Ancient category: 10855 books
by Jack Pastor
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Land and Economy in Ancient Palestine is a study of the economic crises throughout the Second Temple Period. It establishes that the single factor of the economy which united all aspects of life in ancient society was land.
Through study of a wide variety of sources, including the New Testament and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
As the changes in the traditional family accelerated toward the end of the twentieth century, a great deal of attention came to focus on fathers, both modern and ancient. While academics and politicians alike singled out the conspicuous and growing absence of the modern father as a crucial factor...
by Slepian, Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Examine the lives of commoners and kings from the "Middle Kingdom" with You Are There! Ancient China 305 BC e-Book. Take a tour of the different dynasties and important aspects of Ancient Chinese culture, such as Confucius' sayings, calligraphy, and so much more! This nonfiction reader is...
Scenting Salvation
Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing...
Ancient Geography
The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been...
by unknown authors, retold by W M Flinders Petrie
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Within this small book you will find six distinctive folk tales from the ancient land of Egypt translated and edited by that giant of Egyptology – W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942). Petrie was a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artefacts, so we can be sure...
by Marc Van De Mieroop
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Incorporating the latest scholarly research, the third edition of A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000–323 BC presents a comprehensive overview of the multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East.
Integrates the most up-to-date research, and includes a richer selection of supplementary...
Envisioning the Past Through Memories
How Memory Shaped Ancient Near Eastern Societies
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Memory is a constructed system of references, in equilibrium, of feeling and rationality. Comparing ancient and contemporary mechanisms for the preservation of memories and the building of a common cultural, political and social memory, this volume aims to reveal the nature of memory, and explores...
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy
From the Middle Republic to the Early Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy examines the roles that the home, the garden and the members of the household (freeborn, freed and slave) played in the acquisition and maintenance of good physical and mental health and well-being. Focussing on the period from the middle Republic to...
24 Hours in Ancient Athens
A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through their eyes as it teeters on the edge of the fateful war that would end its golden age. Athens, 416 BC. A tenuous peace holds. The city-state’s political and military might are feared throughout the ancient world; it pushes the boundaries...
The Open Sea
The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean world
In The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing...
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 J. R. Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In Theatre in Ancient Greek Society the author examines the social setting and function of ancient Greek theatre through the thousand years of its performance history. Instead of using written sources, which were intended only for a small, educated section of the population, he draws most of his evidence...
by Josephine Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?
The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search...