Ancient History: to c 500 CE

Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations   The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled per...

Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, man...

James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to texts essential for understanding the peop...

Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites figh...

Byzantine poetry of the eleventh century is fascinating, yet underexplored terrain. It presents a lively view on contemporary society, is often per...

The contributions to this volume represent a range of case studies that provide perspectives on the question of how deeply Hellenic influence penet...

What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. ...

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent context...

Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in...

This novel work uses case studies of both familiar and unfamiliar materials, expanding consideration of ancient Egyptian elite culture to encompass...

The first book length study of the motif of impotency in poetry from early antiquity through to the late Restoration, this book explores the impote...

This book explores the ways in which statues have been experienced in public in different cultures and the role that has been played by statues in ...

Being a Man is a formative work which reveals the myriad and complex negotiations for constructions of masculine identities in the greater ancient ...

First published in 1904, this volume began what was to be the magnum opus of the highly regarded Classical scholar, A.H.J. Greenidge. Though publis...

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and th...

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of...

This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the...

The contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transformed knowledge across t...

The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre.This v...

The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, te...

Prayer and Worship in Eastern Christianities, 5th to 11th Centuries forges a new conversation about the diversity of Christianities in the medieval...

This title was first published in 2002: This volume focuses on the Roman provinces of Syria and Arabia, above all the lands now within Lebanon, Syr...

From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be ...

Fossils of Arabia explores how Arabian palaeontology has contributed to our understanding of the story of life, from its earliest beginnings to the...

This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers ...

The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed in the widest possible global historical perspective with comparison of New World...

This book was first published in 2003.Paul Speck's work is acknowledged to be of profound importance for the study of the history and culture of th...

This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an innovative, remarkably viv...

Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared reg...

The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Ma...

Human olfaction the sense of smell enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments mor...