Revealing & Concealing in Antiquity

Amid growing interest in food and drink as an academic discipline in recent years, this volume is the first to provide insight into eating and drin...

Reducere. The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity is a unique reference work that provides background cultural and technical infor...

The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity - Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity - Roger D. Woodard

The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity - Karen K. Hersch

A translation with introduction of the first ethnographic and semiotic study of gesture in daily life.

Reducere. The ancient philosophy, in its original Orphico-Pythagorean and Platonic form, is not simply a way of life in accordance with the divine or human i...

Explores the archaeological remains of housing in the Greek and Roman worlds, using written evidence and artistic representations to set them in a ...

Sarah Derbew brings into brilliant new focus varied portrayals of blackness in ancient Greek literature and art, while critiquing modern classical ...

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Christians are increasingly challenged with evolutionary theories as the only models for the origins and history of the universe. But is there any ...

Examines the motivations and legal mechanisms behind the various outbursts of violence against Christians, and chronologically tracks the course of...

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Ranges widely across Greek and Latin poetry to demonstrate the various roles played by number and how the treatment of counting and arithmetic was ...

Reducere. In 1798, young French general Napoleon Bonaparte entered Egypt with a veteran army and a specialist group of savants--scientists, engineers, and ar...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2021...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 14 bw illusNumber of pages: 272Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Reducere. Schaverien painstakingly describes and defines "processes which have so far only been intuitively known to art therapists" (p6) by introducing and ...

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A book that challenges our most basic assumptions about Judeo-Christian monotheismContrary to popular belief, Judaism was not always strictly monot...

DescriptionThere was a moment in my life where I hit the ground hard, despair was the operative term. By God's mercy I mustered up enough will to s...

The volume offers a discussion of the intra and extra familial network ruling the Mediterranean world at the time of Philip and Alexander.Illustrat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurent PernotTranslator: W. E. HigginsOriginally published as La Rhetorique dans l'Antiquite (2000), this new English edit...

Reducere. Gnostic religion is the expression of a religious worldview which is dominated by the concept of Gnosis, an esoteric knowledge of God and the human...

Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 75 bw illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

This Element approaches the genre of boys' adventure fiction as not just a catalogue of texts but a corpus of books. Examining early editions of Tr...

Reducere. Only a small fraction of ancient literature survives--less than one percent, estimates reveal. While the reasons vary, it is an irony that Christia...

Investigates regional roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics.Illustrations: b/wEditor(s): Nicola Laneri

Reducere. DescriptionIn this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis...

Explores the historical complexity and cultural hybridity of post-classical eastern Mediterranean cities with case studies examining how cities' pa...

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The Life of Imagination delivers a new conception of imagination that places it at the heart of our engagement with the world-thinking, acting, fee...

This book is essential reading for understanding what happened to Rome at the end of antiquity. By focusing on the actions of senatorial aristocrat...

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Reducere. How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 1074Collection: Rewriting AntiquityPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 474 x 249 x 70Cover type: Pape...

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