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Leadership through the Classics
Learning Management and Leadership from Ancient East and West Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
The unforeseeably complex socio-economic and environmental challenges of the 21st century must be tackled by placing faith in the power of mankind to integrate established wisdom and new knowledge, and in our ability to collaborate for a sustainable future. Departing from this, a global 2011 conference...
Our Ancient Ancestors' Lost History Reconstructed
Based on the Urantia Book
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Most of the researchers, archaeologists, anthropologists, and many more who have appeared on the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens have admitted their belief that extraterrestrials created humanity. And those creators were none other than the Anunnaki (those who came from heaven) of the Sumerians....
Future Freedoms
Intergenerational Justice, Democratic Theory, and Ancient Greek Tragedy and Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
What do present generations owe the future? In Future Freedoms, Elizabeth Markovits asks readers to consider the fact that while democracy holds out the promise of freedom and autonomy, citizens are always bound by the decisions made by previous generations. Motivated by the contemporary political...
Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece
Essays on Religion and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion. The collection...
by Melanie Waldron
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Geography Matters in Ancient Rome looks at how the Roman Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Roman life through its geography. Read about how the Romans invented new farming methods such as a harvesting machine called a vallus, how some women in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not...
by Roger S. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
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...
by Nancy H. Demand
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The Mediterranean Context of Early Greek History reveals the role of the complex interaction of Mediterranean seafaring and maritime connections in the development of the ancient Greek city-states.
Offers fascinating insights into the origins of urbanization in the ancient Mediterranean, including...
The Last Pharaohs
Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs radically from previous studies by putting the Ptolemaic...
Foreigners in Ancient Egypt
Theban Tomb Paintings from the Early Eighteenth Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In ancient Egypt, one of the primary roles of the king was to maintain order and destroy chaos. Since the beginning of Egyptian history, images of foreigners were used as symbols of chaos and thus shown as captives being bound and trampled under the king's feet. The early 18th dynasty (1550-1372 BCE)...
Across the Corrupting Sea
Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
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,...
A Concise Chronicle of the Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt
NEW KINGDOM PERIOD 18th Dynasty Including the Princes and Princesses, Royal Titles, Family Trees and Time Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A Concise Chronicle of the Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt NEW KINGDOM PERIOD 18th Dynasty Including the Princes and Princesses, Royal Titles, Family Trees and Time Lines A unique concise guide to the Pharaohs and Queens of the 18th Dynasty, which includes the Royal family members, the princes and...
Tales of High Priests and Taxes
The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible—the ancient Near East—came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed...
The Chemical Muse
Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
"The last wild frontier of classical studies." ---The Times (UK)
The Chemical Muse uncovers decades of misdirection and obfuscation to reveal the history of widespread drug use in Ancient Rome and Greece. In the city-states that gave birth to Western civilization, drugs were an everyday...