History of Art: Ancient & Classical Art, BCE to c 500 CE

A richly illustrated overview of the current-day knowledge on the textile art of the Nile Valley from the first millennium AD, in response to the 9...

Food is essential to life. To live, we need to eat. Yet eating amounts to a great deal more than biological necessity, since what and how people in...

This book focus on Athenian art in the second half of the fifth century, one of the most important periods of ancient art. Including papers on arch...

A compact edition of this highly acclaimed survey of the Fayum paintings, the enigmatic and compelling funeral portraits created by the inhabitants...

This volume is a catalog of the ancient Egyptian imports and Egyptianizing artifacts found in 1962 during the excavation of a cave near Tsoutsouros...

Inspired by newly discovered antiquities of the ancient world exhibited in the museums of Europe and celebrated in the illustrated press of the day...

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It cover...

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Compo...

For generations maps of the pilgrimage roads and of the reconquista have bedevilled the study of Spanish art and architecture. They have also infil...

Discussions and scientific exchange are crucial for the advancement of a young discipline such as the study of Roman pottery in the Near East. Ther...

Up to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the si...

Stretching across the historical region of Mesopotamia, the Akkadian dynasty (ca. 2334-2154 BCE) created a territorial state of unprecedented scale...

In The Infinite Image Zainab Bahrani maintains that concepts of art and the aesthetic already existed in antiquity, particularly in Mesopotamia, bu...

The four centuries between the composition of the Homeric epics and the conquests of Alexander the Great witnessed an immensely creative period in ...