Walter de Gruyter, 2015. — 264 p. The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has had different salience, and been understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume brings together essays from an international array of experts in law and religion, in order to examine...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 334 p. Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. — 232 p. Jean Andreau and Raymond Descat break new ground in this comparative history of slavery in Greece and Rome. Focusing on slaves' economic role in society, their crucial contributions to Greek and Roman culture, and their daily and family lives, the authors examine the different ways in which slavery evolved in the two cultures....
Harvard University Press, 1987. — 704 p. irst of the widely celebrated and sumptuously illustrated series, this book reveals in intimate detail what life was really like in the ancient world. Behind the vast panorama of the pagan Roman empire, the reader discovers the intimate daily lives of citizens and slaves—from concepts of manhood and sexuality to marriage and the family,...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 398 p. Plutarch's Cities is the first comprehensive attempt to assess the significance of the polis in Plutarch's works from several perspectives, namely the polis as a physical entity, a lived experience, and a source of inspiration, the polis as a historical and sociopolitical unit, the polis as a theoretical construct and paradigm to think...
University of California Press, 2011. — 200 p. Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world--that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution--has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people--from Britain to Egypt to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 241 p. — (Archaeological Histories). Dura-Europos on the Syrian Euphrates was the subject of extensive excavations in the 1920s and 30s by French and American archaeologists, and is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Roman Near East. A Seleucid, Parthian, and Roman site, its place between East and West is a vexed question in both...
University of California Press, 2023. — 267 p. In Those for Whom the Lamp Shines, Vince L. Bantu uses the rich body of anti-Chalcedonian literature to explore how the peoples of Egypt, both inside and outside the Coptic Church, came to understand their identity as Egyptians. Working across a comparative spectrum of traditions and communities in late antiquity, at the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 400 p. Slavery was foundational to Greek and Roman societies, affecting nearly all of their economic, social, political, and cultural practices. Greek and Roman Slaveries offers a rich collection of literary, epigraphic, papyrological, and archaeological sources, including many unfamiliar ones. This sourcebook ranges chronologically from the archaic...
Prospect Books, 2010. — 160 p. This book looks at the way in which food was employed in Greek and Roman literature to impart identity, whether social, individual, religious or ethnic. In many instances these markers are laid down in the way that foods were restricted, in other words by looking at the negatives instead of the positives of what was consumed. Michael Beer looks at...
Routledge, 2022. — 202 p. This volume introduces new perspectives on taxation policies in the Roman Empire, the Galilee, and Egypt, with unique insights into the economic effects of imperial pacification on local and regional microlevel economies in the Galilee both before and after the First Jewish Revolt against Rome. Through examining tax documents and other ancient texts in...
Lexington Books, 2010. — 192 p. Turning, Telling Moments in the Classical Political World examines developments in the classical political world which are both turning and telling moments. All the moments - from Theseus's founding of Athens to Augustus's establishment of the Principate - possess the double character of being turning points and revealing fundamental aspects of...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 520 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Blackwell Companion to Ancient Education presents a series of essays from leading specialists in the field that represent the most up-to-date scholarship relating to the rise and spread of educational practices and theories in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Reflects the latest research...
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. (Wiley Blackwell Social and Cultural Histories of the Ancient World Series). — 320 pages : illustrations, tables, maps. 2019 PROSE Award finalist in the Classics category! A Social and Cultural History of Late Antiquity examines the social and cultural landscape of the Late Antique Mediterranean. The text offers a picture of everyday life as...
Philipp von Zabern, 2020. — 240 S. Was erzählt uns die Trajanssäule über das antike Rumänien und Siebenbürgen? Phillip II., Vater von Alexander dem Großen, scheiterte an dem unnachgiebigen Volk der Daker. Auch die Römer hatten im westlichen Schwarzmeerraum hart zu kämpfen, bis sie 106 n.Chr. die Provinz Dacia etablieren konnten. Die Freude hielt nur zwei Jahrhunderte an, doch...
Oxbow Books, 2017. — 1056 p. — ISBN 978-1-78570-673-8. Twenty-four experts from the fields of Ancient History, Semitic philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Classical Philology come together in this volume to explore the role of textiles in ancient religion in Greece, Italy, The Levant and the Near East. Recent scholarship has illustrated how textiles played a...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 368 p. Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late antiquity,...
Routledge, 2013. — 565 p. In a conclusion which sums up the lines of argument of his valuable study of money as an element in the growth of early civilisation, Mr. Burns enumerates the deficiencies in the evidence, for, as he says, it is as well to keep in mind the things we do not know, as well as those we do. This is wise, for the gaps in our evidence are great and the...
Routledge, 2023. — 218 p. Averil Cameron is one of the leading historians of late antiquity and Byzantium. This collection (Cameron’s third in the Variorum series) discusses the changing approach among historians of the later Roman empire from the 1960s to the present and the articles reproduced have been chosen to reflect both these wider changes in treatments of the subject...
Routledge, 2011. — 320 p. This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity , now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses on the changes and continuities in Mediterranean...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 650 p. The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring authoritative chapters on 33 topics by leading scholars in their fields. As well as an introduction to, and a survey of, each topic, it provides guidance on further...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2015. — 274 p. Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world—from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of...
Penn & Sword Books, 2005. — 224 p. This is an ambitious book that sets out to cover four and a half thousand years of military history, from the rise of the first civilisations in the Near East to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The cover lists three authors, but the text was all written by Brian Todd Carey, an Assistant Professor of History and Military History at the...
Routledge, 2022. — 316 p. This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social – as well as economic – capital. Collecting a wide range of studies by an international team of experts, it presents a...
Charles River Editors, 2020. — 84 p. At the same time, this shift in Mediterranean trade from a local to international scale was a catalyst for immense social, political and economic changes that helped to shape the course of Western Civilization as a whole. Starting with the Egyptians and Minoans around 3000 BCE until the decline of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th...
Charles River Editors, 2021. — 105 p. For hundreds of years, Palmyra’s wealth was a testament to its greatness, and its leaders displayed their political acumen by playing the middleman between the powerful Roman and Parthian Empires. As a result, the Palmyrenes built an eclectic culture that was as sophisticated as any of their contemporaries, but eventually the leadership of...
Fonthill Media, 2020. — 256 p. A fascinating and truly unique survey of two of the world's most significant and influential civilisations spanning some 2000 years from the development of the Greek alphabet to the sack of Rome and a dinner date with Attila the Hun in 450 CE. Some ninety Greeks and Romans have contributed to the book with reports culled from 130 separate works....
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 256 p. Paul Chrystal has written the first full length study of women and warfare in the Graeco Roman world. Although the conduct of war was generally monopolized by men, there were plenty of exceptions with women directly involved in its direction and even as combatants, Artemisia, Olympias, Cleopatra and Agrippina the Elder being famous examples. And...
Routledge, 2016. — 254 p. Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean, moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches...
Routledge, 2023. — 234 р. Between c.250 and c.650, the way the past was seen, recorded and interpreted for a contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key elements of this historiographical revolution become clear, with the recasting of the period, across both east and west, as ‘late antiquity’. Historiography, however, has struggled to find its...
Foreword by Peter Oakes. — Eerdmans, 2020. — 392 p. What was the ancient world like? Ancient sources tell us a great deal about the cultural patterns and values that prevailed in the Mediterranean of the biblical periods: - how they constructed identity - how they exercised control over groups, space, gender, and dress - how they thought of friendship - how they participated in...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 459 p. — (Greeks Overseas). Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Explanations for these similarities and differences have been hotly debated. On the one hand, some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one in a long line of migrants who were shaped by Sicily...
Routledge, 2011. — 205 p. First published in 1974, this book is a collection of nine essays written by Victor Ehrenberg between 1925 and 1967, five of which had not been published before. They deal with a number of aspects of Greek and Roman history, and with the nature of ancient history in the East and West. The first essay is a broad survey of interactions between opposing...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018. — xii, 378 pages : b&w illustrations, maps. In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the Barbarians, the Justinianic reconquest,...
Pen & Sword Military, 2015. — 280 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84884-796-5, 978-1-47385-998-2, 978-1-47385-997-5. Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an...
Routledge, 2017. — 288 p. This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa Classics Colloquium in which the topic and title of the event were inspired by Josiah Ober’s seminal work Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989). Indeed the influence this work has had on later research in all aspects of the Greek and Roman world is reflected by the diversity of the...
Editora Vozes, 2014. — 270 p. Composta de quatro volumes, esta coleção sobre História Geral abrange a Antiguidade, a Idade Média, a Moderna e a Contemporânea do Ocidente. Este volume trata da História Antiga, particularmente da Grécia e de Roma. A autora convida os leitores ao exercício de um pensamento que possa nos colocar diante dos problemas que os homens gregos e romanos...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 360 p. The martial virtues - courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength - were central to male identity in the ancient world, and antique literature is replete with depictions of men cultivating and exercising these virtues on the battlefield. In Women and War in Antiquity , sixteen scholars reexamine classical sources to uncover the complex...
Routledge, 2023. — 750 p. Citizenship in Antiquity brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and regions – from the Ancient Near...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2024. — 624 p. A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World offers in-depth coverage of the most important topics in the study of Greek and Roman urbanism. Bringing together contributions by an international panel of experts, this comprehensive resource addresses traditional topics in the study of ancient cities, including civic society, politics, and the...
Routledge, 2011. — 232 p. First published 1998. Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients tell it is a history of men. However, the focus of this volume is the creation, re-creation and iteration of that male self as...
Imperium Press, 2020. — 416 p. Originally published in 1864 as La Cité Antique, this remarkable work describes society as it existed in Greece during the age of Pericles and in Rome at the time of Cicero. Working with only a fraction of the materials available to today's classical scholar, Fustel de Coulanges fashioned a complete picture of life in the ancient city, resulting...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 768 p. Sport and spectacle in the ancient world has become a vital area of broad new exploration over the last few decades. This Handbook brings together the latest research on Greek and Roman manifestations of these pastimes to explore current approaches and open exciting new avenues of inquiry. It discusses historical perspectives, contest...
The Teaching Company, 2008. — 79 p. Integrated approaches to teaching Greek and Roman history are a rarity in academia. Most scholars are historians of either Greek or Roman history and perform research solely in that specific field, an approach that author and award-winning Professor Robert Garland considers questionable. In these 36 passionate lectures, he provides an impressive...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 254 p. In ancient times, the series of waterways now known as the Turkish Straits, comprising the Dardanelles (or Hellespont), Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus, formed both a divide and a bridge between Europe and Asia. Its western and eastern entrances were guarded, at different times, by two of the most fabled cities of all time: respectively...
Routledge, 2021. — 314 p. The Story of Garum recounts the convoluted journey of that notorious Roman fish sauce, known as garum, from a smelly Greek fish paste to an expensive luxury at the heart of Roman cuisine and back to obscurity as the Roman empire declines. This book is a unique attempt to meld the very disparate disciplines of ancient history, classical literature,...
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2012. — 256 p. New York Times best-selling author Leland Gregory is one of Andrews McMeel Publishing’s most successful non-cartoon humorists. Silly, shocking, weird, hilariously funny—and outrageously true—the short anecdotes inside his anthologies of human stupidity are culled from print, online, and broadcast media from all over the world. Inside...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 210 p. This study raises that difficult and complicated question on a broad front, taking into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources, including Herodotus, Polybius, Cicero, Philo, and Paul. It approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than...
Routledge, 2005. — 398 p. Personification, the anthropomorphic representation of any non-human thing, is a ubiquitous feature of ancient Greek literature and art. Natural phenomena (earth, sky, rivers), places (cities, countries), divisions of time (seasons, months, a lifetime), states of the body (health, sleep, death), emotions (love, envy, fear), and political concepts...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 216 p. Marriage, across cultures, is often defined as a union between consenting adults that lasts for the life of the partners. But is marriage a blessing, or curse? Does marriage represent the union of two hearts, or was it a necessary evil? Did matrimony bring a person a helpmeet for life, or was it a societally approved state entered into to...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 485 p. Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity , edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late...
Routledge, 2019. — 172 p. Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange, but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities, lands, and their peoples. The papers presented in this volume examine aspects of this extramercantile economy, particularly...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 304 p. In the ancient Greek-speaking world, writing about the past meant balancing the reporting of facts with shaping and guiding the political interests and behaviours of the present. Ancient Historiography on War and Empire shows the ways in which the literary genre of writing history developed to guide empires through their wars. Taking key events from...
Counter Punch Books, 2023. — 512 p. The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to Michael's "...and forgive them their debts, " is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of interest-bearing debt led to the rise of rentier oligarchies in classical Greece and Rome, causing economic polarization, widespread austerity, revolts,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 368 p. This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines. Sabine R. Huebner is professor of ancient...
Second edition. — Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 320 p. : 44 illus. — (Ancient Society and History Series). In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. — 264 p. This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad - ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the process of enslavement to the decline of slavery after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The book uses a wide...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 288 p. Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploring how globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influenced micro identities throughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volume discusses where contact and the sharing...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2018. — 312 p. What did the ancient Greeks and Romans think of the peoples they referred to as barbari? Did they share the modern Western conception - popularized in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games - of "barbarians" as brutish, unwashed enemies of civilization? Or our related notion of "the noble savage"? Was the category fixed or...
Taylor and Francis, 2005. — 273 p. This Sourcebook contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity.The detailed introduction provides full social and historical context for the sources, and guides students on how to use the material most effectively. Themes such as...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 1296 p. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. — 576 p. A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the...
Routledge, 2021. — 134 p. Rome and China provides an updated history and analysis of contacts and mutual influence between two of ancient Eurasia’s most prominent imperial powers, Rome and China. It highlights the extraordinary interconnectivity of ancient Eurasia which allowed for actual contacts between Rome and China (however fleeting) and examines in detail the influences...
Oxbow Books, 2001. — 184 p. The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire. The eight papers in this volume demonstrate this complexity and prosperity, examining several types of product and how the economy evolved over time. New...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 772 p. The third in a series of volumes presenting a representative selection of Greek and Latin texts bearing on ancient private associations. Each text is furnished with an English translation, epigraphical or papryological notes, commentary. Private associations organized around a common cult, occupation, ethnic identity, neighborhood or family were among...
Routledge, 2023. — 277 p. This volume explores the effects of Greek presence in the Iberian Peninsula, and how this Iberian Greek experience evolved in resonance with its neighbouring region, the Mediterranean West. Contributions cover the Phocaean settlement at Emporion and its relationship with the indigenous hinterland, the government of the Greek communities, Greek...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 372 p. A Cultural History of Education in Antiquity presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories. The book balances...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 240 p. More than any other type of environment, with the possible exception of mountains, the sea has been understood since antiquity as being immovable to a proverbial degree. Yet it was the sea's capacity for movement – both literally and figuratively through such emotions as fear, hope and pity – that formed one of the primary means of...
Penguin Books, 2005. — 704 p. Robin Lane Fox's The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome is a comprehensive and enthralling introduction to Ancient civilization. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics,...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2010. — 528 p. Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new "Germanic" kingdoms. In...
Routledge, 2009. — 150 p. In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquity (Ancient Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and enhancing antiquity's relevance to the understanding of other historical periods as well as our contemporary world.
Macmillan Higher Education, 2018. — 228 p. In this accessible volume, Thomas R. Martin compares the writings of Herodotus in ancient Greece with those of Sima Qian in ancient China to demonstrate the hallmarks of early history writing. While these authors lived in different centuries and were not aware of each other's works, Martin shows the similar struggles that each grappled...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p., Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire) were near their peak. In terms of population, economy and military power each individual kingdom was vastly superior to Rome, not to mention in fields such as medicine, architecture, science, philosophy and...
Thames and Hudson, 2010. — 224 p. An introduction to the Greek and Roman myths and tales that lie at the heart of Western culture includes intriguing facts and stories, including the labors of Hercules and the voyage of Odysseus. Abstract: A guide to the Greek and Roman Myths. It features a blend of stories, facts and quotations from ancient authors, and places ancient myths in a...
Greenwood, 2012. — 268 p. Collecting documents culled from the writings of ancient Greek and Roman authors, this book provides a glimpse of what life was like in ancient times and illustrates the relevance of these long-ago civilizations to modern life. Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life sheds light on various aspects of Greek and Roman daily...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 320 p. Women in Classical Antiquity focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women and gender. Drawing on the most recent findings and research on the topic, the book offers an overview of the historical events, values, and institutions that are critical for appreciating...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 320 p. Women in Classical Antiquity focuses on the important objects, events and concepts that combine to form a clear understanding of ancient Greek and Roman women and gender. Drawing on the most recent findings and research on the topic, the book offers an overview of the historical events, values, and institutions that are critical for appreciating...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 600 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean presents a comprehensive collection of essays contributed by Classical Studies scholars that explore questions relating to ethnicity in the ancient Mediterranean world. Covers topics of ethnicity in civilizations ranging from ancient Egypt and...
Routledge, 2014. — 225 p. This book, first published in 1992, presents an introduction to the nature of trade and transport in antiquity through a selection of translated literary, papyrological, epigraphical and legal sources. These texts illustrate a range of aspects of ancient trade and transport: from the role of the authorities, to the status of traders, to the capacity...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 258 p. This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century. The study shows how the approaches of Greek Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, John...
Routledge, 1996. — 274 p. This book considers sex in its broadest sense, analyzing not only the sexual practices of individuals but also the ways in which sexual activity was indivisibly woven into the fabric of social and communal life of Graeco-Roman Egypt.
Routledge, 2023. — 255 p. This volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences. Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions, focusing instead on other ritual moments, such as sacrifice. This book adopts a comparative approach, bringing...
Routledge, 1998. — 304 p. Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world.The contributors explore a broad range of evidence including:* the...
Routledge, 2010. — 160 p. Although reasoned discourse on human-animal relations is often considered a late twentieth-century phenomenon, ethical debate over animals and how humans should treat them can be traced back to the philosophers and literati of the classical world. From Stoic assertions that humans owe nothing to animals that are intellectually foreign to them, to...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 352 p. A bold new history of the rise of Christianity, showing how its radical followers ravaged vast swathes of classical culture, plunging the world into an era of dogma and intellectual darkness. In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town’s main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the...
Routledge, 1992. — 220 p. Drawing on archaeology, literary and epigraphic evidence, professional and technical literature, and descriptions of cities by travellers and geographers, the author traces the developments of town planning, revealing the importance of the city to political, religious, and social life in the Greek and Roman world. E. J. Owens is Lecturer in the...
Routledge, 2014. — 241 p. In A History of Earliest Italy, first published in 1984, Professor Pallottino illumines the wide variety of peoples, languages, and traditions of culture and trade that constituted the pre-Roman Italic world. Since the written sources are fragmentary, archaeology provides the central reservoir for evidence of the societies and institutions of the...
New York: Schocken Books, 1995. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 080521030X; ISBN13: 978-0805210309 Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity is a 1975 feminist history book by Sarah B. Pomeroy. The work covers the lives of women in antiquity from the Greek Dark Ages to the death of Constantine the Great. The book was one of the first English works on women's history...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 455 p. The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuries--from Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine empires--David Potter's lively narrative shows how sport, to the ancients, was not just a dim reflection of religion and politics but a potent social...
Penguin Books, Allen Lane, 2010. — 392 p. — (The Penguine History of Europe). — ISBN: 978-0-14-194686-3 A stunning work of research and imagination that sheds new light of the ancient world. The western world has long been fascinated by classical Greek and Roman cultures, whose ideas and achievements underpin our own. Yet little has been written about how those ancient...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 320 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). This collection's central thesis is straightforward: long-distance communication plays a key role in the cohesion and stability of early states and in turn, these states invest heavily in long-term communication strategies and networks. As reliable and fast long-distance communication facilitates the...
Oxford University Press USA, 2024. — 632 p. The monumental remains of Palmyra (also known as Tadmor) have fascinated travelers and scholars for centuries. The Oxford Handbook of Palmyra gives a detailed analysis of the archaeology and history of this ancient oasis city in the Syrian Desert, spanning evidence from several millennia. With contributions from thirty archaeologists,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 664 p. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families. Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social,...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 422 p. What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing Julius Caesar at a meeting of the Senate was deliberate. That location asserted...
McFarland and Company, 2014. — 192 р. This book offers a concise survey of Western Civilization from the Stone Age through the fall of the last Western Roman Emperor in AD 476. Each of the three sections chronicle a critical epoch in human history. Section I encompasses man's ascent from barbarism to civilization in the Ancient Near East; Section II witnesses the development of...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 375 p. The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century. The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the “civilized” Greek and Roman...
New York, NY: Pegasus Books, 2016. — 368 pages : illustrations, maps. A masterly investigation into the Classical roots of Western civilization, taking the reader on an illuminating journey from Troy, Athens, and Sparta to Utopia, Alexandria, and Rome. An authoritative and accessible study of the foundations, development, and enduring legacy of the cultures of Greece and Rome,...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. — 320 p. How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain as it is or will it undergo a catastrophic change? What role do the gods, human morality, and the forces of nature play in bringing about the end of the world? In Apocalypse and Golden...
Oxford University Press, 1989. — 128 p. Alfred Thayer Mahan's nineteenth-century classic, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, has long occupied a central place in the canon of strategic thought. But as professor Chester G. Starr shows in this thought-provoking work, Mahan's theories have also led to serious misperceptions among historians about the significance of naval...
Simon & Schuster, 2013. — 320 p. In Masters of Command, Barry Strauss compares the way the three greatest generals of the ancient world waged war and draws lessons from their experiences that apply on and off the battlefield. Each of them was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight, when, and why; to know what victory was and when to end...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 296 p. — (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World). How ancient Mediterranean trade thrived through state institutions. From around 700 BCE until the first centuries CE, the Mediterranean enjoyed steady economic growth through trade, reaching a level not to be regained until the early modern era. This process of growth coincided...
Penguin UK, 2010. An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical societies....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. In recent years, there has been intense debate about the reality behind the depiction of maritime cityscapes, especially harbours. Visualizing Harbours in the Classical World argues that the available textual and iconographic evidence supports the argument that these representations have a symbolic, rather than literal, meaning and message,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 382 p. Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however, still have...
Ashgate, 2015. — 264 p. In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological statements and living experiences of late Roman childhood. This is the first book to...
Routledge, 2014. — 238 p. Greek pottery was exported around the ancient world in vast quantities over a period of several centuries. This book focuses on the Greek pottery consumed by people in the western Mediterranean and trans-Alpine Europe from 800-300 BCE, attempting to understand the distribution of vases, and particularly the reasons why people who were not Greek decided...
Routledge, 1981. — 302 p. Greek and Roman Slavery brings together fresh English translations of 243 texts and inscriptions on slavery from fifth and fourth century Greece and Rome. The material is arranged thematically, offering the reader a comprehensive review of the idea and practice of slavery in ancient civilization. In addition, a thorough bibliography for each chapter, as...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 457 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to Food in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive overview of the cultural aspects relating to the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in antiquity. Provides an up-to-date overview of the study of food in the ancient world. Addresses all aspects of food...
Kensington Publishing, 1955. — 475 p. The Concise Dictionary of Ancient History is packed with over four hundred pages of definitions that bring readers a rich portrait of life in ancient times. Curated by editor P. G. Woodcock, each entry provides details and discoveries about ancient history including the key figures, terms, and events. This reference source is the perfect...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 528 p. The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment. The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing,...
Routledge, 2018. — 304 p. This book brings together recent developments in modern migration theory, a wide range of sources, new and old tools revisited (from GIS to epigraphic studies, from stable isotope analysis to the study of literary sources) and case studies from the ancient eastern Mediterranean that illustrate how new theories and techniques are helping to give a...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 240 p. Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between urbanism, capitalism and modernity. In this...
Acta Diurna, Сидорович, 2020. — 746 с. — (AntiQuitas). — ISBN 978-5-6044244-1-4. Вы держите в руках книгу о временах кровавой трансформации античного мира и рождении Европы, книгу, повествующую о трагических и загадочных пяти веках, разделивших христианизацию Рима и принятие Карлом Великим императорского титула. Это эпоха ужасов и опустошительных экологических катастроф, равных...
Acta Diurna, Сидорович, 2019. — 312 с. — (AntiQuitas). — ISBN: 978-5-905909-46-7. Вы держите в руках книгу о временах кровавой трансформации античного мира и рождении Европы, книгу, повествующую о трагических и загадочных пяти веках, разделивших христианизацию Рима и принятие Карлом Великим императорского титула. Это эпоха ужасов и опустошительных экологических катастроф,...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2023. — 256 с. — (Studia Religiosa) — ISBN 978-5-4448-2164-0. Период между 150 и 750 годами н. э. – эпоха, в которую навсегда исчезают казалось бы самые незыблемые античные институты. К 476 году в Западной Европе прекратила свое существование Римская империя, а к 655 году на Ближнем Востоке – Персидская империя. Ставшее уже классическим...
Предис. Гасана Гусейнова. — М.: АСТ, 2019. — 1322 с. — (Психология древнегреческого мифа). — ISBN 978-5-17-110464-1. Выдающийся филолог конца XIX – начала XX Фаддей Францевич Зелинский вводит читателей в мир античной мифологии: сказания о богах и героях даны на фоне богатейшей картины жизни Древней Греции. Собранные под одной обложкой, они станут настольной книгой как для тех,...
Пер. с англ. А. Л. Андреева. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 223 с. — (Хроники военных сражений). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4444-7. Эдвард Кризи, исследуя вооруженные конфликты Античности, определяет свой выбор самых важных сражений этого периода истории тем, что они позволяют во всех деталях рассмотреть масштабную картину развития человечества. Автор анализирует расстановку политических...
Пер. с нем. Послесл. А. А. Нейхардт. — М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1977. — 165 с.: ил. и карт. — (По следам исчезнувших культур Востока). Книга дает развернутую картину жизни народов Ближнего Востока и Греции в VII в. до н. э. — в эпоху оформления гомеровских поэм. Введение История Торговля и судоходство Военное дело Города и дворцы Домашняя...
М.: Наука, 1996. — 348 с.: ил. — ISBN 5-02-009497-8 Книга посвящена социальной, экономической и политической истории Понта от образования независимого государства в 302 г. до н. э. до превращения в римскую провинцию. Рассматривается древнейшая история созданного династией Митридатидов государства, внутренняя и внешняя политика царей в Малой Азии и Причерноморье. Большое место...
М.: Вече, 2019. — 390 с. — (Античный мир). — ISBN 978-5-4484-8054-6. Три великих царства – Боспорское, Каппадокийское и Понтийское – в научном мире представляются в разной степени загадочными и малоизученными. Первое из них находилось в Северном Причерноморье и образовалось в результате объединения греческих городов на Керченском и Таманском полуостровах со столицей...
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