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Heroes

Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming v...

1177 B.C. - The Year Civilization Collapsed

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples? invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory ...

Fate of Rome - Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Ro...

The Scythians - Nomad Warriors of the Steppe

The Scythians were warlike nomadic horsemen who roamed the steppe of Asia in the first millennium BC. Using archaeological finds from bur...

The Storm Before the Storm - The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of civilization. Beginning as a small city-state in central...

300,000 Kisses - Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World

Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close...

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

Detailed historical coverage from the early Stone Age to the Romans. 25 halftones and maps.

Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome - A Hands-on Guide

Bestselling author Philip Matyszak explores how the Greeks and Romans used magic, who performed it ¿ and why. Magic was everywhere in the...

Words and Sounds

These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace es...

Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination

This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical rea...

The "Haus am Hang" at Hattula - A Late Hittite State Scriptorium and Its Tablet Collections

During the first excavations in Lower City of ¿attuSa, conducted by H. Winckler and Th. Makridi in 1907, Makridi discovered a palace buil...

Outlooks on the International Koiné Style - Hybrid Visual Idiom from New Kingdom Elite Iconography

The Near Eastern Late Bronze Age is known for heightened political and economic interconnectivity as kings of wealthy states like Egypt a...

Forschungsgeschichte als Aufbruch - Beiträge zur Geschichte der Christlichen Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte, XXIV. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche Archäologie, Bonn, 10.-12. Mai 2018

Die Beiträge entstanden im Rahmen der XXIV. Tagung der ¿Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche Archäologie zur Erforschung spätantiker, frühmitt...

Seleukid Royal Women - Creation, Representation and Distortion of Hellenistic Queenship in the Seleukid Empire

The study of royal women has been one of the most dynamic fields of inquiry into the Hellenistic world (ca. 336-30 BC) and has dramatical...

Empire and Domestic Economy

We are both immensely pleased to have played supporting roles in the archaeological research that led to this volume. As a faculty member...

Homer's Iliad

The renowned Basler Homer-Kommentar of the Iliad, edited by Anton Bierl and Joachim Latacz and originally published in German, presents t...

Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside - Essays on the Urban and Rural Worlds of Early Christianity

Ever since Jesus walked the hills of Galilee and Paul travelled the roads of Asia Minor and Greece, Christianity has shown a remarkable a...

Empire, Hegemony or Anarchy? - Rome and Italy, 201-31 BCE

During the period between the end of the Hannibalic War and Octavian's decisive victory in the battle of Actium in 31 BC, the Italian pen...

Transmission and Organization of Knowledge in the Ancient Mediterranean World

The role of transmission and organization of knowledge is essential to our understanding of the ancient Mediterranean world. This collect...

The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Akrai/Acrae, Sicily

This multiple authors volume, edited by Roksana Chowaniec and Marta Fitula, describes the results of interdisciplinary archaeological res...

The Egyptian Priests of the Graeco-Roman Period - An Analysis on the Basis of the Egyptian and Graeco-Roman Literary and Paraliterary Sources

Throughout Egyptian history, high-ranking Egyptian priests were the scholars responsible for the creation of the very material that const...

Exploring 'Dark Ages' - Archaeological Markers of Transition in the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Early Islamic Period

This book is the result of a workshop organized by the editors on April 5, 2018, during the 11th International Congress on the Archaeolog...

Daily Life in a Cosmopolitan World. Pottery and Culture During the Hellenistic Period - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of IARPotHP Lyon, November 2015, 5th-8th

Der Band versammelt die Vorträge der zweiten Tagung der "International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period e.V....

Seleukid Ideology - Creation, Reception and Response

Seleukid Perspectives explore the largest successor kingdom to Alexander the Great's empire. Seleukid kings established their power on th...

Divine Might - Goddesses in Greek Myth

The scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.

The House of the Two Skeletons at Morgantina

The House of the Two Skeletons is located in a quarter at the western border of the Hellenistic city of Morgantina in Sicily. It was part...

A Culture of Civil War? - "bellum civile" and Political Communication in Late Republican Rome

The civil wars of the first century BCE disrupted Roman society, which in turn was a major cause of the destabilisation of the political ...

Spoils in the Roman Republic - Boon and Bane

Warfare was a common occurrence in the Ancient World, and the Roman Republic was no exception in this regard. Rome was exceptionally succ...

Söldner und Berufssoldaten in der griechischen Welt - Soziale und politische Gestaltungsräume

Söldner und Berufssoldaten wurden bislang fast ausschließlich aus militärhistorischer Sicht und aus der Perspektive der griechischen Poli...

Cupid and Psyche - The Reception of Apuleius¿ Love Story since 1600

Apuleius¿ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamo...

Der Alpen-Adria-Raum und das Imperium Romanum in der hohen Kaiserzeit - Neue wirtschafts- und sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellungen

This volume offers new insights from economic and social history, with a focus on the area between the Alps and the Adriatic. Alongside r...

Marcus Furius Camillus, fatalis dux - A documentary study

Marcus Furius Camillus is the dominant figure in our traditional history of the Roman Republic in the early fourth century. He has been f...

Perduring Protest? - Perspectives on the History of Remonstrance in China

Early Chinese inscriptions show that already the kings of the Western Zhou period (1045-771 BCE) called upon officials to submit remonstr...

Aspects of Roman Dance Culture - Religious Cults, Theatrical Entertainments, Metaphorical Appropriations

The fourteen chapters of this book examine Roman dance by looking at its role in Roman religion, by following it into the theatre and the...

Animals and Humans through Time and Space - Investigating Diverse Relationships./ Essays in Honour of Joris Peters

This volume dedicated to Joris Peters on the occasion of his 65th birthday contains a bibliography, a foreword, greetings, eulogies, an a...

Adventures On The Roof Of The World

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in it...

Hadrian's Wall - Creating Division

Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figurativ...

Psychology and the Classics - A Dialogue of Disciplines

While the field of classics has informed and influenced the early developments of the field of psychology, these two disciplines presentl...

What the Greeks Did for Us

Tony Spawforth explores our inescapably classical heritage, wherever it's found. From politics and religion to our popular tastes and bea...

Herodotean Soundings - The Cambyses Logos

This volume is dedicated to the logos of Cambyses at the beginning of Book 3 in Herodotus' Histories, one of the few sources on the Persi...

History of Assurbanipal, translated from the cuneiform inscriptions

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

The Satyricon

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater; Being An Extract From The Life Of A Scholar

Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater; Being An Extract From The Life Of A Scholar has been considered by academicians and scholars of gr...

The art of the Metropolitan Museum of New York - giving a descriptive and critical account of its treasures, which represent the arts and crafts from remote antiquity to the present time

Obama's New Beginning in the Middle East

In June 2009, US president Barack Obama travelled to Cairo to seek a 'new beginning' in the Middle East. Beyond people's hopes and disapp...

Buddhist Stone Sutras in China: Sichuan Province. Volume 5

The fifth volume on the inscriptions carved in cave chapels at the Grove of the Reclining Buddha (Wofoyuan) in Anyue County, Sichuan, pre...

Escape from Rome - The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter S...

Emperor of Rome - Ruling the Ancient Roman World

In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the 1000-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her light on the emperors who...

The World of Alexander in Perspective - Contextualizing Arrian. Edited by Robert Rollinger and Julian Degen

This volume is a collection of papers that have been given at an international conference in December 2019 in Bregenz, Austria. They focu...

Gephyra 26, 2023 - Zeitschrift für die Geschichte und Kulturen des antiken östlichen Mittelmeerraums

'Gephyra' ist eine altertumswissenschaftliche Zeitschrift auf dem Gebiet der Erforschung Kleinasiens als eines geographischen ebenso wie ...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeu...

Ravenna - Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

'Magisterial - an outstanding book that shines a bright light one of the most important, interesting and under-studied cities in European...

The Ancient Mesopotamian City

Urban history starts in ancient Mesopotamia. In this volume Marc Van de Mieroop examines the evolution of the very earliest cities which,...

Power of the Priests - Political Use of Religious Knowledge

Religion plays a central role in nearly every aspect in people's life of most pre-modern cultures. Especially the interconnection between...

Celtic Tales; Told To The Children With Pictures

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowle...

Exekias und seine Welt - Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.-2. März 2019

Anläßlich mehrerer Jubiläen der Archäologischen Sammlung und der Klassischen Archäologie der Universität Zürich fand die Sonderausstellun...

Brief und Epigramm - Bezüge und Wechselwirkungen zwischen zwei Textsorten in Antike und Mittelalter

In ihrer "prototypischen" Erscheinungsform sind sowohl der Brief als auch das Epigramm gekennzeichnet durch Kürze und Beschränkung auf da...

Plants in 16th and 17th Century - Botany between Medicine and Science

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant wo...

Unveiling the Hidden Face of Antiquity: Mysteries and Cryptic Cults

This volume contains twenty-two studies focusing on a variety of topics related to mysteries, initiation rituals, and mystic cults in the...

Oikonomia und Ökonomie im klassischen Griechenland - Theorie - Praxis - Transformation

Die antike griechische Wirtschaftstheorie unterschied - klassisch bei Aristoteles - die Haushaltung (oikonomia) von einem als naturwidrig...