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 an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Brill Academic Pub, 2012. — 381 p. — (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 records, hydrological data, and recent...
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 Iza...
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...
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. 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...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. (Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World Series). — 320 p. : 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 it...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 migrants...
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,...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 471 p. Description Contents Resources Courses About the Authors 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...
Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xii, 378 p. : 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 235 p. — 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 that mark the end of classical antiquity. As his...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Brill, 2010. — 592 p. 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 late antique religion. Rabbinic and...
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...
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...
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...
Franz Steiner, 2006. 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 Arbeiten zum Christentum, zur Spätantike und zur...
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...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 387 p. — (Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies). 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 historical perspective that exposes readers to the ways insurgency movements and terror...
Walter de Gruyter, 1998. — 326 p. 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 antecedents to the First Punic War of 264 B.C.E. to the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Brill, 2002. — 384 p. 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 could never have thought of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 533 p. — (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 perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both...
Berlin · New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2003. 813 S. Das „Lexikon der antiken Gestalten in den deutschen Texten des Mittelalters" will erstmals einen systematischen Uberblick über die in der mittelalterlichen deutschen Literatur von ca. 1050 bis 1350 genannten mythologischen und historischen Gestalten der griechisch-römischen Antike bieten.
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...
Actes du colloque sur l'esclavage, Iéna, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1981. — Franz Steiner, 1985. Auf Einladung des Zentralinstituts für Alte Geschichte und Archäologie der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR und der Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena fand das Colloque international 1981 sur l'esclavage des Groupe international des recherches sur l'esclavage antique (GIREA) vom...
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."...
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,...
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...
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...
8. vollstandig umgearb. Aufl., hrsg. von J. Geffcken und E. Zeibarth, in Verbindung mit B. A. Muller, unter Mitwirkung von W. Liebenam, E. Pernice, M. Wellmann. E. Hoppe, u. a. Mit 8 Planen im text. — Herausgegeben von B. G. Teubner — Leipzig and Berlin, 1914 (1922) — 1152 S. German Encyclopedia of the Ancient World.
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...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 303 p. — (Impact of Empire). 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 power;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2018. — 456 p. 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 source of valuable information on the impressive...
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...
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. - 809 p. ISBN10: 0684805073 The information in Ancient Greece and Rome is substantially (but not exclusively) a distillation of two previous works, both published by Scribners: Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome (1982), edited by T. James Luce, and Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome (1988), edited by Michael Grant and Rachel...
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...
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...
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...
ISBN: 0-415-00343-1. Year: 1988. The Characteristics of Sibylline Oracls. The Ancient Scholary Sources for the Identity of Sibyls. Archaic Sibyls of Eastern Greece. Cumae. The Sibyl in the Classical Period. The Sibyl in the Hellenistic Period. The Sibyl in Pagan Rome. I. The Theologoi. II. The Libri Sibyllini. III. Ecstatic Prophecy in th Near East.
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. 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 romischen Annalistik - Die Entstehung des romischen Weltreichs im Spiegel der Historiographie - Annales...
New York: Schocken Books, 1995. — 304 p. — ISBN-10: 080521030X; ISBN-13: 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 East...
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...
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: 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 perceived...
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...
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...
New York, NY: Pegasus Books, 2016. — 368 p. : 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,...
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...
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...
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...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 296 p. 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 with a process of state formation, culminating in the...
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...
Brill Publishers, 2010. — 460 p. 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. Ancient writers were...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 257 p. — (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 Macedonian rulers under the Persian kings, as well as the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. — 351 p. The purpose of this book is to present the current state of knowledge regarding peoples known to the Ancient World as Illyrians. During the past two decades a large amount of work has taken place on known prehistoric and historic sites in Albania and Yugoslavia, while many new finds have been reported. Research on the origins...
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...
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