Ancient history Books
OUP USA Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Book SynopsisThe study of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture has a long history that goes back to the second half of the 18th century and has provided an essential contribution towards the creation and the definition of the wider disciplines of Art History and Architectural History. This venerable tradition and record are in part responsible for the diffused tendency to avoid general discussions addressing the larger theoretical implications, methodologies, and directions of research in the discipline. This attitude is in sharp contrast not only with the wider field of Art History, but also with disciplines that are traditionally associated with the study of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, like Classics and Classical Archaeology. In recent years, the field has been characterized by an ever-increasing range of approaches, under the influence of various disciplines such as Sociology, Semiotics, Gender Theory, Anthropology, Reception Theory, and Hermeneutics. In light of these recent developmeTrade Review...the volume is much broader, more political, cultural, social and theoretical than aesthetical * Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Ancient West and East (AWE) *Table of ContentsContributors ; Abbreviations and Spelling Norms ; Introduction ; Clemente Marconi ; Part I Pictures from the Inside ; 1. Greek and Roman Theories of Art ; Deborah Steiner ; 2. Greek and Roman Architectural Theory ; Mark Wilson Jones ; 3. Greek and Roman Specialized Writing on Art and Architecture ; Francesco de Angelis ; 4. Greek and Roman Images of Art and Architecture ; Maryl Gensheimer ; Part II Greek and Roman Art and Architecture in the Making ; 5. Greek and Roman Artists ; Rainer Vollokommer ; 6. Greek and Roman Architects ; Henner von Hesberg ; 7. The Patronage of Greek and Roman Art ; Eric Varner ; 8. The Patronage of Greek and Roman Architecture ; Bonna Wescoat ; 9. The Materials and Techniques of Greek and Roman Art ; Kenneth Lapatin ; 10. The Materials, and Techniques of Greek and Roman Architecture ; Pier Luigi Tucci ; Part III Ancient Contexts ; 11. The City in the Greek and Roman World ; Jamieson C. Donati ; 12. The Functions of Greek Art ; Olga Palagia ; 13. The Functions of Roman Art ; Paul Zanker ; 14. Buildings, Images, and Rituals in the Greek World ; Joannis Mylonopoulos ; 15. Buildings, Images, and Rituals in the Roman World ; Richard Neudecker ; 16. The Roman Reception of Greek Art and Architecture ; Rachel Kousser ; 17. Roman Art and Architecture in the Provinces and beyond the Roman World ; Natalie Kampen ; Part IV Post-Antique Contexts ; 18. The Post-Antique Reception of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture ; Lucia Faedo ; 19. The Historiography of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture ; Alice A. Donohue ; 20. Conserving Greek and Roman Architecture ; John H. Stubbs ; 21. Displaying Greek and Roman Art and Architecture in Modern Museums ; Beth Cohen ; 22. Greek and Roman Art and the Debate about Cultural Property ; Margaret M. Miles ; Part V Approaches ; 23. Connoisseurship ; Adolf H. Borbein ; 24. Formal Approaches ; Christian Kunze ; 25. Iconographical and Iconological Approaches ; Cornelia Isler-Kerenyi ; 26. Socio-Historical Approaches ; Burkhard Fehr ; 27. Gender Studies ; Caroline Vout ; 28. Anthropological Approaches ; Gloria Ferrari ; 29. Theories of Reception ; Michael Squire ; 30. Semiotics to Agency ; Tonio Holscher ; Index
£155.00
Oxford University Press Turia
Book SynopsisThe civil wars that brought down the Roman Republic were fought on more than battlefields. Armed gangs infested the Italian countryside, in the city of Rome mansions were besieged, and bounty-hunters searched the streets for public enemies.Among the astonishing stories to survive from these years is that of a young woman whose parents were killed, on the eve of her wedding, in the violence engulfing Italy. While her future husband fought overseas, she staved off a run on her father''s estate. Despite an acute currency shortage, she raised money to help her fiancé in exile. And when several years later, her husband, back in Rome, was declared an outlaw, she successfully hid him, worked for his pardon, and joined other Roman women in staging a public protest.The wife''s tale is known only because her husband had inscribed on large slabs of marble the elaborate eulogy he gave at her funeral. Though no name is given on the inscriptions, starting as early as the seventeenth century, scholarTrade ReviewOsgood skillfully interweaves the story of the unnamed wife (Turia) with those of other prominent women, mostly from senatorial families, and allows the experience of each individual woman to inform that of others, using both comparisons and contrasts. In this way this discussion offers far more than a single biographical sketch; rather, it explores the huge cultural changes of these years in terms of the experiences of two generations of elite Roman women. Insightful treatments of most of the prominent women whom we know about in the mid to late first century BC encourage a whole new way of looking at Roman women, their social and political roles. Meanwhile, Osgood's analysis of the famous inscription itself is fresh, lucid, and flawless. * Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University *In this wonderfully learned and beautifully written book, Josiah Osgood enables his readers to feel the transition from the Republic to Empire through the experience of a woman of astonishing determination, a woman who survived tragedy and abuse to save her husband and family from great wrongs. Viewing the period from this unique perspective, Osgood has brought these troubled years to life in an original, persuasive, and deeply humane way. * David Potter, University of Michigan *a fascinating book ... a wealth of information. * Cath Milnes, Classics for All *Osgood succeeds in expanding traditional perspectives on the social positions and attitudes of the commemorated Roman woman and her unnamed commemorator as well as our knowledge of the experiences and attitudes of elite Roman women and men living during a period of significant political and social transition. * Peter Keegan, Sehepunkte. *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; List of Illustrations, Tables, and Map ; Prologue ; 1 Father's Death ; 2 The Fiance ; 3 At the Tribunal of Lepidus ; 4 Children Hoped-for ; 5 Preparing for Death ; 6 Between the Torches ; 7 Missing Pieces, Other Pieces ; 8 The Monument Itself ; Appendix 1: A Brief Note on Chronology ; Appendix 2: Reading Text and Translation ; Bibliography ; Index
£38.94
OUP USA The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology
Book SynopsisThousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge of many aspects of life in the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology provides an introduction to the world of these ancient documents and literary texts, ranging from the raw materials of writing to the languages used, from the history of papyrology to its future, and from practical help in reading papyri to frank opinions about the nature of the work of papyrologists. This volume, the first major reference work on papyrology written in English, takes account of the important changes experienced by the discipline within especially the last thirty years. Including new work by twenty-seven international experts and more than one hundred illustrations, The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology will serve as an invaluable guide to the subject.Trade ReviewThe Oxford Handbook of Papyrology is a wonderful volum? * a celebration of a vast and important discipline written by experts drawn from every part of it. This immense progress in our knowledge is laid out lucidly and presented in a very lively manner by a team of international contributors. The volume is well organized and well-indexed; its contents document a great broadening in the scope of papyrology over the past fifty years.Richard Janko, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsContributors ; Figures ; Abbreviations ; Internet Resources ; Introduction, Roger S. Bagnall ; 1. Writing Materials in the Ancient World, Adam Bulow-Jacobsen ; 2. The Finds of Papyri, Helene Cuvigny ; 3. The History of the Discipline, James G. Keenan ; 4. Conservation of Ancient Papyrus Materials, Jaakko Frosen ; 5. Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri, Guglielmo Cavallo ; 6. The Greek and Latin Languages in the Papyri, Eleanor Dickey ; 7. Abbreviations and Symbols, Nikolaos Gonis ; 8. Practical Help, Roger S. Bagnall ; 9. Editing a Papyrus, Paul Schubert ; 10. Archives and Dossiers, Katelijn Vandorpe ; 11. The Ancient Book, William A. Johnson ; 12. Papyrology and Ancient Literature, Timothy T. Renner ; 13. The Special Case of Herculaneum, David Sider ; 14. Education in the Papyri, Raffaella Cribiore ; 15. Mathematics, Science and Medicine in the Papyri, Alexander Jones ; 16. The Range of Documentary Texts, Bernhard Palme ; 17. The Multilingual Environment of Persian and Ptolemaic Egypt, Dorothy J. Thompson ; 18. The Multilingual Environment of Late Antique Egypt , Jean-Luc Fournet ; 19. Arabic Papyri and Islamic Egypt, Petra M. Sijpesteijn ; 20. The Papyrology of the Near East, Jean Gascou ; 21. Writing Histories from the Papyri, Todd M. Hickey ; 22. Geography and Administration in Egypt, Maria Rosaria Falivene ; 23. Law in Greco-Roman Egypt, Uri Yiftach-Firanko ; 24. Egyptian Religion and Magic in the Papyri, Willy Clarysse ; 25. Christianity in the Papyri, David G. Martinez ; 26. Manichaeism and Gnosticism in the Papyri, Cornelia Romer ; 27. The Future of Papyrology, Peter van Minnen ; Index
£52.00
Oxford University Press Brotherhood of Kings
Book SynopsisOver four thousand years ago ambassadors and merchants overcame all manner of obstacles in order to ally the kings of the ancient Near East together as self-proclaimed brothers. This book takes readers on a journey across time and space-from the 24th to the 14th century BCE, and through deserts and river valleys-to meet the colorful characters who first began to tie cultures together.Trade Reviewan attractive and accessible work. * Arthur Keaveney, Les Études Classiques *Table of ContentsCONTENTS; A WORD ABOUT CHRONOLOGY AND TRANSLATION; CAST OF CHARACTERS; TIME LINE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD AND AKKADIAN EMPIRE, 1500-2000 BCE; PART II: THE OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD, 2000-1595 BCE; PART III: A TIME OF CRISIS AND CHANGE, 1595-1400 BCE; PART IV: THE AMARNA AGE, 1400-1300 BCE; EPILOGUE; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; FURTHER READING; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Feeding the Dead Ancestor Worship In Ancient India
Book SynopsisFeeding the Dead outlines the early history of ancestor worship in South Asia, from the earliest sources available, the Vedas, up to the descriptions found in the Dharmshastra tradition.Trade ReviewThis compact volume makes a notable contribution to our understanding of doctrinal and institutional shifts in India in the last centuries before the Common Era. Sayers is one of just a handful of recent scholars to call attention to the importance of the Vedic domestic ritual codes in the creation of what has come to be known as 'classical Hinduism.' He is to be congratulated for setting the complex ritual particulars within a clearly limned overview of the competing religious ideologies being 'marketed' by rival groups of professional 'religious experts.' He manages to do this without trivializing the ideas at stake, and without glibly reifying categories such as 'popular' and 'elite' or 'Brahmanical' and 'non-Brahmanical.' * Timothy Lubin, Washington and Lee University *Table of ContentsList of Tables ; Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Ancestral Rites in the Early Vedas ; Chapter 2: The Solemn Ancestral Rites ; Chapter 3: The Domestic Rice-ball Sacrifice to the Ancestors ; Chapter 4: The sraddha-rite ; Chapter 5: Ancestral Rites in the Buddhist Literature ; Chapter 6: Soteriology ; Chapter 7: Mediation ; Conclusion ; Appendix ; Notes ; Glossary of Sanskrit Terms ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens
Book SynopsisThe Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens examines how the Athenians attempted to enforce and apply the law when judging disputes in court. Recent scholarship has paid considerable attention to the practice and execution of Greek law. However, much of this work has left several flawed assumptions unchallenged, such as that Athenian law was primarily concerned with procedure; that the main task of enforcement lay in the hands of private citizens; that the Athenians used the courts not to uphold the law but to pursue personal feuds; and that the Athenian courts rendered ad hoc judgments and paid little attention to the letter of the law. Drawing on modern legal theory, the author examines the nature of open texture in Athenian law and reveals that the Athenians were much more sophisticated in their approach to law than many modern scholars have assumed, and thus breaks considerable new ground in the field. At the same time, the book studies the weaknesses of the Athenian legal systeTrade ReviewDid the Athenian courts render purely ad hoc judgments, paying little attention to the letter of the laws? Did ancient Athens experience the tyranny of an elite minority that used justice to satisfy their own interests? Could we even say that Athens was in fact a stateless community where justice had nothing to do with what we designate by that name in contemporary practice? In this superb book Edward Harris provides clear and well-argued answers to these and many other questions. The Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens will find an audience not only among specialists of the ancient world but among all those who take interest in the role of law in any ancient or modern society. * Alain Bresson, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Part I - The Political And Social Contexts of Athenian Law ; Chapter 1 - Was Athens a State or a Stateless Community? The Political Context of Athenian Law ; Chapter 2 - Feuding or the Rule of Law? An Essay in Legal Sociology ; Part II - Applying the Law ; Chapter 3 - The Judicial Oath ; Chapter 4 - What are Athenian Laws about? Substance and Procedure in Athenian Statutes ; Chapter 5 - Open Texture in Athenian Law: The Approach of the Litigants ; Chapter 6 - Open Texture in Athenian Law: The Response of the Courts ; Chapter 7 - Did the Athenian Courts Attempt to Achieve Consistency? The use of Precedents in Forensic Orator ; Chapter 8 - How Strictly did the Athenian Courts Apply the Law? The Role of Epieikeia ; Part III - The Breakdown of the Rule of Law ; Chapter 9 - Cleon and the Defeat of Athens ; Appendix 1 - Hunter on Citizens Enforcing the Law ; Appendix 2 - Magistrates Enforcing Laws and Decrees in the Fifth Century BCE ; Appendix 3 - Quotations or Allusions to Judicial Oath in Attic Orators ; Appendix 4 - Organization of the Gortyn Lawcode ; Appendix 5 - Laws in the Attic Orators ; Appendix 6 - Categories of atimoi listed in the decree of Patrocleides ; Appendix 7 - Issues in the Orators ; Appendix 8 - Public Service in the Attic Orators ; Appendix 9 - The Authorship of the Speeches in the Demosthenic Corpus ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Cicero in Letters
Book SynopsisCicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models for subsequent letter writers from Pliny to Petrarch to Samuel Johnson and beyond. The collection also includes some one hundred letters by Cicero''s contemporaries. The letters they exchanged provide unique insight into the experience of the Roman political class at the turning point between Republican and imperial rule. The first part of this study analyzes effects of the milieu in which the letters were written. The lack of an organized postal system limited the correspondence that Cicero and his contemporaries could conduct and influenced what they were willing to write about. Their chief motive for exchanging letters was to protect political relationships until they could resume their customary, face-to-face association in Rome. Romans did not normally sign letters, much less write themTrade ReviewWhite is a splendid guide to the strategies of Cicero's letters and to the social values and motives underpinning those strategies. * William Fitzgerald, Times Literary Supplement *One of the outstanding virtues of this fine book is that within it we seem to hear the living voices of the last generation of the Republic. Through his elegant and colloquial translations and accompanying elucidation [White} gives us a vivid sense of how elite discourse was carried on at this critical moment * Ann Vasaly, Classical Review *a valuable treatment of Cicero ... Whites book is conversational and dialogic, engaging the reader at every stage with its processes of development. * Eleanor Brooke, Phoenix *Table of ContentsPreface ; I. Reading the Letters from the Outside In ; 1. Constraints and Biases in Roman Letter-Writing ; 2. The Editing of the Collection ; 3. Frames of the Letter ; II. Epistolary Preoccupations ; 4. The Letters and Literature ; 5. Giving and Getting Advice by Letter ; 6. Letter-Writing and Leadership ; Afterword: The Collection in Hindsight ; Appendix 1: Quantifying the Letter Corpus ; Appendix 2: Contemporary Works Mentioned in the Letters ; Bibliography of Titles Cited
£42.27
Oxford University Press Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire
Book SynopsisIn Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The investigation proceeds in case-study fashion using the principal surviving witnesses, beginning with the communities of Pliny and Tacitus (with a look at Pliny''s teacher, Quintilian) from the time of the emperor Trajan. Johnson then moves on to explore elite reading during the era of the Antonines, including the medical community around Galen, the philological community around Gellius and Fronto (with a look at the curious reading habits of Fronto''s pupil Marcus Aurelius), and the intellectual communities lampooned by the satirist Lucian. Along the way, evidence from the papyri is deployed to help to understand better and more concretely both the mechanics of reading, and the social interactions that surrounded the ancient book. The result is a rich cultural history of individual reading communities that differentiate themselvTrade Reviewa fascinating and useful study * Francesca Sapsford, Rosetta *An engaging work of cultural history. * Gail Trimble, Times Literary Supplement *this book deserves to find a wide readership - and not only within the narrow reading communities of professional classicists and historians. * Charles W. Henrick, Sehepunkte *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; 1. Reading as a Sociocultural System ; 2. The Pragmatics of Reading ; 3. Pliny and the Construction of Literary Culture ; 4. Pliny, Tacitus, and the Dialogus de oratoribus ; 5. Doctors and Intellectuals: Galen's Reading Community ; 6. Aulus Gellius: The Life of the Litteratus ; 7. Fronto and Aurelius: Contubernium and Solitary Reader ; 8. Lucian's Insufficient Intellectual ; 9. The Papyri: Scholars and Reading Communities in Graeco-Roman Egypt ; 10. Conclusion ; References ; Index
£49.40
Oxford University Press, USA Blindness and Reorientation
Book SynopsisAre the just happier than the unjust? In Plato'' s Republic, Thrasymachus argues that they aren''t, that justice is simply the advantage of the stronger. Though Socrates apparently refutes him, Plato''s brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, take up his argument anew, challenging Socrates to show them that justice really does better further happiness than injustice. The nature of this renewed challenge and the reason for it are hotly debated problems. Equally problematic is the question of whether Socrates succeeds in meeting the challenge in the crucial case of the philosopher-kings, whom he claims are happiest of all. Central to his attempt is a complex tripartite psychology and the yet more complex the metaphysics and epistemology of transcendent Platonic forms. But just how these are to be understood or how knowledge of such forms could help the philosopher-kings with the practical business of governing a city also remain deeply problematic issues. Beginning with a discussion of Socrates in the Apology, and his portrait by Alcibiades in the Symposium, and proceeding to topics more directly within the Republic itself, Blindness and Reorientation develops not just powerful new solutions to these problems, but a new understanding of Plato''s conception of philosophy, its relationship to craft-knowledge, and the roles of dialectic and experience within it. Written in a clear and vivid style, C. D. C. Reeve''s new book will be accessible to any committed reader of Plato.Trade Review... it is evident that the book is full of first-rate Plato scholarship, and that its readers are more likely to be the specialist scholars ... Nevertheless, I have no doubt that this book deserves a place among books that all serious students of Plato should consultI am convinced, moreover, that Reeves love of the Republic, which has intensified over the intervening years since he wrote the Philosopher-Kings, has led to greater insight and not blindness, even though love can have the reverse effect too (p. xiii). * POLIS, The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviations ; Chapter 1: Human Wisdom ; Chapter 2: Alcibiades and the Socratic Craft of Love ; Chapter 3: Cephalus, Odysseus, and the Importance of Experience ; Chapter 4: Glaucon's Thrasymachean Challenge ; Chapter 5: Souls, Soul-Parts, and Persons ; Chapter 6: Beauty and Goodness, Politics and Genitals ; Chapter 7: Education and the Acquisition of Knowledge ; Chapter 8: Craft, Dialectic, and the Form of the Good ; Chapter 9: The Happiness of the Philosopher-Kings
£82.65
Palgrave MacMillan UK Bonds of Blood Gender Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture Early Modern History Society and Culture
Book SynopsisList of Figures and Tables Note on Translation and Terminology Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction Living with Death Birth and Blood Growing Up Tying the Knot Marriage and Partnership Outside the Norm Aging and Mortality ConclusionTrade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize The judges said of Dr Dodds Pennock's book: 'Few fields of study can present the historian with such a challenge as the world of the pre-conquest Aztecs ... [a] challenge that Caroline Dodds Pennock meets triumphantly. Her analysis of the rich but problematic evidence is unfailingly rigorous. Both theoretical and methodological sophistication, however, are worn lightly. What emerges is a vivid and convincing reconstruction of a society whose harsh view of life and death was tempered by the experience of warmth, and even joy, achieved through human relationships and the routines of everyday life.' 'An exceptional volume because of its humanising approach and attention to individual concerns, emotions, and perspectives. This beautifully written book is recommended for a wide readership, from undergraduate students to accomplished Mesoamerican scholars.' - Lisa Overholtzer, Bulletin of Latin American Research 'Gender specialists and students of all levels will find worthwhile [Dodds Pennock's] search for the intimate as revealed by sources that downplay the personal and affective, rendered as itis in graceful, accessible prose. - Susan Kellogg, Hispanic American Historical Review 'This study, beautifully written and organized, is a fresh approach to both the problems of understanding Aztec human sacrifice, a problem as old as the first European viewers of this society in the sixteenth century, and of characterizing Aztec gender relations, which was introduced as a field of study in the latter half of the twentieth century. With exhaustive research Caroline Dodds Pennock ties together these two strains of enquiry in a tour-de-force argument that resolves many seeming contradictions and allows the modern Westerner to enter Aztec society with less apprehension. While making sense of Aztec thought, even more valuable is her humanization of the Aztecs through the publication of the few texts that reveal intimate and individual aspects of behaviour and interpretation of well-known formulaic pronouncements as moving expressions of human emotion. This last is a difficult feat to accomplish for a culture that is usually presented as overwhelmingly communal, public, and unfeeling.' - Emily Umberger, Arizona State University, USA ' This highly accessible dissertation-turned-manuscript will be of value to a wide audience...This beautifully written book is recommended for a wide readership.' - AngliaTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Note on Translation and Terminology Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction Living with Death Birth and Blood Growing Up Tying the Knot Marriage and Partnership Outside the Norm Aging and Mortality Conclusion
£44.99
Lulu.com Remember to Rule Personalities of the Roman Republic
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Lulu.com Remember to Rule The Late Roman Republic
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Yale University Press Herodotus
Book SynopsisThis study argues that Herodotus was both a historian and a master storyteller. Romm discusses the historical background of Herodotus' life and work, his moralistic approach to history, his fascination with people and places, his literary powers, and the question of historical "truth".
£29.33
Yale University Press Household and City Organization at Olynthus
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the results of the excavations in the 1920s and 1930s of Olynthus, an ancient city in northern Greece. Nicholas Cahill seeks to reconstruct the daily lives of the ancient Greeks, the organization of their public and domestic space, and the economic and social patterns in the city.Trade Review"A terrific book. Anyone working on Greek urban or household studies will want to have it at their side." Michael H. Jameson, Stanford University
£76.05
Springer A HunterGatherer Landscape
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Random House USA Inc Persian Fire
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Random House USA Inc The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volumes
Book SynopsisEdward Gibbon’s classic timeless work of ancient Roman history in 6 volumes collected into 2 box sets, in beautiful, enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers. Easily the most famous historical chronicle in English, Gibbon’s account of Roman decline remains a remarkably fresh and vital contribution to the subject more than two centuries after its first publication. A landmark in its time for classical and historiographical scholarship, its fame today, however, rests more on the scope and force of Gibbon’s argument and the brilliance of his style, which is still an utter delight to read. But above all, the book is a superb monument to the Enlightenment ideal of rational enquiry which Gibbon made the object of his life’s work. With an introduction by renowned scholar Hugh Trevor-Roper. Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author''s life and times.
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St. Martin's Publishing Group The Gladiators
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ABC-CLIO Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
Book SynopsisAncient Greece comes alive in this exploration of the daily lives of ordinary people-men and women, children and the elderly, slaves and foreigners, rich and poor. With new information drawn from the most current research, this volume presents a wealth of information on every aspect of ancient Greek life. Discover why it was more desirable to be a slave than a day laborer. Examine cooking methods and rules of ancient warfare. Uncover Greek mythology. Learn how Greeks foretold the future. Understand what life was like for women, and what prevailing attitudes were toward sexuality, marriage, and divorce. This volume brings ancient Greek life home to readers through a variety of anecdotes and primary source passages from contemporary authors, allowing comparison between the ancient world and modern life.A multitude of resources will engage students and interested readers, including a Making Connections feature which offers interactive and fun ideas for research assigTable of ContentsChronology Maps Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1. Historical Outline 2. Space and Time 3. Language, Alphabet, and Literacy 4. The People 5. Private Life 6. The Public Sphere 7. Pleasure and Leisure 8. The Impact of Ancient Greece on Modern Culture Glossary of Greek Terms For Further Reading
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Back Bay Books Circe
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Making of Orthodox Byzantium 6001025 New Studies in Medieval History
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe 9001200 Medieval Culture and Society
Book SynopsisRemembering the past in the Middle Ages is a subject that is usually perceived as a study of chronicles and annals written by monks in monasteries.Trade Review'Van Houts is much too experienced a historian to overstate women's contribution to the memorialising of the medieval past: what she rightly insists on, and what gives this book its cutting edge, is that women's contribution be recognised as important and distinctive...she has produced a book that's timely, path-breaking, and emphatically more than the sum of its parts.' - Janet L. Nelson, Gender and HistoryTable of ContentsPreface Introduction PART ONE: GENDER AND AUTHORITY OF ORAL WITNESSES Chronicles and Annals Saints' Lives and Miracles PART TWO: REMEMBRANCE OF THE PAST Ancestors, Family Reputation and Female Traditions Objects as Pegs for Memory PART THREE: ONE EVENT REMEMBERED The Memory of the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 Conclusion Appendices Abbreviations Notes Further Reading Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great
Book SynopsisAlfred is the only English King honoured with this name and is credited with various successes (the foundation of a navy, English education system and religious revival). The medieval 'Life' of King Alfred of Wessex purports to be written by Asser, a monk in the King's service.Trade Review'Alfred Smyth's The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great is a pathbreaking work...a sophisticated introduction and study of the entire field of Alfredian biography, ancient and modern...The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great also serves as an excellent introduction to the text of the Life itself and to the controversies surrounding its creation and history.' - Professor Daniel Melia, University of California, Berkeley 'Alfred Smyth's new translation and commentary challenges consensus opinion at every level...an extensive commentary relates the Life to the new and still-developing awareness of historical writing in the late Anglo-Saxon period...Smyth's text asks new questions and provides new answers, offering a more complex account of the origins of England, and of English History, than has been possible to date.' - Tom Shippey, Saint Louis University, Missouri '...this translation...is useful for presenting a version without many of the previous editorial emendations...' - J.L. Leland, Choice Reviews from previous book: 'Smyth's book, then, must stand as the definitive account of the reign.' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'This is a glorious book. It rescues a great English ruler from some of the more obtuse concepts and prejudices of our own time, and builds more carefully on ninth-century foundations than any other biography yet published.' - Eric Christiansen, The SpectatorTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction [A]Translation of the Life of King Alfred [B] Commentary A Tour Around the Manuscripts The Author of the Life The Author's Latin Style The Author's Use of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Why Was the Life of King Alfred Written at Ramsay in C.A.D. 1000? Index
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Lulu.com Romance Coloring Book
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Brill Ancient Magic and Ritual Power
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WW Norton & Co The End of Empire Attila the Hun the Fall of Rome Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome
Book SynopsisA thoughtful and sophisticated account of a notoriously complicated and controversial period. -R. I. Moore, Times Literary SupplementTrade Review"Kelly goes beyond the conventional mode and bravely ventures into…military detail." -- Edward Luttwak - New Republic"Accessible history that enlightens as well as informs." -- Richmond Times"Christopher Kelly…grapples with the delicate task of reconstructing the scant evidence on Attila, without elevating him to warm and fuzzy proportions or caving in to the view of British historians of the barbarian school or the German totemmakers of Hunnensturm…Kelly captures the tension with an assured style." -- Jonathan E. Lazarus - Star-Ledger"Written with a rare combination of profound professional knowledge…and a novelist's sensitivity to every nuance of scene and character." -- Paul Cartledge, Cambridge University"[A] first-rate history [that] provides a singularly fresh look at a factitious period in the life of Ancient Rome." -- Publishers Weekly"Vivid [and] engrossing." -- Booklist
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Miracles in GrecoRoman Antiquity A Sourcebook for the Study of New Testament Miracle Stories Context of Early Christianity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ancient Meteorology Sciences of Antiquity
Book SynopsisThe first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only ''weather'', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical or seismological.The range and diversity of this literature highlights the question of scholarly authority in antiquity and illustrates how writers responded to the meteorological information presented by their literary predecessors. Ancient Meteorology will be a valuable reference tool for classicists and those with an interest in the history of science. Trade Review'Offers distinct and major advantages ... insightful ... Taub's book capably and effectively closes a gap in the literature of the history and ancient science ... It is a book that both specialists and beginners will need to use when approaching the subject.' - RHIZAI'Reports clearly, succinctly, and with convincing control and expertise ... I warmly recommend her book.' - Classical World'Reports clearly, succinctly, and with convincing control and expertise ... I warmly recommend her book.' - Classical WorldTable of ContentsList of illustrations, A note on the spelling of Greek names and terms, Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, 1 ANCIENT METEOROLOGY IN GREECE AND ROME: AN INTRODUCTION, 2 PREDICTION AND THE ROLE OF TRADITION: ALMANACS AND SIGNS, PARAPE? GMATA AND POEMS, 3 EXPLAINING DIFFICULT PHENOMENA, 4 METEOROLOGY AS A MEANS TO AN END: PHILOSOPHERS AND POETS, 5 AN ENCYCLOPEDIC APPROACH, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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Rubedo Press Becoming Gold
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC IN EUROPE VOLUME 2 ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
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Penguin Putnam Inc Anaximander
Book SynopsisThe bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. His legacy includes the revolutionary ideas that the Earth floats in a void, that animals evolved, that the world can be understood in natural rather than supernatural terms, and that universal laws govern all phenomena. He introduced a new mode of rational thinking with an openness to uncertainty and the progress of knowledge. In this elegant work, the renowned theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli brings to light the importance of Anaximander’s overlooked influence on modern science. He examines Anaximander not from the point of view of a histor
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