Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 115 p. This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housing. The introduction critically considers the literature relevant to the topic in order to...
Gorgias Press, 2021. — 284 p. This is not a conventional history book. It is rather a study of the sociology of historical writing about a period that, although quite distant in time (330 B.C. to C.E. 670), still influences political discourse about the Arab world, and especially the relationship between the West and the Middle East. This book focuses on the riddle of the...
Great Company, 2011. — 368 p. The ancient world has cast a long shadow, influencing our customs and religious beliefs, our laws, and the form of our governments. It has taught us when and how we make war or pursue peace. It has shaped the buildings we live and work in and the art we hang on our walls. It has given us the calendar that organizes our year and has left its mark on...
London – New York: Routledge, 2002. – 496 p. ISBN: 0-415-23701-7 (Print Edition) ISBN: 0-203-46926-7 Master e-book ISBN: ISBN: 0-203-77750-6 (Glassbook Format) For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2023. — 377 p. — (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 84). This book deals with the intersection between religion, philosophy, and politics in the Graeco-Roman world, and especially in Late Antiquity, with special reference to the figure alluded to in ancient sources with the expression "theios aner". Charisma and leadership are basic elements of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 264 p. The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to examine...
Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 264 p. The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 412 p. — (Greek culture in the Roman world). By engaging with recent developments in the study of empires, this book examines how inhabitants of Roman imperial Syria reinvented expressions and experiences of Greek, Roman and Syrian identification. It demonstrates how the organization of Greek communities and a peer polity network extending...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 334 p. Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 334 p. Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. — 232 p. Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves' economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the authors examine the different ways in which slavery evolved in the two cultures....
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 416 p. The south-eastern tip of continental Europe was a major focus of creative energy in the second half of the first millennium BC. As the bridgehead between Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean, the lands that corresponded to northern Greece, Bulgaria, and the European parts of Turkey became a focus of interest for a variety of external...
Harvard University Press, 1987. — 704 p. irst of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves—from concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family,...
Brill, 2016. — 320 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 388; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 388). Circum Mare: Themes in Ancient Warfare presents a thematic approach to current directions in ancient military studies with case studies on topics including the economics of warfare, military cohesion, military authority, irregular warfare, and...
Brill, 2019. — 370 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies 3; Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 3). Brill’s Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 430 p. Over recent decades, the debate about how individuals are portrayed in prose-texts of Greek and Roman historiography and biography has evolved in increasingly nuanced ways. The sorts of questions which now tend to be raised concerning such prose-texts brings them closely into line with the more subtle analysis usually reserved for poetry....
Routledge, 2019. — 242 p. This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status attributed to kings in such accounts. It explores the notion of kingship offered by historians such as...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 398 p. Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think...
London: Immediate Media. — 116 p. — (BBC History Collector's Edition). — ISSN: 1469-8552. This new compendium of the best articles from BBC History Magazine explores the real stories of ancient cultures, from pharaohs and emperors to the experiences of ordinary people. Travelling across centuries from Egypt, Greece and Rome to China and Persia, you will learn about remarkable...
Walter de Gruyter, 2005. — 404 p. — (Essays in honor of William V. Harris). This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would represent the wide variety of interests and influences of our advisor and friend. The fifteen papers in fact range...
De Gruyter, 2006. — 404 p. This volume commemorates the 65th birthday of William Vernon Harris (on September 13, 2003), when a group of his former students agreed to honor him with a collection of essays that would represent the wide variety of interests and influences of our advisor and friend. The fifteen papers in fact range chronologically from the first Olympics to late...
Routledge, 2014. — 426 p. This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and general readers of world history. The book's narrative is clear, completely jargon-free, strikingly independent, and addresses the complete cycles of two world empires. It begins with the births of empire...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — XXXVIII, 418 p. — (Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei – Beihefte 3.4.3). Wenn der römische Sklave als Erbe oder Vermächtnisnehmer Zuwendungen empfängt, wenn er Rechtshandlungen vornehmen, Rechtsschutz beanspruchen oder sogar letztwillig verfügen kann, dann ist er nicht lediglich Objekt von Regeln oder Verfügungen. Er führt vielmehr entweder selbst...
Peeters, 2013. — 512 p. — (Colloquia Antiqua 8). Although there are specialist studies on the mobility of the inhabitants of the cities and regions of the Black Sea, we lack a comprehensive prosopography of those of them active abroad. This work, containing 3358 entries, is a first attempt, casting light on the mobility of different social and professional groups, not only...
Gorgias Press, 2017. — 98 p. The historical American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: Pericles Georges, 'Darius in Scythia: The Formation of Herodotus' Sources and the Nature of Darius' Campaign', J. Linderski, 'A Missing Ponticus', Stephan Podes, 'Ekklesiastikon and Participation in Public Service in Classical Athens: Misleading Literary and...
Gorgias Press, 2017. — 124 p. The historical American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 6 articles: Alessandro Barchiesi, 'Ovid the Censor', E. Badian, 'Which Metellus? A Footnote to Professor Barchiesi's Article', Marleen B. Flory, 'The Meaning of Augusta in the Julio-Claudian Period', Harold B. Mattingly, 'Review-Discussion: Robert Develin, Athenian Officials',...
Gorgias Press, 2017. — 92 p. The historical American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 3 articles: Fritz Schachermeyr: Abbruch, 'lberleben und Neuwerden am Beginn und am Ende der Antike. Ella Hennon: Les priscae latinae coloniae et la politique colonisatrice en Rome. Colin M. Wells: Celibate Soldiers: Augustus and the Army.
Gorgias Press, 2017. — 101 p. The historical American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 4 articles: Richard Saller, 'Domitian and His Successors: Methodological Traps in Assessing Emperors', K.M. Coleman, 'Latin Literature After CE 96: Change or Continuity', T. Corey Brennan, 'Principes and Plebs: Nerva's Reign as Turning-point?', Mary T. Boatwright, 'Public...
Gorgias Press, 2016. — 100 p. Editor's Note. A Note on the First Eisphora at Athens. The Pompeii in Their Families. Caesar and the Pirates II: The Elusive M. Iunius Iuncus and the Year 75/4. Athenisches Ehrendekret vom Jahre des Koroibos (306/5) für einen Königlichen Offizier. Amicitia in Tacitus and Juvenal. Technikai kai Mousikai. Some Causes of Disorder in C.E. 68-69....
Gorgias Press, 2019. — 101 p. The historical American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 7 articles: E.M. Wightman, 'Peasants and Potentates: An Investigation of Social Structure and Land Tenure in Roman Gaul', G.L. Snider, 'Hesiod's Sailing Season (W & D 663-665)', Larissa Bonfante, 'Historical Art: Etruscan and Early Roman', T.P. Wiseman, 'Flavians on the...
Gorgias Press, 2017. — 101 p. The historical American Journal of Ancient History. This journal's volume contains 6 articles: P.J. Rhodes, 'Problems in Athenian Eisphora and Liturgies', Robert J. Rowland, Jr., 'Beyond the Frontier in Punic Sardinia', D.R. Shackleton Bailey, 'Who is Junia?', Daniel R. Schwartz, 'Apollonius, Son of Menestheus: Whose Ambassador?', Richard A....
Gorgias Press, 2017. — 101 p. The historical American Journal of Ancient History. This volume contains 4 articles: How Citizenship and the City Began in Athens. The Beginning of The Roman Defensive System in Judaea. Quintus Curtius' Presentation of Philip Arrhidaeus and Josephus' Accounts of The Accession of Claudius. Brothers or Cousins.
Barnes and Noble, 1967. — 327 p. The government of classical Sparta / A. Andrewes. The third Cyrene edict of Augustus / K.M.T. Atkinson. Alexander the Great and the Greeks of Asia / E. Badian. Athenian settlements abroad in the fifth century B.C. / P.A. Brunt. Aeschylus and Athenian politics, 472-456 B.C. / J.A. Davison. The estate of Phaenippus / G.E.M. de Ste. Croix. Isegoria...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. — 302 p. This book combines concepts from the history of religions with Byzantine studies in its assessments of kings, symbols, and cities in a diachronic and cross-cultural analysis. The work attests, firstly, that the symbolic art and architecture of ancient cities commissioned by their monarchs expressing their relationship with their...
University of California Press, 2011. — 200 p. 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 convincingly argues that ordinary people--from Britain to Egypt to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 241 p. — (Archaeological Histories). Dura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates was the subject of extensive excavations in the 1920s and 30s by French and American archaeologists, and is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Roman Near East. A Seleucid, Parthian, and Roman site, its place between East and West is a vexed question in both...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 241 p. — (Archaeological Histories). Dura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates was the subject of extensive excavations in the 1920s and 30s by French and American archaeologists, and is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Roman Near East. A Seleucid, Parthian, and Roman site, its place between East and West is a vexed question in both...
Routledge, 2010. — 260 p. Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on monuments in the city, on objects used in daily life, and on mountains in the countryside. In...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913. — 466 p.
This book narrates about the history of Old Greece and Rome. There are many characters in this book. This is usefull for children who want to become historian of the world or whose leisure pursuit is to read historical novels.
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 203 p. — 9780521194327. Background to archaeological theories and methods Text as material culture Images Small finds Spaces of healing Scientific archaeology: skeletal and medical remains
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. — 589 p. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 153). This volume was published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of an outstanding Polish historian of antiquity, Professor Leszek Mrozewicz. It consists of 53 scientific texts in English, German, French, and Italian, written...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 350 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 244). "Seemacht", "Seeherrschaft", "Thalassokratie" diese Phänomene gehören zu den wie selbstverständlich gebrauchten Kategorien althistorischer Darstellungen. Mächte wie Athen, Karthago oder Rhodos, ja selbst das vermeintlich landzentrierte Rom geben der Idee antiker "Meeresbeherrschung" Gestalt und Kontur. Zudem...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 270 p. — ISBN10: 1107101948; ISBN13: 978-1107101944 This collection of essays, by leading historian Jairus Banaji, provides a stimulating rebuttal to the prevailing minimalism in late antique studies. Together, they strike a balance between the wide lens and more specialised discussion, expanding on the perspective and...
University of California Press, 2023. — 267 p. In Those for Whom the Lamp Shines, Vince L. Bantu uses the rich body of anti-Chalcedonian literature to explore how the peoples of Egypt, both inside and outside the Coptic Church, came to understand their identity as Egyptians. Working across a comparative spectrum of traditions and communities in late antiquity, at the...
Alianza Editorial, 2001. — 375 p. Libro no sólo destinado a los estudiosos de la historia, sino concebido asimismo para satisfacer a todo aquel que quiera simplemente informarse sobre cuestiones políticas, religiosas, económicas, sociales y culturales del mundo antiguo, esta "Breve historia de Grecia y Roma" se plantea como misión ofrecer un primer punto de referencia que...
Philipp von Zabern, 2019. — 706 S. Die Begriffe Universalität und Globalisierung sind heute in aller Munde, aber sie sind nicht neu, ihre Wurzeln reichen bis in die Antike, in den durch Hellenismus und das Römische Reich geschaffenen Kulturraum. Der große Althistoriker Pedro Barceló entwirft, als Summe seiner jahrzehntelangen Beschäftigung mit der alten Welt, das Panorama der...
Routledge, 2003. — 262 p. Articles examine the city of Jerusalem and other Jewish communities of the Mediterranean diaspora, as reflected in the writings of Luke, Josephus and Philo. Topics covered include social identity, everyday life and religious practice. This will be of interest to students of Roman history, biblical studies, ancient Judaism and Hellenistic history.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 400 p. Slavery was foundational to Greek and Roman societies, affecting nearly all of their economic, social, political, and cultural practices. Greek and Roman Slaveries offers a rich collection of literary, epigraphic, papyrological, and archaeological sources, including many unfamiliar ones. This sourcebook ranges chronologically from the archaic...
Baylor University Press, 2018. — 461 p. Magdala of Galilee for the first time unifies the results of various excavations of the Galilean city. Here, archaeologists and historians of the Second Temple Period work together to understand the site and its significance to profile Galilee and the region around the lake in the Early Roman period. After a comprehensive overview of the...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2018. — 432 S. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 119). „Auf segelbeflügelten Schiffen habe ich oft das große Meer befahren“ – so lautet eine kaiserzeitliche Inschrift aus Brundisium. In der Antike war die Seefahrt eine vergleichsweise bequeme, schnelle und preiswerte Art der Fortbewegung, die sich insbesondere dazu eignete, weite...
Gorgias Press, 2013. — 298 p. Excavations in the Lower Market in Petra (Jordan), capital of the ancient kingdom of Nabataea, uncovered the remnants of a monumental pool-complex at the heart of the ancient city. It played an important role in the socio-political life of Petra during the Nabataean and Roman periods. The mere presence of a paradeidos in Petra symbolized the...
Prospect Books, 2010. — 160 p. This book looks at the way in which food was employed in Greek and Roman literature to impart identity, whether social, individual, religious or ethnic. In many instances these markers are laid down in the way that foods were restricted, in other words by looking at the negatives instead of the positives of what was consumed. Michael Beer looks at...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 298 p. Andrew Bell's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern citizens. An initial...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. — 332 p. At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion' brings together recent research from a range of upcoming and well-established scholars to demonstrate the richness of the cross-cultural exchange of ideas around the ancient Mediterranean along with the reception of and continuing dialogues with these ideas in the medieval...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. — 366 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 115). Eine Auswahl an Arbeiten, die teilweise an weniger zugänglichen Stellen publiziert wurden, wird hier nochmals vorgelegt. An Beispielen vermitteln diese Studien Einblicke in Methodik und Zielsetzung des Autors, gelangen aufgrund einer innovativen Gesamtschau zu wesentlichen Erkenntnissen für die Aktualität...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 381 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 351; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 351). Providing a comprehensive examination of the capacity of ancient ships and seafarers to cope with seasonally changing sea conditions, this book draws on a wide range of ancient literary sources while also taking account of modern weather...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 333 S. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 104). Hiermit wird das erste Mal eine systematische Analyse der Dorfverwaltung und der Struktur der Dorfgemeinschaft im spätantiken Ägypten (4.-8. Jahrhundert n.Chr.) vorgelegt, deren Basis mehrere Tausende neu aufgearbeitete...
Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1993. — 306 s.
Rozwiązła Mesalina, przebiegła i ambitna Liwia, uczona Hypatia. Co właściwe łączyło te kobiety poza faktem, że wszystkie trzy żyły w epoce określanej mianem antyku? Starożytność to okres bardzo długi i zróżnicowany, zmieniały się czasy, zmieniali się ludzie. Czy zmieniały się kobiety?
O kobietach pisze w tej książce kobieta. Profesor...
Warszawa, Neriton, 2016. — 436 s. — ISBN: 978-83-754-3409-5 Monografia ta stanowi pełne, wyczerpujące, do dziś niezastąpione dzieło na temat niewolnictwa w Egipcie hellenistycznym i rzymskim-ukazała się w dwóch kolejnych tomach w języku francuskim w latach 1974 i 1977. Uzupełniona i nieco zmieniona wersja włoska, będąca podstawą niniejszego przekładu polskiego, wyszła w roku...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 458 p. This collection of essays reflects Anthony Snodgrass's wide-ranging research interests: Greek prehistory, the Greek Iron Age and Archaic era, Greek texts and Archaeology, Classical Art History, societies on the fringes of the Greek and Roman world, and Regional Field Survey.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. — 2010. — 616 p. ISBN10: 0748616306; ISBN13: 978-0748616305. he Edinburgh Companion is a gateway to the fascinating worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. Wide-ranging in its approach, it demonstrates the multifaceted nature of classical civilisation and enables readers to gain guidance in drawing together the perspectives and methods of...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 440 p. This book situates discussions of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Palestine within the socio-economic world of the long Late Antiquity, from the golden age of monasticism into and well beyond the Arab conquest (fifth to tenth century). Its thirteen chapters present new research into the rich corpus of textual sources and...
Routledge, 2022. — 202 p. This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. Through examining tax documents and other ancient texts in...
Routledge, 2022. — 202 p. This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. Through examining tax documents and other ancient texts in...
Routledge, 2022. — 202 p. — (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies). This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. Through...
Lexington Books, 2010. — 192 p. Turning, Telling Moments in the Classical Political World examines developments in the classical political world which are both turning and telling moments. All the moments - from Theseus's founding of Athens to Augustus's establishment of the Principate - possess the double character of being turning points and revealing fundamental aspects of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 520 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Blackwell Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the latest research...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 520 p. A Blackwell Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the latest research findings and presents new historical syntheses of the...
Peeters, 2022. — 1571 p. — (Monographs on Antiquity 8). Connecting the ancient West and East has been the life's goal of the Georgian-born scholar Gocha Tsetskhladze since he stepped westward from the then Soviet Union in 1990 (his higher education took place in Kharkov and Moscow). This publication honours his not inconsiderable achievements, following in (and filling) the...
Routledge, 2021. — 424 p. This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary, philosophical, and scientific documents. Even today, ancient female homosexuals are still too often...
Brill, 1979. — 317 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 57). Morality and Social Relationships. Morality and Religion. The Earliest Gods and Morality. The Emotional Life of the Greeks: Its Influence on their Moral and Religious Disposition. Prodigium and Morality. Rich and Poor. The Opposite Side of the Coin: Man and Citizen. Slaves. Women in Religion and Morality. Abortion and Family...
Peter Lang, 2014. — 311 p. For decades, Arthur D. Nock’s famous definition of conversion and his distinction between conversion and adhesion have greatly influenced our understanding of individual religious transformation in the ancient world. The articles in this volume – originally presented as papers at the conference Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity (Ebeltoft,...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. (Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World Series). — 320 pages : illustrations, tables, maps. 2019 PROSE Award finalist in the Classics category! A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity examines the social and cultural landscape of the Late Antique Mediterranean. The text offers a picture of everyday life as...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 318 p. Der Band vereinigt die Beiträge einer deutsch-italienischen Tagung, die der Frage der wechselseitigen Beeinflussung von Recht und Religion in der griechisch-römischen Welt gewidmet war. Fokussiert wird dabei auf die Frage der Verwobenheit von rechtlichen Verfahren und religiöser Sanktionierung im Kontext von Gesetzgebung, rechtlichen...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 354 p. — (Studies in Ancient Monarchies 3). "When analyzing the character of monarchic regimes and their strategies for creating obedience and acceptance, the focus usually lies on the ruler ideology and the self-representation of the individual monarch. However, the contributions to the present volume try to approach the matter from the angle of...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 437 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) 58). Civil war is the most radical form of political conflict. This volume analyses the impact of civil war on society and culture in Greco-Roman antiquity. The collected papers examine phenomena such as tyrannicide, stasis and usurpations from the classical age to...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 624 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology 2). This book surveys a variety of themes relating to the late antique countryside. It covers social and economic life, the archaeology of pilgrimage and the fate of rural temples, villas, monasteries and landscape change. There is a special section on rural survey in Turkey, a region of the Roman empire for...
Classical Press of Wales, 2006. — 224 p. The term colonization encompasses much diversity, from the settlement of the western Mediterranean and the Black Sea by Greeks in the archaic period to the foundation of Roman colonies in mainland Italy during the Republic. Though very different in their motives and methods, both Greek and Roman colonizations are presented by our sources...
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, 2021. — 400 p. — (Recht Im Ersten Jahrtausend Band 3). Throughout his career, Professor John Haldon has been a hinge between different academic cultures, methods, and disciplines. A true scholar of Byzantine society, he has combined meticulous work on texts and material evidence with a holistic approach to social history that has connected the study...
München: Verlag C.H.Beck, 2002. — 293 S. Alt werden möchten die meisten von uns - alt sein hingegen kaum jemand. Da aber in unserer Kultur, in der das Idol der Jugendlichkeit wie ein goldenes Kalb umtanzt wird, immer mehr Menschen ein hohes Alter erreichen, wird täglich die Frage drängender, wie wir mit dem Altwerden umgehen - welche Möglichkeiten, Hoffnungen und Ängste wir...
Allen Lane, 2001. — 432 p. One of France's foremost post-war historians and an authority on the Mediterranean world of the 16th century, Fernand Braudel was surprised, but immediately tempted, when he was asked to write on the region's ancient history. But, believing that "history cannot really be understood unless it is extended to cover the entire human past", he seized the...
J.C. Gieben, 1996. — 415 p. In the cities of the Greek East, during the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, female members of local ruling elites played a prominent and visible role in public life. Before this time it had only been in the religious sphere, as priestesses or worshippers, that women had any part to play in the formal ritual life of the Greek city. From the late...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 304 p. Xenophon's Anabasis has engaged and entertained readers from antiquity to the present day. Through his telling of the story of Cyrus the Younger's attempt on the Persian throne and its aftermath, Xenophon integrates many of the prominent themes and concerns in his writings, including leadership, panhellenism, Sparta and apologia....
Association of Ancient Historians, 2013. — 112 p. Ancient modern historians who know well the famous Ernst Badian's work have written 5 essays commemorating him as a scholar and a person. Ernst Badian and the Association of Ancient Historians - Carol G. Thomas. Ernst Badian’s Methodological Maxims - T. Corey Brennan. A Peltast Among Hoplites. Ernst Badian and Athenian History -...
London: Vincent Brooks, Day and Son, 1887. — 474 p. Containing illustrations of over six hundred examples from various countries and from the Earliest periods down to the end of the Eighteenth century with descriptive and general Index. The present work is the outgrowth of what was originally a comparatively small collection of drawings of Ancient Sepulchral Monuments, made at...
J.B. Metzler, 2000. — 708 S. Das Lexikon informiert in mehr als 4.000 Artikeln und mit 400 Abbildungen schnell und zuverlässig. Es liefert die wesentlichen Daten, Fakten und Hintergründe zu allen Themen und Bereichen der griechisch-römischen Antike von der Frühzeit bis in die Spätantike. Von Achill bis Zentaur, von Abraxas bis Zoroaster, von Aberglaube bis Zahnpflege, von...
Philipp von Zabern, 2020. — 242 S. Was erzählt uns die Trajanssäule über das antike Rumänien und Siebenbürgen? Phillip II., Vater von Alexander dem Großen, scheiterte an dem unnachgiebigen Volk der Daker. Auch die Römer hatten im westlichen Schwarzmeerraum hart zu kämpfen, bis sie 106 n.Chr. die Provinz Dacia etablieren konnten. Die Freude hielt nur zwei Jahrhunderte an, doch...
Philipp von Zabern, 2020. — 240 S. Was erzählt uns die Trajanssäule über das antike Rumänien und Siebenbürgen? Phillip II., Vater von Alexander dem Großen, scheiterte an dem unnachgiebigen Volk der Daker. Auch die Römer hatten im westlichen Schwarzmeerraum hart zu kämpfen, bis sie 106 n.Chr. die Provinz Dacia etablieren konnten. Die Freude hielt nur zwei Jahrhunderte an, doch...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 320 p. Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a large and very important role...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 1056 p. — ISBN 978-1-78570-673-8. Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 368 p. Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late antiquity,...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 368 p. Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late antiquity,...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 228 p. Géopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l’Orient hellénistique et romain (IIIe siècle av. J.-C. – IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.) Colonial Geopolitics and Local Cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (3rd century BC – 3rd century AD) presents contributions taken in the main from a panel held during the Celtic Conference in Classics 2014...
Brill, 2017. — 426 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 401; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 401). La Phrygie Parorée et la Pisidie septentrionale deals with the history, the historical geography and the cultural sociology of Phrygia Paroreios and Northern Pisidia during the Hellenistic and Roman periods (IVth cent. BC – IVth cent. AD). This...
Routledge, New York, 2009. — ISBN13: 978–0–415–39485–7. — 944 p. This 500,000 word reference work provides the most comprehensive general treatment yet available of the peoples and places of the regions commonly referred to as the ancient Near and Middle East – covered in this book by the term ancient western Asia – extending from the Aegean coast of Turkey in the west to the...
American Philosophical Society, 2001. — 193 p. The Island Kos has often inspired interesting case studies on its ancient Aegean context. This may be explained thematically first by the island's belonging to that eastern Aegean chain of islands from Lemnos in the north to Rhodes in the south that form the "nearest bridge" to Asia Minor. These islands' fortunes have always depended...
Routledge, 2013. — 565 p. In a conclusion which sums up the lines of argument of his valuable study of money as an element in the growth of early civilisation, Mr. Burns enumerates the deficiencies in the evidence, for, as he says, it is as well to keep in mind the things we do not know, as well as those we do. This is wise, for the gaps in our evidence are great and the...
Michigan State University Press, 2001. — 404 p. Recent publications on urbanism and the rural environment in Late Antiquity, most of which explore a single region or narrow chronological niche, have emphasized either textual or archeological evidence. None has attempted the more ambitious task of bringing together the full range of such evidence within a multiregional...
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2004. — 216 p. Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that...
Translation and commentary. — London: Ashgate/Hakluyt Society, 1989. — XII, 202 p. Written some time before 100 BC the On the Erythraean Sea of Agatharchides of Cnidus is the most important source for an almost forgotten chapter of the history of geographical discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea and the region surrounding it by agents of the Ptolemaic government of Egypt...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 177 p. This book provides the first comprehensive history of Afro-Eurasia during the first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first millennium CE. The history of these 1300 plus years can be summed up in one word: connectivity. The growth in connectivity during this period was marked by increasing political, economic, and cultural interaction...
Cisalpino, 2008. — 182 p. L'Egitto romano è una realtà assai sfaccettata, complessa e per molti aspetti contraddittoria, oggetto quindi di innumerevoli studi e di teorie interpretative contrastanti. L'analisi condotta in queste pagine è focalizzata sulle élites locali: chi furono gli Egiziani grecizzati che riuscirono a emergere e a segnalarsi in questa provincia.
Routledge, 2023. — 218 p. Averil Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. This collection (Cameron’s third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect both these wider changes in treatments of the subject...
Routledge, 2023. — 218 p. Averil Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. This collection (Cameron’s third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect both these wider changes in treatments of the subject...
Routledge, 2011. — 320 p. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity , now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean...
Routledge, 2011. — 320 p. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity , now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean...
Routledge, 2017. — 262 p. TransAntiquity explores transgender practices, in particular cross-dressing, and their literary and figurative representations in antiquity. It offers a ground-breaking study of cross-dressing, both the social practice and its conceptualization, and its interaction with normative prescriptions on gender and sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean world....
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 further...
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 further...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 286 p. In this readable and thought-provoking history of bisexuality in the classical age, Eva Cantarella draws on the full range of sources—from legal texts, inscriptions, and medical documents to poetry and philosophical literature—to reconstruct and compare the bisexual cultures of Athens and Rome. Cantarella presents the ancient evidence in a...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. — 274 p. Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world—from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of...
Penn & Sword Books, 2005. — 224 p. This is an ambitious book that sets out to cover four and a half thousand years of military history, from the rise of the first civilisations in the Near East to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The cover lists three authors, but the text was all written by Brian Todd Carey, an Assistant Professor of History and Military History at the...
Routledge, 2022. — 316 зл This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social – as well as economic – capital. Collecting a wide range of studies by an international team of experts, it presents a...
Routledge, 2022. — 316 зл This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social – as well as economic – capital. Collecting a wide range of studies by an international team of experts, it presents a...
Routledge, 2022. — 316 p. This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social – as well as economic – capital. Collecting a wide range of studies by an international team of experts, it presents a...
Rome: LʹErma di Bretschneider, 1993. — 207 p. Otto Steen Due: Introduzione Pierre Briant: Alexandre à Sardes Giuliana Calcani: L’immagine di Alessandro Magno nel gruppo equestre del Granico Jesper Carlsen: Alexander the Great (1970-1990) Bodil Due: Alexander’s Inspiration and Ideas Niels Hannestad: Imitatio Alexandri in Roman Art M. Heerma van Voss: Alexander und die ägyptische...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 200 p. Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other short-lived kings of Macedonia), and grandmother of Alexander the Great. Her career marks a...
B.A.R., 1987. — 170 p. — (The Ninth Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History). The Decadrachm hoard: an introduction. The Decadrachm Hoard: Chronology and Consequences. Lycian coins in the 'Decadrachm hoard'. The coinages of the northern Aegean. The Athenian Coinage Decree. The Athenian Coinage Decree and the assertion of Empire. The 'Regal' Coinage of the Persian...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 191 p. This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when books were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the royal libraries of the most ancient Near East, through the private and public libraries of Greece and Rome, down to the first...
University of Texas Press, 1996. — 172 p. Ever since the earliest travelers took to the water on reed rafts or inflated goatskins, ships and boats have played a paramount role in the history of the Western world. The invention of the sail about 3500 BC resulted in ever faster and more efficient water transport, and the great civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome depended on...
Brill, 2017. — 356 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 407; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 407). The twelve studies contained in this volume discuss some key-aspects of citizenship from its emergence in Archaic Greece until the Roman period before AD 212, when Roman citizenship was extended to all the free inhabitants of the Empire. The book...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 348 p. This book tells the story of the modern engagement with the area of South Italy where ancient Greeks established settlements starting in the 8th century BCE-a region known since antiquity as Magna Graecia. This 'Great Greece', at once Greek and Italian, and continuously perceived as a region in decline since its archaic golden age, has...
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,...
Charles River Editors, 2020. — 84 p. At the same time, this shift in Mediterranean trade from a local to international scale was a catalyst for immense social, political and economic changes that helped to shape the course of Western Civilization as a whole. Starting with the Egyptians and Minoans around 3000 BCE until the decline of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th...
Charles River Editors, 2021. — 105 p. For hundreds of years, Palmyra’s wealth was a testament to its greatness, and its leaders displayed their political acumen by playing the middleman between the powerful Roman and Parthian Empires. As a result, the Palmyrenes built an eclectic culture that was as sophisticated as any of their contemporaries, but eventually the leadership of...
Fonthill Media, 2020. — 256 p. A fascinating and truly unique survey of two of the world's most significant and influential civilisations spanning some 2000 years from the development of the Greek alphabet to the sack of Rome and a dinner date with Attila the Hun in 450 CE. Some ninety Greeks and Romans have contributed to the book with reports culled from 130 separate works....
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 256 p. Paul Chrystal has written the first full length study of women and warfare in the Graeco Roman world. Although the conduct of war was generally monopolized by men, there were plenty of exceptions with women directly involved in its direction and even as combatants, Artemisia, Olympias, Cleopatra and Agrippina the Elder being famous examples. And...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 160 p. Late antiquity saw the barbarian invasions overrun the western Roman empire and Persian and Arab armies end Roman rule over the eastern and southern coasts of the Mediterranean. Was late antiquity therefore merely a time of decline? In this vibrant and compact introduction, Gillian Clark sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 331 p. This volume in honor of Miriam Griffin brings together seventeen international specialists. Their essays range from Socrates to late antiquity, with a particular focus on Cicero. Subjects covered include the Stoics and Cynics, Roman law, the formulation of imperial power, Jews and Christians, performance philosophy, Augustine, late...
Routledge, 2018. — 238 p. The period from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Islam (c. late fourth century BCE to seventh century CE) saw a significant growth in economic, diplomatic and cultural exchange between various civilisations in Africa, Europe and Asia. This was in large part thanks to the Indian Ocean trade. Peoples living in the Roman Empire, Parthia,...
Routledge, 2016. — 254 p. Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean, moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches...
Salvatore Sciascia Editore, 2008. — 240 p. Научный сборник из 14 статей (эссе) итальянских ученых рассматривает различные аспекты взаимоотношений правителей и населения греческих полисов и пунических (карфагенских) городов на острове Сицилия в 5-4 веках до н.э.
Aschehoug, 1998. — 255 p. Forfatteren tar utgangspunkt i de bygningsrester som finnes i Roma og Athen, og rekronstruerer dem i detalj. Dette gir oss et innblikk i menneskenes dagligliv, deres religiøse og politiske aktiviteter, rettspleie, skuespillkunst og idrettsbegivenheter. For skoleungdom og alminnelig historieinteresserte til studenter på universitetsnivå. Har ordliste,...
Espasa Calpe, 1981. — 76 p. Peter Connolly (1935-2012) fue uno de los más importantes investigadores británicos del mundo antiguo, historiador y arqueólogo especializado en equipamiento militar romano y griego, y afamado ilustrador histórico. Connolly estudió en la facultad de Arte de la Universidad de Brighton (Brighton College of Arts and Crafts) y escribió su primer libro,...
Greenhill Books, 2006. — 313 p. Revised edition incorporating new archeological research Breathtaking analysis of twelve centuries of warfare In this new and revised edition, Peter Connolly combines a detailed account of the arms and armies of Greece and Rome with his superb, full-color artwork. Making use of fresh archeological evidence and new material on the manufacture and use...
Acento Editorial, 1998. — 222 p. Este libro, fruto de la rigurosa investigación de dos grandes expertos en las civilizaciones clásicas, reconstruye minuciosamente la vida real de las dos grandes ciudades del mundo antiguo.
Espasa Calpe, 1981. — 76 p. Peter Connolly (1935-2012) fue uno de los más importantes investigadores británicos del mundo antiguo, historiador y arqueólogo especializado en equipamiento militar romano y griego, y afamado ilustrador histórico. Connolly estudió en la facultad de Arte de la Universidad de Brighton (Brighton College of Arts and Crafts) y escribió su primer libro,...
Espasa Calpe, 1981. — 76 p. Peter Connolly (1935-2012) fue uno de los más importantes investigadores británicos del mundo antiguo, historiador y arqueólogo especializado en equipamiento militar romano y griego, y afamado ilustrador histórico. Connolly estudió en la facultad de Arte de la Universidad de Brighton (Brighton College of Arts and Crafts) y escribió su primer libro,...
Espasa Calpe, 1981. — 76 p. Peter Connolly (1935-2012) fue uno de los más importantes investigadores británicos del mundo antiguo, historiador y arqueólogo especializado en equipamiento militar romano y griego, y afamado ilustrador histórico. Connolly estudió en la facultad de Arte de la Universidad de Brighton (Brighton College of Arts and Crafts) y escribió su primer libro,...
Cook, John Granger. Roman Attitudes Toward the Christians. From Claudius to Hadrian. Mohr Siebeck, 2010. XV, 363 p.(Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 261) John Granger Cook investigates the earliest interactions between Roman authorities and Christians. The events in Claudius' time surrounding »Chrestos« and possible Jewish Christians are fascinating but...
Ambridge University Press, 2020. — 348 p. Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds explores the small-scale communities of late antiquity - households, monasteries, and schools - where power was a question of personal relationships. When fathers, husbands, teachers, abbots, and slave-owners asserted their own will, they saw themselves as maintaining the...
Peeters, 2022. — 417 p. — (Colloquia Antiqua 33). Stephen Mitchell's Anatolia (1993) and Karl Strobel's Die Galater (1996) were by no means end points for the study of Hellenistic and Roman Galatia. Rather, they stimulated several new research initiatives. The introduction to this volume synthesises the results of some 700 mostly very recent scholarly publications, before ten...
Routledge, 2021. — 320 p. If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history—‘from below’—is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing it. Despite undeniable advances in recent decades, ‘our...
Princeton University Press, 2005. — 276 p. This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Raffaella...
Scholars Press, 1996. — 370 p. Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.
Routledge, 2023. — 234 р. Between c.250 and c.650, the way the past was seen, recorded and interpreted for a contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key elements of this historiographical revolution become clear, with the recasting of the period, across both east and west, as ‘late antiquity’. Historiography, however, has struggled to find its...
Foreword by Peter Oakes. — Eerdmans, 2020. — 392 p. What was the ancient world like? Ancient sources tell us a great deal about the cultural patterns and values that prevailed in the Mediterranean of the biblical periods: - how they constructed identity - how they exercised control over groups, space, gender, and dress - how they thought of friendship - how they participated in...
Foreword by Peter Oakes. — Eerdmans, 2020. — 392 p. What was the ancient world like? Ancient sources tell us a great deal about the cultural patterns and values that prevailed in the Mediterranean of the biblical periods: - how they constructed identity - how they exercised control over groups, space, gender, and dress - how they thought of friendship - how they participated in...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 384 p. — ISBN 0195083245. This study explains the Greco-Roman urban form as it relates towards the geological basis at selected websites within the Mediterranean basin. Every with the sites–Argos, Delphi, Ephesus, and Syracuse amongst them–has manifested in its physical form the geology on which it stood and from which it was produced. By...
Routledge, 2003. — 408 p. Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds. In entries ranging from a few lines to a couple of pages, Andrew Dalby describes individual foodstuffs (such as catfish, gazelle, peaches and parsley), utensils,...
Brill, 2018. — 384 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 423). Competition is everywhere in antiquity. It took many forms: the upper class competed with their peers and with historical and mythological predecessors; artists of all kinds emulated generic models and past masterpieces; philosophers and their schools vied with one another to give the best interpretation of the world;...
De Gruyter, 2010. — 166 p. — (Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt 3). In a series of case studies, the contributions assess the extent to which in the Ancient World control over large territories relied on the settlement of active or retired soldiers. The central question is that of the link between the historical situation of the...
Westview Press, 1996. — 203 p. What is the source of the uniquely Western way of war, the persistent militarism that has made Europe the site of bloodshed throughout history and secured the dominance of the West over the rest of the world? The answer, Doyne Dawson persuasively argues in this groundbreaking new book, is to be found in the very bedrock of Western civilization:...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 459 p. — (Greeks Overseas). — ISBN: 978–0–19–517047–4. Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Explanations for these similarities and differences have been hotly debated. On the one hand, some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one in a long line of...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 459 p. — (Greeks Overseas). Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Explanations for these similarities and differences have been hotly debated. On the one hand, some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one in a long line of migrants who were shaped by Sicily...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — xxxvi + 560 p. Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence spanned centuries, from its Seleucid foundation to the Islamic conquest and beyond. This volume offers an archaeological and...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xvii + 226 p. From late fourth century BC Seleucid enclave to capital of the Roman east, Antioch on the Orontes was one of the greatest cities of antiquity and served as a hinge between east and west. This book draws on a century of archaeological fieldwork to offer a new narrative of Antioch's origins and growth, as well as its resilience,...
Brill, 2023. — 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...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 486 p. The present volume presents some of the latest research trends in the study of Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire from a multi-disciplinary perspective, encompassing not only social, economic and political history, but also philology, philosophy and legal history. The volume focuses on the interaction between the periphery...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 391 p. This volume presents a systematic and fresh interpretation of a mid-second-century AD papyrus - the so-called Muziris papyrus - which preserves on its two sides fragments of a unique pair of documents: on one side, a loan agreement to finance a commercial enterprise to South India and, on the other, an assessment of the fiscal value of a...
Carocci, 2013. — 188 p. Le guerre combattute in Sicilia tra il V e l'inizio del III secolo a.C. racchiudono numerose vicende. Il volume racconta la più significativa - lo scontro tra Siracusa e Cartagine, le due grandi potenze che si contendono territori, uomini e risorse - e altre, forse meno note ma egualmente importanti, che vedono l'evoluzione del potere autocratico e la...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 400 p. Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and individuals on an unprecedented scale....
Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 471 p.
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Ravenna was one of the most important cities of late antique Europe. Between 400 and 751 AD, it was the residence of western Roman emperors, Ostrogothic kings, and Byzantine governors of Italy, while its bishops and archbishops ranked second only to the popes. During this...
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. – 353 p. – (Amsterdam Archaeological Studies. Vol. 13). ISBN: 978-90-8964-078-9 NUR 682 Ton Derks / Nico Roymans. Introduction Catherine Morgan. Ethnic expression on the Early Iron Age and Early Archaic Greek mainland. Where should we be looking? Jan Paul Crielaard. The Ionians in the Archaic period. Shifting identities in a changing...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 266 p. (Not) All Roads Lead to Rome is the result of the highly engaging debate within the “Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History”, a yearly congress of young graduates and researchers held in April 2022 in the University of Barcelona. In this volume, the issue of mobility in Antiquity in its broadest sense is approached from a...
Brepols, 2022. — 475 p. Disagreement, rivalry and dispute are essential to any intellectual development. This holds true for ancient cultures no less than for us today. From the classical period to the Hellenistic age and to Late Antiquity, competition and polemics have shaped the course of intellectual history in Antiquity. Polemical encounters and controversies are often...
Brepols, 2022. — 474 p. This volume looks at the interplay between polemics and intellectual networks from a variety of perspectives: from the Old Academy and the Hellenistic schools to the Neoplatonic commentators of Late Antiquity, from biographical literature to literary criticism, from artistic manuals to scientific treatises, and from pagans to Christians Disagreement,...
Sidestone Press, 2017. — 193 p. — (Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens VI). At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independence perished the notion of Greek...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 364 p. This is the first monograph in English about Demades, an influential Athenian politician from the fourth century B.C. An orator whose fame outlived him for hundreds of years, he was an acquaintance and collaborator of many political and military leaders of classical Greece, including the Macedonian king Philip II, his son and successor...
Edition Topoi, 2019. — 222 p. — (Berlin Studies of the Ancient World). Throughout millennia people have created place from within space by using an array of different types of signs in a multitude of different environments. Signs that can give insights into the very different ways in which ancient people have interacted with their natural surroundings and how they included it...
Brill, 2024. — 430 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology 13/2). Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology A.D. 284-650, across the late antique world. This second volume includes papers exploring all aspects of funerary archaeology, from scientific samples in graves, to grave goods and tomb robbing and a bibliographic essay. It brings into focus neglected...
Bloomsbury, 2015. — 310 p. Amid growing interest in food and drink as an academic discipline in recent years, this volume is the first to provide insight into eating and drinking by focusing on what the ancients themselves actually had to say about this important topic. A thorough and varied sourcebook, it is structured thematically and is a unique asset to any course on food...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 400 p. - The study of Roman Gaul in the fifth century, and the transformation of society, is a growing field, but there is no comprehensive account in English - our book therefore fills a gap - Very difficult for one scholar to embrace all the different specialisations involved in the study of the late Roman and early medieval world - hence...
Routledge, 2021. — 279 p. Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome by Daniela Dueck is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of...
University Press of America, 1985. — 474 p. — ISBN 0819147907, 9780819147905. It is an honour and a pleasure for me to have been asked to write an introduction to this volume that pays a well-deserved tribute to Chester G. Starr. If any scholar in our field were asked who is the most distinguished ancient historian in our hemisphere, there would be little doubt of the answer....
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 542 p. This collection of twenty essays examines the art, profession and idea of the actor in Greek and Roman antiquity, and has been commissioned and arranged to cast as much interdisciplinary and transhistorical light as possible on these elusive but fascinating ancient professionals. It covers a chronological span from the sixth century BC...
Routledge, 2011. — 205 p. First published in 1974, this book is a collection of nine essays written by Victor Ehrenberg between 1925 and 1967, five of which had not been published before. They deal with a number of aspects of Greek and Roman history, and with the nature of ancient history in the East and West. The first essay is a broad survey of interactions between opposing...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 520 p. Christianity in Late Antiquity, 300-450 C.E.: A Reader collects primary sources of the early Christian world, from the last "Great Persecution" under the Emperor Diocletian to the Council of Chalcedon in the mid-fifth century. During this period Christianity rose to prominence in the Roman Empire, developed new notions of sanctity and...
Leuven: Peeters, 2008. — xxvii + 769 p. Public sculptures were the “mass media” of the Roman world. They populated urban centers throughout the empire, serving as a “plastic language” that communicated political, religious, and social messages. This book brings together twenty-eight experts who otherwise rarely convene: text-based scholars of the Greco-Roman, Jewish, and...
Routledge, 2004. — 185 p. Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity brings together a set of papers that consider anew issues of travel, communication and landscape in Late Antiquity. This period witnessed an increase in long-distance travel and the construction of large new inter-provincial communications networks. The Christian Church's expansion is but one...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xii, 378 pages : b&w illustrations, maps. In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the Barbarians, the Justinianic reconquest,...
Leiden: Brill, 2001. — 470 p. Modern artists, historians and writers have always looked back on the Classical past for inspiration and as a source of factual material. This group of essays looks at how these people have represented or recreated history from ancient sources such as Plutarch, Polybius, Lipsius, and many others. The contributors study aspects of classical...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. — 277 p. — (Hermes-Einzelschriften 78). Der materielle Aufwand bei Begräbnisfeiern und in der Anlage und Ausschmückung von Grabanlagen ihrer Bürger wurde von vielen Staaten von der archaischen Epoche Griechenlands bis zum römischen Kaiserreich gesetzlich eingeschränkt. Diese umfassende Studie untersucht hierzu literarische, epigraphische und...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — xxv + 303 p. — ISBN: 0-19-924033-7. In this book Andrew Erskine examines the role and meaning of Troy in the changing relationship between Greeks and Romans, as Rome is transformed from a minor Italian city into a Mediterranean superpower. The book seeks to understand the significance of Rome's Trojan origins for the Greeks by considering the...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 125 p. — (BAR International Series 3005). Blame it on the Gender offers a multidisciplinary approach to gender studies in Antiquity, containing contributions by international scholars on different ancient geographical contexts where gender and gender relations can be studied. From the Iron Age in northern Spain to Roman Late Antiquity, this volume...
Pen & Sword Military, 2015. — xxx, 233 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84884-796-5, 978-1-47385-998-2, 978-1-47385-997-5. Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an...
Pen & Sword Military, 2015. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84884-796-5, 978-1-47385-998-2, 978-1-47385-997-5. Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an...
Routledge, 2017. — 288 p. This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa Classics Colloquium in which the topic and title of the event were inspired by Josiah Ober’s seminal work Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989). Indeed the influence this work has had on later research in all aspects of the Greek and Roman world is reflected by the diversity of the...
Routledge, 2017. — 288 p. This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa Classics Colloquium in which the topic and title of the event were inspired by Josiah Ober’s seminal work Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989). Indeed the influence this work has had on later research in all aspects of the Greek and Roman world is reflected by the diversity of the...
Routledge, 2016. — 260 p. Syracuse possesses a unique place in the history of the ancient Mediterranean because of its contribution to Greek culture and political thought and practice. Even in the first century BC Cicero could still declare 'You have often heard that of all the Greek cities Syracuse is the greatest and most beautiful.' Sicily's strategic location in the...
Editora Vozes, 2014. — 234 p. Introdução – Caminhos históricos do mundo greco-romano e a formação do Ocidente. O mundo grego, de Aquiles a Alexandre. A realeza micênica e Homero. Periodização da história grega. As epopeias homéricas como fonte histórica. Cronologia e observações sobre algumas escavações micênicas. A partilha do mundo entre deuses e homens. O louvor e a censura...
Editora Vozes, 2014. — 270 p. Composta de quatro volumes, esta coleção sobre História Geral abrange a Antiguidade, a Idade Média, a Moderna e a Contemporânea do Ocidente. Este volume trata da História Antiga, particularmente da Grécia e de Roma. A autora convida os leitores ao exercício de um pensamento que possa nos colocar diante dos problemas que os homens gregos e romanos...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 444 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 157). Unfinishedness and incompleteness are a central feature of ancient Greek and Roman literature that has often been taken for granted but not deeply examined; many texts have been transmitted to us incomplete. How and to what extent has this feature of many texts influenced their aesthetic perception...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 360 p. The martial virtues - courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength - were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity , sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 360 p. The martial virtues - courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength - were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity , sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex...
Walter de Gruyter, 2005. — 428 S. — (Millennium Studies 8). Die Isaurier, ein kleinasiatisches Bergvolk, forderten über 600 Jahre lang die römische Herrschaft heraus. Sie waren neben den Juden das einzige reichsangehörige Volk, mit dem es zu längeren Auseinandersetzungen kam. Anfang des 5. Jahrhunderts unternahmen sie Raubzüge bis nach Palästina. Zwar schaffte es ein Isaurier...
University of Texas Press, 2021. — 272 p. Jack the Ripper. Jeffrey Dahmer. John Wayne Gacy. Locusta of Gaul. If that last name doesn’t seem to fit with the others, it’s likely because our modern society largely believes that serial killers are a recent phenomenon. Not so, argues Debbie Felton - in fact, there’s ample evidence to show that serial killers stalked the ancient...
Batoche books, 2001. — 130 p. Imperialism and the City-State Athens: an Imperial Democracy. From Sparta to Aristotle. Alexander the Great and World Monarchy The Empire of the Ptolemies. The Seleucid Empire. The Empire of the Antigonids. Notes
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 118 p. — (BAR International Series 3106). Scopo di questo libro è presentare uno studio dell’area della Bitinia dall’ età arcaica al periodo ellenistico. Si è deciso di dividere l’esposizione in due parti, divise cronologicamente dalla spedizione di Alessandro Magno in Asia e dalla successiva fondazione del regno ellenistico di Bitinia. Nella prima si...
Basic Books, 2001. — 255 p. Timeless business wisdom from the brilliant strategists of ancient Greece and Rome. Ancient Greece, the culture that brought us democracy, philosophy, comedy and tragedy, and the Olympic Games, and ancient Rome, best known for its military prowess, technological achievements, and imperial administration, are justly renowned for their contributions to...
Routledge, 2023. — 750 p. Citizenship in Antiquity brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and regions – from the Ancient Near...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 164 p. The business of politics - the vital process of conducting government through the dynamics of argument, conflict and decision-making - offers us one of the most revealing areas of insight into any society. Sir Moses Finley's exploration of politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome yields insights into the arenas of...
Classical Press of Wales, 2015. — 400 p. The words 'aristocrats', 'aristocracy' and 'aristocratic values' appear in many a study of ancient history and culture. Sometimes these terms are used with a precise meaning. More often they are casual shorthand for 'upper class', 'ruling elite' and 'high standards'. This book brings together 12 new studies by an impressive international...
Classical Press of Wales, 2015. — 400 p. The words 'aristocrats', 'aristocracy' and 'aristocratic values' appear in many a study of ancient history and culture. Sometimes these terms are used with a precise meaning. More often they are casual shorthand for 'upper class', 'ruling elite' and 'high standards'. This book brings together 12 new studies by an impressive international...
Classical Press of Wales, 2010. — 302 p. Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this...
Brill Academic Pub, 2024. — xvi, 423 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements 481). How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people’s own ideas about...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 624 p. A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World offers in-depth coverage of the most important topics in the study of Greek and Roman urbanism. Bringing together contributions by an international panel of experts, this comprehensive resource addresses traditional topics in the study of ancient cities, including civic society, politics, and the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 624 p. A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World offers in-depth coverage of the most important topics in the study of Greek and Roman urbanism. Bringing together contributions by an international panel of experts, this comprehensive resource addresses traditional topics in the study of ancient cities, including civic society, politics, and the...
Routledge, 2019. — 362 p. The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300–700 CE). Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity changed the way that Christians and para- Christians...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 416 p. The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own...
Princeton University Press, 1993. — xviii + 205 p.; 10 plates, 1 map. In this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were...
Routledge, 1998. — 233 p. Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and iteration of that male self as presented in language,...
Routledge, 2011. — 232 p. First published 1998. Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and iteration of that male self as...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 202 p. This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped people’s lives and experiences across the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. Exploring how gender was linked with other socio-political characteristics such as wealth, status, age and life stage, as well as with individual choices, in the very different world of classical...
Brill, Year: 2016. — 224 p. — (National Cultivation of Culture 13). The book aims rethinking the cultural history of Mediterranean nationalisms between 19th and 20th centuries by tracing their specific approach to antiquity in the forging of a national past. By focusing on how national imaginaries dealt with this topic and how history and archaeology relied on antiquity, this...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 225 p. Change and Transition on Crete: Interpreting the Evidence from the Hellenistic through to the Early Byzantine Period is presented in honour of G.W.M. Harrison, whose academic contributions have enriched our perspective of Roman Crete and has inspired others to take on the challenge of this subject area. The study of Hellenistic and Roman Crete is,...
John Wiley & Sons , 2014. — 464 p. Antiquity: Greeks and Romans in Context provides a chronological introduction to the history of ancient Mediterranean civilizations within the larger context of its contemporary Eurasian world. Innovative approach organizes Greek and Roman history into a single chronology Combines the traditional historical story with subjects that are central...
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1891. — 668 p. Characteristics on Sicilian History. The Island and Its Earliest Inhabitants. Physical Characteristics of Sicily. The Earliest Inhabitants of Sicily. The Sikans. The Sikels. The Elymians. The Phoenician Settlements in Sicily. The Old-Phoenician Colonies in Sicily. The Establishment of the Carthaginian Power in Sicily. B.C. c. 540....
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1891. — 620 p.
The First Age of the Sicilian Greeks. B.C. 735—480.
The Affairs of Syracuse to the Beginning of the Deinomenid Dynasty. B.C. 734—495.
The First Age of the Tyrants. B.C. 608—505.
The Beginnings of the Deinomenid Dynasty. B.C. 505—480.
The Emmenid Dynasty at Acragas. B.C. 488—472.
Early Poetry and Philosophy in Sicily.
The...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892. — 814 p.
The Wars of Syracuse and Athens. B.C. 433—407.
The Early Athenian Interventions in Sicily. B.C. 433—422.
The Preparations for the Great Athenian Expedition. B.C. 416—415.
The Beginning of the War in Sicily. B.C. 415—414.
The Athenian Siege of Syracuse. B.C. 414.
The Defence of Syracuse by Gylippos. B.C. 414—413.
The War by Sea and...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894. — 602 p. The untimely death of Mr. Freeman at Alicante on March 16, 1892, left his great work on Sicilian History still unfinished. Considerable fragments, however, of its continuation remained in manuscript, sufficient when put together to fill more than one volume. Of these a fairly consecutive part extends from the beginning of the tyranny of...
BAR Publishing, 1986. — 420 p. — (BAR International Series 297.1/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 8). T. Bauzou - Deux Milliares In klits de Vaballath en Jordaine du Norde A.D.H. Bivar - Bardes Skieros, the Buwayhids, and the Marwanids at Hisn Ziyad in the Light of an Unnoticed Arabic Inscription J. Bowsher - The Frontier Post of Medain Saleh D. Braund - The...
BAR Publishing, 1986. — 440 p. — (BAR International Series 297.2/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 8). D.L. Kennedy - 'Europaean' Soldiers and the Severan Siege of Hatra L.J.F. Keppie - Legions in the East from Augustus to Trajan A.C. Killick - Udruh and the Southern Frontier J. Lander - Did Hadrian Abandon Arabia? A.D.H. Lee - Embassies as Evidence for the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. — 290 p. — (Historia - Einzelschriften 189). Die in diesem Sammelband vereinigten Beiträge sind das Ergebnis eines internationalen Kolloquiums, das die Bedeutung und Funktion überregionaler Heiligtümer vorrangig in der griechischen Antike thematisierte. Neben den verschiedenen politischen Kontexten, in denen sich die Überregionalität griechischer...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 235 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 389; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 389). Through intensive surveys of three fortifications in late Roman Greece, Frey reveals the untapped potential of spolia in demonstrating the critical role played by non-elites in bringing about the architectural and social changes...
Imperium Press, 2020. — 416 p. Originally published in 1864 as La Cité Antique, this remarkable work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of Pericles and in Rome at the time of Cicero. Working with only a fraction of the materials available to today's classical scholar, Fustel de Coulanges fashioned a complete picture of life in the ancient city, resulting...
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...
Aarhus University Press, 2007. — 384 p. This volume addresses a wide range of issues concerning the economic exchanges that took place within the Black Sea region and between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean from about 600 BCE to 200 CE. Seeking to shed light on several central aspects of the economic relationship that existed between these two eminently important regions in...
L'Erma Di Bretschneider, 2021. — 196 p. The series Ancient Cities presents its second volume which contains the proceedings of the conference: Amministrazione, vita politica, cultura e societa della citta antica , held at Potenza on June 2018. The papers brings in-depth investigation of some relevant problems of the Greco-Roman cities from the archaic age to the late imperial...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 230 p. Crisis y muerte en la Antigüedad, desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar e internacional, analiza los periodos de crisis en el Mundo Antiguo desde un punto de vista histórico y arqueológico. Para ello, los distintos autores han prestado atención a los periodos de crisis sanitaria y medioambiental, así como a las persecuciones y situaciones de...
Mohr Siebeck, 2008. — 484 p. Leading scholars in early Christianity, Judaic studies, classics, ancient history and archaeology explore the ways that memories were retrieved, reconstituted and put to use by Jews, Christians and their pagan neighbours in late antiquity, from the third century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E.
The Teaching Company, 2008. — 79 p. Integrated approaches to teaching Greek and Roman history are a rarity in academia. Most scholars are historians of either Greek or Roman history and perform research solely in that specific field, an approach that author and award-winning Professor Robert Garland considers questionable. In these 36 passionate lectures, he provides an impressive...
Course Guidebook. — Chantilly: The Teaching Company, 2012. — 371 p. Most courses on history are about generals, politicians, and other prominent individuals who are believed to have shaped history in significant ways. But people who are anonymous and whose lives are usually ignored in traditional historical accounts are no less important in influencing the flow of events, not...
Cambridge University Press, 1978. — 401 p. The economics of imperialism, its political background and institutional frameworks, the material benefits it conferred, the ideologies of ruler and ruled - these are some of the more important aspects of imperialism discussed in this volume. In presenting the evidence for ancient imperialism and suggesting concepts and methods of...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 355 p. This is a collection of essays in the social and economic history of Greece and Rome by a leading historian of classical antiquity. They are grouped in three overlapping sections, covering the economy and society of cities; peasants and the rural economy; and food supply and famine. The essays, all previously published, are presented...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 324 p. The first full-length study of famine in antiquity. The study provides detailed case studies of Athens and Rome, the best known states of antiquity, but also illuminates the institutional response to food crisis in the mass of ordinary cities in the Mediterranean world. Ancient historians have generally shown little interest in...
Elsevier North-Holland, 1978. — 343 p. Greco-Roman paganism is an umbrella term for the traditional polytheistic religions of the Mediterranean, referring mainly to those of Greece and Rome. The principle gods of the religions are many, as Rome adopted and combined religions across Europe, and some times vary by culture. However, the Roman interpretation had Jupiter (Iapiter,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. — 177 p. — (Historia: Einzelschriften 229). While Jewish Palestine has been at the focus of scholarly interest, Greek Palestine has not yet received similar attention. This book attempts to investigate the intellectual life in that country in the Hellenistic world and in the Roman Empire. The two perspectives taken are a full prosopographical survey...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1997. — 252 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 162). This study analyzes the anonymous Tractatus de Mulieribus, a brief, virtually unknown Greek work, telling of fourteen outstanding women, Greek and barbarian, notable for their intelligence, initiative and courage. The first part of the book is a comprehensive introduction to the treatise and includes - in...
Walter de Gruyter, 2013. — 418 p. Versteht man "Vermessung" in seinen diversen Facetten, so meint sie nicht nur die geodätische Erschließung des physischen Raumes, sondern vor allem die verschiedenen Formen von politischer, wirtschaftlicher, sozialer und auch mentaler Aneignung von Räumen. Die Erkenntnis, dass auch der Raum eine kulturelle Größe bzw. ein kulturelles Paradigma...
Harvard University Press, 2007. — 204 p. As Greek and Trojan forces battled in the shadow of Troy's wall, Hephaistos created a wondrous, ornately decorated shield for Achilles. At the Shield's center lay two walled cities, one at war and one at peace, surrounded by fields and pasture lands. Viewed as Homer's blueprint for an ideal, or utopian, social order, the Shield reveals...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 186 p. — (Colegium Beatus Rhenanus 5). Was ist eine Krise? Ist jede Veränderung gleich als Krise zu werten oder macht erst die Wertung der Akteure aus der Veränderung eine Krise? Auf jeden Fall sind in solchen Situationen Führung und Orientierung gefragt. Krisen bieten den bestehenden Eliten Chancen zur Bewährung, stellen aber auch eine Gefahr für...
University of Texas Press, 1993. — 279 p. These six new essays explore the understanding of the boundary between fact and fiction in Ancient Greece and Rome and the connections between ancient and modern thinking on this topic. Contributors include: E L Bowie (Lies, fiction and slander in early Greek poetry); C Gill (Plato on falsehood); J L Moles (Truth and untruth in Herodotus...
BAR Publishing, 1987. — 180 p. — (BAR International Series 325). During the Roman and Byzantine periods Gaza became one of the largest and most prosperous cities of Palestine. Yet it played little part in the disturbances that troubled the province and its history was uneventful. Its magnificant buildings have disappeared and, because its site has been occupied continuously...
University of North Carolina Press, 1987. — 281 p. Focusing on literary evidence, Gold explores patronage in Greece and Rome through the words of the authors, revealing the forces that patronage exerted on genius and talent. The author argues that, although the patron was in important influence in the development of the literature written for and about him, the literary product...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 304 p. This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from otherpeoples in the Mediterranean region, and how...
Brill, 2002. — 414 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 234). This Festschrift includes a range of essays, mirroring the diverse abilities of the honoree, A. J. Graham, in ancient Greek and Roman constitutional history, military history, and colonization. The articles feature discussions of individual problems in politics, epigraphy, historiography, numismatics, and archaeology,...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — 255 p. Pamphylia, in modern Turkey, was a Greek country from the early Iron Age until the Middle Ages. In that land there were nine cities which can be described more or less as Greek, and this book is an investigation of their history. This was a land at the margins of other great empires - Hellenistic, Roman, Arab and Byzantine - and is still off the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 254 p. In ancient times, the series of waterways now known as the Turkish Straits, comprising the Dardanelles (or Hellespont), Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus, formed both a divide and a bridge between Europe and Asia. Its western and eastern entrances were guarded, at different times, by two of the most fabled cities of all time: respectively...
Routledge, 2021. — 314 p. The Story of Garum recounts the convoluted journey of that notorious Roman fish sauce, known as garum , from a smelly Greek fish paste to an expensive luxury at the heart of Roman cuisine and back to obscurity as the Roman empire declines. This book is a unique attempt to meld the very disparate disciplines of ancient history, classical literature,...
Routledge, 2021. — 314 p. The Story of Garum recounts the convoluted journey of that notorious Roman fish sauce, known as garum, from a smelly Greek fish paste to an expensive luxury at the heart of Roman cuisine and back to obscurity as the Roman empire declines. This book is a unique attempt to meld the very disparate disciplines of ancient history, classical literature,...
Routledge, 2005. — 181 p. It is today widely accepted that we do not get the whole truth from any historian. Greek and Roman Historians considers the work of ancient historians such as Herotudus, Tacitus and Thucydides in the the light of this attitude. In an enlightening new study, Michael Grant argues that misinformation, even deliberate disinformation, is abundant in their...
New York: History Book Club, 1997 (special Book Club reprint). — xviii + 317 p. At the height of their achievement, between the eighth and fifth centuries B.C., the Etruscans of west-central Italy, enjoyed a civilization comparable to that of the Greeks or the Romans. But despite the Etruscans’ ready absorption of these cultures and more eastern influences, they attained a true...
Ashgate, 2015. — 341 p. Shifting Genres in Late Antiquity examines the transformations that took place in a wide range of genres, both literary and non-literary, in this dynamic period. The Christianisation of the Roman empire and the successor kingdoms had a profound impact on the evolution of Greek and Roman literature, and many aspects of this are discussed in this volume -...
University Press of Florida, 2018. — 230 p. This volume introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM), a visual tool for studying the exchanges that take place between different cultures in borderland areas or across long distances. The model helps researchers untangle complex webs of connections among people, landscapes, and artifacts, and can be used to support...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2012. — 256 p. New York Times best-selling author Leland Gregory is one of Andrews McMeel Publishing’s most successful non-cartoon humorists. Silly, shocking, weird, hilariously funny—and outrageously true—the short anecdotes inside his anthologies of human stupidity are culled from print, online, and broadcast media from all over the world. Inside...
Legacy Books Press, 1997. — 234 p. Ancient Greece and Rome aren't usually remembered for their sense of humour. However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often refused to take themselves seriously. R. Drew Griffith and Robert B. Marks take you on a lively and funny journey through the more bizarre activities of the ancient world ranging everywhere from moochers to...
Walter de Gruyter, 2020. — xi + 265 p. This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. It approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 210 p. This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. It approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 210 p. This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. It approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than...
London: Routledge, 1997. — 299 p. The present volume is of special interest, because it deals with one of the most troubled periods of human history, but one which was, nevertheless, the most rich with promise. In the volumes dealing with the Hellenistic and the Roman world, we have seen on the one hand, the tendency to large-scale political combinations and universal empire, and...
Harvard University Press, 1975. — 176 S. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Book 3). This monograph written in German includes all the epigraphical material in epichoric scripts discovered at Sardis in recent years. Fifty-four documents are examined: 28 in Lydian, 9 in Carian script, 16 of difficult classification, and one large fragmentary inscription written...
Longanesi, 1989. — 179 p. — (Biblioteca di archeologia). La documentazione storiografica antica sui Brettii è tutta opera dei loro antagonisti, così che un'analisi di questo popolo dovrà essere costruita partendo dal presupposto che l'informazione antica è viziata di partigianeria. Dal canto suo, la documentazione archeologica si riferisce a indagini sui Brettii avviate...
Brill, 2010. — 592 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology 6). This new volume in the well-established Late Antique Archaeology series draws together recent research by archaeologists and historians to shed new light on the religious world of Late Antiquity. A detailed bibliographic essay provides an overview of relevant literature, while individual articles explore the diversity of...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. — 520 p. Second only to Rome in the ancient world, Alexandria was home to many of late antiquity's most brilliant writers, philosophers, and theologians - among them Philo, Origen, Arius, Athanasius, Hypatia, Cyril, and John Philoponus. Now, in Alexandria in Late Antiquity , Christopher Haas offers the first book to place these figures...
University of California Press, 2000. — 288 p. The two centuries between 250 and 450 C.E. witnessed the creation of a distinctive Christian Greek culture in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This book focuses on the transition from ancient to Christian Hellenism as it was expressed in the biographical and panegyric literature of the period. The essays show how literary...
Routledge, 2016. — 725 p. The ancient history of Greece holds a great deal of interest to many, particularly to those whose culture and religion grew from early Greek civilisation. Originally published in 1913, Hall provides a thorough history of the origins of Ancient Greek civilisation as well as commenting on Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Babylon amongst others. This title...
Batoche Books, 2001. — 194 p. Geographical Influences. The Migrations of Peoples. Geographical Influences: The Greeks and the Sea. Geographical Influences: The Western Mediterranean. The Growth of the City State. The Early Constitutional Development of Athens. The Early Constitutional Development of Rome. The Land Question. Pheidippides. Social Conditions in Athens in the Fifth...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 278 p. In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013. — XII, 219 S. — (Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei – Beihefte 3.3.2). Vergleicht man die Regelungen des Zwölftafelgesetzes mit den späteren Gesetzen so lässt sich auf den ersten Blick eine zunehmende Verschlechterung der Sklavenstellung feststellen: Der Sklave scheint in den Augen des römischen Gesetzgebers vom Mitglied des Hausverbands zu einem...
T&T Clark, 2020. — 256 p. Philip A. Harland and Richard Last consider the economics of early Christian group life within its social, cultural and economic contexts, by drawing on extensive epigraphic and archaeological evidence. In exploring the informal associations, immigrant groups, and guilds that dotted the world of the early Christians, Harland and Last provide fresh...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 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...
Brill, 2016. — 319 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 42). In Popular Medicine in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Explorations an international group of scholars aims to give a fresh start to the study of the wide range of practices that people in Antiquity actually engaged in when they were faced with ill health.
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 332 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 39). Scientists, historians and archaeologists are at last beginning to collaborate seriously on studies of the long-term history of the environment. The fruit of an international conference held in Rome in 2011, The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History brings...
Harvard University Press, 2004. — 481 p. The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century a.d., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans. Drawing on a wide range of...
Brill, 2021. — 356 p. — (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 46). The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was, among other achievements, one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute W. V. Harris and Anne Hunnell Chen have brought together fourteen contributions that cover a broad range of historical,...
NYU Press, 2013. — 209 p. Aksum and Nubia assembles and analyzes the textual and archaeological evidence of interaction between Nubia and the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum, focusing primarily on the fourth century CE. Although ancient Nubia and Ethiopia have been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent years, little attention has been given to contact between these...
Routledge, 1995. — 292 p. The study of women in Antiquity has been flourishing for the last twenty years. This survey brings together some of the most influential scholars, e.g Mary Beard, Ken Dowden & Sarah Pomeroy who evaluate the main developments & discuss women's roles in religious ritual & mythology, their representation in medical writings and satire and their roles in...
Brill, 2022. — 320 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 5). Brill's Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean is the first scholarly volume solely dedicated to understanding bodyguards of the ancient Mediterranean world. From the Pharaohs of Egypt through to the emperors of the Early Byzantine Empire, this volume...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 370 p. The Imperium Romanum was marked by a diverse and differentiated history of reciprocal interaction with the church and theology. The study examines this ever-changing relationship, encompassing a broad time span from the first to the sixth century. The essays include both the Eastern and Western parts of the Imperium and its successor states, and...
Franz Steiner, 2006. — XXVIII, 553 S. — (Historia – Einzelschriften 191). Anlässlich des 65. Geburtstages von Heinz Heinen bietet der Band eine repräsentative Auswahl seiner Kleinen Schriften, die das Spektrum seiner Forschungen veranschaulichen. Neben grundlegenden Beiträgen zum griechisch-römischen Ägypten und zur Geschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes finden sich auch wichtige...
New York: Charles Scribner, 1851. — 364 p. Несмотря на свой почтенный возраст, эта книга, написанная американским автором более 160 лет назад, до сих пор читается с большим интересом и вниманием. Автор подробно и увлекательно рассказывает о наиболее выдающихся (с его точки зрения) полководцах европейского Античного Мира: Мильтиаде, Фемистокле, Павсании, Эпаминонде, Александре...
Ashgate, 2005. — 376 p. Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts...
Routledge, 2005. — 398 p. Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts...
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...
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...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 485 p. Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity , edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity , edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 496 p. Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity , edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late...
Routledge, 2006. — 280 p. The first study to bring together such a breadth of data, this book compares responses to colonization in the Iron-Age Mediterranean. From North Syria to Sicily and North Africa, Tamar Hodos explores the responses to these colonies in areas where Greeks and Phoenicians were in competition with one another via the same local communities. Highlighting...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 240 S. Wie gingen antike Gesellschaften mit Regelbrüchen und Normkonflikten um? Führten diese Brüche und Konflikte in den jeweiligen Gemeinschaften zu einer Transformation bestehender Werte und Prinzipien oder zu deren Affirmation? Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes gehen diesen Fragen nach und nehmen dabei auch die jeweiligen Akteure in den...
Routledge, 2019. — 172 p. Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange, but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities, lands, and their peoples. The papers presented in this volume examine aspects of this extramercantile economy, particularly...
Routledge, 2019. — 172 p. Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange, but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities, lands, and their peoples. The papers presented in this volume examine aspects of this extramercantile economy, particularly...
De Boccard, 1921. — 386 p. C'était une opinion très ancienne et très répandue que, bien avant la fin de la seconde guerre punique, le Sénat romain avait manifesté son besoin de domination hors de l'Italie et préludé, systématiquement, par des entreprises ambitieuses, à la conquête du monde. Or, quand on interroge de près les textes (mais il faul les interroger de très près et...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 226 p. Through a series of case studies this book demonstrates the wide-ranging impact of demographic dynamics on social, economic and political structures in the Graeco-Roman world. The individual case studies focus on fertility, mortality and migration and the roles they played in various aspects of ancient life. These studies - drawn from...
Под ред. А.В. Белоусова и Е.В. Илюшечкиной. — М.: Университет Дмитрия Пожарского, 2020. — 760 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91244-265-0. Предлагаемый вниманию читателей сборник подготовлен к 70-летию филолога-классика, доктора исторических наук, профессора МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова, Александра Васильевича Подосинова. В сборник вошли статьи российских и зарубежных ученых по широкому кругу...
De Gruyter, 2005. — 236 p. Die in der Antike häufig bezeugten Wächter (griechisch Phylakes) lassen sich als Vorläufer moderner Polizeibeamter ansehen, und damals wie heute sind Wachdienste eine Grundform polizeilichen Tätigwerdens. Zu allen Zeiten bedurften gefährdete Personen, Gebäude oder Grundstücke sowie wertvolle Güter oder Gelder der Bewachung, die durch verschiedenste...
Routledge, 2000. — 208 p. This innovative volume draws on recent research in archaeology, ancient history and the history of medicine to discuss how people in the ancient world understood and dealt with illness and death in the urban environment. Dr Valerie M. Hope is Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University. Her main research interest is Roman social...
Classical Press of Wales, 2009. — 278 p. The Mafia of early Greece: violence exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries BC / Hans van Wees. 'Workshops of villains': was there much organised crime in classical Athens? / Nick Fisher. Condottieri and clansmen: early Italian raiding, warfare and the state / Louis Rawlings. The revolt of the Boukoloi: geography, history and...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 912 p. What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? Why (according to ancient authors) was Oedipus ('with swollen foot') so called? For over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. — 241 p. — (Classica et Orientalia 21). Nach allgemeiner Auffassung verharren die nahostlichen Gesellschaften seit Jahrtausenden in despotischen Strukturen. Ganz anders scheint die Geschichte im Westen verlaufen zu sein, wo in Athen bereits im 5. Jahrhundert v.Chr. der ersten Demokratie der Weltgeschichte und der Entstehung der europaischen...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 387 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies 1; Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 1). In Brill’s Companion to Insurgency and Terrorism in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Tim Howe and Lee Brice challenge the view that these forms of conflict are specifically modern phenomena by offering an...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 304 p. In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 304 p. In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from...
Walter de Gruyter, 1998. — 326 p. — (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte 50). Attempts to reconstruct the reasons why the Romans and the Carthaginians engaged in long and damaging wars with each other despite prosperous periods of alliance. Relying on ancient sources such as the accounts of Polybius, Livy, and Diodorous, the author discusses the period from the...
Counter Punch Books, 2023. — 512 p. The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to Michael's "...and forgive them their debts, " is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of interest-bearing debt led to the rise of rentier oligarchies in classical Greece and Rome, causing economic polarization, widespread austerity, revolts,...
Counter Punch Books, 2023. — 512 p. The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to Michael's "and forgive them their debts, is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of interest-bearing debt led to the rise of rentier oligarchies in classical Greece and Rome, causing economic polarization, widespread austerity, revolts, wars...
Counter Punch Books, 2023. — 512 p. The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to Michael's "...and forgive them their debts, " is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of interest-bearing debt led to the rise of rentier oligarchies in classical Greece and Rome, causing economic polarization, widespread austerity, revolts,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 368 p. This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines. Sabine R. Huebner is professor of ancient...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 368 p. This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines. Sabine R. Huebner is professor of ancient...
Second edition. — Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 320 p. : 44 illus. — (Ancient Society and History Series). In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their...
2nd edition. — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Ancient Society and History Series). In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their exploitation of the natural...
Brill, 2019. — 120 p. — (Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History). This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.
Brill, 2019. — 118 p. — (Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History). The last half century has seen an explosion in the study of late antiquity, which has characterised the period between the third and seventh centuries not as one of catastrophic collapse and ‘decline and fall’, but rather as one of dynamic and positive transformation. Yet research on cities in this period...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. — 264 p. This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad - ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the process of enslavement to the decline of slavery after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The book uses a...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 264 p. This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad - ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the process of enslavement to the decline of slavery after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The book uses a wide...
Журнал по истории античной педагогической культуры. — В.К. Пичугина (Ред.) — М.: Аквилон. — 200 с. Этот выпуск журнала продолжает серию ежегодных тематически подобранных материалов по истории античной педагогической культуры. Как и предыдущий, он объединяет научные статьи, которые позволяют представить читателю широкий спектр мнений, принадлежащих представителям различных...
Gondrom, 1985. — 697 S. Allenthalben in der Welt ist in unserer Gegenwart das Interesse am griechisch-römischen Altertum, an seiner Geschichte, seiner Kunst, seiner Kultur und Literatur, seiner Wissenschaft und Technik gewachsen, und Menschen aus den verschiedensten Berufen richten ihre Fragen an die Vergangenheit. Solche Fragen zu beantworten, hat sich das vorliegende Lexikon...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 288 p. Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploring how globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influenced micro identities throughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volume discusses where contact and the sharing...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 288 p. Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploring how globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influenced micro identities throughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volume discusses where contact and the sharing...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 368 p. Benjamin Isaac is one of the most distinguished historians of the ancient world, with a number of landmark monographs to his name. This volume collects most of his published articles and book chapters of the last two decades, many of which are not easy to access, and republishes them for the first time along with some brand new chapters....
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 592 p. There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural", but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of...
Brill, 2019. — xviii + 387 p. Environment and Society in the Long Late Antiquity brings together scientific, archaeological and historical evidence on the interplay of social change and environmental phenomena at the end of Antiquity and the dawn of the Middle Ages, covering the period ca. 300-800 AD. It gives a new impetus to the study of the environmental history of this...
Penn State University Press, 2002. — 190 p. In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Depending on one’s point of view, however, such rituals could be labeled negatively as magic" or positively as "theurgy." This has led to numerous problems of interpretation, including...
IVP Academic, 1999. — 352 p. What was life like for first-century Christians? Imagine a modest-sized Roman home of a well-to-do Christian household wedged into a thickly settled quarter of Corinth. In the lingering light of a summer evening, men, women and children, merchants, working poor and slaves, a mix of races and backgrounds have assembled in the dimly lit main room are...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2018. — 312 p. What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari? Did they share the modern Western conception - popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games - of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of civilization? Or our related notion of "the noble savage"? Was the category fixed or...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2018. — 312 p. What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari? Did they share the modern Western conception - popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games - of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of civilization? Or our related notion of "the noble savage"? Was the category fixed or...
Taylor and Francis, 2005. — 273 p. This Sourcebook contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity.The detailed introduction provides full social and historical context for the sources, and guides students on how to use the material most effectively. Themes such as...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 1296 p. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 1296 p. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early...
Orion Publishing, 2008. — 265 p. We begin in the cities of Rome and London, each with seemingly intractable problems of congestion. Juvenal tells us about the crowds in front, crowds behind, elbows poking us in the ribs, a soldier’s boot stomping on toes. Rome had one million people crammed into seven square miles—but without a transport system or “commuters,” this seething...
Brill, 2002. — 384 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 233). What was funny about ancient jokes, and why? Why did the Roman state legislate to curb the behaviour of its obscenely rich and powerful elite, if it never really expected such laws to be obeyed? Why did it oppress the poor, and lavish public child support on them? These are important questions, but ancient Greeks and Romans...
Routledge, 2009. — 292 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...
Mohr Siebeck, 2010. — 365 p. E.A. Judge's third collection of essays moves on from Rome and the New Testament to the interaction of the classical and biblical traditions, to the cultural transformation of late antiquity, and to the contested heritage of Athens and Jerusalem in the modern West. A lifelong interest in Rome bridges this range. Christianity emerges as essentially a...
Doubleday, 1995. — 620 p. War has been a fact of life for centuries. By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous World Wars of the twentieth century, renowned historian Donald Kagan reveals new and surprising insights into the nature of war and peace. Vivid,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 576 p. A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 576 p. A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 576 p. A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 334 p. — (Yale Classical Studies 38). This volume advances our understanding of the religion, society and culture of Dura-Europos, the small town on the Euphrates known since the 1930s as the 'Pompeii of the Syrian desert'. Several features make the site potentially our best source for day-to-day life in a small town situated on the periphery...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. — 305 p. — (Oriens et Occidens 4). The Roman city of Palmyra had an outward appearance that was conventionally hellenised, but many aspects of social and religious life were influenced by a number of different cultures and both Greek and local Aramaic languages coexisted. This study which is a revised version of Kaizer's doctoral thesis, studies the...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. — 343 p. Slavery and sexuality in the ancient world are well researched on their own, yet rarely have they been examined together. This volume is the first to explore the range of roles that sex played in the lives of enslaved people in antiquity beyond prostitution, bringing together scholars of both Greece and Rome to consider important...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. — 336 p. Slavery and sexuality in the ancient world are well researched on their own, yet rarely have they been examined together. This volume is the first to explore the range of roles that sex played in the lives of enslaved people in antiquity beyond prostitution, bringing together scholars of both Greece and Rome to consider important...
Routledge, 2015. — 348 p. Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut, painted, inked or traced in charcoal, the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the ancient world unavailable from other...
Punctum Books, 2020. — 442 p. This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late “Roman” and post-“Roman” cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 533 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 375; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 375). A unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity, a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary...
Berlin · New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003. 813 S. Das „Lexikon der antiken Gestalten in den deutschen Texten des Mittelalters" will erstmals einen systematischen Überblick über die in der mittelalterlichen deutschen Literatur von ca. 1050 bis 1350 genannten mythologischen und historischen Gestalten der griechisch-römischen Antike bieten.
Routledge, 1997. — 352 p. Prayer From Alexander To Constantine presents a diverse selection of prayer chosen by over 40 different historians, all specialists in their respective areas of Graeco-Roman literature. This collaboration gives the book a range and depth that no individual author could hope to rival. Each selection includes an introductory essay, followed by a new...
Brill, 2023. — 415 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 19). This book brings together for the first time the full range of Lycian epigraphic evidence, examines it in a systematic way, and investigates three central elements of familial life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: marriage, children, and inheritance practices; in doing so it briefly touches on a...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 647 p. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen 177). Der wissenschaftliche Direktor der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts feiert am 21. Januar 2024 seinen 65. Geburtstag. Aus diesem Anlass erscheint Ende Januar eine Festschrift, mit der das breit gefächerte wissenschaftliche Œuvre...
Routledge, 2021. — 135 p. Rome and China provides an updated history and analysis of contacts and mutual influence between two of ancient Eurasia's most prominent imperial powers, Rome and China. It highlights the extraordinary interconnectivity of ancient Eurasia which allowed for actual contacts between Rome and China (however fleeting) and will examine in detail the...
Routledge, 2021. — 134 p. Rome and China provides an updated history and analysis of contacts and mutual influence between two of ancient Eurasia’s most prominent imperial powers, Rome and China. It highlights the extraordinary interconnectivity of ancient Eurasia which allowed for actual contacts between Rome and China (however fleeting) and examines in detail the influences...
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 336 p. A collection of essays in honour of Raymond Van Dam upon the occasion of his retirement, with contributions from former students, colleagues, and friends. Together, they explore the dynamic, complex relationship between leadership and community in Late Antiquity. Throughout a distinguished career, Raymond Van Dam has contributed significantly...
Brepols Publishers, 2020. — 336 p. — (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 26). A collection of essays in honour of Raymond Van Dam upon the occasion of his retirement, with contributions from former students, colleagues, and friends. Together, they explore the dynamic, complex relationship between leadership and community in Late Antiquity. Throughout a...
Routledge, 2017. — 308 p. The first English-language monograph on ancient Macedonia in almost thirty years, Carol J. King's book provides a detailed narrative account of the rise and fall of Macedonian power in the Balkan Peninsula and the Aegean region during the five-hundred-year period of the Macedonian monarchy from the seventh to the second century BCE. King draws largely...
Oxbow Books, 2001. — 184 p. The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire. The eight papers in this volume demonstrate this complexity and prosperity, examining several types of product and how the economy evolved over time. New...
Oxbow Books, 2001. — 185 p. The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire. The eight papers in this volume demonstrate this complexity and prosperity, examining several types of product and how the economy evolved over time....
Brill, 1991. — 420 p. — (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology). If we observe our modern, industrialized, society, the existence of a separate group of adolescents seems undisputed. Adolescents are, in our opinion, young people roughly between 12 and 20 years old, who have left childhood behind, but who have not yet entered the stage of adulthood. Social contacts...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 512 s. Based on studies of attic democracy, the phenomenon of Caesarean insanity or the reflections of Max Weber on ancient capitalism, the volume assembles different contributions to the history of science and reception of the ancient world that demonstrate the lasting relevance of antiquity. Hans Kloft lehrte als Professor für Alte Geschichte an der...
Leiden: Brill, 2018. — 302 p. — (Mnemosyne. Supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature 413). — ISBN-13 978-90-0436581-0 ; ISBN-10 9004365818. Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond focuses on the important question of how and why later authors employ the Homeric epics to reflect on various types and aspects of political leadership. In a range...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 280 p. Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 772 p. The third in a series of volumes presenting a representative selection of Greek and Latin texts bearing on ancient private associations. Each text is furnished with an English translation, epigraphical or papryological notes, commentary. Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation, ethnic identity, neighborhood or family were among...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 772 p. The third in a series of volumes presenting a representative selection of Greek and Latin texts bearing on ancient private associations. Each text is furnished with an English translation, epigraphical or papryological notes, commentary. Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation, ethnic identity, neighborhood or family were among...
Routledge, 1996. — 352 p. Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a 'voluntary association'. Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays show how the various associations were constituted, the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 392 p. This book discusses the extent to which Thomas Piketty’s work can offer a model for ancient economic history, both methodologically and politically. The book derives from a research workshop in Berlin in April 2018, which brought together a group of established and early career scholars to discuss the implications of Piketty’s work and related...
Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 2024. — 416 p. An esteemed historian explores the natural and social dynamics of the ancient coastline, demonstrating for the first time its integral place in the world of Mediterranean antiquity. As we learn from The Odyssey and the Argonauts , Greek dramas frequently played out on a watery stage. In particular, antiquity’s key events...
USA: Oxford University Press, 2010. — 344 p. In her latest book, Ross Shepard Kraemer shows how her mind has changed or remained the same since the publication of her ground-breaking study, Her Share of the Blessings: Women's Religions Among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World (OUP 1992). Unreliable Witnesses scrutinizes more closely how ancient constructions...
Routledge, 2023. — 277 p. This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West. Contributions cover the Phocaean settlement at Emporion and its relationship with the indigenous hinterland, the government of the Greek communities, Greek...
Routledge, 2023. — 277 p. This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West. Contributions cover the Phocaean settlement at Emporion and its relationship with the indigenous hinterland, the government of the Greek communities, Greek...
Brepols, 2016. — 368 p. — (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 20). When did Late Antiquity actually end? Peter Brown, who has done so much to define the field, once replied: 'always later than you think'. This book takes stock of this insight and, in continual conversation with Peter Brown's work, applies it to ever wider social and geopolitical horizons....
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 517 p. This book is an archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom (modern South East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) in the important transitional period between the downfall of the Seleucid empire and Rome's establishment of...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 342 p. Social status and the prestige associated with it played a crucial role in Graeco-Roman society, constituting the basis for social stratification and shaping a complex web of social, political, economic and cultural relations. The sixteen papers assembled in this volume take a fresh look at the study of social status and prestige in...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 342 p. Social status and the prestige associated with it played a crucial role in Graeco-Roman society, constituting the basis for social stratification and shaping a complex web of social, political, economic and cultural relations. The sixteen papers assembled in this volume take a fresh look at the study of social status and prestige in...
Routledge, 2014. — 174 p. Today's politicians argue that the more 'connected' societies are the less danger they pose to global stability. But is this a 'new' idea or one as old as history itself? Trade routes as far back as prehistory were responsible for the exchange of ideas as well as goods, leading to the rapid expansion of states and empires. 'Connectivity in Antiquity'...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 372 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, 2022. — 240 p. More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree. Yet it was the sea's capacity for movement – both literally and figuratively through such emotions as fear, hope and pity – that formed one of the primary means of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 240 p. More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree. Yet it was the sea's capacity for movement – both literally and figuratively through such emotions as fear, hope and pity – that formed one of the primary means of...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011. — 642 p. — (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies). — ISBN: 978-90-04-20650-2. Publisher Synopsis: "This is a superb and hard-hitting volume that brings together the very best archaeologists and historians of ancient Macedonia — packed with exciting new material, handsomely illustrated, as well as strong arguments and important new perspectives."...
Basic Books, 2008. — 672 p. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome once dominated the world, and they continue to fascinate and inspire us. Classical art and architecture, drama and epic, philosophy and politics -- these are the foundations of Western civilization. In The Classical World, eminent classicist Robin Lane Fox brilliantly chronicles this vast sweep of...
Penguin Books, 2006. — 704 p. Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity,...
Penguin Books, 2005. — 704 p. Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics,...
University of California Press, 1955. — 255 p. Ancient Greece witnessed a wide variety of government systems as people searched for the answers to such fundamental questions as who should rule and how? Should sovereignty lie in the rule of law, the constitution, officials, or the citizens? Not settling on a definitive answer, governments in the Greek world took extraordinarily...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. — 216 p. The family has been recognised in the ancient world as the key social institution on which both society and the state are based. However, in the pre-Classical and Classical world the family was constructed in dissimilar ways and provides the means to explaining why the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, although sharing many cultural...
4th Edition — Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 496 p. This highly acclaimed collection, the first sourcebook on ancient women and now in its fourth edition, provides a unique look into the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social classes, from public figures remembered for their deeds (or misdeeds), to...
Scholars Press, 1991. — xvii + 260 p. Collection of essays on Jewish women in the Greco-Roman world, with a preface by Amy-Jill Levine. Understanding a Patriarchy: Women in Second Century Jerusalem Through the Eyes of Ben Sira / Claudia V. Camp Philo's Portrayal of Women — Hebraic or Hellenic? / Judith Romney Wegner The "Woman with the Soul of Abraham": Traditions about the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 282 p. Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures. This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together...
Brill, 2023. — 817 p. — (Impact of Empire 46). Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity collects together forty-three of Andrew Lintott’s most significant papers, delineating a society in which justice and law encompass a readiness to resort to violence ranging from legally-sanctioned forms of “self-help” to politically-legitimised tyrannicide. The legitimation of...
Raulwing Peter (ed.). — Brill, 2002. — xlvi, 722 p., 542 pls. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 6). This collection of papers is primarily concerned with transport by wheeled vehicle in antiquity. They shed much light on the construction of the vehicles, the ways their draught animals were harnessed and controlled, and the uses to which the equipages were put. The...
Brill, 2024. — 207 p. — (Ancient Languages and Civilizations 10). This book focuses on Kalabría as an ancient land of Italy from its origin to the early Middle Ages. The place name referred to the Salento peninsula, also called Messapia, as part of present-day Puglia and later to the land of the Bruttii, now the region of Calabria. This work is the first to carefully evaluate...
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Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 232 p. 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 to prevail, economic realities everywhere intervened. Corresponding...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2010. — 528 p. Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new "Germanic" kingdoms. In the...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2010. — 528 p. Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new "Germanic" kingdoms. In...
Routledge, 2024. — 355 p. This volume considers "lived space" as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic and cultural developments and putting centre stage this fundamental dimension of social life. Bringing together an international group of scholars working on...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 303 p. — (Impact of Empire 18). Roman Rule in Greek and Latin Writing explores the ways in which Greek and Latin writers from the late 1st to the 3rd century CE experienced and portrayed Roman cultural institutions and power. The central theme is the relationship between cultures as reflected in Greek and Latin authors’ responses to Roman...
Routledge, 2009. — 150 p. In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquity (Ancient Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and enhancing antiquity's relevance to the understanding of other historical periods as well as our contemporary world.
Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1922. — 209 p. — (Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire 48). Au vne et au vie siècle, les rapports de l'Egypte avec les peuples helléniques avaient été exclusivement des rapports commerciaux, et seuls les Grecs de l'Asie Mineure et des îles y avaient pris une part très active. Sous la...
Peeters, 2022. — 473 p. — (Colloquia Antiqua 36). This book examines the historical geography of the southern Black Sea littoral in the first millennium BC. Notwithstanding the remarkable development of research on the Black Sea in antiquity over the last few decades, the southern littoral remains an area several aspects of which have still not been thoroughly studied, while...
Macmillan Higher Education, 2018. — 228 p. In this accessible volume, Thomas R. Martin compares the writings of Herodotus in ancient Greece with those of Sima Qian in ancient China to demonstrate the hallmarks of early history writing. While these authors lived in different centuries and were not aware of each other's works, Martin shows the similar struggles that each grappled...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 101 p. — (Sitzungsberichte der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 48). Auf der Grundlage der Ausgrabungen von 1994 2008 auf dem Tafelberg nördlich von Perge skizziert Wolfram Martini die Entfaltung eines kleinen Gemeinwesens zum wichtigsten Siedlungsplatz in dem von Meer und Taurusgebirge...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xii + 689 p. A conflict that erupted between Roman legions and some Judaeans in late AD 66 had an incalculable impact on Rome's physical appearance and imperial governance; on ancient Jews bereft of their mother-city and temple; and on early Christian fortunes. Historical scholarship and cinema alike tend to see the conflict as the culmination...
École française de Rome, 1990. — 456 p. — (Collection de l'École française de Rome 137). Actes de la table ronde de Rome (19-21 novembre 1987) Città e territorio nell'Etruria meridionale La situazione archeologica dell'Etruria settentrionale La situazione in Etruria Padana Greci, Etruschi e italici nella Campania e nella Lucania tirrenica Roma arcaica ed i Latini nel V secolo...
Carocci, 2005. — 249 p. Il mare Sardum, il mare che porta in Sardegna, è analizzato in questo volume attraverso lo studio delle fonti letterarie, epigrafiche ed archeologiche. L'isola di Sardegna ci appare aperta alle rotte ed alle correnti culturali dell'Oriente e dell'Occidente a partire dalla navigazione micenea del XIV sec. a.C. Le fonti mitografiche illuminano questo moto...
Ashgate, 2011. — 386 p.
One of the most significant transformations of the Roman world in Late Antiquity was the integration of barbarian people into the social, cultural, religious, and political milieu of the Mediterranean world. The nature of these transformations was considered at the sixth biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference, at the University of...
Routledge, 2001. — 324 p. Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World will appeal mostly to specialists in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman economies, but will also be valuable to any economic historians who have some knowledge of the historical context of the Greco-Roman world and the debate about its economy,It will enhance our understanding of the ancient...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p., Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire) were near their peak. In terms of population, economy and military power each individual kingdom was vastly superior to Rome, not to mention in fields such as medicine, architecture, science, philosophy and...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p., Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire) were near their peak. In terms of population, economy and military power each individual kingdom was vastly superior to Rome, not to mention in fields such as medicine, architecture, science, philosophy and...
Thames and Hudson, 2010. — 224 p. An introduction to the Greek and Roman myths and tales that lie at the heart of Western culture includes intriguing facts and stories, including the labors of Hercules and the voyage of Odysseus. Abstract: A guide to the Greek and Roman Myths. It features a blend of stories, facts and quotations from ancient authors, and places ancient myths in a...
Greenwood, 2012. — 268 p. Collecting documents culled from the writings of ancient Greek and Roman authors, this book provides a glimpse of what life was like in ancient times and illustrates the relevance of these long-ago civilizations to modern life. Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life sheds light on various aspects of Greek and Roman daily...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 320 p. Women in Classical Antiquity focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women and gender. Drawing on the most recent findings and research on the topic, the book offers an overview of the historical events, values, and institutions that are critical for appreciating...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 320 p. Women in Classical Antiquity focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women and gender. Drawing on the most recent findings and research on the topic, the book offers an overview of the historical events, values, and institutions that are critical for appreciating...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 320 p. Women in Classical Antiquity focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women and gender. Drawing on the most recent findings and research on the topic, the book offers an overview of the historical events, values, and institutions that are critical for appreciating...
ISD LLC, 2007. — 450 p. The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 600 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and...
University of Michigan Press, 2002. — 516 p. Greek inscriptions form a valuable resource for the study of every aspect of life and death in the Greco-Roman world. They are primary witnesses to society's laws and institutions; social structures; public cults and private associations; and, of course, language. An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy provides students and classicists...
Oxford University Press, 1983. — 705 p. This is the first comprehensive study of timber supply and demand in the Near East and the world of ancient Greece and Rome. Drawing from a wide range of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, Meiggs traces changing patterns in their historical setting, and examines the timber requirements of fleets and armies, building,...
Routledge, 2014. — 225 p. This book, first published in 1992, presents an introduction to the nature of trade and transport in antiquity through a selection of translated literary, papyrological, epigraphical and legal sources. These texts illustrate a range of aspects of ancient trade and transport: from the role of the authorities, to the status of traders, to the capacity...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 258 p. This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century. The study shows how the approaches of Greek Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, John...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 258 p. This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century. The study shows how the approaches of Greek Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, John...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 688 p. A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies addressed to numismatists. Indeed, there is hardly anything produced by knowledgeable numismatists that is easily accessible to the academic community at large or the interested lay reader. The Oxford...
London – New York: Routledge, 1999. – 273 p. – (Routledge classical monographs). ISBN: 0-415-19406-7 (Print Edition) ISBN: 0-203-01617-3 Master e-book ISBN: ISBN: 0-203-20286-4 (Glassbook Format) The essays in Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity concern themselves with the theme of identity, an increasingly popular topic in Classical studies. Through detailed discussions...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 456 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 60). Although scholars continue to address old questions about Polybius, it is clear that they are also turning their attention to aspects of his history that have been inadequately dealt with in the past or have even gone largely unnoticed. Polybius' history is increasingly treated not just as a...
BAR Publishing, 1983. — 384 p. — (BAR International Series 156/British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Monograph 5). The Roman Army in Asia Minor. Recent Epigraphical Discoveries and Researches - Michael P. Speidel Two Veterans of Legio XIII Gemina at Iconium - Alan S. Hall The XII Fulminata: Countermarks, Emblems and Movements under Trajan or Hadrian - C. J. Howgego...
Classical Press of Wales, 2000. — 342 p. The period AD 300-600 saw huge changes. The Graeco-Roman city-state was first transformed then eclipsed. Much of the Roman Empire broke up and was reconfigured. New barbarian kingdoms emerged in the Roman West. Above all, religious culture moved from polytheistic to monotheistic. Here, twenty papers by international scholars explore how...
Brill, 2019. — 280 p. — (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 109). This volume is part of the Berlin Topoi project re-examining the early Christian history of Asia Minor, Greece and the South Balkans, and is concerned with the emergence of Christianity in Asia Minor and in Cyprus. Five essays focus on the east Anatolian provinces, including a comprehensive evaluation of...
Routledge, 1997. — 251 p. Changing Bodies, Changing Meanings gathers together expertise in archaeology, classical literature, patristics and the cultural reception of antiquity to present a fully-rounded picture of the cultural status of the human body in the ancient world. The essays examine how the different ways in which the body altered could be a means of conveying...
Routledge, 1996. — 274 p. This book considers sex in its broadest sense, analyzing not only the sexual practices of individuals but also the ways in which sexual activity was indivisibly woven into the fabric of social and communal life of Graeco-Roman Egypt.
Routledge, 2004. — 159 p. — (Approaching the Ancient World).
Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history. Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret historical evidence for themselves, as well as to evaluate the work of others, the book includes a survey of key ideas and...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. — 474 p. The arrival of the third millennium in the western calendar and the debate over whether the year 2000 or 2001 should mark its beginning occasioned a plethora of newspaper columns and internet conversation dedicated to the topic. Thanks to all of this interest in the new millennium, one of the few relatively well-known facts from late...
London: Secker and Warburg, 1961. — 408 p. The subject of this work is freedom in the broadest sense of the word. I am adhering to the relatively neutral, objective dehnttion stated in my Issues of Freedom condition of being abte to choose and carry out purposes.'' This involves the primary dictionary meaning, the absence of external constraints, or the common idea of freedom...
Routledge, 2023. — 255 p. This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences. Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions, focusing instead on other ritual moments, such as sacrifice. This book adopts a comparative approach, bringing...
Routledge, 2023. — 255 p. This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences. Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions, focusing instead on other ritual moments, such as sacrifice. This book adopts a comparative approach, bringing...
Routledge, 1998. — 304 p. Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world.The contributors explore a broad range of evidence including:* the...
Routledge, 1998. — 304 p. Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world.The contributors explore a broad range of evidence including:* the...
Zagreb: Ex libris, 2002. — 209 s. — ISBN 953-6310-15-5. Zaboravljena i gotovo potpuno nepoznata knjiga s pregledom osnovnih informacija o svakodnevnom, javnom i privatnom životu starih Grka i Rimljana. August Musić (1856-1938), jedan je od najznačajnijih hrvatskih grecista, autor je i danas rado korištene Gramatike grčkog jezika (1887) te dvosveščane Povijesti grčke...
Prentice-Hall, 1995. — 323 p. This collection of scholarly readings focuses on the social and cultural history of the Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome, and is designed to encourage readers to examine issues pertaining to a broad range of themes by analyzing selections from history. Covering a wide variety of social and cultural concerns–ranging from marriage, family, war,...
Longanesi, 2000. — 396 p. — (Biblioteca di archeologia). "Noi abbiamo un grande fantasma che ci perseguita da molti decenni: sull'Adriatico, nel centro dell'area adriatica. Questo fantasma sono i Piceni." Così si esprimeva, ancora nel 1975, Massimo Pallottino, lo studioso che più di ogni altro ha contribuito a rinnovare gli studi sulle creature dell'Italia preromana. Da allora,...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 376 p. Antioch in Syria critically reassesses this ancient city from its Seleucid foundation into Late Antiquity. Although Antioch's prominence is famous, Kristina M. Neumann newly exposes the gradations of imperial power and local agency mediated within its walls through a comprehensive study of the coins minted there and excavated...
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...
Routledge, 2019. — 286 p. How did Greco-Roman Egyptian society perceive women’s bodies and how did it acknowledge women’s reproductive functions? Detailing women’s lives in Greco-Roman Egypt this monograph examines understudied aspects of women's lives such as their coming of age, social and religious taboos of menstruation and birth rituals. It investigates medical, legal and...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 347 p. — ISBN 9780544800885 A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness. In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 352 p. A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness. In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the...
Brill, 2019. — 496 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 12). From Document to History, edited by Carlos Noreña and Nikolaos Papazarkadas, presents a series of new studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, highlighting the contribution of documentary evidence to our understanding of ancient Greek and Roman history.
BAR Publishing, 2013. — 107 p. The study of violence and warfare is one of the oldest preoccupations of humankind, with early written sources often approaching the subject as myth or historical narrative. Both archaeologists and military historians have, therefore, endeavoured to contextualise warfare with reference to the broader themes of their respective disciplines. This...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 565 S. — (Geographica historica 31). Das 11. Internationale Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums in Stuttgart galt der Mobilität in den Kulturen der antiken Mittelmeerwelt. Die Beiträge der Kolloquiumsakten gehen zum einen den Bedingungen und den Nachwirkungen von Mobilität nach, zum andern fragen sie nach Zusammenhängen zwischen...
Praeger, 2009. — 292 p. Historians of ancient Greece and Rome are sometimes hesitant to engage with the well-documented fact that Greek and Roman men regularly engaged in same-sex sexual relations with younger men. In a similar vein, scholars have constructed elaborate social explanations for Sappho, a 6th-century woman from the island of Lesbos who wrote passionate poetry...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. — 286 p. Now available in paperback, Omerod's classic Piracy in the Ancient World brings the treachery of the ancient high seas alive. Drawing on the works of Homer and Thucydides and the historical records that have survived from ancient Greece and Rome, Ormerod reconstructs the dangers of coastal living and seafaring and the attempts to...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 300 p. Urban life as we know it in the Mediterranean began in the early Iron Age: settlements of great size and internal diversity appear in the archaeological record. This collection of essays offers for the first time a systematic discussion of the beginnings of urbanization across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus through Greece and Italy to...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN10 1785703021, 1785702998. In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through...
Routledge, 1992. — 220 p. Drawing on archaeology, literary and epigraphic evidence, professional and technical literature, and descriptions of cities by travellers and geographers, the author traces the developments of town planning, revealing the importance of the city to political, religious, and social life in the Greek and Roman world. E. J. Owens is Lecturer in the...
Routledge, 1992. — 220 p. Drawing on archaeology, literary and epigraphic evidence, professional and technical literature, and descriptions of cities by travellers and geographers, the author traces the developments of town planning, revealing the importance of the city to political, religious, and social life in the Greek and Roman world. E. J. Owens is Lecturer in the...
Routledge, 2014. — 241 p. In A History of Earliest Italy, first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world. Since the written sources are fragmentary, archaeology provides the central reservoir for evidence of the societies and institutions of the...
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...
Routledge, 2021. — 370 p. This engaging and accessible textbook provides an introduction to the study of ancient Jewish and Christian women in their Hellenistic and Roman contexts. This is the first textbook dedicated to introducing women’s religious roles in Judaism and Christianity in a way that is accessible to undergraduates from all disciplines. The textbook provides...
Routledge, 2022. — 400 p. This engaging and accessible textbook provides an introduction to the study of ancient Jewish and Christian women in their Hellenistic and Roman contexts. This is the first textbook dedicated to introducing women’s religious roles in Judaism and Christianity in a way that is accessible to undergraduates from all disciplines. The textbook provides...
ISBN: 0-415-00343-1. Год издания: 1988. Содеражание . List of Abbreviations. 1. The Characteristics of Sibylline Oracls. 2. The Ancient Scholary Sources for the Identity of Sibyls. 3. Archaic Sibyls of Eastern Greece. 4. Cumae. 5. The Sibyl in the Classical Period. 6. The Sibyl in the Hellenistic Period. 7. The Sibyl in Pagan Rome. Appendices. I. The Theologoi. II. The Libri...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 306 p. This study considers the maritime economy of ancient Cyprus from 1450 BC to 295 BC, combining, for the first time, three distinct disciplines, that is History, Archaeology and Economic theory. The principles of New Institutional Economics are used to trace the island’s institutions and their continuity and to reconstruct its maritime...
Harvard University Press, 1972. — 96 p. — (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monographs. Book 2). The second monograph from the archaeological exploration of Sardis in western Turkey is a compilation of references to early Sardis (to A.D. 284) in the writings of ancient authors ranging from Homer to Tzetses. John Griffiths Pedley has organized the references into four...
Brill, 2022. — 316 p. — (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity, 459). What kind of society would you face if you travelled to ancient Cyprus in the 5th-4th centuries BC? This is the first book which analyses in detail the politico-administrative system of Classical Ancient Cyprus through the study of inscriptions written in different languages....
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. — (Historia Einzelschriften 126). Inhalt: I. Geschichtsdenken und Geschichtsschreibung: Die Meleagros-Geschichte der Ilias - Mythos und Historie am Beispiel der Irrfahrten des Odysseus - Kyklos und Telos im Geschichtsdenken des Polybios - Cicero und Historie - Zur Geschichte der römischen Annalistik - Die Entstehung des römischen Weltreichs im...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. — 636 p. — (Historia - Einzelschriften 126). I. Geschichtsdenken und Geschichtsschreibung: Die Meleagros-Geschichte der Ilias – Mythos und Historie am Beispiel der Irrfahrten des Odysseus – Kyklos und Telos im Geschichtsdenken des Polybios – Cicero und Historie – Zur Geschichte der römischen Annalistik – Die Entstehung des römischen Weltreichs im...
Lit Verlag, 2020. — 428 S. — (Einführungen und Quellentexte zur Ägyptologie 9). Der vorliegende Band präsentiert in einer zweiten, inhaltlich teils erheblich erweiterten Auflage 82 griechische und lateinische Inschriften, die Auskunft über die Geschichte des ptolemäischen und römischen Ägypten geben. Der größte Teil stammt aus Ägypten selbst, doch finden sich auch Texte mit...
Brill, 2004. — 328 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 261). This book deals with political propoganda in classical antiquity, exploring the contexts, strategies, and parameters of a fascinating phenomenon that has often been approached with anachronistic models (such as the centrally organized 'propaganda machines' of the 20th-century totalitarian regimes) or completely ignored. It...
New York: The Metropolitan museum of art, 2007. — 522 p. In 1870, the year of its founding, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired its first work of art, a Roman sarcophagus from about 200–225 A.D. Since that beginning, the Museum's Department of Greek and Roman Art has built a vast and rich collection that totals over seventeen thousand objects representing the ancient...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1962. — 250 S. — (Schriften der Sektion für Altertumswissenschaft 34). Die in diesem Band enthaltenen Arbeiten stellen keineswegs eine fortlaufende Geschichte Histrias von seinen Anfängen (Mitte des 7. Jh. v. u. Z.) bis zu seinem endgültigen Untergang (Anfang des 7. Jh. u. Z.) dar. Denn eine solche Geschichte zu schreiben stößt auch bei dem heutigen...
Akal, 2004. — 280 p. La publicación del libro de S. B. Pomeroy sobre la mujer en el mundo grecorromano ha supuesto un giro copernicano en el ámbito de la historia social de la Antigüedad clásica y en el planteamiento de la Historia de la mujer como problema historiográfico. Hasta no hace mucho tiempo todo el conjunto de problemas: económicos, sociales, jurídicos e ideológicos...
University of North Carolina Press, 1991. — 331 p. This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles develop as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships. Essays on Hellenistic queens and Spartan and...
New York: Schocken Books, 1995. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 080521030X; ISBN13: 978-0805210309 Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity is a 1975 feminist history book by Sarah B. Pomeroy. The work covers the lives of women in antiquity from the Greek Dark Ages to the death of Constantine the Great. The book was one of the first English works on women's history...
Schocken, 1995. — 304 p. What did women do in ancient Greece and Rome? Did Socrates' wife Xanthippe ever hear his dialogues on beauty and truth? How many many women actually read the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides? When pagan goddesses were as powerful as gods, why was the status of women generally so low? Why, in traditional histories, is half the population effectively...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 455 p. The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuries--from Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine empires--David Potter's lively narrative shows how sport, to the ancients, was not just a dim reflection of religion and politics but a potent social...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 455 p. The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuries--from Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine empires--David Potter's lively narrative shows how sport, to the ancients, was not just a dim reflection of religion and politics but a potent social...
Oxbow Books, 1995. — 112 p. In this expanded version, Tim Potter describes his 1977-81 excavations in the forum at Cherchel in Algeria which ranged from Punic and Jurban, through Imperial, Vandal and Byzantine, to Islamic times. His findings are then used as the basis for a discussin of civic centres in Late Antiquity in North Africa, Asia Minor and the Levant, and elsewhere...
Oxbow Books, 1995. — 112 p. In this expanded version, Tim Potter describes his 1977-81 excavations in the forum at Cherchel in Algeria which ranged from Punic and Jurban, through Imperial, Vandal and Byzantine, to Islamic times. His findings are then used as the basis for a discussing of civic centres in Late Antiquity in North Africa, Asia Minor and the Levant, and elsewhere...
Classical Press of Wales, 2013. — 300 p. One of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand developments which eventually occurred. The writing of history is often simplified, by modern scholars...
Penguin Books, Allen Lane, 2010. — 392 p. — (The Penguine History of Europe). — ISBN: 978-0-14-194686-3 A stunning work of research and imagination that sheds new light of the ancient world. The western world has long been fascinated by classical Greek and Roman cultures, whose ideas and achievements underpin our own. Yet little has been written about how those ancient...
Peeters, 2005. — xii + 302 p. — (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 6). Between the two wars fought in Judaea against the Roman government - the 'Great War' and that of Bar Kochba - the uprisings of Diaspora Jews toward the end of Trajan's reign constitute a unique event in the history of the Second Jewish Commonwealth. It marks the first and only...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 2016. — 507 p. — (Studia Archaeologica 208). Con questo studio si è cercato di indagare il rapporto fra i centri dell' Etruria meridionale ed i loro territori durante la prima età ellenistica (tra IV e III secolo a.C.), periodo che segna per l' intera Italia centrale un momento di profonda trasformazione. I complessi e variegati processi di...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This collection's central thesis is straightforward: long-distance communication plays a key role in the cohesion and stability of early states and in turn, these states invest heavily in long-term communication strategies and networks. As reliable and fast long-distance communication facilitates the...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This collection's central thesis is straightforward: long-distance communication plays a key role in the cohesion and stability of early states and in turn, these states invest heavily in long-term communication strategies and networks. As reliable and fast long-distance communication facilitates the...
Oxford University Press USA, 2024. — 632 p. The monumental remains of Palmyra (also known as Tadmor) have fascinated travelers and scholars for centuries. The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra gives a detailed analysis of the archaeology and history of this ancient oasis city in the Syrian Desert, spanning evidence from several millennia. With contributions from thirty archaeologists,...
Oxford University Press USA, 2024. — 633 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). The monumental remains of Palmyra (also known as Tadmor) have fascinated travelers and scholars for centuries. The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra gives a detailed analysis of the archaeology and history of this ancient oasis city in the Syrian Desert, spanning evidence from several millennia. With contributions from...
Classical Press of Wales, 2005. — 270 p. Herakles and Hercules: two names for a figure of pervasive appeal in Antiquity. He was a hero of myth and a god with cult associations. He was ancestor of Macedonian kings, patron of Carthaginian generals and of Roman emperors, and a role model for Stoic philosophers. As a performer of the famous labours, wanderer, liberator, madman and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 664 p. 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 up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social,...
Latomus, 1970. — 73 p. Dire que la pourpre est le symbole du pouvoir politique absolu est devenu un lieu commun, mais il est intéressant de voir comment s'est formée cette notion et M. Reinhold nous montre, en faisant l'histoire de son usage, que cette notion est au fond moins juste qu'on ne croit. On sait que cette teinture se tire d'un coquillage : le murex, et fut employée...
Brill, 2018. — 495 p. Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and global effort to examine the receptions of the Western Classical tradition in a cross-cultural context. The inclusion of modern East Asia in Classical reception studies not only allows scholars in the field to expand the scope of their scholarly inquiries but...
Routledge, 1992. — 328 p. The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre. This volume of papers written by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country relationship. John Rich is Lecturer in Classics at the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004. — 272 p. In Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World, Carl J. Richard brings to life a group of men whose contributions fundamentally altered western society. In this compelling narrative, readers encounter a rich cast of characters, including eloquent Homer, shrewd Pericles, fiery Alexander, idealistic Plato, ambitious Caesar,...
2nd Edition. — London: Routledge, 2017. — 489 p. Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans examines the life, work, and influence of this controversial figure, who remains the most highly visible of the Roman client kings under Augustus. Herod’s rule shaped the world in which Christianity arose and his influence can still be seen today. In this expanded second edition,...
Oxford University Press, 1992. — 340 p. The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this book points to some striking similarities between our culture and that of the ancient world, challenging Foucauldian assumptions about the nature of sexuality. Covering such topics as vase painting, tragic and comic drama from fifth-century...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 422 p. What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate was deliberate. That location asserted...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 422 p. What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate was deliberate. That location asserted Senatorial...
Athens, 1996. — 294 p. — (Μελετήματα 21). Introduction H. Solin, Ancient Onomastics: Perspectives and Problems A. D. Rizakis, Anthroponymie et société: les noms romains dans les provinces hellénophones de l'Empire S. Dusanic, Military Diplomata for the Auxiliary Soldiers from the Hellenophone Provinces: the Problem of the Recipients' Roman Name-Formulae Ί. Τουλουμάκος, Όνόματα...
Routledge, 2006. — 170 p. This is the first in over 50 years of the Greek and Roman civilizations' explorations through the Pillars of Herakles into the Atlantic. In this long-overdue project, Duane W. Roller chronicles a detailed account of these early pioneers and their discoveries and in doing so contributes a new chapter to the history of exploration. Discussing for the...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017. — 370 S. — (Classica Et Orientalia 12). Der vorliegende Band umfasst zehn Beitrage, die bei der internationalen Tagung "World View and World Conception between East and West" (19.-22. Juni 2013) im Universitatszentrum Obergurgl, Tirol prasentiert wurden. Anlasslich der Emeritierung Reinhold Bichlers standen dort laufende Arbeiten zur Diskussion,...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 572 p. — (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 134). This volume constitutes the first large-scale collaborative reflection on Xenophon’s Anabasis, gathering experts on Greek historiography and Xenophon. It is structured in three sections: the first section provides a linear reading of the Anabasis through chapters on select episodes (from Book...
Brill, 2003. — vi, 362 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 238). This volume examines the use of a central concept in the self-definition of any Greek speaking male: Andreia, the notion of courage and manliness. The nature and use of value terms quickly leads the researcher to core issues of cultural identity: through a combination of lexical or semantic and conceptual studies the...
Brill, 2010. — XII+476 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 323). How does a discourse of ‘valuing others’ help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring ‘ancient values’, this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people ‘belong together’, as a family, a group, a polis, a community, or just as...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 — 734 p. — ISBN10: 1118255313; ISBN13: 978-1118255315. Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers. An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 734 p. An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity - from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean Comprises 39...
Routledge, 2009. — 336 p. This book focuses on a simple dynamic: the taking in hand of a heritage, the variety of changes induced within it, and the handing on of that legacy to new generations. Our contributors suggest, from different standpoints, that this dynamic represented the essence of 'late antiquity'. As Roman society, and the societies by which it was immediately...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 406 p. This book makes available to students and other non-specialists a varied collection of over three hundred translated texts and more than fifty illustrations relating to women's lives in Greek and Roman Egypt. These are accompanied by an introductory chapter and full explanatory notes. It makes accessible to all those interested in...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 694 p. Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity. In recent decades fresh textual interpretations, numerous new archaeological discoveries and a much broader analytical focus emphasising social, economic, political and cultural approaches have transformed our understanding of ancient warfare. Volume I of this...
Jena: H. Costenoble, 1877. — 284 S. Vorrede des Uebersetzers. Einleitung des Uebersetzers. Einleitung. Physiographische Verhältnisse des Landes. Kritische Betrachtung der Angaben classischer Schriftsteller. Der Handelsweg durch archäologische Funde bestätigt. Classification der etruskischen und römischen Bronzen. Die Ceramik an den etruskischen Handelswegen. Der Handel der...
Central European University Press, 2018. — 382 p. Do the terms pagan and Christian, transition from paganism to Christianity still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in...
Einaudi, 1995. — 462 p. Di tutte le tribù e i popoli con cui i Romani si trovarono a dover contendere la supremazia sull'Italia, nessuno fu più minaccioso dei Sanniti. Forti e valorosi, possedevano un territorio più ampio e un temperamento più risoluto di qualsiasi altra popolazione della penisola. Per mezzo secolo e più, dal 343 al 290 a. C., impegnarono i Romani nei tre...
Cambridge University Press, 1967. — 474 p. Rome engulfed first her near neighbours, then Italy and finally much of the known world. Her expansion was so successful that the history and culture of her main rivals, the Samnites, is too often overlooked. The author describes Samnium and the language of the Samnites, then reconstructs their culture, religion, economy and...
Routledge, 2019. — 226 p. Everyone can name a couple made up of famous, rich, or powerful partners, who cultivate a joint media image which is stronger than either of their individual identities. Since the 1980s they have been known as "power couples". Yet while the term is recent, the concept is not. More than 2,000 years ago, Greeks and Romans became aware of the media...
Westview Press, 1997. — 288 p. ISBN10: 081333277X ISBN13: 9780813332772 (eng)
In this comprehensive overview of ancient warfare, Antonio Santosuosso explores how the tactical and strategic concepts of warfare changed between the beginning of the fifth century b.c. and the middle of the second century b.c. and why the West—Greece, Macedonia, and Rome—triumphed over the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 958 p. In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 343 p. — (Oriens et Occidens. Studien zu antiken Kulturkontakten und ihrem Nachleben 29). Die Geschichte und Kultur Transkaukasiens in der Antike steht im Fokus dieses Bandes, der die neuesten Forschungsergebnisse aus der Alten Geschichte, der Archäologie und der Orientalistik vereint. Ziel ist es, das antike Kaukasien starker in den Fokus der...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 267 p. — (Geographica Historica 42). Nachhaltigkeit ist ein Schlagwort, das in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in aller Munde ist. Aber kannten eigentlich antike Gesellschaften Formen von 'Nachhaltigkeit'? Wie gingen Griechen und Römer mit erschöpfbaren Ressourcen wie Wasser und Holz um? Wurde Abfall wiederverwendet, und gab es überhaupt ein...
L'Erma di Bretschneider, 1992. — 172 p. Septimia Zenobia Sebaste fu regina di Palmira dal 267 al 272 d.C. Approfittò della crisi dell'impero, ribellandosi al dominio romano e costituendo un regno indipendente. Nella sua ribellione cercò di emulare Cleopatra di cui si riteneva discendente. Dopo un iniziale successo con cui potè ingrandire i confini del suo paese, subì varie...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016. — 454 S. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 95). Herausgegeben von Kai Ruffing und Kerstin Droß-Krüpe Helmuth Schneider war von 1991 bis 2011 Professor für Alte Geschichte an der Universität Kassel. Dieser Band bietet eine Auswahl seiner oft an entlegenen Stellen...
Zaphon, 2023. — 172 S. — (Ägypten und Altes Testament 118). Christlich-religiöse Gewalt ist in der Geisteswissenschaft seit den Thesen Jean-Jacques Rousseaus zur religiösen Intoleranz der christlich-monotheistischen Geisteshaltung und den Aussagen Edward Gibbons zum „intolerant zeal of the Christians“ immer wieder Gegenstand von historischen Forschungen. Theresia Schussers...
McFarland and Company, 2014. — 192 р. This book offers a concise survey of Western Civilization from the Stone Age through the fall of the last Western Roman Emperor in AD 476. Each of the three sections chronicle a critical epoch in human history. Section I encompasses man's ascent from barbarism to civilization in the Ancient Near East; Section II witnesses the development of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 362 p. This book explores the region of Samnium in central Italy, where a rich blend of historical, literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological evidence supports a fresh perspective on the complexity and dynamism of a part of the ancient Mediterranean that is normally regarded as marginal. This volume presents new ways of looking at...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 227 p. We cannot properly understand history without a full appreciation of the spaces through which its actors moved, whether in the home or in the public sphere, and the ways in which they thought about and represented the spaces of their worlds. In this book Michael Scott employs the full range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological...
Routledge, 2021. — 168 p. Ancient history has traditionally focused on Greece and Rome. This book takes a global approach to the distant past, following the development of human societies across the globe from the last Ice Age, 11,700 years ago, to the rise of Islam in the seventh century CE. The only book of its kind, A Global History of the Ancient World provides succinct...
Muriwai Books, 2018. — 224 p. After touching on the life of women in Palaeolithic and Neolithic times, Dr. Seltman comes to the first urban civilisations in Mesopotamia and Egypt, where the exaltation of women was bound up with the religious attitude towards love-goddesses and mother-goddesses. He discusses nudity and the wearing of clothes; fertility rites and sacred...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 289 p. Daily Life in Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive study of lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE. Each of the six topical chapters highlight historical 'everyday' people, spaces, and objects, whose lives operate as windows into the late ancient economy, social relations, military service, religious systems,...
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907. — XVI, 704 p.
This book is based upon a careful study of the Homeric poems. The earlier works on the same subject have not relieved the author from the obligation of collecting his own material for an independent examination of the questions involved. A list of works important for the study of Homeric antiquities is given on pages...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 931 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19605-5. One route to understanding the nature of specifically religious violence is the study of past conflicts. Distinguished ancient historian Brent D. Shaw provides a new analysis of the intense sectarian battles between the Catholic and Donatist churches of North Africa in late antiquity, in which Augustine...
London, New York, Oxford: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018. — XIV, 322 p. Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incompatible if not contradictory. This volume interrogates the various ways the text of the Histories has been and can be read by...
Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1978. — 579 p. Cos (or Kos) was a city of ancient Greece on the island of the same name. The Minoans settled on the island around the 14th century BC, followed by the Achaeans and, a few centuries later, the Dorians came and built the ancient city of Kos. The Persians conquered the island of Kos during the 5th century BC but were defeated by the...
London – New York: Routledge, 1996. — 359 p. — ISBN: 0-203-42690-8 Master e-book ISBN. — ISBN: 0-203-73514-5 (Adobe eReader Format). — ISBN: 0-415-10755-5 (Print Edition). «Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity» shows how today’s environmental and ecological concerns can help illuminate our study of the ancient world. The contributors consider how the Greeks and Romans...
Praeger, 1995. — 288 p. The economy of the ancient Middle East and Greece is reinterpreted by Morris Silver in this provocative new synthesis. Silver finds that the ancient economy emerges as a class of economies with its own laws of motion shaped by transaction costs (the resources used up in exchanging ownership rights). The analysis of transaction costs provides insights...
Lexington Books, 2016. — 217 p. This book explores two kinds of universalist thought that circulated among Jews in the Greco-Roman world. The first, which is founded on the idea that all people may worship the One True God in an engaged and sustained manner, originates in biblical prophetic literature. The second, which underscores a common ethic that all people share, arose in...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — xxviii + 324 p. What did people in the early Christian period think about the pagan inscriptions filling their late antique cities? Like public advertisements lining our streets today, these inscriptions were everywhere and communicated specific messages to literate late Roman viewers, often providing a very different view of the classical past...
Journal of Roman archaeology, 1996. — 263 p. — (Supplementary Series 17). Papers Presented at a Conference Held in the University of Alberta on April 13-15, 1994, to Celebrate the 65th Anniversary of Duncan Fishwick
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 242 p. Sicily occupies a crucial position in the Mediterranean world. It is at the heart of many cross-currents of trade, people, and ideology that flowed unceasingly through the ancient period. The island was home to many people, most of them not native to it: Phoenicians, Greeks, and then Romans settled there, and sought ways of expressing...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1970. — xxiv + 364 p. The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alien dark- and black-skinned people were of varied tribal and geographic origins, the Greeks and Romans classified many of them as Ethiopians. In an effort to determine...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 167 p. — (Oriens et Occidens 31). Palmyra – in the Roman imperial period, the marvel of the Syrian Desert was situated at the crossroads of the intercontinental long-distance trade, in a political and cultural twilight between the East and the West: inter duo imperia, "between the two empires", according to Pliny the Elder. How accurate is Pliny's...
J.B. Metzler, 1999. — 672 S. Historische Geographie der antiken Welt. In 300 facettenreichen Artikeln von A bis Z vermittelt ein internationales Team aus Historikern, Geographen und Archäologen ein lebendiges Bild von den vielfältigen Wechselverhältnissen zwischen Mensch und Landschaft in der griechisch-römischen Antike. Phänomene wie Fluss, Gebirge oder Wüste werden ebenso...
Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1976. — 270 p. R. Scuderi: Il tradimento di Antenore. Evoluzione di un mito attraverso la propaganda politica E. Culasso Gastaldi: Propaganda e politica negli Eleusini di Eschilo L. Prandi: La liberazione della Grecia nella propaganda spartana durante la guerra del Peloponneso E. Gabba: Sulla valorizzazione politica della leggenda delle origini troiane...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 378 p. — (Cambridge Companions to Religion) — ISBN: 978-0-521-13204-6 In antiquity, the Mediterranean region was linked by sea and land routes that facilitated the spread of religious beliefs and practices among the civilizations of the ancient world. The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Mediterranean Religions provides an...
Monograph. — New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2023. — X, 335 p. An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture. Athens and Sparta may not be uppermost in the minds of most people going about daily life in the twenty-first century. That said, there are many around the world who may be...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 375 p. The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century. The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the “civilized” Greek and Roman...
New York, NY: Pegasus Books, 2016. — 368 pages : illustrations, maps. A masterly investigation into the Classical roots of Western civilization, taking the reader on an illuminating journey from Troy, Athens, and Sparta to Utopia, Alexandria, and Rome. An authoritative and accessible study of the foundations, development, and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome,...
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, 1989. — 128 p. Alfred Thayer Mahan's nineteenth-century classic, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, has long occupied a central place in the canon of strategic thought. But as professor Chester G. Starr shows in this thought-provoking work, Mahan's theories have also led to serious misperceptions among historians about the significance of naval...
Cornell University Press, 1981. — 742 p. Combining sociological acumen with solid historical craftsmanship, Ste. Croix provides a new and insightful account of the major institutions, social groups, and historical developments of some 1,400 years of Greco-Roman civilization, and the result is not only one of the finest studies on classical society to date but also a major...
Routledge, 2018. — 278 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138299-87-1. Education in the Graeco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. Yet the complex ways in which pedagogical theory and practice intersected with their local environments has not been much explored in recent scholarship. Learning Cities in Late Antiquity suggests a new explanatory model that helps to understand better how...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 350 p. This book is a history of ancient Greek and Roman professionals: doctors, seers, sculptors, teachers, musicians, actors, athletes and soldiers. These individuals were specialist workers deemed to possess rare skills, for which they had undergone a period of training. They operated in a competitive labour market in which proven...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 320 p. In Masters of Command, Barry Strauss compares the way the three greatest generals of the ancient world waged war and draws lessons from their experiences that apply on and off the battlefield. Each of them was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight, when, and why; to know what victory was and when to end...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — 556 p. — (Oriens et Occidens 25). The socio-political and cultural memory of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire played a very important role in Antiquity and later ages. This book is the first to systematically chart these multiform ideas and associations over time and to define them in relation to one another, as Persianism. Hellenistic kings,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 280 p. Explores how binary gender and behaviours of gender were actively challenged in classical antiquity. - Provides a focus on gender on its own terms and outside the context of sex and sexuality - Offers an interdisciplinary approach, appealing to Classicists, Ancient Historians, and Archaeologists, as well as audiences working outside...
Longanesi, 1996. — 378 p. — (Biblioteca di archeologia). Sono trascorsi oramai trent'anni dalla pubblicazione del volume di E.T. Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites, l'unico studio di carattere generale sulla storia e la civiltà dei Sanniti. In questo periodo il territorio, per lo più montuoso, abitato in epoca antica da Caudini, Irpini, Pentri e Carricini (le quattro tribù...
Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1955. — 401 p. The papyri from Egypt allow a rare glimpse of the workings of Greek law. It was influenced by other legal cultures, most notably Egyptian and Roman. The Ptolemaic kings of Egypt ruled a variety of ethnic groups that were diverse in language, culture, religion, and legal practices. The Romans introduced important changes in the...
İletişim Yayınları, 2007. — 234 s. Her ülkenin tarihi, geçmişte topraklarında yaşayan insanların, toplulukların ya da devletlerin oluşturduğu kültür ve uygarlık izleriyle doludur. Anadolu, böyle ülkelere en güzel örnektir. Bu kitap, bir zamanlar Ege ve Akdeniz dünyasına damgasını vuran Eski Yunan uygarlığı ile Roma İmparatorluğu dönemlerinde Anadolu ve Türkiye Trakyası'nın...
İletişim, 2008. — 353 s. Eski Yunan ve Roma dünyası; siyaset, hukuk, askerlik, mimarlık, sanat, düşünce ve tarih yazıcılığı alanlarında günümüz Batı uygarlığı üzerinde çok önemli etkiler bırakmıştır. Batı dünyası –Girit’teki Minos uygarlığı ve Yunanistan’daki Miken uygarlığını da kapsayacak şekilde– Eski Yunan ve Roma uygarlıklarının bıraktığı miras üzerine kurulmuştur. Bu...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 296 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions. From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 296 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions. From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided...
Oxbow Books, 2011. — 208 p. State Formation in Italy and Greece offers an up-to-date and comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterranean. While comparative approaches to the emergence of political complexity have been applied since the 1950s to Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, Peru, Egypt and many other contexts, Classical...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. — 279 p. Late Antiquity, once known only as the period of protracted decline in the ancient world (Bas-Empire), has now become a major research area. In recent years, a wide-ranging historiographic debate on Late Antiquity has also begun. Replacing Gibbon’s categories of decline and decadence with those of continuity and transformation has...
Edition Topoi, 2019. — 342 p. In 'The Value of Colour', an interdisciplinary group of scholars come together to examine economically relevant questions concerning a narrow slice of social and cognitive history: namely, colours. Traditionally, the study of colours has been approached from a cultural or linguistic perspective. The essays collected in this volume highlight the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 198 p. In ancient Greece and Rome an ambiguous relationship developed between man and nature, and this decisively determined the manner in which they treated the environment. On the one hand, nature was conceived as a space characterized and inhabited by divine powers, which deserved appropriate respect. On the other, a rationalist view...
Penguin UK, 2010. An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical societies....
Penguin, 2010. — 416 p. To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less...
New York: Routledge, 1992. — 256 p. This book examines a selection of Greek and Roman cities, looking specifically at their architectural remains. They are chosen for their importance to our understanding of the evolution of the city form, either because they were already important in antiquity, or because the quality of the remains makes them particularly interesting. Thus the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2001. — 468 p. This book examines the idea of ancient education in a series of essays which span the archaic period to late antiquity. It calls into question the idea that education in antiquity is a disinterested process, arguing that teaching and learning were activities that occurred in the context of society. It brings together the scholarship of 14...
Classical Press of Wales, 2020. — 245 p. For almost half a century, Vivian Nutton has been a leading figure in the study of ancient (and less ancient) medicine. The field itself has been revolutionised over that time. In this volume distinguished colleagues and former students develop, in his honour, key themes of his ground-breaking scholarship. Spanning from the Bronze Age to...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2002. — 284 p. Eunuchism was a subject which both intrigued and embarrassed the ancient world. The special virtue attributed to the castrated male at court, of undistracted loyalty to his ruler, aided the promotion of numerous eunuchs to positions of great power. A literary discourse developed, reviling and sometimes defending the eminence of these...
Brill Publishers, 2010. — 460 p. — (Impact of Empire 11). Graeco-Roman literary works, historiography, and even the reporting of rumours were couched as if they came in response to an insatiable desire by ordinary citizens to know everything about the lives of their leaders, and to hold them to account, at some level, for their abuse of constitutional powers for personal ends....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. In recent years, there has been intense debate about the reality behind the depiction of maritime cityscapes, especially harbours. Visualizing Harbours in the Classical World argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. In recent years, there has been intense debate about the reality behind the depiction of maritime cityscapes, especially harbours. Visualizing Harbours in the Classical World argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. In recent years, there has been intense debate about the reality behind the depiction of maritime cityscapes, especially harbours. Visualizing Harbours in the Classical World argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 287 p. A persistent tradition existed in antiquity linking Caria with the island of Crete. This central theme of regional history is mirrored in the civic mythologies, cults and toponyms of southwestern Anatolia. This book explains why by approaching this diverse body of material with a broad chronological view, taking into account both the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 257 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 379; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 379). In The Policy of Darius and Xerxes towards Thrace and Macedonia Miroslav Vasilev analyses in detail the policy of the Persian kings towards their European possessions in the years 514-465 BC. The book examines the status of...
University of California Press, 2010. — 372 p. The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers constructed their own Egypt, one that differed in significant ways from actual...
Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert publisher, 1977. — 308 p. Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Abbreviations Introductory notes - Significance. Problems. Scope Historiography. Sources A Survey of the historical events in the Eastern Balkan lands from the end of the third century through the sixth century A.D. The administrative system of Thrace and Dacia from...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xvii + 268 p. Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of...
Routledge, 2023. — 359 р. The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details the identities and dates, with ages and wives, where known, of heads of government in any given state at any time within the framework of reference. The relevant original and...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — ix + 275 p. — (New Texts from Ancient Cultures). Philip F. Venticinque’s new volume examines associations of craftsmen in the framework of ancient economics and transaction costs. Scholars have long viewed such associations primarily as social or religious groups that provided mutual support, proper burial, and sociability, and spaces where...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 382 p. Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still have...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 382 p. Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still have...
EB Verlag Dr. Brandt, 2022. — 82 p. This lecture explores the multiple identities of enslaved persons in ancient societies. Ancient masters and slaveholding societies often behaved as if the only identity that mattered for enslaved persons was their classification as slaves. While slave classification had profound implications, it was not the only identity that mattered....
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023. — 850 p. — (Handbücher zur Wirtschaftsgeschichte). This volume presents the research history, sources, theoretical approaches, and the full range of economic history subject areas for the field of ancient history. The period stretches from ca. 1000 BCE to approx. 400 CE, with a spotlight on the "key period" of Greek-Roman antiquity, from about 700...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 260 p. 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 understanding of ancient money. Covering a wide...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 400 p. Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and individuals on an unprecedented scale....
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 400 p. Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 - 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and individuals on an unprecedented scale....
Ashgate, 2015. — 264 p. In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological statements and living experiences of late Roman childhood. This is the first book to...
Palgrave Pivot, 2018. — 109 p. This book offers a radical perspective on what are conventionally called the Islamic Conquests of the seventh century. Placing these earthshattering events firmly in the context of Late Antiquity, it argues that many of the men remembered as the fanatical agents of Muḥammad probably did not know who the prophet was and had, in fact, previously...
Routledge, 1989. — 255 p. Discussion of a subject central to the society of the ancient Mediterranean. Patronage in Ancient Society was awarded the Croom Helm Ancient History Prize for 1988. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in social and ancient history as well as classical studies. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at the University of...
Routledge, 2014. — 238 p. Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and particularly the reasons why people who were not Greek decided...
Routledge, 2014. — 238 p. Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and particularly the reasons why people who were not Greek decided...
University of California Press, 2006. — xii + 288 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage 41). This lively and wide-ranging study of the men and ideas of late antique education explores the intellectual and doctrinal milieux in the two great cities of Athens and Alexandria from the second to the sixth centuries to shed new light on the interaction between the pagan cultural...
University of California Press, 2010. — xvi + 290 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage 46). This innovative study uses one well-documented moment of violence as a starting point for a wide-ranging examination of the ideas and interactions of pagan philosophers, Christian ascetics, and bishops from the fourth to the early seventh century. Edward J. Watts reconstructs a...
Philipp von Zabern, 2016. — 268 S. Tore zur Welt - das waren Häfen schon in der Antike. Hier legten Handelsschiffe an, hier ankerten aber auch Kriegsschiffe, die Stadt und Hinterland schützten. Hier kamen Reisende an, die von fernen Landen zu erzählen wussten. Für bedeutende Städte der Antike wie Athen, Alexandria oder Rom war der Hafen nicht nur lebensnotwendiger Umschlagplatz...
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015. — 392 p. — (Colloquia Augustana 33). Artemidorus Daldianus’s Interpretation of Dreams, a dream book written at the end of the second century CE, is the sole surviving dream interpretation book from Greek and Roman antiquity. The essays in this volume situate Artemidorus and his work in the context of his contemporaries as well as ancient dream...
American Philosophical Society Library, 1984. — 192 p. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity brings together fresh English translations of many texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization. In...
American Philosophical Society, 1955. — 200 p. — (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 40). Greek slavery from Homer to the Persian wars From the Persian wars to Alexander : slave supply and slave numbers From the Persian wars to Alexander : slave employment and legal aspects of slavery From the Persian wars to Alexander : the social setting of polis slavery The...
Einaudi, 1963. — 253 p. Un resoconto avvincente delle spedizioni e dei viaggi che i soldati e i mercanti di Roma effettuarono oltre gli estremi confini dell'Impero. Fra mille avventure e pericoli, le battaglie, le conquiste militari, ma anche gli scambi commerciali con le popolazioni di Asia, Africa ed Europa, contribuirono enormemente a una reciproca contaminazione culturale e...
Mondadori, 1968. — 187 p. L'avventura di Alessandro Magno, il più amato di tutti gli eroi, col suo leone d'oro e l'alabarda nera, toccò il suo apogeo a Persepoli. Nel 331 a.C., infatti, il Macedone e la sua armata giunsero nella capitale dell'Impero persiano per saccheggiarla e metterla a ferro e fuoco. Da lì Alessandro iniziò la sua marcia verso est, sottomettendo innumerevoli...
Harper and Row, 1973. — 200 p. Hayden White was a historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973). He was professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and held position of professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Hayden V. White...
Gruyter, 2018. — 324 p. The book discusses for the first time the foreign schools of archaeology in Rome and Athens in historical perspective, and through them the scholarly organisation of classical archaeology and classical studies around the Mediterranean.
Routledge, 1981. — 302 p. Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization. In addition, a thorough bibliography for each chapter, as...
Routledge, 1981. — 302 p. Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization. In addition, a thorough bibliography for each chapter, as...
University of Exeter Press, 1995. — 459 p. Food as a cultural symbol was as important in antiquity as in our own time, and Food in Antiquity investigates some of the ways in which food and eating shaped the lives and thoughts of the indigenous peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. In this volume, thirty contributors consider aspects of food and eating in the Greco-Roman world....
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 457 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). 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 all aspects of food...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 184 p. Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity is a new look at some of the most studied documents relating to Christian female asceticism in the Roman era. Focusing on the letters of advice to the women of the noble Anicii family, Kate Wilkinson argues that conventional descriptions of feminine modesty can reveal spaces of agency and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2010. — 192 p. Queen Zenobia of Palmyra in Syria was one of the great women of classical antiquity, a romantic if tragic heroine both to Roman authors and to Chaucer, Gibbon and the neo-classical painters and sculptors of the nineteenth century. in her desperate search for a survival strategy for her wealthy city in the chaotic third century CE Zenobia fell...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 356 p. — (Geographica Historica 32). After his victory over Mithradates VI the Roman general Pompey founded a number of cities in order to shape the newly founded Roman province in the inland of the conquered former Pontic kingdom, in the southern Black Sea region. This sparked the beginning of an intense process of urban and rural development...
Warszawa: Wiedza powszechna, 2000. — 254 st. Książka "O starożytności polemicznie" zrodziła się z głębokiego przekonania, że zmiany, którym ulega budowany przez historyków obraz przeszłości, nie powinny być sprawą jedynie wąskiego grona fachowców. Czytelnikom sięgającym po prace specjalnie dla nich pisane nie wolno przedstawiać informacji i koncepcji przestarzałych, usuniętych...
2 Auflage. — München: R.Oldenbourg Verlag, 2007. — 526 S. — ISBN: 348658510X.
Eine Einladung in die Antike! OGL Antike ist die ideale Einführung für alle, die Alte Geschichte oder benachbarte Fächer wie Altphilologie oder Archäologie studieren. Wissenschaftlich exakt, anschaulich illustriert und verständlich geschrieben macht es Lust zu lesen und zu lernen. Die Autorengruppe um...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 286 p. — (Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (HABES) 47). Zur menschlichen Wahrnehmung gehört die Einteilung des Raumes in links und rechts. Dabei ist links in der Regel negativ konnotiert: Ein ungeschickter Mensch erscheint linkisch . Hat man ihn betrogen, so hat man ihn gelinkt . Lange Zeit war diese Negativfärbung...
Cornell University Press, 1971. — 335 p. Worship of the Egyptian goddess Isis dates as far back as 2500 B.C. and extended at least until the fifth century C.E. throughout the Roman world. The importance of her cult is attested to in Apuleius's Golden Ass, and evidence of its influence has been found in places as far apart as Afghanistan and Portugal, the Black Sea and northern...
Kensington Publishing, 1955. — 475 p. The Concise Dictionary of Ancient History is packed with over four hundred pages of definitions that bring readers a rich portrait of life in ancient times. Curated by editor P. G. Woodcock, each entry provides details and discoveries about ancient history including the key figures, terms, and events. This reference source is the perfect...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 528 p. The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment. The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing,...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 528 p. The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment. The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing,...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 528 p. The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment. The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing,...
Brill, 2001. — 190 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 225). This is a collection of original essays, written by authorities in the field, on aspects of ancient rhetoric and oratory ranging from theoretical considerations of rhetorical theory to analysis of actual speeches. How good should an orator be? Øivind Andersen. What the laws have prejudged : Paragrafē and early issue theory....
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2014. — 534 p. — (Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 28-31 October 2014). This volume presents the proceedings of the international interdisciplinary founding conference of the division "Documenta Antiqua" at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), held in...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. — 506 p. This is a rich collection of twenty-seven essays to mark the memory of Ioannis Taifacos. For two decades (1993–2013) Ioannis Taifacos worked hard to establish the Department of Classics and Philosophy as an autonomous administrative unit at the newly-founded University of Cyprus and to integrate it into the wider academic community. All the...
C.H. Beck, 2003. — 380 p. A detailed examination of complex and unfamiliar material does not always go together with a clear and accessible expression of ideas and concepts. This is happily not the case with Uri Yiftach-Firanko’s (hereinafter Y.) new book on the Greek marriage document in Egypt, which, while a significant scholarly contribution, can be read painlessly and...
Routledge, 2018. — 304 p. This book brings together recent developments in modern migration theory, a wide range of sources, new and old tools revisited (from GIS to epigraphic studies, from stable isotope analysis to the study of literary sources) and case studies from the ancient eastern Mediterranean that illustrate how new theories and techniques are helping to give a...
BAR Publishing, 2003. — 149 p. Zenobia, Arab Queen of Palmyra, a tragic persona, beautiful, erudite, ambitious, virtuous, courageous, has baffled historians for many centuries. This study portrays her in her own words, the evidence of ancient and modern sources, both Western and Arabic, excavations and research. The third century of the Roman Empire can be justly called the...
Brill, 2025. — xxiv, 326 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements. History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 485). What difference did the Roman expansion make in the transformation of ancient Italy? With its conservative nature and abundance of material evidence, the religious sphere represents a unique lens through which we can study this process over time and across different...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020. — 166 p. — (Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne 10). Die literaturwissenschaftliche Ausrichtung der althistorischen Quellenkritik in den letzten Jahrzehnten hatte fundamentale Auswirkungen auf die Deutung ethnographischer Texte. Durch diesen Forschungsfokus ist die Analyse möglicher Realitätsbezüge weitgehend in den...
UVK Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1997. — 54 S. Hannibals Feldzug in Italien, der Rom in die existenzbedrohendste Lage seiner Geschichte brachte, war nur möglich, weil Hannibal intime Kenntnisse der inneritalienischen Verhältnisse hatte. Die vorliegende Studie von Max Zlattner erschl ießt mit akribischem Scharfsinn die Methoden, mit denen der karthagische Feldherr hinter den...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 240 p. Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between urbanism, capitalism and modernity. In this...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 240 p. Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between urbanism, capitalism and modernity. In this...
СПб.: Просвещение, 1915. — 332 с. В данном томе печатается исторический труд писателя по античной истории. Книга "Тайны богов" составляет 2 том исторического сочинения "Царство зверя", и примыкает к предшествующей 4-х томной работе А. В. Амфитеатрова, посвящённой эпохе Нерона, "Зверь из бездны". Книга читается почти как роман и в то же время даёт очень много научных сведений,...
Acta Diurna, Сидорович, 2019. — 340 с. — (AntiQuitas). — ISBN: 978-5-6044244-1-4. Вы держите в руках книгу о временах кровавой трансформации античного мира и рождении Европы, книгу, повествующую о трагических и загадочных пяти веках, разделивших христианизацию Рима и принятие Карлом Великим императорского титула. Это эпоха ужасов и опустошительных экологических катастроф,...
Acta Diurna, Сидорович, 2020. — 746 с. — (AntiQuitas). — ISBN 978-5-6044244-1-4. Вы держите в руках книгу о временах кровавой трансформации античного мира и рождении Европы, книгу, повествующую о трагических и загадочных пяти веках, разделивших христианизацию Рима и принятие Карлом Великим императорского титула. Это эпоха ужасов и опустошительных экологических катастроф, равных...
Acta Diurna, Сидорович, 2019. — 312 с. — (AntiQuitas). — ISBN: 978-5-905909-46-7. Вы держите в руках книгу о временах кровавой трансформации античного мира и рождении Европы, книгу, повествующую о трагических и загадочных пяти веках, разделивших христианизацию Рима и принятие Карлом Великим императорского титула. Это эпоха ужасов и опустошительных экологических катастроф,...
Acta Diurna, Сидорович, 2019. — 312 с. — (AntiQuitas). — ISBN: 978-5-905909-46-7. Вы держите в руках книгу о временах кровавой трансформации античного мира и рождении Европы, книгу, повествующую о трагических и загадочных пяти веках, разделивших христианизацию Рима и принятие Карлом Великим императорского титула. Это эпоха ужасов и опустошительных экологических катастроф,...
Acta Diurna, Сидорович, 2019. — 312 с. — (AntiQuitas). — ISBN: 978-5-905909-46-7. Вы держите в руках книгу о временах кровавой трансформации античного мира и рождении Европы, книгу, повествующую о трагических и загадочных пяти веках, разделивших христианизацию Рима и принятие Карлом Великим императорского титула. Это эпоха ужасов и опустошительных экологических катастроф,...
Чернівці: Наші книги, 2008. — 544 с.; ілюстр., карти. У практикумі вміщено методичні рекомендації до 12 тем з історії античної цивілізації, основна і додаткова література до них, уривки з основних джерел, які допоможуть зрозуміти процес зародження, розвитку і занепаду античного світу. Текст видання доповнений тестовими завдавннями, розділеними на 7 модулів, ключами до їхнього...
Чернівці: Наші книги, 2008. — 544 с.; ілюстр., карти. У практикумі вміщено методичні рекомендації до 12 тем з історії античної цивілізації, основна і додаткова література до них, уривки з основних джерел, які допоможуть зрозуміти процес зародження, розвитку і занепаду античного світу. Текст видання доповнений тестовими завдавннями, розділеними на 7 модулів, ключами до їхнього...
София: Придворна печатница, 1932. — 74 с. — (Годишник на Софийския университет. Историко-филологически факултет, том 28, част 8). В студията се разглежда въпросът за етническия произход на античните македонци.
Москва: Наука, 1973. — 272 с. В книге освещаются различные стороны античной цивилизации Древней Греции и Древнего Рима. Подробно дается общая характеристика социально-экономической и политической истории Греции и Рима, развития различных отраслей науки и техники. Особое внимание уделено древним городам, общественной жизни в них, описанию античного монументального искусства и...
Сборник / Акад. наук СССР, Ин-т археологии; [отв. ред. В. Д. Блаватский]. — М.: Наука , 1973. — 207, [3] с.: ил., портр.
В книге освещаются различные стороны античной цивилизации Древней Греции и Древнего Рима. Подробно дается общая характеристика социально-экономической и политической истории Греции и Рима, развития различных отраслей науки и техники. Особое внимание уделено...
М.: Наука, 1976. — 80 с. Введение Воздействие античного общества на природный ландшафт. Роль земледелия Роль градостроительства. Каменоломни. Рудники. Водопроводы Дороги. Гавани. Каналы. Корабли Воздействие античного общества на животных и растения Античная наука и практика Природа в античном мировоззрении и в искусстве Заключение W. Blawatsky. La nature et la société Antique
М.: Наука, 1976. — 80 с. Введение Воздействие античного общества на природный ландшафт. Роль земледелия Роль градостроительства. Каменоломни. Рудники. Водопроводы Дороги. Гавани. Каналы. Корабли Воздействие античного общества на животных и растения Античная наука и практика Природа в античном мировоззрении и в искусстве Заключение W. Blawatsky. La nature et la société Antique
Москва: Наука, 1976. — 80 с. Введение Воздействие античного общества на природный ландшафт. Роль земледелия Роль градостроительства. Каменоломни. Рудники. Водопроводы Дороги. Гавани. Каналы. Корабли Воздействие античного общества на животных и растения Античная наука и практика Природа в античном мировоззрении и в искусстве Заключение
М.: Специализированный учебно-научный центр (факультет) Московского государственного университета. I полугодие - Древняя Греция: Гомер и его поэмы. Раскопки Г. Шлимана. Раскопки Крита. Крито-микенская культура и ее гибель. Афины в эпоху архаики (VIII - VI вв.). Становление демократии. Реформа Солона. Греко-Персидские войны (ч. 1): возвышение Персии, битва при Марафоне....
М.: Академический Проект, 2019. — 482 с. Полибий - величайший, наряду с Геродотом и Фукидидом, греческий историк. Он попал под колесо судьбы и участвовал в событиях того рокового периода, когда, по его словам, совершено было больше, чем за всю предыдущую историю. Возвышались и падали царства, метались народы, гибли города, и, наконец, произошло объединение мира под единой...
М.: Академический Проект, 2019. — 482 с. — (Всеобщая история: портреты Античности). — ISBN 978-5-8291-2318-5. Полибий — величайший, наряду с Геродотом и Фукидидом, греческий историк. Он попал под колесо судьбы и участвовал в событиях того рокового периода, когда, по его словам, совершено было больше, чем за всю предыдущую историю. Возвышались и падали царства, метались народы,...
Москва: Академический Проект, 2019. — 482 с. — (Всеобщая история. Портреты Античности). — ISBN 978-5-8291-2318-5. Полибий - величайший, наряду с Геродотом и Фукидидом, греческий историк. Он попал под колесо судьбы и участвовал в событиях того рокового периода, когда, по его словам, совершено было больше, чем за всю предыдущую историю. Возвышались и падали царства, метались...
М.: Географгиз, 1953. — 374 с. Данная работа является первой, и во многом еще предварительной, попыткой дать сводку представлений ряда греческих и римских авторов в области географии. В настоящем издании текстам античных авторов предпосланы вводные статьи, в которых даются краткие биографические сведения об этих авторах и их географические воззрения. Некоторые сочинения,...
М.: Географгиз, 1953. — 374 с.
Данная работа является первой, и во многом еще предварительной, попыткой дать сводку представлений ряда греческих и римских авторов в области географии.
В настоящем издании текстам античных авторов предпосланы вводные статьи, в которых даются краткие биографические сведения об этих авторах и их географические воззрения.
Некоторые сочинения,...
Учебное пособие для студентов исторических факультетов. — Белгород: Издательство Белгородского государственного университета, 2009. — 88 с. В центре книги – общий очерк позднеантичной эпохи (IV-VI вв.) – одной из наиболее сложных исторических эпох, понимание которой в последнее время значительно изменилось. Книга может быть полезной студентам-историкам, магистрантам, а также всем,...
Учебное пособие для студентов исторических факультетов. — Белгород: Издательство Белгородского государственного университета, 2009. — 88 с. В центре книги – общий очерк позднеантичной эпохи (IV-VI вв.) – одной из наиболее сложных исторических эпох, понимание которой в последнее время значительно изменилось. Книга может быть полезной студентам-историкам, магистрантам, а также всем,...
Сборник статей / Акад. наук СССР. Ин-т археологии; авт. вступ. ст. Д.Б. Шелов, ред. А.И. Болтунова. — М.: Наука, 1966. — 299 с. В.Д. Блаватский — Исследователь античного мира. Список печатных работ В.Д. Блаватского. Н.В. Анфимов. комплекс бронзовых предметов из кургана близ ст. Темиж-Бекской. Г.Д. Белов. Херсонесские саркофаги. А.И. Болтунова. О культе Зевса Сотера на Боспоре....
Сборник статей / Акад. наук СССР. Ин-т археологии; авт. вступ. ст. Д.Б. Шелов, ред. А.И. Болтунова. — М.: Наука, 1966. — 299 с. В.Д. Блаватский — Исследователь античного мира. Список печатных работ В.Д. Блаватского. Н.В. Анфимов. комплекс бронзовых предметов из кургана близ ст. Темиж-Бекской. Г.Д. Белов. Херсонесские саркофаги. А.И. Болтунова. О культе Зевса Сотера на Боспоре....
Москва, «Греко-латинский кабинет», 1998. — 528 с. В хрестоматию включены материалы по истории эллинизма, древнего Рима и Северного Причерноморья в римскую эпоху. Некоторые переводы сделаны специально для настоящего издания. Для студентов и преподавателей исторических и филологических факультетов высших учебных заведений, учащихся гуманитарных классов школ, всех интересующихся...
М.: Просвещение, 1988. — 166 с. В предлагаемой книге читатель познакомится с биографиями исторических деятелей Греции и Рима, чьи имена связаны с наиболее важными, поворотными моментами истории древнего мира. В основе большинства содержащихся в книге очерков лежат биографии Плутарха, представленные в его "Сравнительных жизнеописаниях". В отличие от тяжеловесного текста Плутарха...
М.: Просвещение, 1988. — 166 с. В предлагаемой книге читатель познакомится с биографиями исторических деятелей Греции и Рима, чьи имена связаны с наиболее важными, поворотными моментами истории древнего мира. В основе большинства содержащихся в книге очерков лежат биографии Плутарха, представленные в его "Сравнительных жизнеописаниях". В отличие от тяжеловесного текста Плутарха...
2-е изд. — М.: Просвещение, 1968. — 250 с. Историки-популяризаторы уже более ста лет назад стали составлять пересказы биографий Плутарха, чтобы сделать замечательного писателя древности доступным для детей и юношества. Эти пересказы имели большой успех и неоднократно переиздавались. К сожалению, авторов этих переработок нередко интересовало в творчестве Плутарха как раз то,...
2-е изд. — М.: Просвещение, 1968. — 250 с. Историки-популяризаторы уже более ста лет назад стали составлять пересказы биографий Плутарха, чтобы сделать замечательного писателя древности доступным для детей и юношества. Эти пересказы имели большой успех и неоднократно переиздавались. К сожалению, авторов этих переработок нередко интересовало в творчестве Плутарха как раз то,...
М.: Просвещение, 1968. — 246 с. Греческий ученый и общественный деятель Плутарх жил девятнадцать веков назад. Его сочинения, посвященные политическим, религиозным, педагогическим, историческим темам широко известны. Он одним из первых ввел биографический жанр в историю, описывая прошлое родной страны в биографиях ее политических деятелей. "Сравнительные жизнеописания" Плутарха...
М.: - Иерусалим. Гешарим, 1997. - 653 с. (Библиотека Флавиана)
ISBN: 5-86437-008-6
Это полное издание перевода на русский язык широко известной в научном мире антологии "Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism", изданной Менахемом Штерном в Иерусалиме в 1980-х годах. Антология является наиболее подробно комментированным корпусом источников, которые освещают знания...
М.: - Иерусалим. Гешарим, 1997. - 653 с. (Библиотека Флавиана)
ISBN: 5-86437-008-6
Это полное издание перевода на русский язык широко известной в научном мире антологии "Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism", изданной Менахемом Штерном в Иерусалиме в 1980-х годах. Антология является наиболее подробно комментированным корпусом источников, которые освещают знания...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 256 с. — (Studia Religiosa) — ISBN 978-5-4448-2164-0. Период между 150 и 750 годами н. э. – эпоха, в которую навсегда исчезают казалось бы самые незыблемые античные институты. К 476 году в Западной Европе прекратила свое существование Римская империя, а к 655 году на Ближнем Востоке – Персидская империя. Ставшее уже классическим...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 256 с. — (Studia Religiosa) — ISBN 978-5-4448-2164-0. Период между 150 и 750 годами н. э. – эпоха, в которую навсегда исчезают казалось бы самые незыблемые античные институты. К 476 году в Западной Европе прекратила свое существование Римская империя, а к 655 году на Ближнем Востоке – Персидская империя. Ставшее уже классическим...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 256 с. — (Studia Religiosa) — ISBN 978-5-4448-2164-0. Период между 150 и 750 годами н. э. – эпоха, в которую навсегда исчезают казалось бы самые незыблемые античные институты. К 476 году в Западной Европе прекратила свое существование Римская империя, а к 655 году на Ближнем Востоке – Персидская империя. Ставшее уже классическим...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 256 с. — (Studia Religiosa) — ISBN 978-5-4448-2164-0. Период между 150 и 750 годами н. э. – эпоха, в которую навсегда исчезают казалось бы самые незыблемые античные институты. К 476 году в Западной Европе прекратила свое существование Римская империя, а к 655 году на Ближнем Востоке – Персидская империя. Ставшее уже классическим...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 460 с. — (Studia Religiosa) — ISBN 978-5-4448-2164-0. Период между 150 и 750 годами н. э. – эпоха, в которую навсегда исчезают казалось бы самые незыблемые античные институты. К 476 году в Западной Европе прекратила свое существование Римская империя, а к 655 году на Ближнем Востоке – Персидская империя. Ставшее уже классическим...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография М.М. Стасюлевича, 1913. — 196 с. Предисловие Введение Греческое государство. Его нравственный основы. Понятие о гражданине. Вопрос о формах правленая. Характеристика демократии. Свобода и равенство в теории и на практике Закон и декрет. Наказание. Право и сила Социальная борьба и социальный вопрос в Греции Коммунистические идеи. Государственный...
М.: Форум, 2011. — 240 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91134-528-0. История развития античной цивилизации — это во многом история путешествий. Цели передвижений, как легендарных, так и реальных, были разнообразны: политические конфликты, войны, поиски новых земель, торговля. За пределы родной земли отправлялись те, кого гнали в дорогу пытливость и любознательность или же страсть к...
М.: Форум, 2011. — 240 с. — ISBN: 978-5-91134-528-0. История развития античной цивилизации — это во многом история путешествий. Цели передвижений, как легендарных, так и реальных, были разнообразны: политические конфликты, войны, поиски новых земель, торговля. За пределы родной земли отправлялись те, кого гнали в дорогу пытливость и любознательность или же страсть к...
М.: Варфоломеев А.Д., 2018. — 576 с. В монографии рассматриваются основные источниковедческие вопросы, связанные с трактовкой античной литературной и эпиграфической традиций, демонстрирующих процесс освоения эллинистическим и римским миром южных окраин ойкумены. В книге впервые предлагается полный перевод на русский язык сочинения Агатархида Книдского «Об Эритрейском море» с...
М.: ОГИЗ-Госполитиздат, 1941. — 662 с. Книга Валлона излагает историю рабства в древней Греции и в древнем Риме эпохи Республики и считается основным трудом по этому вопросу по своей фактической полноте. Вместо 3-го тома Валлона, касающегося отношения христианства к рабству, дается работа Вестермана, продолжающая историю рабства в Риме в эпоху Империи. В вступительной статье...
М.: ОГИЗ-Госполитиздат, 1941. — 662 с. Книга Валлона излагает историю рабства в древней Греции и в древнем Риме эпохи Республики и считается основным трудом по этому вопросу по своей фактической полноте. Вместо 3-го тома Валлона, касающегося отношения христианства к рабству, дается работа Вестермана, продолжающая историю рабства в Риме в эпоху Империи. В вступительной статье...
Смоленск: Русич, 2005. — 640 с. — (Популярная историческая библиотека) — ISBN: 5-8138-0631-8. Сочинение французского историка и политического деятеля Анри Валлона (1812-1904) посвящено истории рабства в античном мире. Богатство и систематизированность фактического материала, широта освещаемых тем делают труд А. Валлона интересным и актуальным и для современного читателя. Автор...
Смоленск: Русич, 2005. — 640 с. — (Популярная историческая библиотека) — — ISBN: 5-8138-0631-8. Сочинение французского историка и политического деятеля Анри Валлона (1812-1904) посвящено истории рабства в античном мире. Богатство и систематизированность фактического материала, широта освещаемых тем делают труд А. Валлона интересным и актуальным и для современного читателя....
М.: ОГИЗ-Госполитиздат, 1941. – 662 с. Книга Валлона излагает историю рабства в древней Греции и в древнем Риме эпохи Республики и считается основным трудом по этому вопросу по своей фактической полноте. Вместо 3-го тома Валлона, касающегося отношения христианства к рабству, дается работа Вестермана, продолжающая историю рабства в Риме в эпоху Империи. В вступительной статье...
М.: ОГИЗ-Госполитиздат, 1941. – 662 с. Книга Валлона излагает историю рабства в древней Греции и в древнем Риме эпохи Республики и считается основным трудом по этому вопросу по своей фактической полноте. Вместо 3-го тома Валлона, касающегося отношения христианства к рабству, дается работа Вестермана, продолжающая историю рабства в Риме в эпоху Империи. В вступительной статье...
Перевод с французского С.П. Кондратьева. Под редакцией и с предисловием А.В. Мишулина. — М.: Госполитиздат, 1941. — 662 с. Книга Валлона излагает историю рабства в древней Греции и в древнем Риме эпохи Республики и считается основным трудом по этому вопросу по своей фактической полноте. Вместо 3-го тома Валлона, касающегося отношения христианства к рабству, дается работа...
М.: Государственное социально - экономическое издательство, 1936. — 312 с. Тираж 15 000.
Сочинение французского историка и политического деятеля А. Валлона (1812 - 1904) посвящено истории рабства в античном мире. Автор детально исследует вопросы об источниках рабства, положении рабов, их цене, условиях отпуска на волю и т.д. Богатство фактического материала делает труд А. Валлона...
Прага: Типография И. Милиткий и Новак, 1878. — 692 с. Под ред. И. Я. Ростовцева. Отличное пособие по античной культуре, прекрасно иллюстрированное. Подходит для студентов, изучающих историю античности и классическую филологию. Подробно рассматриваются архитектура (культовые, общественные, частные строения), предметы быта (одежда, утварь), общество (семья; ремесла), обряды и...
Прага: Типография И. Милиткий и Новак, 1878. — XVI, 670 с.
Под ред. И. Я. Ростовцева.
Отличное пособие по античной культуре, прекрасно иллюстрированное. Подходит для студентов, изучающих историю античности и классическую филологию.
Подробно рассматриваются архитектура (культовые, общественные, частные строения), предметы быта (одежда, утварь), общество (семья; ремесла),...
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Труды 3-й Международной научной конференции «Дьяковские чтения» кафедры истории древнего мира и средних веков им. проф. В. Ф. Семенова МПГУ (3 декабря 2016 г.). — Москва: МПГУ, 2017. — 303 с. Сборник научных статей, подготовленный на кафедре истории древнего мира и средних веков им. проф. В.Ф. Семенова Института истории и политики МПГУ, представляет избранные материалы...
Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 1995. — 483 с.
Первый том посвящен обзору истории античной Греции, начиная с географического очерка и гомеровского времени и заканчивая Пелопонесской войной и кризисом демократических структур. Вторая часть книги посвящена начальному этапу истории Римской империи от становления государства до краха системы демократии.
Ростов-на-Дону. Феникс, 1995. - 483 с.
ISBN: 5-85880-124-2.
Первый том посвящен обзору истории античной Греции, начиная с географического очерка и гомеровского времени и заканчивая Пелопонесской войной и кризисом демократических структур. Вторая часть книги посвящена начальному этапу истории Римской империи от становления государства до краха системы демократии.
Ростов-на-Дону. Феникс, 1995. - 483 с.
ISBN: 5-87688-031-0.
Второй том посвящен обзору истории Римской империи с периода падения республики вплоть до установления принципата Августа. Вторая часть книги представлена монографией "Рим и раннее христианство", повествующей об общей религиозной ситуации в Риме в I в. н.э., религиозных группировках в Иудее; социально-политических и...
Ростов-на-Дону: Феникс, 1995. — 483 с.
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М.: Русский Фонд Содействия Образованию и Науке, 2010. - 227 с. ISBN: 978-5-91244-029-8. Издание представляет собой курс лекций по античному полису, написанных ведущими отечественными специалистами по данной проблематике. Курс структурирован по периодам и тематическим разделам истории древнегреческого полиса и римской гражданской общины (представлявшей собой вариант античной...
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Пер. и примеч. М. Е. Сергеенко и П. П. Забаринского Πод ред. и с предисл. С. И. Ковалёва. – М.-Л.: Гос. техн.-теор. изд-во, 1934. – 217 с. – (Труды Института истории науки и техники. Переводы. Вып. I).
Автор монографии – выдающийся специалист по истории античности Герман Дильс.
Оглавление:
Предисловие
Наука и техника у эллинов
Античные двери и запоры
Паровая машина,...
М. - Л.: Гос. техн.-теор. изд-во, 1934. – 217 с.
Пер. и примеч. М.Е. Сергеенко и П.П. Забаринского Πод ред. и с предисл. С.И. Ковалёва.
Автор монографии – выдающийся специалист по истории античности Герман Дильс.
Содержание: .
Предисловие.
Наука и техника у эллинов.
Античные двери и запоры.
Паровая машина, автомат и таксометр.
Античная телеграфия.
Античная артиллерия....
М.: Наука, 1982. – 457 с. – (Древнейшие источники по истории народов СССР).
Книга включает в себя все известия Геродота по истории, географии и этнографии юга нашей страны в античную эпоху. Заново выполненный перевод этих известий снабжён филологическим, историческим, географическим, этнографическим и археологическим комментарием. Во введении содержатся сведения о жизни и...
М.: Наука, 1982. — 457 с. — (Древнейшие источники по истории народов СССР). Книга включает в себя все известия Геродота по истории, географии и этнографии юга нашей страны в античную эпоху. Заново выполненный перевод этих известий снабжён филологическим, историческим, географическим, этнографическим и археологическим комментарием. Во введении содержатся сведения о жизни и...
СПб. : Прана, 2006. - 326 с. - ISBN: 5-86761-048-9. Понятия демократии и свободы обычно рассматриваются как некие абсолютные ценности. Однако анализ истории античного города приводит к шокирующим выводам. Демократическая форма правления возникает и развивается вовсе не как ответ на чаяния угнетаемых масс, но как инструмент предельной мобилизации древней общины. В отличие от...
СПб. : Прана, 2006. - 326 с. - ISBN: 5-86761-048-9. Понятия демократии и свободы обычно рассматриваются как некие абсолютные ценности. Однако анализ истории античного города приводит к шокирующим выводам. Демократическая форма правления возникает и развивается вовсе не как ответ на чаяния угнетаемых масс, но как инструмент предельной мобилизации древней общины. В отличие от...
Ленинград: Издательство ГАИМК, 1933. — 596 с. — (Известия Государственной Академии истории материальной культуры. Выпуск 78). Предисловие. Рабский труд. Свободный труд. Крепостной труд. Техника. Землевладение и домовладение. Торговля, торговый капитал и торговый транспорт. Денежный капитал. Государственное и городское хозяйство. Классовая борьба. Социально-экономические взгляды...
Под ред. Н. А. Алмазовой и Л. Я. Жмудя. — СПб.: Филологический факультет СПбГУ, 2003. — 608 с. — (Из наследия А. И. Зайцева. Том 2). Книга представляет собой второй том серии «Из наследия А. И. Зайцева». В ней собраны статьи профессора кафедры классической филологии Санкт-Петербургского университета А. И. Зайцева (1926-2000), часть из которых публикуется впервые. Отражая широту...
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Предис. Гасана Гусейнова. — М.: АСТ, 2019. — 1312 с. — (Психология древнегреческого мифа). — ISBN 978-5-17-110464-1. Выдающийся филолог конца XIX – начала XX Фаддей Францевич Зелинский вводит читателей в мир античной мифологии: сказания о богах и героях даны на фоне богатейшей картины жизни Древней Греции. Собранные под одной обложкой, они станут настольной книгой как для тех,...
Предис. Гасана Гусейнова. — М.: АСТ, 2019. — 1322 с. — (Психология древнегреческого мифа). — ISBN 978-5-17-110464-1. Выдающийся филолог конца XIX – начала XX Фаддей Францевич Зелинский вводит читателей в мир античной мифологии: сказания о богах и героях даны на фоне богатейшей картины жизни Древней Греции. Собранные под одной обложкой, они станут настольной книгой как для тех,...
Материалы к лекциям. — Смоленск: Смоленский государственный педагогический университет, 2002. — 31 с. Предлагаемые материалы к лекциям адресованы студентам первых курсов дневного и заочного отделений исторического факультета Смоленского государственного педагогического университета. Они посвящены тематике, которая при чтении курса античной истории, как правило, затрагивается...
Смоленск: Смоленский государственный педагогический университет, 2002. — 31 с. Материалы к лекциям. Предлагаемые материалы к лекциям адресованы студентам первых курсов дневного и заочного отделений исторического факультета Смоленского государственного педагогического университета. Они посвящены тематике, которая при чтении курса античной истории, как правило, затрагивается лишь...
София: Абагар Холдинг; Тайм Лайф, 1995. — 174 с. Одисеята на Александър Велики. Величието на императорския Рим. Стремежът към властта на Изток. Разцветът на Китай.
Пер. с англ. — М. : Альпина нон-фикшн, 2023. — 634 с. В V веке до н. э. в течение долгих трех десятилетий Древняя Греция находилась во власти конфликта не менее драматичного и разрушительного, чем мировые войны XX века, – Пелопоннесской войны. Известный американский историк-антиковед, один из самых уважаемых в мире специалистов по Древней Греции Дональд Каган рассказывает об...
Харьков: Колорит, 2006. — 327 с. История Древней Греции и Рима — один из важнейших этапов развития общества, изучение которого позволяет понять многие события, явления и достижения не только далекого прошлого, но и современной истории и культуры. Это фундамент всей последующей истории человечества.
Харьков: Колорит, 2006. — 327 с. История Древней Греции и Рима — один из важнейших этапов развития общества, изучение которого позволяет понять многие события, явления и достижения не только далекого прошлого, но и современной истории и культуры. Это фундамент всей последующей истории человечества.
Харьков: Колорит, 2006. — 327 с. История Древней Греции и Рима — один из важнейших этапов развития общества, изучение которого позволяет понять многие события, явления и достижения не только далекого прошлого, но и современной истории и культуры. Это фундамент всей последующей истории человечества.
Харьков: Колорит, 2006. — 327 с. История Древней Греции и Рима — один из важнейших этапов развития общества, изучение которого позволяет понять многие события, явления и достижения не только далекого прошлого, но и современной истории и культуры. Это фундамент всей последующей истории человечества.
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Ростов-на-Дону: Южный федеральный университет, 2022. — 146 с. Учебно-методическое пособие по курсу «История Древней Греции и Рима» предназначено для студентов I курса бакалавриата Института Истории и международных отношений Южного Федерального университета.
Учебное пособие. — М.: МПГУ, 2016. — 100 с. — ISBN: 978-5-4263-0432-1. Учебное пособие кандидата исторических наук, доцента В.С. Калмыкова содержит тексты лекций, темы рефератов, курсовых и дипломных работ по дисциплине «Политико-правовые и социокультурные традиции Древности». Представлены контрольные тесты и вопросы к экзамену, даны методические рекомендации для студентов и...
3-е изд. — СПб.: Тип. М. М. Стасюлевича. 1910. — 348 с.
Типологический курс выдающегося российского историка Николая Ивановича Кареева (1850-1931), написанный им для студентов СПб Политехнического института. Первое издание вышло в 1903 г.
Вот что писал об этой книге П.Н.Ардашев (Русское богатство. 1903. №6):
Судя по собственному заявлению автора в предисловии, новая...
М.: Государственная публичная историческая библиотека России, 2014. — 480 с.: ил. — (В помощь студенту-историку). — ISBN 978-5-85209-332-5. Книга знаменитого русского историка и философа Н. И. Кареева (1850 - 1931) посвящена эволюции древнегреческих и римских городов-государств: условиям их возникновения, расширению политических функций, усложнению общественного уклада. Особую...
М.: Государственная публичная историческая библиотека России, 2014. — 480 с.: ил. — (В помощь студенту-историку). — ISBN 978-5-85209-332-5. Книга знаменитого русского историка и философа Н. И. Кареева (1850 - 1931) посвящена эволюции древнегреческих и римских городов-государств: условиям их возникновения, расширению политических функций, усложнению общественного уклада. Особую...
М.: Греко-латинский кабинет, 1993. — 379 с. — ISBN: 5-87245-007-9. В книге рассматривается напряжённый и драматический период в истории Восточного Средиземноморья – завоевание эллинистических государств Римом. Перед читателем предстает эпоха грандиозных войн и интенсивной дипломатической деятельности. Показана специфика войны как основного средства межгосударственных отношений,...
СПб.: Амфора, 2014. — 574 с. — (Новая Эврика). — ISBN: 978-5-367-02933-8; ISBN: 978-5-4357-0288-0. Лев Самуилович Клейн — знаменитый отечественный археолог, историк, филолог, автор множества книг и научных концепций, оригинальность которых постоянно порождает споры в научной среде. Книга «Расшифрованная „Илиада" подытоживает его многолетние исследования, связанные с вопросом о...
СПб.: Амфора, 2014. — 574 с. — (Новая Эврика). — ISBN: 978-5-367-02933-8; ISBN: 978-5-4357-0288-0. Лев Самуилович Клейн — знаменитый отечественный археолог, историк, филолог, автор множества книг и научных концепций, оригинальность которых постоянно порождает споры в научной среде. Книга «Расшифрованная „Илиада" подытоживает его многолетние исследования, связанные с вопросом о...
М.: Наука. 1977. — 240 с. Статьи сборника охватывают различные стороны истории и культуры античного мира Средиземноморья и Северного Причерноморья, Средней Азии и Кавказа. Они посвящены вопросам экономики и социальных связей в античном мире, оценке наследия античности в мировой культуре; исследуется отношение к античности в раннем средневековье и мифология славян; в ряде статей...
М.: Наука, 1977. — 240 с. Статьи сборника охватывают различные стороны истории и культуры античного мира Средиземноморья и Северного Причерноморья, Средней Азии и Кавказа. Они посвящены вопросам экономики и социальных связей в античном мире, оценке наследия античности в мировой культуре; исследуется отношение к античности в раннем средневековье и мифология славян; в ряде статей...
Ленинградский государственный университет им. А. С. Бубнова. Исторический факультет. — Л.: Государственное социально-экономическое изд-во (Соцэкгиз), 1937. — 334 с. С. И. Ковалев занимался проблемами эллинистической и римской социально-экономической истории, вопросами происхождения и классовой сущности христианства. Читал курсы античной истории, историографии, которая в его...
Ленинградский государственный университет им. А. С. Бубнова. Исторический факультет. — Л.: Государственное социально-экономическое изд-во (Соцэкгиз), 1936. — 317 с. С. И. Ковалёв занимался проблемами эллинистической и римской социально-экономической истории, вопросами происхождения и классовой сущности христианства. Читал курсы античной истории, историографии, которая в его...
Ленинградский государственный университет им. А. С. Бубнова. Исторический факультет. - Л.: Государственное социально-экономическое изд-во (Соцэкгиз), 1936. — 317 с. С. И. Ковалёв занимался проблемами эллинистической и римской социально-экономической истории, вопросами происхождения и классовой сущности христианства. Читал курсы античной истории, историографии, которая в его...
Проблемы эволюции общественного строя и международных отношений в истории западноевропейской цивилизации. Сборник статей под ред. Ю. К. Некрасова. - Вологда: Русь, 1997. - С.11-
30. Понятия полис и гражданская община, Понятие гражданин, Античная форма собственности, Земледельческий труд, Военная служба, Политическая жизнь, Государственные органы, Численность гражданского...
Учебное пособие по истории Востока, Греции, Рима, как замечает автор:"...это не новое историческое исследование по источникам, но в методическом отношении совершенно самостоятельный опыт изложения истории на основании лучших научных сочинений по этому предмету, не имеющий себе образца ни в отечественной, ни в иностранной литературе"; книга предназначается для обучения и...
Пер. с англ. А. Л. Андреева. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 223 с. — (Хроники военных сражений). — ISBN 978-5-9524-4444-7. Эдвард Кризи, исследуя вооруженные конфликты Античности, определяет свой выбор самых важных сражений этого периода истории тем, что они позволяют во всех деталях рассмотреть масштабную картину развития человечества. Автор анализирует расстановку политических...
Пер. с англ. А. Л. Андреева. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 223 с. — (Хроники военных сражений). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4444-7. Эдвард Кризи, исследуя вооруженные конфликты Античности, определяет свой выбор самых важных сражений этого периода истории тем, что они позволяют во всех деталях рассмотреть масштабную картину развития человечества. Автор анализирует расстановку политических...
М.: Издательство МГУ, 1990. — 270 с. — ISBN: 5-211-01052-3. В монографии исследуются в теоретическом и конкретно-историческом планах основные проблемы рабовладельческой формации: способ производства, производительные силы, классовая и социальная структура. Основное внимание уделено анализу рабского труда как экономической категории: рассматриваются организация, методы...
М.: Издательство МГУ, 1990. — 276 с. — ISBN: 5-211-01052-3. В монографии исследуются в теоретическом и конкретно-историческом планах основные проблемы рабовладельческой формации: способ производства, производительные силы, классовая и социальная структура. Основное внимание уделено анализу рабского труда как экономической категории: рассматриваются организация, методы...
М.: Издательство МГУ, 1990. — 270 с. — ISBN: 5-211-01052-3. В монографии исследуются в теоретическом и конкретно-историческом планах основные проблемы рабовладельческой формации: способ производства, производительные силы, классовая и социальная структура. Основное внимание уделено анализу рабского труда как экономической категории: рассматриваются организация, методы...
М.: Издательство МГУ, 1990. — 270 с. — ISBN: 5-211-01052-3. В монографии исследуются в теоретическом и конкретно-историческом планах основные проблемы рабовладельческой формации: способ производства, производительные силы, классовая и социальная структура. Основное внимание уделено анализу рабского труда как экономической категории: рассматриваются организация, методы...
Книга "Глобализация и спираль истории" к. э. н. Ю. В. Кузовкова посвящена исследованию проблем современной глобализации и одновременно загадки гибели римской цивилизации в античности. Автор доказывает на фактическом материале, что в античности происходила глобализация, подобная той, что происходит в XXI веке, и что глобализация - явление, возникавшее уже несколько раз в истории...
Пер. с англ. Л. А. Игоревского. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 414 с. — ISBN: 978-5-227-01968-4. Книга известного французского историка Фюстеля де Куланжа посвящена истории древних цивилизаций. Свое исследование автор начинает с изучения религии древних. По его мнению, «верования о душе и смерти» лежат в основе всех обычаев, обрядов, самого образа жизни древнего человека....
Пер. с англ. Л. А. Игоревского. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 414 с. — ISBN: 978-5-227-01968-4. Книга известного французского историка Фюстеля де Куланжа посвящена истории древних цивилизаций. Свое исследование автор начинает с изучения религии древних. По его мнению, «верования о душе и смерти» лежат в основе всех обычаев, обрядов, самого образа жизни древнего человека....
Учебное пособие. – Сыктывкар, 1996. — 90 с.
ISBN 5-87237-134-9
В центре внимания автора – повседневная жизнь человека в древнем мире и, в частности, в античном обществе, его быт, занятия, традиции, которым он следовал, его идеалы.
2-е издание. — Санкт-Петербург: Издание С. Е. Грозмани, 1908. — 100 с.
Введение.
Развитие идеи высшего абсолютизма власти.
Политическое воплощение идеи высшего абсолютизма.
Падение античного абсолютизма.
Указатель литературы.
М.: МГИЭМ, 1998. - 29 с.
В учебно-методическом пособие даются рекомендации по изучению источников и исторической литературы по теме, рассматриваются характерные черты античной цивилизации, обозначены основные моменты исторического пути Древней Греции и Древнего Рима. Пособие может быть использовано студентами технических ВУЗов, изучающими курс Россия в мировой истории для...
Под ред. Ф. Гельбке, Л. Георгиевского, Ф. Зелинского, В. Канского, М. Куторги, П. Никитина. — СПб.: Типография А.С. Суворина, 1885. — IV, 1552 с. A. B. C (Κ, Χ). D. E. F. G. H. I. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. X. Z. Случайно пропущенные статьи. Таблицы греческих и римских мер. Праздники. Параллельное летосчисление. Римский календарь. Русский указатель.
М.: Наука, 1995. - 275 с. ISBN: 5-02-009791-8 В сборнике впервые в отечественной науке поднимается вопрос о роли женщины в эпоху античности. Всесторонне освещается положение женщин в Спарте, Риме времен Ранней республики и начала Империи, в государствах Малой Азии и Северного Причерноморья. Выявляются различные аспекты активной роли женщин в период раннего христианства, в...
М.: Наука, 1995. - 275 с. ISBN: 5-02-009791-8 В сборнике впервые в отечественной науке поднимается вопрос о роли женщины в эпоху античности. Всесторонне освещается положение женщин в Спарте, Риме времен Ранней республики и начала Империи, в государствах Малой Азии и Северного Причерноморья. Выявляются различные аспекты активной роли женщин в период раннего христианства, в...
М.: Наука, 1998. — 526 с.: илл. — ISBN: 5-02-009559-1. В центре внимания ведущих антиковедов России - человек античного мира в его многообразных связях с обществом: социальных, политических и идеологических. На огромном историческом пространстве (от Рима до Понта, от Ольвии и Паннонии до Греции и Египта), на протяжении периода от II тысячелетия до н. э. до V в. н. э., используя...
М.: "Греко-латинский кабинет" Ю.А. Шичалина, 1998. - 427 с.
Происхождение классического воспитания: от Гомера до Исократа.
Гомеровское воспитание. Спартанское образование. Педерастия как образование. «Древнее образование» в Афинах. Новаторство первой софистики. Основоположники классической традиции.
Картина классического воспитания в эллинистическую эпоху.
Культура «пайдейи»....
Минск: БГПУ, 2009. — 194 с.
В хрестоматии подобраны источники по всем темам программных вопросов как вузовского, так и школьного курса истории античности. Включены методические рекомендации по применению способов обработки информации, содержащейся в исторических текстах, анализу произведений античных авторов на основе применения методики ключевых слов.
Адресуется студентам...
Сборник статей. — Под ред. проф. Э. Д. Фролова. — СПб.: Издательство СПбГУ, 2013. — 527 с. Тринадцатый выпуск альманаха «Мнемон» содержит большую подборку статей и материалов по истории античного мира. Исследовательские работы, как и прежде, группируются по четырем разделам: античная Греция, эллинизм, Рим и античная культура. Ряд статей отличаются несомненным новаторским...
Учеб. пособ./ Новосибирск, НГУ, —2005 г., —130 с.
Данное учебное пособие включает в себя рабочую программу, литературу по темам, хрестоматию важнейших первоисточников, а также методические указания к курсу семинарских занятий по истории Древней Греции и Древнего Рима. Пособие предназначено для студентов-историков. Помимо учебно-методического материала в пособие вошли русские...
Шумен, 2004. — 191 с. Додържавна Тракия, Македония и Илирия. Фригия. Древна Македония. Полисът на долонките. Създаване и развитие на Одриското царство. Създаване и укрепване на Гетското царство. Македония и Тракия през V - III в. пр. н. е. Империята на Александър III Велики. Витиния. Тракия и Македония през IV - II в. пр. н. е. Римското нашествие в Тракия и Северната Гетска...
Шумен, 2004. — 119 с. — ISBN 954-577-250-6. Додържавна Тракия, Македония и Илирия. Древна Македония. Държавата на долонките. Създаване и развитие на Одриското царство. Гетско царство. Македония и Тракия през VIII - V в. пр. н. е. Империята на Александър III Велики. Тракия и Македония през III - II в. пр. н. е. Римско нашествие в Тракия. Римска Тракия. Римското политическо...
Шумен, 2004. — 119 с. — ISBN 954-577-250-6. Додържавна Тракия, Македония и Илирия. Древна Македония. Държавата на долонките. Създаване и развитие на Одриското царство. Гетско царство. Македония и Тракия през VIII - V в. пр. н. е. Империята на Александър III Велики. Тракия и Македония през III - II в. пр. н. е. Римско нашествие в Тракия. Римска Тракия. Римското политическо...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 156 с. Древние авторы к числу семи чудес света чаще всего относили египетские пирамиды, висячие сады Вавилона, храм Артемиды в Эфесе, статую Зевса Олимпийского, мавзолей в Галикарнассе, Колосс на о. Родос и Александрийский маяк. Из них до настоящего времени сохранились только пирамиды. В настоящей книге каждому из этих чудес посвящена специальная глава, в...
М.: Наука, 1966. — 156 с. Древние авторы к числу семи чудес света чаще всего относили египетские пирамиды, висячие сады Вавилона, храм Артемиды в Эфесе, статую Зевса Олимпийского, мавзолей в Галикарнассе, Колосс на о. Родос и Александрийский маяк. Из них до настоящего времени сохранились только пирамиды. В настоящей книге каждому из этих чудес посвящена специальная глава, в...
Учебник для студентов высших учебных заведений. — М.: Русь-Олимп, 2007. — 926 с. — ISBN: 5-9648-0026-2. В учебнике по истории древнего мира соединены ранее, как правило, раздельно излагавшиеся история Древней Греции и история Древнего Рима, что подчеркивает целостность исторического процесса. Объединение курсов истории Греции и Рима позволяет органически ввести в орбиту...
Учебник для студентов высших учебных заведений. — М.: Русь-Олимп, 2007. — 926 с. — ISBN: 5-9648-0026-2. В учебнике по истории древнего мира соединены ранее, как правило, раздельно излагавшиеся история Древней Греции и история Древнего Рима, что подчеркивает целостность исторического процесса. Объединение курсов истории Греции и Рима позволяет органически ввести в орбиту...
Учебник для студентов высших учебных заведений. — М.: Русь-Олимп. 2007. — 926 с. — ISBN: 5-9648-0026-2. В учебнике по истории древнего мира соединены ранее, как правило, раздельно излагавшиеся история Древней Греции и история Древнего Рима, что подчеркивает целостность исторического процесса. Объединение курсов истории Греции и Рима позволяет органически ввести в орбиту...
Учебник для студентов высших учебных заведений. — М.: Русь-Олимп. 2007. — 926 с. — ISBN: 5-9648-0026-2. В учебнике по истории древнего мира соединены ранее, как правило, раздельно излагавшиеся история Древней Греции и история Древнего Рима, что подчеркивает целостность исторического процесса. Объединение курсов истории Греции и Рима позволяет органически ввести в орбиту...
М.: Гуманит. изд. центр Владос, 2000. — 448 с. — ISBN 5-691-00450-6. В учебнике для вузов родственные курсы истории Греции и Рима рассматриваются едино, поскольку со II в. до н. э. раздельное изложение истории средиземноморских Востока и Запада просто невозможно. В первой части учебника освещаются врзникновение и упадок Эгейского мира, расцвет критской, троянской и микенской...
М.: Ладомир, 1997. — 1073 с. Описание: Вестник древней истории (общепринятое сокращение — ВДИ, англ. Journal of Ancient History) — важнейший академический советский и российский журнал, посвященный истории древнего мира. В настоящее время издается Институтом всеобщей истории Российской Академии наук. Журнал выходит с 1937 г. (регулярно — с 1946 г.); ежегодно выпускается четыре...
Общая история европейской культуры. Т. II. - С.-Петербург: Издание Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1910. - IV, 710 с. Книга выдающегося немецкого ученого-антиковеда Роберта фон Пёльмана (1852-1914) представляет собою первую крупную научную работу общего характера в области истории социальной жизни и социальных идей древнего мира. Работа Пёльмана - не только изложение результатов своих и чужих...
Доклады XIV Международной конференции античников социалистических стран Эйрене. — Ереван: Издательство АН Армянской ССР, 1979. — 507 с. Welskopf L.E. (Berlin). Menschenbild in der Antike Ботвинник H.M. (Ленинград), Египетский фараон Нектанеб в новой редакции “Романа об Александре" Вулих Н.В. (Ленинград). Образ человека в "Метаморфозах“ Овидия (Кеикс и Галкиона) Гаврилов А.К....
Доклады XIV Международной конференции античников социалистических стран Эйрене. — Ереван: Издательство АН Армянской ССР, 1979. — 507 с. Welskopf L.E. (Berlin). Menschenbild in der Antike Ботвинник H.M. (Ленинград), Египетский фараон Нектанеб в новой редакции “Романа об Александре" Вулих Н.В. (Ленинград). Образ человека в "Метаморфозах“ Овидия (Кеикс и Галкиона) Гаврилов А.К....
СПб.: Наука, 2008. – 416 с. – (Кунсткамера – Архив).
ISBN 987-5-02-025228-8
Настоящим изданием Музей антропологии и этнографии им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера) РАН открывает новую научную серию под названием «Кунсткамера – Архив». Цель серии – ввод в научный оборот работ выдающихся российских этнографов, востоковедов, лингвистов, социологов, специалистов в смежных областях. По...
СПб.: Наука, 2008. — 416 с. — (Кунсткамера – Архив). — ISBN 987-5-02-025228-8. Настоящим изданием Музей антропологии и этнографии им. Петра Великого (Кунсткамера) РАН открывает новую научную серию под названием «Кунсткамера – Архив». Цель серии – ввод в научный оборот работ выдающихся российских этнографов, востоковедов, лингвистов, социологов, специалистов в смежных областях. По...
М.: Издательство "Новый Акрополь", 2012. — 336 с., илл. — (Традиция, религия, культура). — ISBN: 978-5-91896-030-1. Книга рассказывает о феномене античного Мусея – святилища Муз. Автор дает сравнительный анализ всех известных по археологическим изысканиям и памятникам письменности Мусеев античного мира. Мусей в Древней Греции никогда не был просто хранилищем. Античный мусей –...
Монография. — М.: Издательство "Новый Акрополь", 2012. — 336 с., илл. — (Традиция, религия, культура). — ISBN: 978-5-91896-030-1. Книга рассказывает о феномене античного Мусея – святилища Муз. Автор дает сравнительный анализ всех известных по археологическим изысканиям и памятникам письменности Мусеев античного мира. Мусей в Древней Греции никогда не был просто хранилищем....
М., Изд-во ПСТГУ, 2008. – 778 с. Учебное пособие, допущенное Минобразования РФ для студентов высших учебных заведений, посвящено длительному периоду Древней Греции и Древнего Рима, начиная с крито-микенской эпохи (III-II тыс. до Р. Х. ) и кончая падением Западной Римской империи (V в. ). В пособии отражены основные события политической, религиозной, социальной и культурной...
М.: Изд-во ПСТГУ, 2008. – 778 с. Учебное пособие, допущенное Минобразования РФ для студентов высших учебных заведений, посвящено длительному периоду Древней Греции и Древнего Рима, начиная с крито-микенской эпохи (III-II тыс. до Р. Х. ) и кончая падением Западной Римской империи (V в. ). В пособии отражены основные события политической, религиозной, социальной и культурной...
Учебное пособие. — Белгород: ИД «Белгород» НИУ «БелГУ», 2019. — 74 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9571-2720-8. Учебное пособие предназначено для подготовки студентов историко-филологического факультета, обучающихся по направлениям подготовки 46.03.01 История и 44.03.05 Педагогическое образование по профилю «История и обществознание» к практическим занятиям по дисциплине «История древнего...
Монография. — Душанбе: Дониш, 1982. — 62 с.
В работе приводятся и исследуются сведения, касающиеся названия и территории Бактрии - древней страны, находившейся на территории Южных Таджикистана и Узбекистана и Северного Афганистана и упоминаемой в источниках в основном VI в. до н.э. - II в. н.э. В работе тщательно исследуются сообщения греко-римских источников, в том числе и...
М.: Восточная литература, 1997. — 344 с. — ISBN: 5-02-017251-0. Монография представляет собой систематическое исследование всей совокупности античных источников географического содержания, относящихся к Средней Азии Будучи необходимым этапом в привлечении античных источников для реконструкции прошлого Средней Азии, книга дает возможность проследить историю географических...
М.: Восточная литература, 1997. — 347 с. — ISBN 5-02-017251-0. Монография представляет собой систематическое исследование всей совокупности античных источников географического содержания, относящихся к Средней Азии Будучи необходимым этапом в привлечении античных источников для реконструкции прошлого Средней Азии, книга дает возможность проследить историю географических...
М.: Наука, 1977. - 168 с. (По следам исчезнувших культур Востока).
Книга дает развернутую картину жизни народов Ближнего Востока и Греции в VII в. до н.э. - в эпоху оформления гомеровских поэм.
Содержание .
Введение.
История.
Торговля и судоходство.
Военное дело.
Города и дворцы.
Домашняя утварь, обстановка.
Техника.
Народ и семья.
Спорт и физическая культура....
М.: Наука, 1977. — 165 с.
Труд дает развернутую картину жизни народов Ближнего Востока и Греции в VII в. до н.э. - в эпоху оформления гомеровских поэм. Книга будет интересна как широкому кругу читателей, так и специализированным историкам. Но больше скорее последним.
Введение.
История.
Торговля и судоходство.
Военное дело.
Города и дворцы.
Домашняя утварь, обстановка....
Пер. с нем., послесл. А.А. Нейхардт. — Москва: Наука, 1977. — 165 с. — (По следам исчезнувших культур Востока). Книга дает развернутую картину жизни народов Ближнего Востока и Греции в VII в. до н. э. - в эпоху оформления гомеровских поэм. Введение. История. Торговля и судоходство. Военное дело. Города и дворцы. Домашняя утварь, обстановка. Техника. Народ и семья. Спорт и...
Пер. с нем. Послесл. А. А. Нейхардт. — М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1977. — 165 с.: ил. и карт. — (По следам исчезнувших культур Востока). Книга дает развернутую картину жизни народов Ближнего Востока и Греции в VII в. до н. э. — в эпоху оформления гомеровских поэм. Введение История Торговля и судоходство Военное дело Города и дворцы Домашняя...
М.: Наука, 1980. - 200 с. В книге дается популярный очерк более чем тысячелетней истории древнегреческой и римской науки. Характеризуются особенности ранней греческой науки "о природе" и прослеживается постепенное выделение из нее отдельных ветвей - математики, астрономии, биологии. Излагаются важнейшие достижения античной науки в эллинистическую эпоху (III-I в. до н.э.),...
Выходные данные неизвестны. Авторът на тази история, чието ново издание на български език е в ръцете на читателите, е добре познат както на специалистите по антична история, така и на по-възрастното поколение на българската интелигенция. Проф. М. И. Ростовцев е един от най-добрите познавачи на Древността, но бе държан по конюнктурни политически съображения далеч от вниманието...
Учебное пособие. — Казань: Казанский федеральный университет, 2023. — 107 с. Данное пособие предназначено для студентов бакалавриата, изучающих дисциплину «История античности». В пособии представлены методические указания по организации самостоятельной работы студентов: планы практических занятий, тематика докладов, ориентировочные тестовые задания и контрольные вопросы к...
М.: Логос. 2013. — 296 с.: ил. Впервые на материалах письменных, фольклорных и изобразительных источников рассматривается история Фестского диска с древности до наших дней. Показана последовательность авторского метода в определении принадлежности языка диска - от независимой дешифровки (транслитерации) до гипотезы о генетических языковых связях. Дается подробное описание...
Перевод с французского Р. Гальперина. — Харьков: Госиздат Украины, 1923. — 200 с. Наука может изучать явления экономической жизни двумя способами: в их реальном, объективном виде, какими они являются во времени и в пространстве; или в их субъективно-отраженном виде, т. е. какими они являются в изображении и представлении людей, какие чувства они в людях вызывают, и как...
Перевод с французского Р. Гальперина. — Харьков: Госиздат Украины, 1923. — 200 с. Наука может изучать явления экономической жизни двумя способами: в их реальном, объективном виде, какими они являются во времени и в пространстве; или в их субъективно-отраженном виде, т. е. какими они являются в изображении и представлении людей, какие чувства они в людях вызывают, и как...
М.: Наука, 1996. — 348 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-02-009497-8 Книга посвящена социальной, экономической и политической истории Понта от образования независимого государства в 302 г. до н. э. до превращения в римскую провинцию. Рассматривается древнейшая история созданного династией Митридатидов государства, внутренняя и внешняя политика царей в Малой Азии и Причерноморье. Большое место...
Киев: Университетская типография, 1887. — [3], 269 с., 2 л. ил.
Этнографическій очеркъ древней Италіи. В. Петра.
Книжное дѣло у древнихъ Грековъ и Римлянъ. Ѳ. Ярыша.
Вилла Гадріана. Г. Буассье (переводъ).
Культъ Весты въ древнемъ Римѣ. - И. Турцевича.
М.: Издательство Коммунистического университета им. Я. М. Свердлова, 1926. — 268 с. Настоящая книга является вторым выпуском из серии „Документов и материалов по истории развития общественных форм". Представляя из себя учебное пособие для комвузов и вузов, книга может быть использована и для целей самообразования. Для облегчения такого использования в конце книги помещены...
М.: Издательство Коммунистического университета им. Я. М. Свердлова, 1926. — 268 с. Настоящая книга является вторым выпуском из серии „Документов и материалов по истории развития общественных форм". Представляя из себя учебное пособие для комвузов и вузов, книга может быть использована и для целей самообразования. Для облегчения такого использования в конце книги помещены...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2015. — 479 с.
Алексис Бенуа Сойер, знаменитый английский шеф-повар французского происхождения, был величайшим новатором в кулинарии и настоящим «богом плиты». Автор нескольких кулинарных трудов, разошедшихся баснословными тиражами, эту свою книгу Сойер посвятил истории искусства приготовления еды, наполнив ее увлекательными рассказами о нравах и обычаях...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2015. — 479 с. Алексис Бенуа Сойер, знаменитый английский шеф-повар французского происхождения, был величайшим новатором в кулинарии и настоящим «богом плиты». Автор нескольких кулинарных трудов, разошедшихся баснословными тиражами, эту свою книгу Сойер посвятил истории искусства приготовления еды, наполнив ее увлекательными рассказами о нравах и обычаях...
Москва: Вече, 2020. — 398 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN 978-5-4484-1691-0. Родос - не самый большой остров в Средиземном море. Однако расположение на перекрестье морских путей сделало его удобным перевалочным пунктом и лакомым куском для множества завоевателей. Античная Греция, могущественный Рим, пышная Византия, суровые рыцари-госпитальеры, беспощадные турки… Все они и не...
М.: Учпедгиз, 1936. — 244 с. Образование римского государства Географический очерк Италии Легенда об основании Рима Реформа Сервия Туллия Римский государственный строй Происхождение трибуната XII таблиц Римское войско Жрец Юпитера Суеверия римлян «Знамения» перед битвой при Филиппах Римские завоевания Карфаген Государственный строй Карфагена Битва при Каннах Договор Рима с...
Оқу құралы. — Алматы : Эпиграф, 2017. — 152 бет. — ISBN: 978-601-310-265-8. Оқу кұралында Еуропа жеріндегі ежелгі мемлекеттер мен алғашқы өркениет ошақтарының пайда болуы мен дамуының алғы шарттары тарихи заңдылықтар негізінде қарастырылады және ежелгі өркениеттердің жеке региондарға байланысты әртүрлі жақтарына олардың бүкіләлемдік маңызына, Батыс коғамдарының ерекшелігін ашып...
Под ред. В. Н. Талаха, С. А. Куприенко. — изд. 2-е, доп. и перераб. — Киев: Видавець Купрієнко С. А., 2013. — 215 с. : ил. ISBN: 978-617-7085-08-8. Вниманию читателя предлагается второе исправленное издание книги об одной из самых интересных фигур античности — понтийском цере Митридате VI Эвпаторе, который правил в 121—63 гг. до н. э. Книга рассчитана на студентов, аспирантов и...
М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1990. — 250 с. Сборник посвящен актуальным проблемам классической филологии, в основном литературе и языку поздней античности. В него включены переводы некоторых произведений Псевдо-Аристотеля, Диона Хрисостома и Максима Тирского, впервые публикуемые на русском языке. Для специалистов-филологов, историков и философов, а также всех, кто интересуется античной...
София: Св. Климент Охридски, 1997. — 358 с. Книгата е подходяща за студенти от специалности "История" и "Археология", докторанти, ученици от хуманитарните гимназии с насоченост към история, кандидат-студенти.
София: Рива, 2010. — 240 с. Двата стълба на етруската загадка: езикът и произходът Етруският език: Писмеността - Позната писменост на непознат език - Евбейците и тяхната азбука - Първи гръцки надписи - Аристокрация на азбуката, значимост за писаря - Приемане и приспособяване на азбуката - Превъплъщенията на етруската азбука - Езикът - Епиграфската документация - Липса на...
М.-Л.: ОГИЗ Государственное социально-экономическое издательство, 1935. — 293 с. — (Известия Государственной Академии истории материальной культуры (ГАИМК). Вып. 111). «История античных рабовладельческих обществ» А. И. Тюменева представляет собой очерк возникновения, развития и крушения рабовладельческих обществ древней Греции, эллинистического Востока и Рима и предназначена...
М.; Л.: ОГИЗ Государственное социально-экономическое издательство, 1935. — 293 с. — (Известия Государственной Академии истории материальной культуры (ГАИМК). Выпуск 111). Данная книга представляет собой очерк возникновения, развития и крушения рабовладельческих обществ древней Греции, эллинистического Востока и Рима и предназначена для широких кругов читателей. Интерес к...
Курганский государственный университет.
Специальность 030401 "История"
1-й курс.
2-й семестр.
Издательство Курганского государственного университета.
31 страница.
Минск: БГУ, 2019. — 304 c. С позиций современного антиковедения освещены важнейшие процессы, явления, события древнегреческой, эллинистической, древнеримской истории. Особое внимание уделяется становлению, эволюции и кризису социальных отношений в греческих полисах и римском цивитас. Описаны устройства античных государств, основные достижения и особенности античной культуры,...
Барнаул: без издательства, 2011. — 40 с. Дионисий Старший — сиракузский тиран в 405–367 гг. до н.э. — происходил из незнатной семьи. В начале своей карьеры он был одним из командиров в сиракузской армии. В 413 г. до н.э. Сиракузы в союзе со Спартой отразили вторжение Афин, после чего армия Сиракуз отправилась на помощь Спарте. В 408 г. до н.э. карфагенская армия под командованием...
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Ярославль: ЯрГУ, 2021. — 48 с. Пособие содержит базовые рекомендации по освоению курса истории Древней Греции и Древнего Рима. Представлены планы семинарских занятий, отмечены источники и исследовательская литература, необходимые для изучения при подготовке к ним, приведены указания для самостоятельной работы по каждой теме. Предназначено для...
СПб.: Издательство С.-Петербургского университета, 2002. — 324 с. В книге рассматривается недостаточно разработанная в отечественной и зарубежной литературе тема альтернативных неформальных социальных сообществ античного мира. Это и объединения людей, не имеющих гражданства, и союзы честолюбивых политических претендентов, и отдельные группы людей, преследующих цели, не...
СПб.: Издательство С.-Петербургского университета, 2002. — 324 с. В книге рассматривается недостаточно разработанная в отечественной и зарубежной литературе тема альтернативных неформальных социальных сообществ античного мира. Это и объединения людей, не имеющих гражданства, и союзы честолюбивых политических претендентов, и отдельные группы людей, преследующих цели, не...
СПб.: Издательство СПбГУ, 1997. — 244 с. Сборник посвящен не только проблемам античной государственности, полиса или цивитас, но и всей совокупности социально-политических и духовных аспектов античной цивилизации в переломные моменты ее истории. Исследуются такие важные вопросы, как рождение гоплитской фаланги, складывание социальной иерархии в Спарте, прослеживается эволюция...
СПб.: Издательство СПбГУ, 1997. — 244 с. Сборник посвящен не только проблемам античной государственности, полиса или цивитас, но и всей совокупности социально-политических и духовных аспектов античной цивилизации в переломные моменты ее истории. Исследуются такие важные вопросы, как рождение гоплитской фаланги, складывание социальной иерархии в Спарте, прослеживается эволюция...
Коллективная монография. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, исторический факультет, 2010. — 508 с. — (ПРОВΛHMATA. Вопросы античной истории и культуры. Вып. 1). — ISBN: 978-5-91918-062-3. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей коллективная монография посвящена одной из самых важных тем древней истории - античной демократии. Актуальность этой темы объясняется как...
Коллективная монография. — СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет, исторический факультет, 2010. — 508 с. — (ПРОВΛHMATA. Вопросы античной истории и культуры. Вып. 1). — ISBN: 978-5-91918-062-3. Предлагаемая вниманию читателей коллективная монография посвящена одной из самых важных тем древней истории - античной демократии. Актуальность этой темы объясняется как...
Ленинград: ЛГУ, 1967. — 149 с. — (Очерки по античной историографии). Работа представляет собою первый опыт монографического исследования по отечественной историографии античности. В книге подробно рассказывается о развитии знаний об античном мире в России на протяжении 800 лет - с XI до середины XIX века, т.е. со времени первых переводов, выполненных ещё в киевский период, и до...
Монография , СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 1998. — 522 с. Монография дает полное освещение становлению русского антиковедения , его развития с древнейших предпосылок до исследователей конца XX века. Предисловие. Становление русского антиковедения (от древнейших предпосылок до формирования преемственных научных школ в середине XIX в. ). Русское общество и...
СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 1998. — 522 с. Содержание: Предисловие. Становление русского антиковедения (от древнейших предпосылок до формирования преемственных научных школ в середине XIX в. ). Русское общество и античность в допетровское время (XI-XVII вв. ). Исторические корни античной традиции на Руси. Сведения об античном мире в древней и...
СПб.: Типография Б. М. Вольфа, 1906. - 459 с. - (Издание «Популярно-Научная Библиотека»).
Мы намерены указать в предлагаемом сочинении те начала и принципы, которыми управлялись греческое и римское общества. Греки и римляне объединены здесь, в этом исследовании, потому, что эти два народа, составлявшие две ветви одной и той же расы, говорившие наречиями, которые развились из...
СПб.: Типография Б. М. Вольфа, 1906. — 459 с. — (Издание «Популярно-Научная Библиотека»). Введение. Древние верования. Верования, касающиеся души и смерти. Культ мертвых. Священный огонь. Домашняя религия. Семья. Религия была основным началом древней семьи. Брак. Непрерывность семьи; запрещение безбрачия: расторжение брака в случае бесплодия. Неравенство между сыном и дочерью....
Пер. с англ. Л. А. Игоревского. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 414 с. — ISBN 978-5-227-01968-4. Книга известного французского историка Фюстеля де Куланжа посвящена истории древних цивилизаций. Свое исследование автор начинает с изучения религии древних. По его мнению, «верования о душе и смерти» лежат в основе всех обычаев, обрядов, самого образа жизни древнего человека....
Пер. с англ. Л. А. Игоревского. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2010. — 414 с. — ISBN 978-5-227-01968-4. Книга известного французского историка Фюстеля де Куланжа посвящена истории древних цивилизаций. Свое исследование автор начинает с изучения религии древних. По его мнению, «верования о душе и смерти» лежат в основе всех обычаев, обрядов, самого образа жизни древнего человека....
М.: Типо-литография Высочайше утвержденного Товарищества И.Н. Кушнерев и Ко, 1895. — 374 с. Так как здесь предполагается показать, на основании каких начал и законов управлялись общества греческое и римское, то римляне и греки соединены вместе в одном и том же исследовании: эти два народа, ветви одной и той же расы, говорили языками, развившимися из одного общего языка, имели...
Перевод с последнего XIV издания Н.Н. Спиридонова. — Москва: Типо-литография Высочайше утвержденного Товарищества И.Н. Кушнерев и К о , 1895. — VII, 374 с. Так как здесь предполагается показать, на основании каких начал и законов управлялись общества греческое и римское, то римляне и греки соединены вместе в одном и том же исследовании: эти два народа, ветви одной и той же расы,...
М.: Вече, 2019. — 390 с. — (Античный мир). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8054-6. Три великих царства – Боспорское, Каппадокийское и Понтийское – в научном мире представляются в разной степени загадочными и малоизученными. Первое из них находилось в Северном Причерноморье и образовалось в результате объединения греческих городов на Керченском и Таманском полуостровах со столицей...
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2016. — 224 с. Героя этой книги — понтийского царя Митридата VI Эвпатора — называли самым опасным врагом римлян со времен Ганнибала. Царь карликовой причерноморской страны бросил вызов громадной Римской державе и нашел немало сторонников в эллинистическом мире. Ему открывали ворота Пергам и Афины, Пантикапей и Неаполь Скифский. Его союза искали отложившийся от...
М.: Ломоносовъ, 2016. — 224 с. Героя этой книги — понтийского царя Митридата VI Эвпатора — называли самым опасным врагом римлян со времен Ганнибала. Царь карликовой причерноморской страны бросил вызов громадной Римской державе и нашел немало сторонников в эллинистическом мире. Ему открывали ворота Пергам и Афины, Пантикапей и Неаполь Скифский. Его союза искали отложившийся от...
Екатеринбург: Уральский государственный педагогический университет, 2018. — 87 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7186-0995-0. Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для преподавателей и обучающихся уровня бакалавриата по направлениям подготовки «44.03.01 - Педагогическое образование», «44.03.05 - Педагогическое образование (с двумя профилями подготовки)» с направленностью (профилем)...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2006. — 328 с. — (Профессорская библиотека). — ISBN 5-288-03896-1. Лео Штраус (1899-1973) — известный историк политической философии, один из наиболее влиятельных консервативных мыслителей XX столетия. Его работа «О тирании» представляет собой обширный комментарий к диалогу Ксенофонта «Гиерон или Слово о тирании». В книгу входят также критическая...
СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2006. — 328 с. — (Профессорская библиотека). — ISBN 5-288-03896-1. Лео Штраус (1899-1973) — известный историк политической философии, один из наиболее влиятельных консервативных мыслителей XX столетия. Его работа «О тирании» представляет собой обширный комментарий к диалогу Ксенофонта «Гиерон или Слово о тирании». В книгу входят также критическая...
Учебное пособие для студентов исторического факультета. - Новгород: Изд-во НовГУ, 2008. - 196 с. Содержание. Раздел. 1. Средиземноморье в VIII–I вв. до н. э. Очерк политической истории. Греческие полисы (VIII–VI вв. до н. э.). Греко-персидские войны (500–449 гг. до н. э.). «Счастливое пятидесятилетие» Греции (479–431 гг. до н. э.). Пелопоннесская война (431–404 гг. до н. э.)....
Учебное пособие для студентов исторического факультета. — Новгород: Издательство Новгородского государственного университета, 2008. — 196 с. Средиземноморье в VIII—I вв. до н. э. Очерк политической истории. Греческие полисы (VIII—VI вв. до н. э.). Греко-персидские войны (500—449 гг. до н. э.). «Счастливое пятидесятилетие» Греции (479—431 гг. до н. э.). Пелопоннесская война...
Фарн, 1994. — 323 с. — ISBN 5-900461-029-5. Если события древней истории античного мира достаточно хорошо известны и даже вошли в школьные учебники, то о синхронных событиях в глубинах Барбарикума Центральной и Восточной Европы мы знаем очень мало. На основе изучения данных археологии, известий древних письменных источников и в сопоставлении с событиями античной истории автор...
СПб: Фарн, 1994. — 323 с. — ISBN 5-900461-029-5. М.Б. Щукин - специалист удивительного размаха. Мало кому удавалось охватить, реконструировать целую эпоху на территории практически всей Европы. При этом, рубеж эр - эпоха во многом неоднозначная - она предшествует эпохе великого переселения народов. Как только начинаются какие-либо подвижки, как только становится неспокойно, мы...
СПб.: Евразия, 2001. — 448 с. — (Magicum). — ISBN 5-8071-0079-4. Появление текста "Физиолога" связывают с египетским городом Александрия и относят к периоду между II и IV веками нашей эры. С момента его появления и вплоть до наших дней это сочинение вызывает неизменный интерес читателей и исследователей. Вот уже более полутора тысяч лет он представляет из себя некую...
СПб.: Евразия, 2001. — 448 с. — (Magicum). — ISBN: 5-8071-0079-4. Появление текста "Физиолога" связывают с египетским городом Александрия и относят к периоду между II и IV веками нашей эры. С момента его появления и вплоть до наших дней это сочинение вызывает неизменный интерес читателей и исследователей. Вот уже более полутора тысяч лет он представляет из себя некую...
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