Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend provides the first feminist analysis of both the Arthurian section of The His...

Diodoros of Sicily (c.90c.30 BC) spent thirty years producing an encyclopedic compendium of world history from its mythical beginnings to his own d...

Fifth-century Greek tragedy contains some of the most fascinating and important stage-ghosts in Western literature, whether the talkative Persian k...

Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roma...

Ancient Sardis, the capital of Lydia, was of outstanding importance: in the Lydian period it held the residence of the kings and subsequently, unde...

Mit dem früh verstorbenen Hayo Vierck verlor die jüngere deutsche Frühmittelalterforschung einen ihrer innovativsten Vertreter. In seiner bislang u...

Die Bewertung der mittleren Römischen Republik ist in der Forschung umstritten. Inzwischen ist zwar akzeptiert, die Epoche nicht mehr als klassisch...

Terence E. Fretheim has long been a leading voice in Old Testament theology. In this volume, thirty of his classic studies have been gathered toget...

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's hi...

The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemic...

Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According...

In the flourishing revival of commentaries on Lucan's Bellum Civile over the last two decades, Book VIII had not yet received an interest commensu...

In the current revival of studies on Alexander the Great, literature has until now neglected also because of the scarcity of testimonies its poet...

In den gentilen Verbänden der Übergangsphase von der Antike zum Mittelalter ist eine Vielzahl von duces bekannt, die herausgehobene Funktionen hat...

Eine der jüngeren Erkenntnisse der antiken Epigraphik besteht darin, dass Inschriften nicht nur Texte, sondern zugleich materielle Objekte sind, di...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Hinwendung des römischen Rhetorikprofessors und Philosophen Marius Victorinus zum Christentum und seine trinitätstheologi...

What does economics have to do with Christian origins? Why study such a connection? First of all, the New Testament makes many direct references to...

An ancient compendium of ancient philosophy.Placita (Tenets), generally attributed to an author named Aëtius and dating from the late first or earl...