Ancient History category: 8298 books
Moses and Akhenaten
The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
A reinterpretation of biblical and Egyptian history that shows Moses and the Pharaoh Akhenaten to be one and the same.
• Provides dramatic evidence from both archaeological and documentary sources.
• A radical challenge to long-established beliefs on the origin of Semitic religion.
During...
by Barbara Watterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Illustrated in colour, this is an introduction for the general reader to Egyptian mythology and its mysteries. It includes a concise introduction to general aspects of Egyptian religion, followed by specific sections devoted to the most important of the gods. With sections on personal religion and...
by George Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
Rome and China
Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative,...
The Demography of Roman Italy
Population Dynamics in an Ancient Conquest Society 201 BCE–14 CE
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This book provides a fresh perspective on the population history of Italy during the late Republic. It employs a range of sources and a multidisciplinary approach to investigate demographic trends and the demographic behaviour of Roman citizens. Dr Hin shows how they adapted to changing economic,...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what...
The Book of the Kings of Egypt (Routledge Revivals)
Vol. I: Dynasties I - XIX
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the...
The Book of the Kings of Egypt (Routledge Revivals)
Vol II: Dynasties XX - XXX
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum’s department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the...
Nihongi
Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest of Times to A.D. 697
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, often called the Nihonshoki, is one of Japan's great classics of literature. Regarded as one of the seminal original authorities on the mythology and ancient history of Japan, it remains as fresh today as when it was written in the...
Exemplarity and Singularity
Thinking through Particulars in Philosophy, Literature, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
This book pursues a strand in the history of thought – ranging from codified statutes to looser social expectations – that uses particulars, more specifically examples, to produce norms. Much intellectual history takes ancient Greece as a point of departure. But the practice of exemplarity is...
Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome
Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
The Greek author Dionysius of Halicarnassus came to Rome in 30/29 BC. He learnt Latin, developed a network of students, patrons and colleagues, and started to teach rhetoric. He published a history of early Rome (Roman Antiquities), and essays on rhetoric and literary criticism, including On the Ancient...
by Fernand Braudel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
A grand sweep of history by the late Fernand Braudel–one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians–Memory and the Mediterraneanchronicles the Mediterranean’s immeasurably rich past during the foundational period from prehistory to classical antiquity, illuminating nothing less...
Athens Burning
The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad. Women and children were sent to one safe haven,...
The Roman Garden
Space, Sense, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for interpreting...