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Cleopatra - Her History, Her Myth

Shrouded in myth, the legends of Cleopatra have captivated writers and artists for centuries. Exploring how the Egyptian queen is so ofte...

Socrates: A Very Short Introduction

Christopher Taylor introduces the life and philosophy of Socrates, whose work has played a central role in shaping Western philosophical ...

"Did I Not Bring Israel Out of Egypt?" - Biblical, Archaeological, and Egyptological Perspectives on the Exodus Narratives

The Hebrew Scriptures consider the exodus from Egypt to be Israel's formative and foundational event. Indeed, the Bible offers no other e...

Ancient civilizations and ruins of Turkey

From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East - Tracing the Origins of Religion

"This book traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities, from prehistoric times u...

Oriental Mirages - Stereotypes and Identity Creation in the Ancient World

Edward Said, in his seminal book Orientalism, perceived clear links between the ancient Greek and Roman stereotypes of the East and the p...

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...

Money and Honor in Ancient Athletics

Experts of ancient sport have long treated "money" and "honor" as opposites. Up to the 1970s, the idea of Greek gentlemen's sport prevail...

Ancient Rome - The Definitive Visual History

Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome - from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire re...

Architecture as Sacred Space. - Shaping the Holy in Late Antiquity and Byzantium

Die Publikation versammelt Studien zur Analyse der nicht wahrnehmbaren und doch sehr offensichtlichen Grenze zwischen der Materialität ei...

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...

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...

The Complete Tutankhamun - 100 Years of Discovery

A fully updated and revised edition of a classic bestseller: the definitive guide to Tutankhamun and his tomb - what it contained, why, a...

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...

Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History

Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume develops the cat...

Keeping Record - The Materiality of Rulership and Administration in Early China and Medieval Europe

The production and retention of written records was a common and important facet of pre-modern rulership and administration. Much of our ...

Fausto & Felice Niccolini. Houses and Monuments of Pompeii - The Houses and Monuments of Pompeii

Fausto und Felice Niccolini erweckten Pompeji mit ihren 1854 erschienen Bänden zu neuem Leben. In über 400 Farblithografien dokumentierte...

Augustine of Hippo - A Biography, Forty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

"I salute Brown's achievement in bringing Augustine out of the tomb of theological doctrine, and setting his mind and emotions working be...

Fall of Civilizations - Stories of Greatness and Decline

Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to...

Life of Richard Wagner (Volume IV)

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

Ancient Egypt - The Definitive Visual History

Take a journey through Ancient Egypt and see how the pharaohs once lived! An enticing and insightful guide that covers 3000 years of life...

The Fall of Troy

Sophia Chrysanthis is only 16 when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Soph...

The Golden Bull of Hungary

Promulgated by Andrew II of Hungary 800 years ago, the Golden Bull (1222) is the best known but also most misunderstood medieval Hungaria...

A late Roman exarchate of Urbs Romae

This study took as its theme a specific historical curiosity, notwithstanding modelling for later epochs an establishment which might be ...

Tacitus' History of Politically Effective Speech: Truth to Power

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...

Livy

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...