Ancient History: to c 500 CE

To anyone scanning the sea from the southern coast of Britain in the year 43 AD, the sight of hundreds of ships appearing one by one as dots on the...

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences. It shows that classical sub...

This volume explores innovative ways of expanding classical languages and cultures to educational and museum audiences. It shows that classical sub...

Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news i...

This volume closely examines patterns of rhetoric in surviving correspondence by the Roman emperor Constantine on conflicts among Christians that o...

Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aris...

This broad-based critical edition is the first-ever modern translation of all of three adaptations of the hagiography of St. Abercius, the 2nd-cent...

This collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars represents a multidisciplinary redeployment of the Aeneid that aims to illuminate its im...

This book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the war cry; the term itself is inadequate for defining an ancient milita...

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary p...

With a novel approach to Aristotles zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, i...

This book showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It comprises Tiziano Dorandis comprehensive new edition o...

Gorgiass Thought: An Epistemological Reading is the first monograph published in English entirely devoted to Gorgiass epistemological thought and p...

This book examines the relationship between mobility, lived religiosities, and conceptions of divine personhood as they are preserved in textual co...

This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine bet...

This book is the first in-depth comparative analysis of envy, jealousy, and vengefulness experienced by divine personalities in the Hebrew Bible an...

This volume examines the power relationships between the rulers of the Late Bronze and Iron Age and their subjects in the Levant through the lens o...

This book analyzes social ideology and social relationships in late Second Temple Judaea, studying a range of archaeological material and sites to ...

This book examines Gore Vidals lifelong engagement with the ancient world. Incorporating material from his novels, essays, screenplays and plays, i...

Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a ne...

Examines the effect of prescribed multilingualism as expressed by women writers in colonial contexts What does it mean to be an heir, as a woman wr...

There are, perhaps, no more contentious issues within the study of Achaemenid Persia than those surrounding its religion(s) and religious iconograp...