Ancient History: to c 500 CE

A scholarly work that explores the self-presentation of some elite members of late Saite Egypt. This study examines the biographies and statues of ...

From the Narmer palette to funerary preparations to pyramids, Steen Bergendorff draws on anthropological insights to provide new interpretations of...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived...

In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the gam...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Coptic emerged as the written form of the Egyptian language in the third century, when Greek was still the official language in Egypt. By the time ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Norfolks spectacular coastline, quaint villages, historic houses, bustling market towns and meandering rivers all provide the perfect backdrop for ...

Hagiographical writing, including the Lives of saints and martyrs and collections of their miracles, were one of the most popular, perhaps the mo...

Incorporating over a century of archaeological research, Greaves offers a reassessment of Archaic Ionia that attempts to understand the region with...

This is the first book for over twenty years to undertake a holistic examination of the Donatist Controversy, a bilious and sometimes violent schis...

A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the p...

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) ist vor allem als Erfinder der Fotografie bekannt. Basierend auf neuen Quellen wird die Leistung Talbots hier ...

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What is known of the expansion of the Roman Empire in Asia and adjacent lands to the East between 133 B.C. and A.D. 285 is presented here in a comp...

This book offers an illuminating re-appraisal of the domestic space in classical Greece. Starting from the premise that we must cease to view the c...

This book offers an illuminating re-appraisal of the domestic space in classical Greece. Starting from the premise that we must cease to view the c...

Rome's first emperor, Augustus, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, has probably had the most lasting effect on history of all rulers of the classica...

This second volume of Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotnys new and updated editio princeps of the inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal p...