Ancient History: to c 500 CE

This broad-based critical edition is the first-ever modern translation of all of three adaptations of the hagiography of St. Abercius, the 2nd-cent...

This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid that aims to illuminate its im...

This book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the war cry; the term itself is inadequate for defining an ancient milita...

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary p...

With a novel approach to Aristotles zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, i...

This book showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It comprises Tiziano Dorandis comprehensive new edition o...

Gorgiass Thought: An Epistemological Reading is the first monograph published in English entirely devoted to Gorgiass epistemological thought and p...

This book examines the relationship between mobility, lived religiosities, and conceptions of divine personhood as they are preserved in textual co...

This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine bet...

This book is the first in-depth comparative analysis of envy, jealousy, and vengefulness experienced by divine personalities in the Hebrew Bible an...

This volume examines the power relationships between the rulers of the Late Bronze and Iron Age and their subjects in the Levant through the lens o...

This book analyzes social ideology and social relationships in late Second Temple Judaea, studying a range of archaeological material and sites to ...

This book examines Gore Vidals lifelong engagement with the ancient world. Incorporating material from his novels, essays, screenplays and plays, i...

Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a ne...

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman wr...

There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surrounding its religion(s) and religious iconograp...

The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemic...

In 1995 Jeremy B. Rutter presented the pottery of the Fourth Settlement at Lerna in Lerna III: The Pottery of Lerna IV. The present volume is the c...

Die verschiedenen fachwissenschaftlichen Gesprächsgänge über Zeit-Konzepte, Zeit-Vorstellungen und Zeit-Empfindungen werden normalerweise eher getr...

Weseretkau Mighty of Kas, honours the life and career of Professor Cathleen Candy Keller, a truly extraordinary teacher, scholar, Egyptologist, and...

The cross-cultural studies in this volume reexamine the role of irrigation in early states. Ranging geographically from South America and the south...