Ancient History category: 8298 books
by Matthew Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This volume explores the religious motivations for pilgrimage and reveals the main preoccupations of worshippers in Ancient Greece.
Dillon examines the main sanctuaries of Delphi, Epidauros and Olympia, as well as the less well-known oracle of Didyma in Asia Minor and the festivals at the Isthmus...
by Iain Spence
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
This resource strategically traces Greek warfare from 720 to 30 BC and its specific and extensive details-the wars, the troops, the armor, the military tactics, and other factors either affecting or affected by the wars. Read how warfare evolved during the centuries in ancient Greece from rudimentary,...
by Rodman R. Clayson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Much of what we know today began in Egypt! Out of that ancient civilization, which lasted three thousand years, came the first concepts of the origin of the universe, clothed in a symbology that showed a marvelous insight into natural law. Truth, righteousness, justice, and...
Ancient Perspectives
Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as...
Dangerous Gifts
Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Deianeira sends her husband Herakles a poisoned robe. Eriphyle trades the life of her husband Amphiaraos for a golden necklace. Atreus’s wife Aerope gives away the token of his sovereignty, a lamb with a golden fleece, to his brother Thyestes, who has seduced her. Gifts and exchanges always involve...
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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...
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 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...
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...
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...