Ancient History: to c 500 CE

About Aaron Poochigians translation Aristophanes was a funny, often obscene social commentator, and he was also a brilliantly fluent, wide-ranging ...

The eighth century was a turbulent time for Byzantium. Beset by war, plague and religious division, this remnant of the Rome fought for survival. S...

Our lives are filled with objectsones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value....

On the Origins of Judaism examines the formation of one of the oldest monotheistic religions. The book covers a diverse range of themes: the identi...

Tell el-Hesi is located near the modern city of Qiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel, 23 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea. The site, ...

Roman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in bu...

During the Egyptian Old Kingdom (2650-2135 BC), the most impressive of all monuments were built in the form of the pyramids and their associated te...

Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volumes subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespear...

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social...

Imperial Cults is a comparative study of the transformation of imperial religion and imperial authority in the early Han and Roman empires. During ...

This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetoric...

Expertly taking readers through one of the most transformative periods in Ancient Egypt, Robert Morkot demonstrates how, under the pharaohs of the ...

The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a gre...

The book explores the hitherto rarely discussed connection of magic with politics in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, o...

#1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZONThe Great Roman Empire was no stranger to rebellions, but who were the rebels behind these lost causes, and what fueled the...

#1 NEW RELEASE ON AMAZONThe Great Roman Empire was no stranger to rebellions, but who were the rebels behind these lost causes, and what fueled the...

This volume discusses the main excavations at Neolithic Çatalhöyük East undertaken from 2009 to 2017. The site is well known because of its large s...