G W Bowersock: 4 books
From Gibbon to Auden
Essays on the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays...
The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in...
by G. W. Bowersock
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
In this book, based on lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel, the famed historian G. W. Bowersock presents a searching examination of political developments in the Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the rise of Islam. Recounting the growth of Christian Ethiopia and the conflict with...
by G. W. Bowersock
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Little is known about sixth-century Arabia. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from Iberia to India. G. W. Bowersock illuminates this obscure yet most dynamic period in Islam, exploring why arid Arabia proved to be fertile ground for Muhammad’s message and why it spread so quickly to the wider world.