Ancient History category: 8298 books
by Isocrates
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential...
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy
Its Origin, Development, and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about “Presocratic philosophy” in the first place? How did early Greek thinkers come to be considered collectively as Presocratic...
When God Had a Wife
The Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
Reveals the tradition of goddess worship in early Judaism and how Jesus attempted to restore the feminine side of the faith
• Provides historical and archaeological evidence for an earlier form of Hebrew worship with both male and female gods, including a 20th-century discovery of a Hebrew...
by Sylvia Berryman
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2009
It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing that the idea that the world works 'like...
Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions
Contributions to Current Research in Indology Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of...
by Isocrates
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential...
Theater of the People
Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas created exclusively for...
The Victor's Crown
A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
The Victor's Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging over a dozen centuries--from Archaic Greece through to the late Roman and early Byzantine empires--David Potter's lively narrative shows how sport, to the ancients, was not just a dim reflection of religion...
A Trip To Egypt
All Around The World: A Series Of Travel Guides, #4
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This country has so much to offer, standing proud on the coast of northern Africa, telling tales of great ancient rulers, such as Cleopatra, to all curious visitors and history enthusiasts. Egypt has something for everyone.
Explore the riches of this beautiful country, and find the line...
by Charles Muntz
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic, Charles E. Muntz offers a fresh look at one of the most neglected historians of the ancient world, and recovers Diodorus's originality and importance as a witness to a profoundly tumultuous period in antiquity. Muntz analyzes the first...
Menander in Antiquity
The Contexts of Reception
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end of antiquity employing a broad range of sources such as portraits, illustrations of his plays, papyri preserving their texts and inscriptions...
by Daniel Traina
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject History - World History - Early and Ancient History, grade: 1,7, National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Department of History), course: The Idea of History, language: English, abstract: INTRODUCTION ' [...] the first page of Thucydides is, in my opinion,...
by Isocrates
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential...
by Isocrates
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2012
Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential...