Ancient History category: 8298 books
Rome Enters the Greek East
From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance over all the Greek states from the Adriatic Sea to Syria by the 180s BC.
Applies modern political theory to ancient Mediterranean history, taking...
A Storm of Spears
Understanding the Greek Hoplite at War
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
A “practical and thought provoking” study of the ancient military tactic known as the phalanx—the classic battle formation used in historic Greek warfare (The Historian).
In ancient Greece, warfare was a fact of life, with every city brandishing its own fighting force. And the backbone...
A Place at the Altar
Priestesses in Republican Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman...
The First Fossil Hunters
Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Griffins, Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures...
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Family Trouble in the Infancy Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Jesus was five he killed a boy, or so reports the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. A little boy had run into Jesus by accident, bumping him on the shoulder, and Jesus took offense: "Jesus was angry and said to him, 'You shall go no further on your way,' and instantly the boy fell down and died."...
Amheida III
Ostraka from Trimithis, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This archaeological report provides a comprehensive study of the excavations carried out at Amheida House B2 in Egypt's Dakhleh Oasis between 2005 and 2007, followed by three study seasons between 2008 and 2010. The excavations at Amheida in Egypt's western desert, begun in 2001 under the aegis of...
What Did the Romans Know?
An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans’ views about the natural world have no place in modern science—the...
by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
William Edward Hartpole Lecky was a well known Irish historian who wrote at length about the history of the European continent, spanning from antiquity to the 19th century. In 1860 he published anonymously a small book entitled The Religious Tendencies of the Age, but on leaving college he abandoned...
Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice
Ancient Victims, Modern Observers
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The interpretation of animal sacrifice, now considered the most important ancient Greek and Roman religious ritual, has long been dominated by the views of Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne. No penetrating and general critique of their views has appeared and, in particular,...
Money, Labour and Land
Approaches to the economics of ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
The cultural wealth of the classical Greek world was matched by its material wealth, and there is abundant textual and archaeological evidence for both. However, radically different theoretical and methodological approaches have been used to interpret this evidence, and conflicts continue to rage...
Brutus
Caesar's Assassin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The extraordinary life of the “noblest Roman of them all.”
Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if not of all time, knowledge of this historical figure has principally been passed to the modern world through the literary...
Palmyra
An Irreplaceable Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless of its actual origins, it was an influential city, serving for centuries as a caravan stop for...
by Marcella Denise Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Think about the word "slave" for a moment. What comes to mind? An African woman in rural Mississippi, balancing a basket of freshly picked cotton on her head, or a child struggling to carry tobacco leaf bushels in Virginia? These are images from the African slave trade from...
by Ancient Myths
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
One of the most famous ancient Greek heroes was Theseus who was a son of the king of Athens. During the traveling his father lived in a small town - Tresa. There he married Tresen queen, but preferred not to take her with him because the relatives of Aegeus wanted to seize power and they were dangerous...