established schools - Takes a comprehensive perspective, comparing authors writing in Greek and Latin, and pagan and Christian ideas and arguments Education in Late Antiquity offers the...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 454 p. This book argues for a new approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world. Despite the intense cross-cultural interactions which characterised the period after Alexander, studies of 'Hellenistic' intellectual life have tended to focus on Greek scholars and institutions. Where cross-cultural connections have been drawn, it...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 400 p. - First interdisciplinary study to reveal and explore how imperial Greeks and the 'Second Sophistic' attempted to fashion a place in future consciousness - Presents new readings of an extensive range of Greek texts and monuments from the Roman imperial period - Provides fresh perspectives on the political implications and temporal...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 400 p. - First interdisciplinary study to reveal and explore how imperial Greeks and the 'Second Sophistic' attempted to fashion a place in future consciousness - Presents new readings of an extensive range of Greek texts and monuments from the Roman imperial period - Provides fresh perspectives on the political implications and temporal...
Princeton University Press, 2004. — 316 p.
Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text. Is this the way the ancients saw poetry? In Birth of the Symbol, Peter Struck explores the ancient Greek literary critics and theorists who invented the idea of the poetic "symbol."
The book notes that Aristotle and...
Lexington Books, 2023. — 172 p. Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World considers the psychotropic plants used in the ancient world and ancient attitudes towards intoxication. Alan Sumler surveys primary Greek and Roman sources for noteworthy mentions of ancient intoxicants like hellebore, mandrake, deadly nightshade, thorn apple, opium poppy, cannabis, wine, and...
Lexington Books, 2023. — 172 p. Intoxication in the Ancient Greek and Roman World considers the psychotropic plants used in the ancient world and ancient attitudes towards intoxication. Alan Sumler surveys primary Greek and Roman sources for noteworthy mentions of ancient intoxicants like hellebore, mandrake, deadly nightshade, thorn apple, opium poppy, cannabis, wine, and...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 695 p.
Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character from appearance, thus enabling its readers to choose friends and avoid enemies on sight. Its formula...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 512 p. Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far greater then than at any other time. Yet this...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. — 128 p. — (Göttinger Orientforschungen I. Reihe: Syriaca 49). Seit Jahrzehnten treffen sich vorrangig deutsche und finnische Forscher zu einem Symposium, bei dem die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse und Hypothesen zu Makarios diskutiert werden. Jedes Symposium setzt dabei einen thematischen Schwerpunkt. Abwechselnd wird in Finnland oder in Deutschland...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 400 p. The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of innovation: the study of animals and the natural world. While Aristotle and his followers had revolutionized fields such as zoology and botany during the fourth century BC, these disciplines took...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 400 p. The Hellenistic Period witnessed striking new developments in art, literature and science. This volume addresses a particularly vibrant area of innovation: the study of animals and the natural world. While Aristotle and his followers had revolutionized fields such as zoology and botany during the fourth century BC, these disciplines took...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 414 p. — (Greek Culture in the Roman World ).
This is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging from Byzantine monastic archives to Latin poetic texts, ancient land records to hagiographic biographies, Peter Thonemann...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 280 p. — (The Cultural Histories Series 1). The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the senses were experienced vividly: cities stank,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 280 p. — (The Cultural Histories Series 1). The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the senses were experienced vividly: cities stank,...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 276 p. In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 276 p. In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual...
Routledge, 2018. — xx, 194 p. — (Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity). — ISBN 978-1-4094-4056-7, 978-1-4094-4057-4, 978-1-4724-0052-9. Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality. In this book an interdisciplinary and...
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 278 S., 44 Taf. m. 58 Abb., 5 Ktn. u. 3 Plänen — (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge; 40). Das römische Makedonien wurde in der althistorischen Forschung allzu oft nur als Randgebiet der römischen Welt wahrgenommen und ist hier vor allem durch punktuelle, wenngleich epochemachende Ereignisse im Bewußtsein, wie etwa durch die...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 304 p. A Cultural History of Women in Antiquity explores women's history in the West from 500 BCE to 1000 CE. This time period includes women's participation in Greek and Roman civilization, and the Christianization of the Roman Empire up to Late Antiquity. Key issues include the impact of changing cultural forces and discourses on female autonomy...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 322 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 139). The reception of ancient Cyprus in the Western world has not received much attention in scholarship, despite the fact that significant literary and extra-literary evidence presented by European intellectuals and artists explicitly or implicitly refers to the history of Cyprus, as well as to the myths...
Routledge, 2020. — 238 p. How and why did virginity come to play such a crucial part in the Christian Church in the formative and defining period of Late Antiquity? Sissel Undheim analyzes the negotiations over what constituted virginity and assesses its socio-religious value in fourth-century Rome by looking at those at the very margins of virginity and non-virginity. The...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Whether you farm or garden, live in the country or long to move there, or simply enjoy an occasional rural retreat, you will be delighted by this cornucopia of writings about living and working on the land, harvested from the fertile fields of ancient Greek and Roman literature. An inspiring antidote to the digital age, How to Be a...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 248 p. How to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them. Drawing on ancient writers from Aesop to Ovid, classicist and farmer M. D. Usher has gathered a healthy litter of selections that reveal some of the ways Greeks and Romans thought about everything...
Brill, 2019. — 616 p. — (Themes in Biblical Narrative 25). In Intolerance, Polemics, and Debate in Antiquity scholars reflect on politico-cultural, philosophical, and religious forms of critical conversation in the ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and early-Islamic world. They enquire into the boundaries between debate, polemics, and intolerance, and address their...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1997. — 184 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 132 ). Lucian's Alexander the False Prophet is the only literary testimony to a highly influential cult of the 'New Asclepios Glycon' which, as archaeological evidence continues to document, spread all over the eastern Mediterranean basin throughout the second and third centuries AD. This book...
State University of New York Press, 2022. — 368 p. Otherwise Than the Binary approaches canonical texts and concepts in Ancient Greek philosophy and culture that have traditionally been understood as examples of binary thinking, particularly concerning sexual difference. In contrast to such patriarchal logic, the essays within this volume explore how many of these seemingly...
State University of New York Press, 2022. — 368 p. Otherwise Than the Binary approaches canonical texts and concepts in Ancient Greek philosophy and culture that have traditionally been understood as examples of binary thinking, particularly concerning sexual difference. In contrast to such patriarchal logic, the essays within this volume explore how many of these seemingly...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 276 p. Beyond Alexandria aims to provide a better understanding of Seleucid literature, covering the period from Seleucus I to Antiochus III. Despite the historical importance of the Seleucid Empire during the long third century BCE, little attention has been devoted to its literature. The works of authors affiliated with the Seleucid court have...
Profile Books, 2022. — 432 p. The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to sit upon a pedestal. But this, of course, is a lie. Here, classicist Caroline Vout reaches beyond texts and galleries to expose Greek and Roman bodies for what they truly were: anxious, ailing, imperfect, diverse, and responsible for a legacy as...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 456 p. - Sheds fresh light on one of the most important social and cultural developments in the transition from classical antiquity to the world of the Middle Ages - Explores developments through the eyes of contemporary writers and documents as well as the archaeological record - Of interest to all those concerned with how cities can adapt...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 304 p. Greek and Roman stories of origin, or aetia, provide a fascinating window onto ancient conceptions of time. Aetia pervade ancient literature at all its stages, and connect the past with the present by telling us which aspects of the past survive "even now" or "ever since then". Yet, while the standard aetiological formulae remain...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 245 p. A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 318 p. Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and dance in late antiquity. Charges of obscenity and polemical anti-theater discourse have, at times, erased these popular performance traditions from the modern imagination. Demons and Dancers...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 256 p. Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 256 p. Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority...
Amsterdam, Boston: Elsevier, Academic Press. — 2014. — 147 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-800045-8. Key Features : provides the historical background for understanding modern toxicology; illustrates the ways ancient civilizations learned to distinguish safe from hazardous substances, how to avoid the hazardous substances and how to use them against enemies; details scholars who compiled...
Amsterdam, Boston: Elsevier, Academic Press. — 2015. — 145 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-801506-3. This volume, Toxicology in Antiquity II, continues to tell the story of the roots of toxicology in ancient times. Readers learn that before scientific research methods were developed, toxicology thrived as a very practical discipline. Toxicologists are particularly proud of the rich and...
Academic Press, 2019. — 519 p. —ISBN: 978-0-128153-39-3. Toxicology in Antiquity provides an authoritative and fascinating exploration into the use of toxins and poisons in antiquity. It brings together the two previously published shorter volumes on the topic, as well as adding considerable new information. Part of the History of Toxicology and Environmental Health series, it...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 457 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-7940-9. A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects relating to the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in antiquity. Provides an up-to-date overview of the study of food in the ancient world; Addresses...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by...
Brill, 2013. — 258 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 352). In 'Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods Andrzej Wypustek provides a study of various forms of poetic heroization that became increasingly widespread in Greek funerary epigram. The deceased were presented as eternally young heroes, oblivious of old age and death,...
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press — 2004 — xiv, 223 p. — ISBN: 0-299-19450-7 Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and...
Βιβλιοθήκη των Ελλήνων, 2002. — 254 σελ.
Σκοπός της έρευνας αυτής δεν είναι να τοποθετηθούμε θετικά ή αρνητικά στο φαινόμενο της ομοφυλοφιλίας αυτό καθ' αυτό, αλλά να διαπιστώσουμε τις απόψεις των ιδίων των αρχαίων Ελλήνων για το ζήτημα. Χωρίς καμία απολύτως αμφιβολία, θα διαπιστώσετε, ότι στην αρχαία Ελλάδα την ομοφυλοφιλία την αντιμετώπιζαν, ιδιαιτέρως αρνητικά, αυτή είναι η...
СПб.: Издательство Государственного Эрмитажа, 2019. — 196 с. Данный каталог представляет памятники античного ювелирного искусства, поступившие в разное время в Эрмитаж из частных коллекций. Они выделены в особую группу, поскольку не имеют археологического контекста. С конца XVIII в. эта группа памятников активно пополнялась за счет поступлений от европейских коллекционеров, а в...
Л.: Искусство, 1971. — 82 с. В этой книге рассказызается о зрелищах Древней Греции и Древнего Рима — о поэтических, музыкальных, театральных и спортивных состязаниях, о первом кукольном театре, о гладиаторских боях и т. д. 600 dpi (текстовой слой, интерактивное оглавление). Скан: AbsurdMan.
М.: РИОР; Инфра-М, 2017. — 88 с. Пособие состоит из 15 тестов по античной культуре. 25 вопросов каждого теста проверяют знания обучающихся о периодах античной культуры, особенностях культурных явлений античности, античном искусстве, мифологии, литерату-ре, философии, медицине, зарождающихся науках и др. Тесты соответствуют Федеральному государственному образовательному...
Пер. с польского В.К. Ронина. — М.: Высшая школа, 1988. — 496 с. — ISBN: 5-06-001288-3. Книга состоит из серии очерков, посвящённых описанию быта, нравов и материальной культуры Древней Греции и Рима. Автор прослеживает все этапы развития Греции и Рима, их особенности, проводит сравнительный анализ. В результате возникает реальная и живая историческая картина. Книга снабжена...
М.: Высшая школа, 1988. — 500 с. — ISBN: 5-06-001288-3. Книга состоит из серии очерков, посвящённых описанию быта, нравов и материальной культуры Древней Греции и Рима. Автор прослеживает все этапы развития Греции и Рима, их особенности, проводит сравнительный анализ. В результате возникает реальная и живая историческая картина. Книга снабжена иллюстрациями и списком...
Пер. с польск. В.К. Ронина. — М.: Высшая школа, 1988. — 500 с. — ISBN: 5-06-001288-3. Книга состоит из серии очерков, посвящённых описанию быта, нравов и материальной культуры Древней Греции и Рима. Автор прослеживает все этапы развития Греции и Рима, их особенности, проводит сравнительный анализ. В результате возникает реальная и живая историческая картина. Книга снабжена...
При участии профессоров: Гааза, Бюхнера, Лефмана и др. / Пер. под ред. М. Филиппова. — СПб.: Типография А.А. Пороховщикова, 1898. — 440 с., 20 с.: рис.
Гельвальд Фридрих Антон Геллер (1842-1892) - известный этнограф, географ и историк; был некоторое время офицером австрийской службы. В 1871-82 гг. редактировал журнал "Ausland". Написал: "Die amerikanische Völkerwanderung" (В.,...
Пер. А. Цыпленкова. — Москва: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 317 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-9524-4981-7. Профессор ближневосточных наук Университета Брандейс в Массачусетсе Сайрус Г. Гордон на богатой фактологической основе доказывает, что греческая и иудейская культура являются во многом параллельно развивающимися структурами, возникшими на общем восточно-средиземноморском...
Сост., авт. ввод. ст. и науч. ред. Л. И. Акимова. — М.: ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина, 1990. — 317 с. A. Г. Кифишин. Геноструктура догреческого и древнегреческого мифа B. Н. Топоров. Об архаичном слое в образе Ахилла (Проблема реконструкции элементов прототекста) Л.И. Акимова. Анализ вазы Франсуа Е.А. Савостина. Фронтон архаического храма: образ универсума - Медуза Горгона Н.Н....
М.: Памятники исторической мысли, 2001. — 271 с., илл. Монография посвящена исследованию возникновения новоевропейской теории творчества, затрагивает широкий спектр проблем, связанных с переосмыслением античной теории искусства в европейской художественной культуре XIV-XVI веков. В работе анализируется отношение к природе в разных культурах и проблема отождествления Бога и...
Казань: Изд-во Менеджмент Высшей школы управления и бизнеса Казанского гос. ун-та, 1997. — 97 с. Данный сборник подводит итоги трём десятилетиям развития “Античного понедельника”, отражает его лучшие научные традиции, предлагает те идеи, методы и подходы, что возникли в нём за последние годы. "Античный понедельник": традиции и поиски новых путей Война и мир в античности Рунг...
Русская мысль. - М., 1912. - Год тридцать третий, кн. XI. - С. 20-23. Зелинский Фаддей Францевич (1859-1944) - филолог-классик, поэт-переводчик. Изучал древнюю историю и классическую филологию в Лейпцигском университете; в 1880 г. защитил там же докторскую диссертацию. С 1887 г. - экстраординарный, с 1890 г. - ординарный профессор Петербургского университета. Обладая...
СПб.: Марс, 1995. — 380 с. — (Modus vivendi). — ISBN: 5-85233-014-0. Книга профессора Санкт-Петербургского Императорского Университета Ф. Ф. Зелинского, замечательного знатока античности и переводчика, представляет собой первый в Европе опыт изложения истории античной культуры для целей ее систематического изучения. Она может быть использована как в качестве учебного пособия в...
СПб.: Марс, 1995. — 380 с. — (Modus vivendi). — ISBN 5-85233-014-0. Книга профессора Санкт-Петербургского Императорского Университета Ф. Ф. Зелинского, замечательного знатока античности и переводчика, представляет собой первый в Европе опыт изложения истории античной культуры для целей ее систематического изучения. Она может быть использована как в качестве учебного пособия в...
2-е изд. — СПб.: Марс, 1995. — 380 с. — (Modus vivendi). — ISBN 5-85233-014-0. Книга проф. СПб Императорского Университета Ф.Ф. Зелинского, замечательного знатока Античности и переводчика, представляет собой первый в Европе опыт изложения истории античной культуры для целей ее систематического изучения и может быть использована как в качестве учебного пособия в средней и высшей...
Русская мысль. - М., 1913. - Год тридцать четвертый, кн. IX. - С. 1-22 ; Год тридцать четвертый, кн. X. - С. 1-28. Зелинский Фаддей Францевич (1859-1944) - филолог-классик, поэт-переводчик. Изучал древнюю историю и классическую филологию в Лейпцигском университете; в 1880 г. защитил там же докторскую диссертацию. С 1887 г. - экстраординарный, с 1890 г. - ординарный профессор...
Учебное пособие. Великий Новгород: Изд-во НовГУ им. Ярослава Мудрого, 2003. - 120 с.
В пособии приведен материал для курсов "История культуры и этики (в России)", "История философии (в России)", спецкурсы по истории культуры и этики.
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2000. — 404 с.
Вторая книга серии посвящена истории культуры Античности. В ней освещены такие аспекты цивилизаций прошлого, как история, экономика, социальное устройство, религия, наука, искусство, повседневная жизнь. Удобный макет и большое количество иллюстраций помогают быстрее усвоить учебный материал.
Серия предназначена школьникам, студентам и...
М.: Олма-Пресс, 2000. — с.: ил. — (Мировая культура). — ISBN 5-224-01016-0. Вторая книга серии посвящена истории культуры Античности. В ней освещены такие аспекты цивилизаций прошлого, как история, экономика, социальное устройство, религия, наука, искусство, повседневная жизнь. Удобный макет и большое количество иллюстраций помогают быстрее усвоить учебный материал. Серия...
Пер. с фр. — М.: Текст, 2000. — 189 с. — ISBN 5-7516-0180-7.
Один из ведущих современных французских писателей, знаток античности и блестящий стилист Паскаль Киньяр в присущей ему изящной форме предлагает свою версию трансформации античного искусства, его перехода от жизнерадостного эротизма греков к меланхоличной, плохо скрывающей ужас перед жизнью созерцательности римлян....
Выходные данные не указаны. Мы несем в себе смятение нашего зачатия. Нет такого шокирующего образа, который не напоминал бы нам жестов, нас создавших. Человечество извечно ведет свое происхождение от сцены зачатия, сталкивающей двух млекопитающих, самца и самку, чьи мочеполовые органы, при условии анормального возбуждения, заставляющего их разбухать и становиться откровенно...
Пер. с фр. — М.: Текст, 2000. — 189 с. — ISBN: 5-7516-0180-7. Мы несем в себе смятение нашего зачатия. Нет такого шокирующего образа, который не напоминал бы нам жестов, нас создавших. Человечество извечно ведет свое происхождение от сцены зачатия, сталкивающей двух млекопитающих, самца и самку, чьи мочеполовые органы, при условии анормального возбуждения, заставляющего их...
Пер. с фр. — М.: Текст, 2000. — 189 с. — ISBN: 5-7516-0180-7. Один из ведущих современных французских писателей, знаток античности и блестящий стилист Паскаль Киньяр в присущей ему изящной форме предлагает свою версию трансформации античного искусства, его перехода от жизнерадостного эротизма греков к меланхоличной, плохо скрывающей ужас перед жизнью созерцательности римлян....
Пер. с фр. — М.: Текст, 2000. — 189 с. — ISBN: 5-7516-0180-7. Один из ведущих современных французских писателей, знаток античности и блестящий стилист Паскаль Киньяр в присущей ему изящной форме предлагает свою версию трансформации античного искусства, его перехода от жизнерадостного эротизма греков к меланхоличной, плохо скрывающей ужас перед жизнью созерцательности римлян....
М.-Л.: ОГИЗ, 1935. — 342 с. — (Известия ГАИМК. Вып. 108). Содержание: О.О. Крюгер. Сельскохозяйственное производство в эллинистическом Египте. Зерновое культуры М. М. Альтман. Техника виноделия в древней Греции Б. Н. Граков. Тара и хранение сельскохозяйственных продуктов в классической Греции VI —IV веков до н. э. С. А. Лясковский. Наука о сельском хозяйстве в связи с общим...
М.: Наука, 1986. — 292 с. Как многообразна античная культура, так многообразен и сборник "Проблемы античной культуры", подготовленный Институтом Археологии АН СССР. В сборнике представлены статьи по широкому кругу проблем социально-экономической, политической, и особенно культурной истории античного мира. В ряде статей публикуются новые находки произведений античного искусства,...
М.: Высшая школа, 1990 — 351 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-06-001000-7, 83-01-04780-1. Классическое исследование известного польского ученого. Книга построена традиционно — по хронологическому принципу, по рубрикам, соответствующим тем или иным областям культуры (философия, историография, поэзия, архитектура и т. д. ), и — там, где это возможно, — по принципу персоналий: рассматривается...
М.: Высшая школа, 1990. — 351 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-06-001000-7, 83-01-04780-1. Классическое исследование известного польского ученого. Книга построена традиционно — по хронологическому принципу, по рубрикам, соответствующим тем или иным областям культуры (философия, историография, поэзия, архитектура и т. д. ), и — там, где это возможно, — по принципу персоналий: рассматривается...
М.: Высшая школа, 1990. — 351 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-06-001000-7, 83-01-04780-1. Классическое исследование известного польского ученого. Книга построена традиционно — по хронологическому принципу, по рубрикам, соответствующим тем или иным областям культуры (философия, историография, поэзия, архитектура и т. д. ), и — там, где это возможно, — по принципу персоналий: рассматривается...
М.: Высшая школа, 1990. — 351 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-06-001000-7, 83-01-04780-1. Классическое исследование известного польского ученого. Книга построена традиционно — по хронологическому принципу, по рубрикам, соответствующим тем или иным областям культуры (философия, историография, поэзия, архитектура и т. д. ), и — там, где это возможно, — по принципу персоналий: рассматривается...
Сборник статей, посвященный памяти профессора Константина Андреевича Сергеева. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургское Философское общество, 2008. — 224 с. — (Апории 3). В настоящем издании собраны исследования по истории и теории подражания. Книга адресована философам, историкам, а также всем, интересующимся вопросами истории и философии культуры.
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Предназначение искусства - предмет нескончаемых споров, начавшихся уже в античности. В первой части книги обозреваются мнения древнегреческих писателей о психологическом воздействии литературы, дан подробный разбор "Поэтики" Аристотеля; во второй части детально рассмотрена рецепция знаменитой формулы "очищения...
М.: ИФ РАН, 2004. – 297 с. — ISBN: 5-201-02129-8 Автор, отечественный философ и культуролог, предлагает теоретическое осмысление античной культуры, анализируя основные ее составляющие — религиозно-мифологические представления, античную философию и право, технику и хозяйство, понимание в античности любви и власти. При этом он показывает, что «зачинателем» античной культуры...
М.: ИФ РАН, 2004. — 297 с. — ISBN 5-201-02129-8. Автор, отечественный философ и культуролог, предлагает теоретическое осмысление античной культуры, анализируя основные ее составляющие — религиозно-мифологические представления, античную философию и право, технику и хозяйство, понимание в античности любви и власти. При этом он показывает, что «зачинателем» античной культуры...
Учебное пособие. — Нижний Новгород: Национальный исследовательский Нижегородский государственный университет им. Н.И. Лобачевского, 2021. — 82 с. В пособии приводится программа дисциплины по выбору, даются краткий комментарий к основным вопросам курса, список современной научной литературы. Для студентов, специализирующихся по кафедрам всемирной истории. Введение Программа...
2-е изд., испр. и доп. — Л.: Издательство Ленинградского Университета, 1991. — 440 с. — ISBN: 5–288–00650–4. Монография представляет собой переиздание двух книг, вышедших в Издательстве ЛГУ, – «Факел Прометея» (1981 г.) и «Огни Диоскуров» (1984 г.). В центре внимания автора – развитие общественно-политической мысли древних греков и наиболее значительные проявления творческого...
2-е изд., испр. и доп. — Л.: Издательство Ленинградского Университета, 1991. — 440 с. Монография представляет собой переиздание двух книг, вышедших в Издательстве ЛГУ, – «Факел Прометея» (1981 г.) и «Огни Диоскуров» (1984 г.). В центре внимания автора – развитие общественно-политической мысли древних греков и наиболее значительные проявления творческого духа античности –...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 183 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Проблема кризиса античной культуры на протяжении нескольких столетий привлекала и продолжает привлекать внимание ученых. Автор книги не только знакомит читателей с фактами, относящимися к последнему периоду существования античной культуры Древнего Рима, но и характеризует ту идеологическую борьбу, которая развернулась...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 183 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Проблема кризиса античной культуры на протяжении нескольких столетий привлекала и продолжает привлекать внимание ученых. Автор книги не только знакомит читателей с фактами, относящимися к последнему периоду существования античной культуры Древнего Рима, но и характеризует ту идеологическую борьбу, которая развернулась...
М.: Наука, 1975. — 183 с. — (Из истории мировой культуры). Проблема кризиса античной культуры на протяжении нескольких столетий привлекала и продолжает привлекать внимание ученых. Автор книги не только знакомит читателей с фактами, относящимися к последнему периоду существования античной культуры Древнего Рима, но и характеризует ту идеологическую борьбу, которая развернулась...
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