Ancient History: to c 500 CE

A case study in American philanthropy, this book describes the beginnings of the Center for Hellenic Studies, a research institute established in 1...

In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifti...

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans use psychoactive cannabis? Scholars say that hemp was commonplace in the ancient world, but there is no consensus...

This book describes and analyzes the economic and administrative structure as well as the ideological background of the Old Babylonian state during...

From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just...

While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they wer...

Covering material as diverse as curse tablets, coins, tattoos, and legal decrees, Deborah Steiner explores the reception of writing in archaic and ...

How the interactions of non-elites influenced Athenian material culture and societyThe seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the O...

This volume brings together unpublished Italian and Albanian archaeological reports and new archaeological studies from recent fieldwork that throw...

Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible" traces the art and technology of Mediterranean sh...

From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology provides a range of new approaches to key issues in Minoan archaeology, inspired by Profes...

This work is a richly detailed study of the nature and development of the 139 Attic demes, the local units that made up the city-state of Athens du...