Ancient History category: 8298 books
The Moving City
Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study...
The Pyramid Age: Riddles of Time and Technology
Vol. 2, Ages in Alignment Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Pyramid Age, Northern Irish historian Emmet Sweeney provides evidence suggesting the pyramids were not built around 2350 BC, as is currently thought, but only around 800 BC. SweeneyÂs book argues that the dating of ancient history is often much more tenuous than most people...
by Peter Der Manuelian
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
We’ve all heard of pyramids, hieroglyphs and Cleopatra, but how much do you really know about ancient Egypt? Why was the Nile integral to the unification of Egypt? What is the mystery surrounding Queen Hetepheres’ tomb? What did the Amarna Letters reveal? What did the ancient Egyptians eat and...
by Mary Lefkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas. Readers try to dismiss them as a literary convention. Stage productions leave them out, especially in the cases when they appear ex machina. Instead, they place disproportionate emphasis on the harsh criticisms of the...
Bodily Arts
Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering...
by Ancient Myths
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Ancient Myths are very popular nowadays. Children and elders all around the world love to read about Gods and heroic adventures and feats of well-known champions. Greek ancient myths are full of allegory and wisdom, a triumph of the truth above lies, tricks over insidiousness, savvy and patience....
The Ancient Critic at Work
Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
The large but underrated corpus of Greek scholia, the marginal and interlinear notes found in manuscripts, is a very important source for ancient literary criticism. The evidence of the scholia significantly adds to and enhances the picture that can be gained from studying the relevant treatises (such...
Peace in the Ancient World
Concepts and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace and others did not.
Explores the idea that concepts of peace in antiquity occurred only in periods that experienced exceptional...
History of the Roman Legions
History of Rome
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 17, 2015
An extraordinary eBook. Over 800 pages, 42 full-color illustrations, out of the text, of Tancredi Scarpelli, Italian illustrator, 30 full-color illustrations, out of the text, of great painters, various illustrations black and white in the text. All the texts of this eBook are free available on the...
Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece
Manipulating Material Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek...
Ancient Glass
An Interdisciplinary Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of archaeological glass in which technological, historical, geological, chemical, and cultural aspects of the study of ancient glass are combined. The book examines why and how this unique material was invented some 4,500 years ago and considers the ritual,...
Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area
Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Ancient Irrigation Systems in the Aral Sea Area, is the English translation of Boris Vasilevich Andrianov's work, Drevnie orositelnye sistemy priaralya , concerning the study of ancient irrigation systems and the settlement pattern in the historical region of Khorezm, south of the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan)....
by Ann Rosalie David
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Based on years of prestigious academic work, Professor Rosalie David cleverly presents every aspect of life in ancient Egypt through the lives of various characters, all based on mummies from the Manchester Museum whom Professor Rosalie David has led the study of. Characters hail from all walks of...
by Mark Golden
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z covers an extraordinarily wide range of Greek and Roman sporting activities.
Arranged in an easy-to-use dictionary format, this volume includes more than 700 entries discussing ancient athletes, festivals, important sites, equipment and concepts. The approach...