Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Romes foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the se...

Romes foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the se...

The history of Roman Classical Literature, although it comprehends the names of many illustrious writers and many voluminous works, is, chronologic...

Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity ...

This is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way, and to explain its relationship to the epic's narrative structure an...

Eusebiuss groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christiani...

Professionalism is political. This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture, dedicated to Au...

Greece and Greek mean different things to different people. The historian, of course, will inform us that all Western civilisation has Greece for i...

Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperia...

Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.? Is history destined to repeat itself? Will bib...

This volume publishes the demotic ostraca discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society in the Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara more than th...

The Goths' sack of Rome in AD 410 was an event which shook the Roman world to its core. This gripping book uncovers the key factors that contribute...

The Codex of Justinian is, together with the Digest, the core of the great Byzantine compilation of Roman law called the Corpus Iuris Civilis. The ...

In this magisterial two-volume book, Pier Luigi Tucci offers a comprehensive examination of one of the key complexes of Ancient Rome, the Temple of...

This collection explores how cognition is explicitly or implicitly conceived of as distributed across brain, body and world in Greek and Roman tech...

Arthur: mythical hero, legendary king. But was he, as the legends claimed, an actual Dark-Age Briton? From Glastonbury and Tintagel to the supposed...