Constructing Early Christian Families
9,616円 The family is a topical issue for studies of the Ancient world. Family, household and kinship have different connotations in antiquity from their modern ones. This volume expands that discussion to investigate the early Christian family structures within the larger Graeco-Roman context. Particula...
Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z
12,767円 Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z gathers together the ancient information available, listing all the names that ancient Greeks gave their birds and all their descriptions and analyses. W. Geoffrey Arnott identifies as many of them as possible in the light of modern ornithological studies. T...
Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Class...
12,933円 This book presents a challenge to the long held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and Rome were underdeveloped. It shows that the exploitation of natural resources, manufacturing and the building trade all made significant contributions to classical economies. I...
Works of Arthur Delevan Gilman
599円 2 works of Arthur Delevan Gilman American architect, designer of many Boston neighborhoods, and member of the American Institute of Architects (1821-1882) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Arthur Delevan Gilman. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work sel...
Goddess and the Warrior
12,933円 First Published in 2004. Naked Goddesses can take on various forms: mistresses of animals, seductresses, fertility figures, even monsters. Nudity, however, has a consistent message: power. This book explores the power of naked females in the art of the Levant and Early Greece, tracing the path an...
The Naked Olympics
1,709円 What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games? With the summer Olympics’ return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author of Pagan Holiday brings attitude, erudition, and humor to the fascinating story of the original...
Ruling Roman Britain
11,109円 In this book, David Braund offers a significantly different perspective upon the history of Roman Britain. He concentrates upon the literary evidence, which has been studied to a lesser extent than archaeology in recent years. Close attention to the Greek and Roman sources enables the constructio...
Character, Narrator, and Simile in the Iliad
7,031円 Jonathan L. Ready offers the first comprehensive examination of Homer's similes in the Iliad as arenas of heroic competition. This study concentrates primarily on similes spoken by Homeric characters. The first to offer a sustained exploration of such similes, Ready shows how characters are made ...
The Barbarian's Beverage
12,933円 Comprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors from 700 BC to AD 900, the book demonstrates the important technological as well as ideological contributions the Europeans ...
Herrscher der Eisenzeit
1,267円 Die faszinierende Welt der Handelsherren, Krieger und Druiden Sie sind geheimnisumwittert wie kaum ein anderes europäisches Volk: die Kelten. Von ihren antiken Nachbarn wurden sie erst als geschäftstüchtige Händler und Kunsthandwerker geschätzt, später als Barbaren gefürchtet. Ihren Priestern und...
City of Sokrates
10,280円 In this extensively updated second edition, including an up-dated index and bibliography, J. W. Roberts explores the main features of Athenian life in the latter half of the fifth century BC.
The Byzantine Achievement (Routledge Revi...
9,616円 First published in 1929, this highly influential study offers a historical perspective on the Byzantine Empire, from the establishment of Constantinople by Emperor Constantine around 330 AD, through to the fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1453 AD. Byron’s work consider...
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