Ancient category: 10855 books
The Book of Gates
A Magical Translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2018
***The Book of Gates ***is a rich and epic magical translation of a little-known Ancient Egyptian funerary text that contains a wealth of mystical and magical secrets. Unlike its more famous cousin, The Book of the Dead, *The Book of Gates *was meant for the living as much as the deceased, and...
The Assassination of Julius Caesar
A People's History of Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2004
“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome—“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly).
Most historians, both ancient and modern, have viewed the Late Republic of Rome through the eyes of its rich nobility—the...
Divine Mania
Alteration of Consciousness in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
‘Our greatest blessings come to us by way of mania, provided it is given us by divine gift,’ – says Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus. Certain forms of alteration of consciousness, considered to be inspired by supernatural forces, were actively sought in ancient Greece. Divine mania comprises a...
by Frederick Kohlrausch
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Germany from the Most Ancient Times to the Conquests of the Franks under Clovis is a great primer on the tribes such as the Cimbri and Teutoni who inhabited Germany during antiquity and the dark ages. A table of contents is included.
Gift and Gain
How Money Transformed Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The economy of ancient Rome, with its long-range trade, widespread moneylending, and companies of government contractors, was surprisingly modern. Yet Romans also exchanged goods and services within a traditional system of gifts and favors, which sustained the supportive relationships necessary for...
Xenophanes of Colophon
Fragments
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
Xenophanes of Colophon was a philosophical poet who lived in various cities of the ancient Greek world during the late sixth and early fifth centuries BC. In this book, James Lesher presents the Greek texts of all the surviving fragments of Xenophanes' teachings, with an original English translation...
Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity
Changing Perspectives 7
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity evaluates the new perspectives that have emerged since the crisis over historicity in the 1970s and 80s in the field of biblical scholarship. Several new studies in the field, as well as the ‘deconstructive’ side of literary criticism that emerged from...
Socratic Charis
Philosophy without the Agon
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
This book explores the possibility that Plato’s philosophia is influenced by non-agonal practices and values that historically and philosophically antedate the agonal practices of the Athenian ekklesia. The author surveys literature concerning the predominance of agonal in ancient Greek culture,...
by Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
The transition between the 2nd and the 1st millennium BC was an era of deep economic changes in the ancient Near East. An increasing monetization of transactions, a broader use of silver, the management of the resources of temples through “entrepreneurs”, the development of new trade circuits...
The Tiny and the Fragmented
Miniature, Broken, or Otherwise Incomplete Objects in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Miniature and fragmentary objects are both eye-catching and yet easily dismissed. Tiny scale entices users with visions of Lilliputian worlds. The ambiguity of fragments intrigues us, offering tactile reminders of reality's transience. Yet, the standard scholarly approach to such objects has been...
The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning
Three Ancient Chinese Astronomical Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The paradigm they established was to shape East Asian...
The World through Roman Eyes
Anthropological Approaches to Ancient Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
The culmination of a project aimed at showcasing, in a systematic way, the potential of applying anthropological perspectives to classical studies, this volume highlights the fundamental contribution this approach has to make to our understanding of ancient Roman culture. Through the close study of...
Paleopathology of the Ancient Egyptians
An Annotated Bibliography 1995–2016 Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This updated and expanded annotated bibliography presents and describes over 1,200 books, dissertations, excavation reports, and articles relevant to the paleopathology of the ancient Egyptians from the fields of Egyptology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and medicine, making it possible for...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the...