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 The Ancient Greeks: New Perspectives 
 The Ancient Greeks: New Perspectives Author: Stephanie Lynn Budin ABC-CLIO Understanding Ancient Civilizations 2004 ISBN: 1576078140 Pages: 486 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 6,8 МВ Ancient Greece chronicles the rise, decline, resurgence, and ultimate collapse of the Greek empire from its earliest stirrings in the Bronze Age, through the Dark Ages and Classical period, to the death of Cleopatra and the conquests by Macedon and Rome (roughly 3000 B.C.E. to 30 B.C.E.). Drawing on the latest interpretations of artifacts, texts, and other evidence, this handbook takes both newcomers and long-time Hellenophiles inside the process of discovery, revealing not only what we know about ancient Greece but how we know it and how these cultures continue to influence us. There is no more authoritative or accessible introduction to the culture that gave us the Acropolis, Iliad and Odyssey, Herodotus and Thucydides, Sophocles and Aeschylus, Plato and Aristotle, and so much more. From the language we speak to the buildings we work in and the way we think about the world, the ancient Greeks bequeathed a breathtaking legacy to the modern world. They continue to teach us, layer by layer, as archaeologists and other researchers uncover even more about this astonishing culture.
Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
 Author:Raffaella Cribiore Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt Princeton University Press 2005 Format: pdf Size: 8.78 MB Language: English This book is at once a thorough study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. It describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Raffaella Cribiore draws on over 400 papyri, ostraca (sherds of pottery or slices of limestone), and tablets that feature everything from exercises involving letters of the alphabet through rhetorical compositions that represented the work of advanced students. The exceptional wealth of surviving source material renders Egypt an ideal space of reference. The book makes excursions beyond Egypt as well, particularly in the Greek East, by examining the letters of the Antiochene Libanius that are concerned with education.
Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates
 Author: Daniel Potts, HasanAl Naboodah, Peter Hellyer Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates Trident Press Ltd. ISBN: 190072488X 2003 Format: PDF Size: 49,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 336 This book is a compilation of papers presented at the First International Conference on the Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates, held in 2001, in the UAE under the patronage of HH Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE. Contributors include Beatrice de Cardi, Henrike Kiesewetter, Elizabeth Shepherd Popescu, H Kallweit, Vincent Charpentier, Margarethe Uerpmann, Lloyd Weeks, Robert Carter, Serge Cleuziou, Tom Vosmer, Remy Boucharlat, Peter Magee and Ernie Haernick.
Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean
 Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean Author: Charles Freeman OUP Oxford Graduation Year: 2014 Language: English Quality: excellent Format: pdf Pages: 784 Size: 8,7 Mb Egypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world, having sold more than 80,000 copies in its first two editions. It is written for the general reader and the student coming to the subject for the first time and provides a reliable and highly accessible point of entry to the period. Beginning with the early Middle Eastern civilizations of Sumer, and continuing right through to the Islamic invasions and the birth of modern Europe after the collapse of the Roman empire, the book ranges beyond political history to cover art and architecture, philosophy, literature, society, and economy. A wide range of maps, illustrations, and photographs complements the text. This third edition has been extensively revised to appeal to the general reader with several chapters completely rewritten and a great deal of new material added, including a new selection of images.
Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion, And Resistance
 Author: Avi Faust Israel's Ethnogenesis: Settlement, Interaction, Expansion, And Resistance Equ inox Publishing ISBN: 1904768989 2008 Format: PDF Size: 10,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 288 The emergence of Israel in Canaan is perhaps the most debated topic in biblical/Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and related fields. Accordingly, it has received a great deal of attention in recent years, both in scholarly literature and in popular publications. Generally speaking, however, the archaeology of ancient Israel is wedged in a paradoxical situation. Despite the large existing database of archaeological finds (from thousands of excavations conducted over an extremely limited area) scholars in this (sub)discipline typically do not engage in Itheoretical (anthropological) discussions, thus exposing a large gap between it and other branches of archaeology, in this respect.
Society, Culture And Politics in Byzantium
 Author: Nicolas Oikonomides Society, Culture And Politics in Byzantium Variorum ISBN: 0860789373 2005 Format: PDF Size: 63,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 360 "Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium" is the fourth selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the "Variorum Collected Studies Series". Its focus is upon the Byzantine world after the Fourth Crusade and during the Palaeologan period, though several studies deal with a longer time span. The twenty-eight articles included look first at questions of language and literacy, and then at the relationships between art and politics. The final sections examine aspects of the history of the later empire, in the age of its decline, caught between the economic penetration of the Western European states and the expansion of the Ottoman Turks, and consider the development of Byzantine institutions, monasteries and the Church in this period.
Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings
 Ancient Scandinavia: An Archaeological History from the First Humans to the Vikings Author: T. Douglas Price Oxford University Press 2015 ISBN 10: 0190231971 Pages: 520 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 179 MB Although occupied only relatively briefly in the long span of world prehistory, Scandinavia is an extraordinary laboratory for investigating past human societies. The area was essentially unoccupied until the end of the last Ice Age when the melting of huge ice sheets left behind a fresh, barren land surface, which was eventually covered by flora and fauna. The first humans did not arrive until sometime after 13,500 BCE. The prehistoric remains of human activity in Scandinavia - much of it remarkably preserved in its bogs, lakes, and fjords - have given archaeologists a richly detailed portrait of the evolution of human society. In this book, Doug Price provides an archaeological history of Scandinavia-a land mass comprising the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway-from the arrival of the first humans after the last Ice Age to the end of the Viking period, ca. AD 1050. Constructed similarly to the author's previous book, Europe before Rome, Ancient Scandinavia provides overviews of each prehistoric epoch followed by detailed, illustrative examples from the archaeological record. An engrossing and comprehensive picture emerges of change across the millennia, as human society evolves from small bands of hunter - gatherers to large farming communities to the complex warrior cultures of the Bronze and Iron Ages, which culminated in the spectacular rise of the Vikings. The material evidence of these past societies - arrowheads from reindeer hunts, megalithic tombs, rock art, beautifully wrought weaponry, Viking warships - give vivid testimony to the ancient humans who once called home this often unforgiving edge of the inhabitable world.
The Life. Against Apion
 Author: Josephus Flavius The Life. Against Apion Harvard University Press The Loeb Classical Library 1926 Format: PDF Size: 22,15 mb 458
Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City
 Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City Cambridge University Press Author: Alexander Parmington 2011 Pages: 282 Format: pdf Language: English Size: 21.76 mb ISBN: 978-1107002340 Quality: Good Space and Sculpture in the Classic Maya City In this book, Alexander Parmington combines an examination of space, access control and sculptural themes and placement, to propose how images and texts controlled movement in Classic Maya cities. Using Palenque as a case study, this book analyzes specific building groups and sculptures to provide insight into the hierarchical distribution and use of ritual and administrative space in temple and palace architecture. Identifying which spaces were the more accessible and therefore more public, and which spaces were more segregated and consequently more private, Dr. Parmington demonstrates how sculptural, iconographic, and hieroglyphic content varies considerably when found in public/common or private/elite space. Drawing on specific examples from the Classic Maya and other early civilizations, he demonstrates that by examining the intent in the distribution of architecture and art, the variation and function of the artistic themes represented in sculpture and other monumental works of art can be better understood.
Empire of Ancient Rome
 Author: Michael Burgan Empire of Ancient Rome Great Empires of the Past 2005 Pages:128 Format: PDF Language: English Size: 13,9mb The influence of the Roman Empire has been widespread and profound, perhaps more so than any other empire or civilization. This volume begins with a brief summary of the Roman Empire and provides an account of the world and this geographic area in the years leading up to the empire.
Roman Conquests: Gaul
 Author: Michael Sage Roman Conquests: Gaul Pen and Sword Military 2011 Format: EPUB Pages: 190 Size: 3 Mb Language: English This latest volume in the Roman Conquests series deals with some of the best known Roman campaigns of all. Indeed, due to the involvement of Julius Caesar and the commentaries he wrote upon them, these are some of the most studied of any ancient campaigns. Before Caesar, however, Rome had already established a foothold across the Alps in Gaul (the Province, modern Provence) and Michael M Sage starts with these early acquisitions which were largely reactive and defensive. The Gauls were one of the great warrior societies of ancient Europe and some of Rome's heaviest defeats were suffered here at the end of the second century BC.
An Eleventh-century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities
 Author: Yossef Rapoport An Eleventh-century Egyptian Guide to the Universe: The Book of Curiosities, Edited with an Annotated Translation (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science) BRILL 2013 Format: PDF Size: 50.9 Mb Language:English The Book of Curiosities is an eleventh-century Arabic account of the heavens and the Earth, illustrated by remarkable maps and astronomical diagrams. This authoritative edition and translation opens a unique window onto the geographical and astrological knowledge of medieval Islam.
Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death
 Author: Peter Connolly Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death BBC Books 2003 Format: PDF Size: 39.8 Mb Language: English The Colosseum in Rome is one of the world's most amazing buildings. Built over 10 years during the reign of the Emperor Vespasiano in c. 72AD, at 160 feet high this immense oval stadium was home to the most violent and deadly spectator sports in history, and the making of many 'gladiator' heroes. Using state-of-the-art computer graphics, Colosseum brings the world of Ancient Rome to life and shows how and why this most extraordinary of human monuments was built. New research debunks the myths perpetuated in the film Gladiator and helps us understand the nature of these games - why the chariot races of Gladiator could not have happened within the Colosseum walls, for instance. Here for the first time, new evidence reveals exactly how the Colosseum was regularly flooded with water for the spectacle of deadly sea battles.
Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources
 Author: Bill T. Arnold (Editor), Richard S. Hess (Editor) Ancient Israel's History: An Introduction to Issues and Sources Baker Academic 2014 Format: PDF Size: 14.5 Mb Language: English The history of Israel is a much-debated topic in Old Testament studies. On one side are minimalists who find little of historical value in the Hebrew Bible. On the other side are those who assume the biblical text is a precise historical record. Many serious students of the Bible find themselves between these two positions and would benefit from a careful exploration of issues in Israelite history. This substantive history of Israel textbook values the Bible's historical contribution without overlooking critical issues and challenges. Featuring the latest scholarship, the book introduces students to the current state of research on issues relevant to the study of ancient Israel. The editors and contributors, all top biblical scholars and historians, discuss historical evidence in a readable manner, using both canonical and chronological lenses to explore Israelite history. Illustrative items, such as maps and images, visually support the book's content. Tables and sidebars are also included.
Les Vikings
 Author: Régis Boyer Les Vikings Plon ISBN: 2259022367 2004 Format: PDF Size: 45,7 МБ Language: French Pages: 442 Régis Boyer nous présente l'histoire et la civilisation des Vikings, s'appuyant sur les documents les plus recevables : archéologie et sources scandinaves strictement contemporaines de ces commerçants-pirates qui sévirent de 800 à 1050 environ dans tout l'Occident, y compris - et c'est là l'une des originalités de ce livre - à l'Est sur le front "russe". Les causes du phénomène, ses manifestations diverses aux cours des décennies, ses temps forts (découverte de l'Islande, du Groenland et de l'Amérique, fondation de la Russie, installation en Normandie et en Angleterre), et ses apports à notre histoire sont étudiés. Mais ce phénomène, unique dans nos annales, n'aurait pu se produire s'il n'avait été sous-tendu par une civilisation qui ruine les accusations de barbarie ou de sauvagerie si souvent portées contre ces "fiers enfants du Nord ". Cette culture, au sens large, est également illustrée ici. D'autre part, cet ouvrage s'attache à démystifier, démythifier le Viking qui ne fut ni une brute cruelle et sanguinaire, ni le bras de Dieu venu châtier l'Occident de ses prétendus péchés.
Human Heritage World History
 Human Heritage World History Author: Glencoe/Mcgraw-Hill 2005 Pages: 752 Format: pdf Size: 50 MB ISBN: 0078695015 Language: English Human Heritage World History: Teachers Wraparound Edition
Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt Second Edition
 Author: Roger S. Bagnall, R. S. Bagnall, K. a. Worp Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt Second Edition Brill Academic Pub ISBN: 9004136541 2003 Format: PDF Size: 59,8 МБ Language: English Pages: 350 Egypt is the richest source of primary documents for the economy, society and everyday life of the late antique Mediterranean world. Its thousands of papyri provide insight into aspects and topics ignored by ancient authors. This handbook is an indispensable tool in navigating these documents, which use a host of complex systems to date legal transactions. Extensive tables and lists help the reader understand the use of consulates, the indiction cycle, eras, and dates by imperial reigns. Other formal aspects of the documents, including Christian invocations and sworn oaths, are also fully covered.
Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Volume 1-2
 Greek Colonisation: An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas, Volume 1-2 Author: Tsetskhladze G.R. Brill Academic Publishers 2008 ISBN: 9004155767 Pages: 1132 Format: PDF Size: 20 mb Language: english This 3-volume handbook is dedicated to one of the most significant processes in the history of ancient Greece - colonisation. Greeks set up colonies and other settlements in new environments, establishing themselves in lands stretching from the Iberian Peninsula in the west to North Africa in the south and the Black Sea in the north-east. In this colonial world Greek and local societies met, influenced and enriched each other. The handbook brings together historians and archaeologists, all world experts, to present the latest ideas and evidence. The principal aim is to present and update the general picture of this phenomenon, showing its importance in the history of the whole ancient world, including the Near East. This work is dedicated to the late Prof. A. J. Graham. This second volume contains chapters on Central Greece on the eve of the colonisation movement, foundation stories, colonisation in the Classical period, the Adriatic, the northern Aegean, Libya and Cyprus.
Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD
 Author: Johannes Wienand (Editor) Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity) Oxford University Press 2014 Format: PDF Size: 11.4 Mb Language: English Contested Monarchy reappraises the wide-ranging and lasting transformation of the Roman monarchy between the Principate and Late Antiquity. The book takes as its focus the century from Diocletian to Theodosius I (284-395), a period during which the stability of monarchical rule depended heavily on the emperor's mobility, on collegial or dynastic rule, and on the military resolution of internal political crises. At the same time, profound religious changes modified the premises of political interaction and symbolic communication between the emperor and his subjects, and administrative and military readjustments changed the institutional foundations of the Roman monarchy. This volume concentrates on the measures taken by emperors of this period to cope with the changing framework of their rule. The collection examines monarchy along three distinct yet intertwined fields: Administering the Empire, Performing the Monarchy, and Balancing Religious Change. Each field possesses its own historiography and methodology, and accordingly has usually been treated separately. This volume's multifaceted approach builds on recent scholarship and trends to examine imperial rule in a more integrated fashion. With new work from a wide range of international scholars, Contested Monarchy offers a fresh survey of the role of the Roman monarchy in a period of significant and enduring change.
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