Ancient History: to c 500 CE

The culture of ancient Greece was thronged with personifications. In poetry and the visual arts, personified figures of what might seem abstraction...

A historical examination of the administration in Palestine between 100 BC and AD 70. Detailed case studies of such sources as Josephus, the New Te...

Text in German. Trust and the loss of trust are not only omnipresent in modern discourse, but also represent phenomena of timeless significance tha...

Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with...

In Houses in a Landscape, Julia A. Hendon examines the connections between social identity and social memory using archaeological research on indig...

The Realness of Things Past proposes a new paradigm of historical practice. It questions the way we conventionally historicize the experiences of n...

Consensus holds that Lucretius admired the literary prestige of Homeric epos, the form that Ennius famously introduced to Latin literature. However...

The history of the Phoenicians, explorers and merchants, is little known. What a paradox for this ingenious people, who invented the alphabet, to h...