Ancient History: to c 500 CE

The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this bo...

This is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the contemporaries and successors of ...

This is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the contemporaries and successors of ...

The city on the Kerkenes Da in the high plateau of central Turkey was a new Iron Age capital, very probably Pteria. Founded in the later seventh ce...

For Socrates, philosophy, was the study of how to lead one's life, and for Wittgenstein, `philosophy leaves everything as it is.' Throughout this b...

For centuries into the Common Era, Christians faced social ostracism and suspicion from neighbors and authorities alike. At times, this antipathy e...