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The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies
Gender, Asceticism, and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The essays in this provocative collection exemplify the innovations that have characterized the relatively new field of late ancient studies. Focused on civilizations clustered mainly around the Mediterranean and covering the period between roughly 100 and 700 CE, scholars in this field have brought...
The Quest for the Good Life
Ancient Philosophers on Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
How should I live? How can I be happy? What is happiness, really? These are perennial questions, which in recent times have become the object of diverse kinds of academic research. Ancient philosophers placed happiness at the centre of their thought, and we can trace the topic through nearly a millennium....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. The Handbook comprises...
Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists
The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including...
by Rachel Ahern Knudsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Traditionally, Homer's epics have been the domain of scholars and students interested in ancient Greek poetry, and Aristotle's rhetorical theory has been the domain of those interested in ancient rhetoric. Rachel Ahern Knudsen believes that this academic distinction between poetry and rhetoric should...
Ancient Egyptians at Play
Board Games Across Borders
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The rich history of Egypt has provided famous examples of board games played in antiquity. Each of these games provides evidence of contact between Egypt and its neighbours. From pre-dynastic rule to Arab and Ottoman invasions, Egypt's past is visible on game boards.
This volume starts by introducing...
The Future Has an Ancient Heart
Legacy of Caring, Sharing, Healing, and Vision from the Primordial African Mediterranean to Occupy Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Feminist cultural historian Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum caps her previous work with The Future has an Ancient Heart, a scholarly study of the transformative legacy of African origins and values of caring, sharing, healing, and vision carried by African migrants throughout the world.
Birnbaum focuses...
Nart Sagas
Ancient Myths and Legends of the Circassians and Abkhazians
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive by a thread. In ninety-two straightforward...
The Adventure of the Human Intellect
Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds.
Borrows themes from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (1946), updating...
by Hippocrates
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply...
by James Harrison, Steve Matthews, Dr Robert Cromarty
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This textbook supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 2, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies:
Period Study: The Julio-Claudian Emperors, 31 BC–AD 68 by Robert Cromarty...
by Brad Kelle
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Complex and unstable, in 922 BC the kingdom of Ancient Israel was divided into Judah, in the South, and Israel, in the North. For the next 200 years, there was almost constant warring between these kingdoms and their neighbors. These bitter feuds eventually led to the collapse of Israel, leaving Judah...
Ancient Egyptian Scribes
A Cultural Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The modern view of the ancient Egyptian world is often through the lens of a scribe: the trained, schooled, literate individual who was present at many levels of Egyptian society, from a local accountant to the highest echelons of society. And yet, despite the wealth of information the scribes left...
by Mark Golden
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern...