Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Das vorliegende Buch stellt die erste kritische Edition des Kommentars zu einer frühbyzantinischen Kanonessammlung, der Synopsis canonum, dar. Der ...

What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, ensla...

This groundbreaking, five-volume series offers a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of Egypt and Western Asia (the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopota...

This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using mo...

There can be few historical figures who have made such a powerful impact on the popular imagination as the Roman emperor Caligula (died AD 41). Yet...

In late summer 2017, ongoing Turkish excavations at the site of Teos in Ionia uncovered one of the largest and most important Greek inscriptions to...

What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields ...

Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise ...

The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Ma...

Publications of the Babylonian Section, XI, no. 1

From the fourth millennium BCE to the early second millennium CE the world became a world of cities. This volume explores this critical transformat...

Before the Scrolls traces the media history of the biblical prophetic corpus to propose a material approach to biblical literature. Although schola...

Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 1...

The fineness of Roman imperial and provincial coinage has been regarded as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the Roman Empire, with the ...

The 'great man' of later Greek historical thought is the long product of traceable changes in ancient ideas about the meaning and impact of an indi...

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Medi...

This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through fifth-century Rome and medieval Byzantium. Beginni...

This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in which this art was produc...

Writing and the Ancient State explores the early development of writing and its relationship to the growth of political structures. The first part ...