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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This volume brings together studies on Greek animal sacrifice by foremost experts in Greek language, literature and material culture. Readers will benefit from the synthesis of new evidence and approaches with a re-evaluation of twentieth-century theories on sacrifice. The chapters range across the...
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...
Roots of Ancient Greek Civilization
The Influence of Old Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were the attainments of Classical Greek civilization, these were actually a Bronze Age fusion of earlier European concepts and Hellenic ingenuity. This work considers both the multicultural wellspring...
The Curse of the Pharaohs' Tombs
Tales of the unexpected since the days of Tutankhamun
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The Curse of the Pharaoh’s Tombs is the definitive book on Ancient Egyptian tomb curses, providing new information and data never before published whilst exploring the many incidents and deaths associated with tomb curses. The book puts the record straight on matters which have been wrongly recorded...
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.
Senses of the Empire
Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of human behaviour, this volume develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology...
The Birth of the Athenian Community
From Solon to Cleisthenes
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The Birth of the Athenian Community elucidates the social and political development of Athens in the sixth century, when, as a result of reforms by Solon and Cleisthenes (at the beginning and end of the sixth century, respectively), Athens turned into the most advanced and famous city, or polis, of...
The Construction of Time in Antiquity
Ritual, Art, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Time has always held a fascination for human beings, who have attempted to relate to it and to make sense of it, constructing and deconstructing it through its various prisms, since time cannot be experienced in an unmediated way. This book answers the needs of a growing community of scholars and...
Religious Networks in the Roman Empire
The Spread of New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The first three centuries AD saw the spread of new religious ideas through the Roman Empire, crossing a vast and diverse geographical, social and cultural space. In this innovative study, Anna Collar explores both how this happened and why. Drawing on research in the sociology and anthropology of...
Shoes, Slippers, and Sandals
Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
This edited volume groups research on the significance of ancient feet and footwear, much of which was presented, discussed and reviewed at the conference: Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Antiquity, held at Newcastle University and the Great North Museum from 29 June–1 July 2015.
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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 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...