Ancient History category: 8298 books
Plato's Alarm Clock
And Other Amazing Ancient Inventions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
We all like to think we are pretty smart. New medical advances seem to come along every day; space travel suddenly doesn’t seem so difficult; self-driving cars are no longer a thing of the future … but if we were stranded on a desert island tomorrow, most of us wouldn’t know how to catch a fish...
TV antiquity
Swords, sandals, blood and sand
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
TV antiquity explores representations of ancient Greece and Rome throughout television history. The first comprehensive overview of the ‘swords and sandals’ genre on the small screen, it argues that these shows offer a distinct perspective on the ancient world. The book traces the historic development...
by Tertullian
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
A second century theologian from Carthage, Tertullian was an important early Christian writer, who produced an extensive corpus of literature. As the initiator of ecclesiastical Latin, he was instrumental in shaping the vocabulary and thought of Western Christianity. Tertullian has been described...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Rudolf Steiner emphasizes the astonishing and special relationship between our own time and that of ancient Egypt—how, in the natural rhythm of the ages, the so-called third Post-Atlantian (Egyptian) epoch is mirrored by the fifth (present) epoch. In this sense, today it is especially relevant to...
The Sungod's Journey through the Netherworld
Reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
"The ancient Egyptian sources come alive, speaking to us without seeming alien to our modern ways of thinking. Andreas Schweizer invites us to join the nocturnal voyage of the solar barque and to immerse ourselves, with the 'Great Soul' of the sun, into the darkness surrounding us. Here in the illustrations...
by Barbara Graziosi
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming,the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered to be two of the most influential works in the history of western literature. Yet their author, 'the greatest poet that ever lived' is something of a mystery. By the 6th century BCE, Homer had already...
by Christopher Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The premise embraces ancient cultures from all over the world. It shows how they all used potent mirrors to turn stone to glass, vaporize metals and win wars. When this tool is combined with the operation of the world’s iconic pyramids, shrines and stone circles, a paradigm shift is forced. The...
The Anatomy of Myth
The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The Anatomy of Myth is a comprehensive study of the different methods of interpreting myths developed by the Greeks, adopted by the Romans, and eventually passed on to Jewish and Christian interpreters of the Bible. Greek thinkers only rarely saw "myth" as a category of thought in its own right. Most...
Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece
Essays on Religion and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This volume assembles fourteen highly influential articles written by Michael H. Jameson over a period of nearly fifty years, edited and updated by the author himself. They represent both the scope and the signature style of Jameson's engagement with the subject of ancient Greek religion. The collection...
by Roger S. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world—that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution—has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people—from...
Across the Corrupting Sea
Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean,...
Ancient Antioch
From the Seleucid Era to the Islamic Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
From late fourth century BC Seleucid enclave to capital of the Roman east, Antioch on the Orontes was one of the greatest cities of antiquity and served as a hinge between east and west. This book draws on a century of archaeological fieldwork to offer a new narrative of Antioch's origins and growth,...
A Concise Chronicle of the Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt
NEW KINGDOM PERIOD 18th Dynasty Including the Princes and Princesses, Royal Titles, Family Trees and Time Lines
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A Concise Chronicle of the Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt NEW KINGDOM PERIOD 18th Dynasty Including the Princes and Princesses, Royal Titles, Family Trees and Time Lines A unique concise guide to the Pharaohs and Queens of the 18th Dynasty, which includes the Royal family members, the princes and...
Tales of High Priests and Taxes
The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible—the ancient Near East—came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed...