Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in...

The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literatu...

Life at Stonehenge

The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavi...

Playful, popular visions of Troy and Carthage, backdrops to the Iliad and Aeneid's epic narratives, shine the spotlight on antiquity's starring rol...

This is the first study of ancient theatre and performance around the coasts of the Black Sea. It brings together key specialists around the region...

In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that hu...

Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females....

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, texts, poems and paintings of the developing empire. Tantalised by...

In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in ...

Ambrose of Milan is famous above all for his struggle with, and triumph over, 'Arian' heresy. Yet, almost all of the evidence comes from Ambrose's ...

What did dreams mean to Egyptian Christians of the first to the sixth centuries? Alexandrian philosophers, starting with Philo, Clement and Origen,...

Strabo's Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the firs...

The oration presented in this volume is critical to our knowledge of Constantine's early career and covers Maximian's rebellion, Constantine's clai...

A lively new translation of Strabos complete Geographyan encyclopedic guide to the ancient world of the first century CEconnecting it with the worl...

Generations of scholars have grappled with the origins of 'palace' society on Minoan Crete, seeking to explain when and how life on the island alte...

Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. ...

In Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily...

Greek artists and architects were important social agents who played significant roles in the social, cultural, and economic life of the ancient Gr...