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The History Press Ltd Prehistoric Cumbria
Book SynopsisCumbria is home to some of Britain''s most breathtaking prehistoric archaeology. King Arthur''s Round Table, for instance, is a spectacular Neolithic henge and the largest of its kind in Britain. Furthermore, Cumbria''s rural landscape has preserved the arrangement of its ancient monuments - some more complete, even, than at Stonehenge. Prehistoric Cumbria is the first book to consider the development of Cumbria from the end of the last ice age until the arrival of the Romans. Famous for its stone axe factories and stone circles this book attempts for the first time to put prehistoric Cumbrian sites and objects into the social context of the men, women and children who used them. Using the latest archaeological research Dr David Barrowclough considers what life was like in the prehistoric past in Cumbria, considering aspects of daily life and death, food procurement, trade, ritual and belief.
£22.50
The History Press Ltd Hadrians Wall Archaeological Walking Guides
Book SynopsisAn expert on Roman frontier infrastructure, he has conducted extensive research of Hadrian’s Wall, and is the author of Hadrian's Coastal Route: Ravenglass to Bowness-on-Solway (also published by The History Press).
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Thomas Nelson Publishers KJV Word Study Reference Bible Bonded Leather
Book SynopsisThe KJV Word Study Reference Bible balances deep study of the biblical languages with clear application to help transform the way you live. Uncover a wealth of meaning in Scripture with more than 2000 Greek and Hebrew word studies.Bring the words of Scripture to life and discover the richness and significance of the original languages of the Word of God. The KJV Word Study Reference Bible includes in-text subheadings and 2,000 easy-to-use word studies with select Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek words explained in every chapter from Genesis to Revelation. By looking into these ancient texts, we are able to read scripture as it was originally written and passed on from generation to generation. In addition, this Bible’s Topic-by-Topic studies give a practical framework for understanding scripture, along with more hel
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Ancient Medicine
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Tuttle Publishing Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis text represents Kuan-Chung Lo's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 AD. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, loyalty and treachery, victory and death that is as important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West.Trade Review"One of the greatest and best-loved works of popular literature." --Dictionary of Oriental Literatures
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Tuttle Publishing Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis text represents Kuan-Chung Lo's retelling of the events attending the fall of the Han Dynasty in 220 AD. It is an epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, loyalty and treachery, victory and death that is as important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West.Trade Review"One of the greatest and best-loved works of popular literature." --Dictionary of Oriental Literatures
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Duke University Press Black Athena Writes Back
Book SynopsisBernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, 'BLACK ATHENA', which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilisation.Trade Review“Black Athena must be the most discussed book on the ancient history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Bible. . . . [It] enjoys such continued attention because it raises important scholarly questions, and because it makes a difficult subject available to a large audience.”—Mario Liverani, in Black Athena Revisited“A fascinating and important debate. As a lay reader I find both the scholarly arguments and the human differences very gripping. Bernal tells the story of the process of academic diffusion very vividly and gives us the kind of background we don't usually discover.”—Margaret Drabble“[F]ew books published about the ancient world since World War II have provoked as much interest both inside and outside the discipline of classics as has Black Athena.”—Guy MacLean Rogers, in Black Athena RevisitedTable of ContentsPreface Transcriptions and Phonetics Maps and Charts Introduction I Egyptology 1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines 2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor II Classics 3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle 4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule 5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall III Linguistics 6. Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum IV Historiography 7. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok 8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers 9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model V Science 10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter 11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science VI Recent Broadening Scholarship 12. Greek Art Without Egypt, Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art 13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age 14. There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth 15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece VII. A Popularizing Effort 16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of Not Out of Africa Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Aeschylus Persians Aris Phillips Classical Texts
Book SynopsisAs the earliest surviving European drama, Persians is of incalculable interest to students of ancient literature. This edition offers facing translation, commentary and notes that focus on the visual and aural effects Aeschylus created, his extraordinarily rich imagery, and the play’s unique contribution to Athenian democratic ideology.Trade Review‘This edition is the most up-to-date scholarly text of Persians now available. Scholars teachers, and students will appreciate in particular Hall’s careful and complete research, evidenced in the excellent introduction, commentary and bibliography as well as in the translation itself; ... An excellent text for Western tradition, history and literature courses. Highly recommended for all academic collections.’Choice‘In short an admirable edition almost convincing that Persians is a good play as well as a useful historical source!’ JACTTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsAddenda 2007Bibliographical Supplement 2007Introduction1. Remember Athens2. Aeschylus3. Persians and Historical ‘Reality’4. Historical Tragedy5. History and Myth6. The Tetralogy7. Political Perspective8. Aeschylus’ Sources9. Religion10. Persians as Tragedy11. Visual and Aural Dimensions12. Imagery13. Style and Language14. The TextIllustrationsSymbols in the ApparatusText and TranslationCommentaryMetrical AppendixAbbreviations and BibliographyIndex
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Quercus Publishing Great Commanders Of The Ancient World
Book SynopsisA magisterial survey of the military giants of the ancient world.Table of ContentsThutmose III. Ramesses II. Joshua Bin Nun. King David. Tiglath-Pilesser III. Sun Tzu. Cyrus the Great. Leonidas. Themistocles. Thucydides. Alcibiades. Xenophon. Philip II of Macedon. Alexander the Great. Hannibal. Scipio Africanus. Judah Maccabeus. Pompey. Julius Caesar. Arminius. Trajan. Zhuge Liang. Alaric I. Aetius. Attila. Further reading. Index.
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens Ancient Corinth
Book SynopsisThis is the first official guidebook to the site of ancient Corinth published by the ASCSA in over 50 years, and it comes fully updated with the most current information, colour photos, maps, and plans. It is an indispensable resource for the casual tourist or professional archaeologist new to the site.Trade ReviewThe authors as well as the ASCSA design team have produced a highly functional guidebook to help lay and professional visitors to engage with the extensive excavated and visible remains. The monuments are brought to life by plans, reconstructions, historic photographs, and color images. This will be an invaluable aid to interpret what can be seen on the ground, and will serve as a model for guides to other archaeological sites. David Gill, BMCR 2018.12.05.
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East Anglian Archaeology EAA 181 An Early Medieval Craft
Book SynopsisAntler and bone objects and waste from Ipswich form one of the largest assemblages recovered from this country. Synthetic appraisal of material from 32 sites enables significant and wide-ranging conclusions to be drawn. Concentration on antler and bone allows a specific, material-based craft to be understood across a long time period.
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Orpington Publishers Chios Homer Put it in Your Pocket Series of
Book SynopsisAbout Homer and Chios, The Izaid, one of the six Greek island booklets. The Odyssey, Goddess Athena, God Apollo and Helen of Troy came to Chios. 'Put in your pocket series'.
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Orpington Publishers Athens The Acropolis All You Need to Know About
Book SynopsisThe king in antiquity. The Birth of Athena, her role as goddess. Early temples, the pantheon. Its marbles, its conversion to a church.
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Orpington Publishers Olympia The Olympic Games Put it in Your Pocket
Book SynopsisThe origins of the Olympic Games in honour of Zeus - The formalities - Prize giving - closed down under Christianity.
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Orpington Publishers Eleusis Demeter and Kore All You Need to Know
Book SynopsisThe myth about the abduction by Hades off Demeter's daughter Kore. How she was allowed back for 8 months of the year but returned to Hades for the other 4 the founding of Demeter's Eleusinian mysteries.
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Orpington Publishers Epidaurus Centre of Healing All You Need to Know
Book SynopsisThe myth of Asclepius booth (god of healing), the expectations of invalids visiting the centre, and the god's miraculous cures, the buildings and the great theatre of Epidaurus.
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Cambridge University Press Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome, integrating literary, documentary, archaeological, and bioarchaeological evidence to provide as full a picture as possible of their importance for the lived experience of people with disabilities in classical antiquity.
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Cambridge University Press The Roman Elite and the End of the Republic
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Cambridge University Press Caesar Rules
Book SynopsisFor centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession was organised. Everyone knew, however, that the emperor held ultimate power over the empire. There were also expectations about what he should do and be, although these varied throughout the empire and also evolved over time. How did these expectations develop and change? To what degree could an emperor deviate from prevailing norms? And what role did major developments in Roman society such as the rise of Christianity or the choice of Constantinople as the new capital play in the ways in which emperors could exercise their rule? This ambitious and engaging book describes the surprising stability of the Roman Empire over more than six centuries of history.Trade Review'Hekster's magisterial survey of Roman emperorship puts the subject on a new footing. Drawing on a wide range of literary, documentary, and visual evidence, it provides a rich and three-dimensional account of emperors in action and in the imagination. It will be of interest not only to Roman historians, but to all students of premodern rulership.' Carlos Noreña, Associate Professor of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley'The emperor was the single most unifying concept in the political imagination of a population of incredible cultural, ethnic and linguistic plurality. Furthermore, communicating the centrality of the emperor to this audience required being attentive to an historical landscape that changed dramatically over centuries. Hekster's new book approaches this important issue with intelligence and circumspection, noting the overdue need for a return to traditional political history, while engaging with the fruitful models of cultural and literary history. As a result, Caesar Rules is a sensitive study that will be of interest to historians, classicists and students of political science for many years to come.' Shane Bjornlie, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College'Pleasingly iconoclastic … this is not just another tired study of the gap between representation and reality in ancient rulership. Working pragmatically with a wide range of sources, Hekster demonstrates how consistent imperial roles and attributes remained over 600 years of Roman history, however variously they were inflected.' Michael Kulikowski, Times Literary Supplement'… Hekster does an admirable job of covering a truly impressive range in almost every aspect of his subject matter, from the materials consulted to the topics considered. As this volume demonstrates, the most powerful office in the ancient world was also its most ambiguous, its holder capable of both appearing and behaving in utterly different ways to different constituencies at different moments in imperial history.' Kevin Feeney, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Emperors and expectations; 1. Portraying the Roman Emperor; 2. Playing imperial roles; 3. Being around the emperor; 4. The emperor in capital and provinces; Conclusions: Emperors in a changing world.
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Cambridge University Press Resetting the Origins of Christianity
Book SynopsisThe author boldly challenges understandings of one of the most momentous social and religious movements in history, as well as its reception over time and place. Provides novel ways of reading well-known major historians (Gregory of Tours, Orosius, Eusebius a.o.) and key texts (Irenaeus, Seneca- Paul letters, NT Gospels, Ignatius).Trade Review'… bold and provocative … There is a great deal to enjoy in Vinzent's panorama of Christian history writing from the sixth century backwards, and it is always worth allowing one's assumptions to be challenged and entertaining a new perspective.' Teresa Morgan, The Tablet'Recommended.' G. M. Smith, ChoiceTable of Contents1. The Romans, Christ, and Paul; 2. 'The older, the better': Eusebius of Caesarea and his construction of early Christian beginnings; 3. The Apostolic and Prophetic Church according to Iulius Africanus, Origen and Tertullian; 4. Scriptures and Tradition in Irenaeus and the Canonical New Testament; 5. The Twelve Apostles – the Praxapostolos, the Epistula Apostolorum, and the Acts of the Apostles; 6. Traditions of Paul and the Ignatian Letters; Outlook: How did it really happen?; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Intertextuality in Plinys Epistles
Book SynopsisEssential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality, in the generic enrichment of Latin epistolography and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. The book also serves as an advanced introduction to Latin prose poetics.Table of ContentsIntroduction Margot Neger and Spyridon Tzounakas; Part I. Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Pliny's Letters: 1. Pliny, Man of Many Parts (Lucretius, Cicero, Valerius Maximus, Tacitus) Christopher Whitton; 2. Intertextuality in Pliny Epistles 6 Roy Gibson; 3. Discourses of Authority in Pliny, Epistles 10 Alice König; Part II. Models and Anti-Models: Pliny's Interaction with Oratory and Natural History; 4. Oratorical Speeches and the Political Elite in the Regulus Cycle Matthew Mordue; 5. Again on Corinthian Bronzes and Vases and on the Use of Cicero's Verrine Orations in Pliny's Works Stefano Rocchi; 6. The Elder Pliny as source of inspiration: Pliny the Younger's reception of the Naturalis Historia and his uncle's writing by the light of a lamp (lucubratio) Judith Hindermann; Part III. Pliny and Seneca: Discourses of Grief and Posthumous Reputation; 7. Pliny's Seneca and the Intertextuality of Grief Michael Hanaghan; 8. Intertextuality and Posthumous Reputation in Pliny's Letter on the Death of Silius Italicus (Plin. Ep. 3.7) Spyridon Tzounakas; Part IV. Pliny's Villas and their Poetic Models: 9. The Villa and the Monument: Horace in Plin. Ep. 1.3 Alberto Canobbio; 10. The Villas of Pliny and Statius Christopher Chinn; Part V. Pliny Turns Nasty: Satire and the Scoptic Tradition; 11. A Busy Day in Rome: Pliny Ep. 1.9 Satirized by Horace Sat. 1.9 Ábel Tamás; 12. Putting Pallas out of Context: Pliny on the Roman Senate voting Honours to a Freedman (Ep. 7.29 and 8.6) Jakub Pigoń; 13. Risus et indignatio: Scoptic Elements in Pliny's Letters Margot Neger; Part VI. Final Thoughts: Discourses of Representation and Reproduction; 14. Pliny's Calpurnia: Filiation, Imitation, Allusion Ilaria Marchesi.
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Cambridge University Press Intertextuality in Plinys Epistles
Book SynopsisEssential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality, in the generic enrichment of Latin epistolography and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. The book also serves as an advanced introduction to Latin prose poetics.
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Cambridge University Press Monody in Euripides
Book SynopsisReveals Euripides' ground-breaking use of monody, or solo actor's song, in his late tragedies. Contributing to the current scholarly debate on music, emotion, and characterization in Greek drama, Claire Catenaccio examines the role of monody in the musical design of Ion, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Phoenician Women, and Orestes.
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Cambridge University Press The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion
Book SynopsisAddresses all those interested in the manifold links between ancient Greek religion and society. Illustrates what can be gained from paying careful attention to the various ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices were encoded in and in communication with their various local environments.
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Cambridge University Press Imagining the Roman Emperor
Book SynopsisA fresh approach to the Roman emperor, the most widely discussed figure and disseminated image in the Roman empire. Panayiotis Christoforou delves into the many underappreciated mythical and fictional stories about the emperor to uncover the perspectives of his subjects, which oscillated between love and hate, fear and reverence.
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Cambridge University Press Sparta
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Section A: Sparta from contemporary Spartan poetry; 2. Section B: historical inscriptions relating to Sparta; 3. Section C: Sparta in religion and religious festivals; 4. Section D: Spartan institutions in theory; 5. Section E: Spartan institutions in practice. 6. Section F: the Spartan mirage; 7. Section G: contemporary Athenian views of Sparta; 8. Section H: an historical overview; 9. Section K: Sparta and Lakonia.
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Cambridge University Press The Remarkable Life Death and Afterlife of an
Book SynopsisWhen we think of Romans, Julius Caesar or Constantine might spring to mind. But what was life like for everyday folk, those who gazed up at the palace rather than looking out from within its walls? In this book, Jeremy Hartnett offers a detailed view of an average Roman, an individual named Flavius Agricola. Though Flavius was only a generation or two removed from slavery, his successful life emerges from his careful commemoration in death: a poetic epitaph and life-sized marble portrait showing him reclining at table. This ensemble not only enables Hartnett to reconstruct Flavius'' biography, as well as his wife''s, but also permits a nuanced exploration of many aspects of Roman life, such as dining, sex, worship of foreign deities, gender, bodily display, cultural literacy, religious experience, blended families, and visiting the dead at their tombs. Teasing provocative questions from this ensemble, Hartnett also recounts the monument''s scandalous discovery and extraordinary afterlife over the centuries.
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Cambridge University Press Josephus Volume 50
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Capital Punishment
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LEGARE STREET PR Ancient Eugenics The Arnold Prize Essay for 1913
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Routledge The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval
Book SynopsisItaly and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean addresses the understudied topic of the Italian peninsula's relationship to the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, across the early and central Middle Ages. The East Roman world, commonly known by the ahistorical term Byzantium, is generally imagined as an Eastern Mediterranean empire, with Italy part of the medieval West. Across 18 individually authored chapters, an introduction and conclusion, this volume makes a different case: for an East Roman world of which Italy forms a crucial part, and an Italian peninsula which is inextricably connected toand, indeed, includesregions ruled from Constantinople. Celebrating a scholar whose work has led this field over several decades, Thomas S. Brown, the chapters focus on the general themes of empire, cities and elites, and explore these from the angles of sources and historiography, archaeology, social, political and economic history, and more besides. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Italy and the East Roman World, 476-1204 Part 1: Sources & Historiography 1. Cassiodorus and the Reluctant Provinciales of Dalmatia 2. Procopius of Caesarea in Renaissance Italy 3. Ambrosio de Morales and the Codex Vetustissimus Ovetensis 4. Constructing the Enemy: Byzantium in Paul the Deacon Part 2: The Exarchate of Ravenna 5. Travels of an Exarch: Smaragdus and the Anastasian Walls 6. Remarks on the Sociocultural and Religious History of Early Byzantine Ravenna in the Light of Epigraphic and Archival Evidence 7. Exarchs and Others: Secular Patrons of Churches in the Sixth to Eighth Centuries 8. The Exarchate, the Empire, and the Elites: Some Comparative Remarks 9. Bishops and Merchants: The Economy of Ravenna at the Beginnings of the Middle Ages Part 3: Ravenna after the Exarchate 10. Renovatio, Continuity, Innovation: Ravenna’s Role in Legitimation and Collective Memory (8th-9th centuries) 11. Thomas Morosini, First Latin Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Ravenna Connection Part 4: Empire & Elites 12. Dux to Episcopus: From Ruling Cities to Controlling Sees in Byzantine Italy, 554-900 13. The Duke of Istria, the Roman Past, and the Frankish Present 14. Hegemony, Elitedom and Ethnicity: "Armenians" in Imperial Bari, 874-1071 Part 5: Elites & Cities 15. What Was Wrong with Bishops in Sixth-Century Southern Italy? 16. Before the Venetians? Evidence for Slave Trading out of Italy, 489-751 17. Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared 18. A Dance to the Music of Time: Greeks and Latins in Medieval Taranto Conclusion: The Study of Empire and Cities in the Medieval Mediterranean: Personal Reflections and Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Military Diasporas
Book SynopsisMilitary Diasporas proposes a new research approach to analyse the role of foreign military personnel as composite and partly imagined para-ethnic groups.These groups not only buttressed a state or empire's military might but crucially connected, policed, and administered (parts of) realms as a transcultural and transimperial class while representing the polity's universal or at least cosmopolitan aspirations at court or on diplomatic and military missions. Case studies of foreign militaries with a focus on their diasporic elements include the Achaemenid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Roman Empire in the ancient world. These are followed by chapters on the Sassanid and Islamic occupation of Egypt, Byzantium, the Latin Aegean (Catalan Company) to Iberian Christian noblemen serving North African Islamic rulers, Mamluks and Italian Stradiots, followed by chapters on military diasporas in Hungary, the Teutonic Order including the Sword Brethren, and the Swiss military.Table of Contents0. Introduction 1. Military Diasporas in an Achaemenid Perspective 2. Immigrant Soldiers and Ptolemaic Policy in Hellenistic Egypt (Late Fourth Century–30 BCE): Reflections on a Military Diaspora and Its Components 3. Syrian Recruits and Units in the Roman Army: A Military Diaspora? 4. Participants in the Emperor’s Glory: The Statues for Generals in Late Antique Rome 5. The Persian and Arab Occupations of Egypt in the Seventh Centur 6. Alexios, Emperor of the Diasporas? Komnenian Revolt of 1081 and the Foreign Military Groups in Byzantium 7. The Catalan Company as a Military Diasporic Group in Medieval Greece 8. Christian Expatriates in Muslim Lands: The Many Roles of Aragonese Mercenaries in Medieval Northern Africa 9. Professional Turks or Military Diaspora? The Mamluks and Dynamics of Ethnicity in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria 10. Stradioti: A Balkan Military Diaspora in Early Modern Europe 11. Military Auxiliaries in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Hungary: Nomads vs. Crusader Knights 12. Medieval Queens and the Diaspora of Escort, Conquest, the Crusades and Military Orders 13. Encountering the Heathen on the Baltic Frontier: The Order of the Sword Brethren and the Teutonic Order in Thirteenth-Century Livonia 14. A Military Diaspora in Medieval Christendom: The Teutonic Order 15. The Cold Winter Campaign of 1511: Swiss Military Autonomy and Heteronomy during the Transalpine Campaigns
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Taylor & Francis The War Cry in the GraecoRoman World
Book SynopsisThis book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the war cry; the term itself is inadequate for defining an ancient military practice that has been misrepresented in modern media and understudied by contemporary scholars.Gersbach introduces the term and paradigm battle expression to replace war cry, which acknowledges the variety of undertakings, visual and sonic, that military forces from the Graeco-Roman world presented on the battlefield before, during or after battle. The battle expression was sophisticated in nature; it could include significant cultural song or dance that required high levels of rehearsal and execution. Conversely, battle expression types demonstrated spontaneous wit and humour on the part of a military force that aimed to capitalise on the experiences of a battle. These performances served a variety of purposes outside of instilling group cohesion among the participants and to intimidate the onlooking enemy. This book associate
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Taylor & Francis Carthaginians and Sicily
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Taylor & Francis Personal Experience and Materiality in Greek
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Taylor & Francis The Greeks
Book SynopsisThis fully revised, new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilisation from the age of Homer to the Hellenistic period.It opens with an overview of ancient historical sources and their authors and perspectives before delving into early history, legends and excavations, and the famed age of classical Greece. Chapters follow on politics, religion, daily life, literature, philosophy, and art and architecture, with a concluding chapter on the Greek world following the death of Alexander the Great and during the Roman era. This new edition features: greater discussion of underrepresented groups, especially women and slaves; a chapter on ancient politics that provides a comparison of an ancient aristocracy, democracy, and monarchy in Sparta, Athens, and Macedon; new and revised images, all now with d
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Taylor & Francis Aristotle on Natural Simultaneity of Relatives in
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the issue of natural simultaneity of relatives, discussed by Aristotle in Categories 7, 7b15â 8a12. Natural simultaneity is a form of symmetrical ontological dependence that holds between items that are not causally linked. In this section of the Categories, Aristotle introduces this topic in his analysis of relatives and maintains that although relatives seem to be for the most part simultaneous by nature, there seem to be some exceptions. He mentions two pairs of relatives as exceptions, namely the pairs knowledge/knowable and perception/perceptible, and argues at length for the priority of the second relative over the first one in each case. Through a close reading of this text, the author analyses Aristotleâs arguments for the thesis of the exceptional character of these pairs and shows that all of them are unsuccessful in supporting the thesis. In order to draw this conclusion, the author highlights and carefully considers the properties that A
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Taylor & Francis Two Anonymous Byzantine Romances about the Trojan War
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Cataphracts
Book SynopsisCataphracts were the most heavily armoured form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armour. Originating among the wealthiest nobles of various central Asian steppe tribes, such as the Massegatae and Scythians, they were adopted and adapted by several major empires. The Achaemenid Persians, Seleucids, Sassanians and eventually the Romans and their Byzantine successors. Usually armed with long lances, they harnessed the mobility and mass of the horse to the durability and solid fighting power of the spear-armed phalanx. Although very expensive to equip and maintain (not least due to the need for a supply of suitable horses), they were potential battle winners and remained in use for many centuries. Erich B Anderson assesses the development, equipment, tactics and combat record of cataphracts (and the similar clibinarii), showing also how enemies sought to counter them. This is a valuable study of one of the most interesting weapon systems of the ancient world.
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Cambridge University Press Hesiod Theogony
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Cambridge University Press Slavery in the Late Roman World AD 275425
Book SynopsisCapitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave system from its early medieval successors. In the process, he covers the economic, social and institutional dimensions of ancient slavery and presents the most comprehensive analytical treatment of a pre-modern slave system now available. By scouring the late antique record, he has uncovered a wealth of new material, providing fresh insights into the ancient slave system, including slavery's role in agriculture and textile production, its relation to sexual exploitation, and the dynamics of social honor. By demonstrating the vitality of slavery into the later Roman empire, the author shows that Christianity triTable of ContentsPart I. The Economy of Slavery: Introduction; 1. Among slave systems: a profile of late Roman slavery; 2. The endless river: the supply and trade of slaves; 3. Oikonomia: households, consumption, and production; 4. Agricultural slavery: exchange, institutions, estates; Part II. The Making of Honorable Society: Introduction; 5. Semper timere: the aims and techniques of domination; 6. Self, family, and community among slaves; 7. Sex, status, and social reproduction; 8. Mastery and the making of honor; Part III. The Imperial Order: Introduction; 9. Citizenship and litigation: slave status after the Antonine constitution; 10. The enslavement of Mediterranean bodies: child exposure and child sale; 11. The community of honor: the state and sexuality; 12. Rites of manumission, rights of the freed; Conclusion: Roman slavery, proto-modernity, and the end of antiquity; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire
Book SynopsisExplores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation. These encompass the affirmation of identity via language choice, the use of genre, the negotiation of identity, and religion.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Articulating resistance Daniel Jolowicz and Jaś Elsner; Part I. Language and Identity: 1. Linguistic resistance to Rome: A reappraisal of the epigraphic evidence Katherine McDonald and Nicholas Zair; Part II. Genres of Literary Resistance: 2. Courtroom rhetoric in imperial and late antique philosophical dialogues Dawn LaValle Norman; 3. Greek declamation and the art of resistance Will Guast; 4. Plutarch's parallelism and resistance Eran Almagor; 5. A glitch in the matrix: Aphrodisias, Rome and imperial Greek fiction Daniel Jolowicz; Part III. Identity Negotiation: 6. Portraying power: Lucian's imagines and Marcus Aurelius' meditations Nicolò D'Alconzo; 7. Satire and the polis in Lucian's Timon or The Misanthrope Aneurin Ellis-Evans; Part IV. Religion and Resistance: 8. Anti-Roman Sibyl(s) Helen Van Noorden; 9. Traditions of resistance in Greco-Egyptian narratives Ian Rutherford; 10. Julian the emperor and the reaction against Christianity: A case study of resistance from the top Lea Niccolai; Epilogue: Resisting resistance Simon Goldhill.
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Cambridge University Press Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire
Book SynopsisExplores the diverse strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political domination of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation. These encompass the affirmation of identity via language choice, the use of genre, the negotiation of identity, and religion.
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Cambridge University Press Pliny the Elders World
Book SynopsisThis new translation of the Natural History's opening books lets readers immerse themselves in the natural world and universe as seen by Romans and absorbed by Western scholars through the Renaissance. Pliny's wide range of knowledge, his quirky style and frank opinions command attention, even awe, throughout.
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Cambridge University Press Sappho and Homer
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great
Book SynopsisA lucid introduction to the life and career of one of the most significant figures in world history. A geographically articulated biography is followed by studies of the key themes of his campaign and analyses of ways in which the king's image was presented and manipulated in antiquity itself.Table of ContentsI. Alexander's Life and Career: 1. Alexander's Birth and Childhood Daniel Ogden; 2. The Crises Leading up to Alexander's Accession Daniel Ogden; 3. Alexander and the Greeks Borja Antela Bernárdez; 4. To the Ends of the World: What the Campaign was All About Ed Anson; 5. Alexander and Egypt. Timothy Howe; 6. Alexander and the Persian. Empire Sabine Müller; 7. Alexander and India Richard Stoneman; 8. Death, Burial, Last Plans and Aftermath Joseph Roisman; II. Contexts: 9. Macedon Carol J. King; 10. Kingship Bill Greenwalt; 11. Court and Companions Jeanne Reames; 12. Changes and Challenges at Alexander's Court Jeanne Reames; 13. The Women of Alexander's Court Elizabeth Carney; 14. Religion Hugh Bowden; 15. Army and Warfare Carolyn Willekes; 16. Alexander's Modern Military Reputation F. S. Naiden; 17. Finance and Coinage Kyle Erickson; 18. Administration Maxim Kholod; 19. Geography, Science and Knowledge of the World Ignacio Molina Marín; III. The Historical and Biographical Tradition: 20. Arrian's Alexander Daniel W. Leon; 21. Plutarch's Alexander Philip Bosman; 22. Curtius' Alexander Elizabeth Baynham; 23. Ptolemy and Aristobulus Frances Pownall; 24. Clitarchus' Alexander Luisa Prandi; 25. Callisthenes, Chares, Nearchus, Onesicritus and the Mystery of the Royal Journal Christian Djurslev; IV. The Ancient World's Memory of Alexander: 26. The Successors and the Image of Alexander Daniel Ogden; 27. Alexander and the Roman Emperors Sulochana Asirvatham; 28. The Alexander Romance Christian Djurslev; 29. Alexander in Jewish and Early Christian Literature Aleksandra Kleczar; 30. Alexander in Ancient Art Agnieszka Fulińska; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Future of Rome
Book SynopsisHow was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined by different populations living under the Roman Empire? It emerges from this collection of essays by a distinguished international team of scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians had strikingly different answers to that question, revealing profound differences in their conceptions of history and historical time, the purpose of history, the meaning of written words and oral traditions. It is also argued that practically no one living under Rome''s rule, including the Romans themselves, did not think about the question in one form or another.Trade Review'Recommended.' A. J. Papalas, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Some remarks on Cicero's perception of the future of Rome Carlos Lévy; 2. , Eclogue 4 and the Futures of Rome Brian W. Breed; 3. Lushkov, Imperium sine fine: Rome's Future in Augustan Epic Ayelet Haimson; 4. Posterity in the Arval Acta Greg Woolf; 5. The Future of Rome in Three Greek Historians of Rome Jonathan J. Price; 6. Philo on the Impermanence of Empires Katell Berthelot; 7. From Human Freedom to Divine Intervention: Agrippa II's Address on the Eve of the Jewish War Samuele Rocca; 8. Josephus, Caligula and the Future of Rome Jonathan Davies; 9. “Will this one never be brought down?”: Reflections of Jewish hopes for the downfall of the Roman Empire in biblical exegesis Vered Noam; 10. The Sibylline Oracles and Resistance to Rome Erich S. Gruen; 11. Revelation 17.1–19.10: A Prophetic Vision of the Destruction of Rome Peter Oakes; 12. Cicero and Virgil in the Catacombs: Pagan Messianism and Monarchic Propaganda in Constantine's Oration to the Assembly of Saints Marko Marinčič; 13. The Future of Rome after 410 CE: The Latin Conceptions (410-480 CE) Hervé Inglebert.
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