Ancient History category: 8298 books
Traces of the Past
Classics between History and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
What are we doing when we walk into an archaeological museum or onto an archaeological site? What do the objects and features we encounter in these unique places mean and, more specifically, how do they convey to us something about the beliefs and activities of formerly living humans? In short, how...
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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...
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...
by L. A. Waddell
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
This fantastic volume explores the mysterious origins of the Egyptian civilization, looking at its relationship to ancient Samaria and subsequent history. “Egyptian Civilization - Its Sumerian Origin and Real Chronology” is highly recommended for those with an interest in ancient Egypt, especially...
The Viking Stone Age
Birth of the Ax Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Story of the Vikings during the early Nordic Stone Age time period. The first ancient Norsemen. A span of some thousands of years concisely covering the evolution the Stone Age Norse people. A whole new world of understanding about the ancient Vikings has been opened up by new archaeological...
by Elena Isayev
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular, outside the military context 'the foreigner in our...
by L. A. Waddell
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Within this fascinating volume the author explores the history of the Sumerians in light of contemporary archaeological discoveries at Indus Valley. The author examines these discoveries and explains how they hint to the fact that the “Sumerians” were the long lost 'Early Aryans', and that the...
The History of Ancient Rome
Book IV: The Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
With the abolition of the Macedonian monarchy the supremacy of Rome not only became an established fact from the Pillars of Hercules to the mouths of the Nile and the Orontes, but, as if it were the final decree of fate, it weighed on the nations with all the pressure of an inevitable necessity, and...
Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion
Volume I: Early Greek Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Was Ancient Greek religion really 'mere ritualism'? Early Christians denounced the pagans for the disorderly plurality of their cults, and reduced Greek religion to ritual and idolatry; protestant theologians condemned the pagan 'religion of form' (with Catholicism as its historical heir). For a long...
by J.A. McClymont, John Fulleylove
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
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More perhaps than any other country in Europe, Greece owes its charm to the traditions of a remote past. It has no lack of fine scenery, and there is much that is interesting in its modern life; but what chiefly distinguishes it from other countries is the rich and beautiful...
Slave-Wives, Single Women and “Bastards” in the Ancient Greek World
Law and Economics Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status groups in Greek history: the pallakē, the nothos,...
The History of Ancient Rome
Book V: The Establishment of the Military Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
When Sulla died in the year 676, the oligarchy which he had restored ruled with absolute sway over the Roman state; but, as it had been established by force, it still needed force to maintain its ground against its numerous secret and open foes. It was opposed not by any single party with objects...
Making Men Ridiculous
Juvenal and the Anxieties of the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Writing during the reign of emperors Trajan and Hadrian, Juvenal drew on Roman legend and the history of preceding imperial dynasties as a means of scrutinizing cultural upheavals in the Rome of his day. Tacky foreigners, the nouveaux riches, women who don’t know their place, bloodthirsty—even...
Maya Civilization
A Complete Overview Of The Maya History & Maya Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2018
Discover The Maya History & How They Lived!
This book's coverage begins with the development of the Maya through the ancient eras, starting with their founding in Belize as a hunter-gatherer society in the Pre-Classic Period all the way through the Classic and Post-Classic Period during...