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Medical Traditions - Exploring the Field

Medical traditions encapsulate the knowledge of life, health, nutrition, diseases and their treatment patiently assembled by populations ...

Religious Festivals in Greek Art

Although ancient Greek festivals are well understood on the basis of textual evidence, there is no up-to-date or sustained treatment of t...

Archäologie und Rekonstruktion

Ob als Wiederaufbau zerstörter Bauwerke, als Visualisierung archäologischen Wissens, auf Ausgrabungsplätzen oder in Museen, für die Archä...

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...

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...

Livy

The study of Roman Historiography, and with it of individual historians, has undergone a sea change in the last half century, with emphas...

>Suétone narrateur< - Biographie und Erzählung in ¿De vita Caesarum¿

Ausgangspunkt des aus einer internationalen Tagung hervorgegangenen Sammelbandes ist die These, dass den Kaiserviten des lateinischen Bio...

Form and Clarity in Euclid's >Elements<

As of yet, the remarkable and highly influential textual form of Euclidean mathematics has not been considered from a literary-aesthetic ...

Sparta's Third Attic War - The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 BC

When the great war pitting the Athenians against the Peloponnesians first erupted, Pericles told his compatriots that, if they kept up th...

Pax - War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Beginning in 69AD, a year that saw four Caesars in succession rule the empire, and ending some seven decades later with the death of Hadr...

Fragmente einer fragmentierten Welt - Zur Problematik des Umgangs mit Fragmenten in der gegenwärtigen klassisch-philologischen Forschung

Der Begriff ,Fragment' bezeichnet in der Klassischen Philologie sekundär überlieferte Texte, die in Form von Zitaten, Paraphrasen, Anspie...

Archimedes - Fulcrum of Science

A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician's singular life as a truly modern scientist. Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered h...

Representations of the West Nordic Isles - Greenland - Iceland - Faroe Islands

Following the "discovery" of the new world, travellers, explorers, whale hunters, missionaries and scholars were inspired by sovereigns a...

Et Cetera - An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

A gorgeously illustrated guide to memorable Latin phrases, including famous quotations on love, death, nature, politics, and more.

Myths, Muses and Mortals - The Way of Life in Ancient Greece

A window into the human lives of classical Greece through the words they left behind. Myths, Muses and Mortals gives new insight into a m...

Europe in Late Antiquity

In studying the Late Antique period there are different approaches: political history (fall of the West Roman Empire and its replacement ...

Birthing Romans - Childbearing and Its Risks in Imperial Rome

How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied i...

The Office of the Epimeletes - Studies in the Administration of Ptolemaic Egypt

In this book, the intricate administrative apparatus of Ptolemaic Egypt comes to light. The study delves deeply into the pivotal roles of...

Violence in the Forum - Factional Struggles in Ancient Rome (133-78 Bc)

The events in Rome between 133 and 78 BC that ruptured the constitutional order and started the slide that into the violence and destruct...

Victors and Vanquished in the Euro-Mediterranean - Dealing with Victory and Defeat in the Middle Ages

The volume presents a comparative perspective on victors and vanquished according to the categories of remembering victory and defeat, pr...

The Siege of Tyre - Alexander the Great and the Gateway to Empire

The Siege of Tyre: Alexander the Great and the Gateway to Empire by David A. Guenther is the first book-length treatment of this critical...

100 Greatest Ancient Coins

With the expanded third edition of his award-winning 100 Greatest Ancient Coins, author, researcher, and one of America's best-known anci...

Plato - A Civic Life

A new reading of Plato's philosophy that reveals it as deeply shaped by his experiences in Athens. Plato is a key figure from the beginni...

Women in the Valley of the Kings - The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifa...

Pox Romana - The Plague That Shook the Roman World

"A new account of the Antonine plague and its long-lasting effects on the history of the Roman empire"--

The Three Kingdoms of Korea - Lost Civilizations

An expansive and accessible introduction to the history of Korea during the first millennium CE. Korea's Three Kingdoms period is a genui...

Stolen Fragments - Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts

"In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical arte...

Rome in the Third Century - A Troubled Empire

For its first two centuries the Roman Empire enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence. There were short periods of trouble and instability...

Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism

Brings together scholars of Attic, the Koine, and Atticism to better understand the connections between these varieties. Represents a key...

Cicero: Laelius de amicitia

The first modern commentary on Cicero's last dialogue, written in the months after Caesar's assassination. Designed for intermediate and ...

The Office of "Magister Militum" in the 4th Century CE - A Study into the Impact of Political and Military Leadership on the Later Roman Empire

This monograph presents a novel investigation of the magistri militum, the highest-ranking officers within the late Roman army. It posits...

Pyramids - Treasure, Mysteries, and New Discoveries in Egypt

After his successful Netflix documentary "Unknown: The Lost Pyramid," Zahi Hawass (the most famous Egyptologist in the world), updates re...

Ancient Egypt - A Photographic History

Arranged chronologically, Ancient Egypt offers a compact photographic guide, from the 4000 BC Naqada culture to the end of the Ptolemaic ...

Ancient Roman Literary Gardens - Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics

Through an analysis of ancient garden studies and close readings of major Latin texts from the first centuries BCE and CE, K. Sara Myers ...

Migration and Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt - the Crossroads IV - Proceeding of an International Conference Held in Prague, September 19-22, 2022

A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages

Covers the major languages, language families, and writing systems attested in the Ancient Near East Filled with enlightening chapters by...

A Companion to Ancient Agriculture

The first book-length overview of agricultural development in the ancient world A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is an authoritative ov...

The Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction - From Girl to Woman

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salced...

Classics, Love, Revolution - The Legacies of Luigi Settembrini

In this volume Capra and Graziosi translate Luigi Settembrini's The Neoplatonists into English for the first time. They relate the tale t...

The Roman Provinces, 300 Bce-300 CE - Using Coins as Sources

"Makes a complex subject easy for instructors and students to understand and shows how the provincial coinage can illustrate many aspects...

The Eastern Roman Empire under the Severans - Old Connections, new Beginnings?

The year of the four emperors in AD 193 shows the cosmopolitan interconnectedness of the Roman Empire, yet scholarship has long framed th...

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished - Egyptological Essays in Honor of Peter Lacovara

A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism - 3rd Century BCE - 7th Century CE

An innovative approach to the study of ten centuries of Jewish culture and history A Companion to Late Ancient Jews and Judaism explores ...

From Mesopotamia to Lebanon - The Jawad Adra Cuneiform Collection in the Nabu Museum, El Heri, Lebanon

This volume presents critical editions of tablets from the Early Dynastic, Sargonic, Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Middle Babylonian period...

A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 2 Volume Set - 2 Volume Set

A COMPANION TO THE ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE A comprehensive review of the political, cultural, social, economic and religious history of...

The Missing Thread - A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It

In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope famously unpicks the threads of a shroud at night to put off marrying a hapless suitor. In Ovid's Metamorpho...

Understanding the Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

In the days of Egyptian antiquity, many of the gods were abstract concepts rather than the actual anthropomorphic god-pictures familiar t...

Assyria - The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria 'A work of ...

Strabo's Geography - A Translation for the Modern World

"Written in the first century AD, Strabo's Geographica tells us just about everything one could know about the ancient world of his day. ...

A View from the Herd - Cattle, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs in Pharaonic Egypt: A Primer for Egyptologists and Archaeologists

"In this book, Richard Redding synthesizes his decades-long work on the ancient agricultural economy of Egypt. Drawing on a diverse range...

A Rome of One's Own - The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of "the Doing of Important Things,? and as far as Roman his...

Royal Women at Ugarit - Reconceiving the House of the Father

This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal texts concerning ...

Light Infantry of the Greek and Roman World - Forgotten Heroes of Ancient Warfare

Ancient accounts of battle often neglected the role of lightly-armed infantry, presenting the deeds of the heavy infantry, such as Greek ...

The Roman Army of the Middle Empire, AD 180-284 - Weapons, Organization and Equipment

During the Middle Empire period (AD 180-284) the Roman army had to face the terrible 'Third Century Crisis', wherein a combination of soc...

Wisdom Discourse in the Ancient World

This book moves beyond the debate on 'wisdom literature', ongoing in Biblical Studies, demonstrating the productivity of 'wisdom' as a li...

The Womb and the Simile of The Woman in Labor in the Hebrew Bible - Embodying Relationship with YHWH

This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interp...

The Classical World in Bite-sized Chunks

An entertaining and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history, covering the people, events, art and myt...

The Censors as Guardians of Public and Family Life in the Roman Republic

This volume explores the effects of the Roman censorial mark (nota censoria) and the influence of censorial regulations on the developmen...

The Amman Theater Statue in its Iron Age Contexts

A colossal basalt statue was uncovered through rescue excavation in downtown Amman, Jordan in 2010. Despite the statue's Roman period fin...

Babylonian Ceremonial Script in its Scholarly Context

"Since the advent of Assyriology in the early nineteenth century it has been known that two distinct scripts were used in ancient Mesopot...