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Rome
An Empire's Story
Av Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2022
181 kr
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The complete history of the Roman Empire - how it was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects, from the eighth century BCE to the dawn of the Middle Ages.Rome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This …
Life and Death of Ancient Cities
A Natural History
Av Greg Woolf
E-bok, 2020
189 kr
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The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. …
Life and Death of Ancient Cities
A Natural History
Av Greg Woolf
E-bok, 2020
189 kr
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The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. …
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History
Av Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2022
392 kr
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The Life and Death of Ancient Cities
A Natural History
Av Greg Woolf
Inbunden, 2020
377 kr
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The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. …
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities
A Natural History
Av Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2022
263 kr
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The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. …
Rome the Cosmopolis
Av Catharine Edwards, Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2006
754 kr
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Rome stands today for an empire and for a city. The essays gathered in this volume explore some of the many ways in which the two were interwoven. Rome was fed, beautified and enriched by empire just as it was swollen, polluted, infected and occupied by it. Empire was paraded in the streets of …
Becoming Roman
The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul
Av Greg Woolf
Inbunden, 1998
1677 kr
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This book is a study of the process conventionally termed 'Romanization' through an investigation of the experience of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire. Beginning with a rejection of the concept of 'Romanization' it describes the nature of Roman power in Gaul and the …
Literacy and Power in the Ancient World
Häftad, 1996
754 kr
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This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society. Was writing a revolutionary innovation, prompting or participating in social change, or a fundamentally repressive and …
Becoming Roman
The Origins of Provincial Civilization in Gaul
Av Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2000
485 kr
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This book is a study of the process conventionally termed 'Romanization' through an investigation of the experience of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire. Beginning with a rejection of the concept of 'Romanization' it describes the nature of Roman power in Gaul and the …
The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World
Av Greg Woolf
Inbunden, 2003
744 kr
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From its mythical foundation in 753 BC to its sack in the fifth century AD, the city of Rome had an impact on the world that it would be hard to overestimate. At its height the empire which it built up stretched from northern Britain to the deserts of Arabia. In this new history an international …
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Av Jason König, Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2024
888 kr
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There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works …
Ancient Libraries
Av Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2166 kr
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The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a …
Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Av Jason König, Greg Woolf
Inbunden, 2013
2314 kr
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There is a rich body of encyclopaedic writing which survives from the two millennia before the Enlightenment. This book sheds new light on that material. It traces the development of traditions of knowledge ordering which stretched back to Pliny and Varro and others in the classical world. It works …
Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
Av Jason König, Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2021
787 kr
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How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not …
Tales of the Barbarians
Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West
Av Greg Woolf
Häftad, 2014
367 kr
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Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the …
Ancient Libraries
Av Jason König, Katerina Oikonomopoulou m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
731 kr
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The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a …
Tales of the Barbarians
Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West
Av Greg Woolf
Inbunden, 2011
1072 kr
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Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the …
Tales of the Barbarians
Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West
Av Greg Woolf
E-bok, 2010
1215 kr
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Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the …
Tales of the Barbarians
Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West
Av Greg Woolf
E-bok, 2010
419 kr
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Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and the …
Religion in the Roman Empire
Av Greg Woolf, Jorg Rupke
E-bok, 2021
907 kr
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The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of …
Religion in the Roman Empire
Av Greg Woolf, Jorg Rupke
E-bok, 2021
907 kr
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The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of …
Sanctuaries and Experience
Knowledge, Practice and Space in the Ancient World
Av Camilla Norman, Ilaria Bultrighini m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
1023 kr
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Ancient religion is traditionally understood in terms of myths, rituals and institutions, as transmitted in ancient texts. The studies gathered here focus instead on the lived experience of ancient cult and the places in which that experience was formed. They build on recent explorations of Lived …
Rom
Die Biographie eines Weltreichs
Av Greg Woolf
E-bok, 2015
147 kr
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Triumph und Leistungen einer Weltmacht: Greg Woolf, einer der international renommiertesten Historiker für das antike Rom, betrachtet die Geschichte der römischen Republik und Kaiserzeit als Einheit. Dadurch lässt er ganz Europa und die Mittelmeerwelt vor unseren Augen lebendig werden. Alle …
Metropolis
Aufstieg und Niedergang antiker Städte
Av Greg Woolf
E-bok, 2022
362 kr
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Warum zieht es den Menschen in die Stadt, weshalb sind Städte überhaupt entstanden und warum gehören sie zum Menschsein dazu? Greg Woolf geht diesen Fragen nach und erzählt vom Aufstieg und Fall antiker Städte. Seine Geschichte der Stadt ist zugleich eine große Darstellung des Mittelmeerraumes, die …
Women and the Roman City in the Latin West
Av Emily Hemelrijk, Greg Woolf
Inbunden, 2013
3143 kr
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Roman Cities, as conventionally studied, seem to be dominated by men. Yet as the contributions to this volume—which deals with the Roman cities of Italy and the western provinces in the late Republic and early Empire—show, women occupied a wide range of civic roles. Women had key roles to play in …
Tales of the Barbarians – Ethnography and Empire in the Roman West
Av Greg Woolf
2011
895 kr
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Tales of the Barbarians traces the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Roman expansion westward to the Atlantic, and offers the first application of modern ethnographic theory to ancient material. * Investigates the connections between empire and knowledge at the turn of the millennia, and …
