Ancient category: 10855 books
The Mystery of Skara Brae
Neolithic Scotland and the Origins of Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
An investigation of the origins of the Neolithic farming village on Orkney Island
• Reveals the striking similarities between Skara Brae and the traditions of pre-dynastic ancient Egypt as preserved by the Dogon people of Mali
• Explains how megalithic stone sites near Skara Brae...
by Hippocrates
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply...
by Shane Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine.
Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that of the phonograph, the written word was unrivaled as a medium of the human voice. In The Ancient...
From Villain to Hero
Odysseus in Ancient Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Praise for Silvia Montiglio
"[A] brilliant and important book. . . . "
---Journal of Religion, on Silence in the Land of Logos
"[A]n invigorating reevaluation of both the ancient symbolic landscape and our preconceptions of it."
---American Journal of Philology, on...
Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor
Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Alexander the Great led one of the most successful armies in history and conquered nearly the entirety of the known world while wearing armor made of cloth. How is that possible? In Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor, Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott Bartell, and Alicia Aldrete provide the answer.
An...
by Charlotte Booth
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
In modern-day media, depictions of ancient Egyptian society are of a highly sexualised, lustful culture, but how accurate are these depictions of a people so shrouded in mystery and legend that it is sometimes hard to tell truth from fiction? In this fascinating and intimate insight into ancient Egyptian...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Popular Culture in the Ancient World is the first book to provide an interdisciplinary study of the subject. Traditionally neglected by classical scholars, popular culture provides a new window through which we can view the ancient world. An international group of scholars tackles a fascinating range...
Point of Origin
Gobekli Tepe and the Spiritual Matrix for the World’s Cosmologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Reveals Gobekli Tepe as a center of civilizing knowledge for the ancient world
• Details how symbolic elements at Gobekli Tepe link a pre-Vedic cult in India to cosmological myths and traditions in Africa, Egypt, Tibet, and China
• Discusses how carved animal images at Gobekli Tepe...
The Invention of Ancient Israel
The Silencing of Palestinian History
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Invention of Ancient Israel shows how the true history of ancient Palestine has been obscured by the search for Israel. Keith W. Whitelam shows how ancient Israel has been invented by scholars in the image of a European nation state, influenced by the realisation of the state of Israel in 1948....
Deleuze and Ancient Greek Physics
The Image of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
In 1988 the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked that, throughout his career, he had always been 'circling around' a concept of nature. Providing critical analysis of his highly original readings of Stoicism, Aristotle, and Epicurus, this book shows that it is Deleuze's interpretations of ancient Greek...
Rewriting Ancient Jewish History
The History of the Jews in Roman Times and the New Historical Method
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed, however, when a handful of insights undermined the traditional historical method, the method long enlisted by historians for eliciting facts from sources....
Hegel and Ancient Philosophy
A Re-Examination
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Hegel’s debts to ancient philosophy are widely acknowledged by scholars, and by the philosopher himself. Roughly half of his Lectures on the History of Philosophy is devoted to ancient philosophy, and throughout his work Hegel frequently frames his positions in relation to the thinkers and movements...
by Moustafa Gadalla
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, ...etc., throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and...
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia
An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia presents fresh and engaging translations of works that were composed or edited by female scribes and elite women of the ancient Near East. These texts provide insight into the social status, struggles, and achievements of women during the earliest periods of...