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War and Imperialism in Republican Rome 327-70 B.C
Häftad, 1985
1853 kr
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Between 327 and 70 B.C. the Romans expanded their empire throughout the Mediterranean world. This highly original study looks at Roman attitudes and behavior that lay behind their quest for power. How did Romans respond to warfare, year after year? How important were the material gains of military …
Restraining Rage
The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity
Häftad, 2004
361 kr
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The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the Iliad to the church fathers of the fourth century A.D., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to …
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity
Inbunden, 2009
703 kr
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From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds—Plato, Aristotle, the physician Galen, and others—struggled to understand the meaning …
Ancient Literacy
Häftad, 1991
467 kr
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How many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans? No one has previously tried to give a systematic answer to this question. Most historians who have considered the problem at all have given optimistic assessments, since they have been impressed by large bodies of …
Dire Remedies: A Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity
Inbunden, 2024
2692 kr
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Dire Remedies: a Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity is the first wide-ranging social history of ancient healthcare. Greek medicine is at the origin of modern medicine, but it was very often ineffective. What did people actually do when faced with pain and illness? Starting with a …
Dire Remedies: A Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity
E-bok, 2024
2062 kr
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Dire Remedies: a Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity is the first wide-ranging social history of ancient healthcare. Greek medicine is at the origin of modern medicine, but it was very often ineffective. What did people actually do when faced with pain and illness? Starting with a …
Dire Remedies: A Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity
E-bok, 2024
2108 kr
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Dire Remedies: a Social History of Healthcare in Classical Antiquity is the first wide-ranging social history of ancient healthcare. Greek medicine is at the origin of modern medicine, but it was very often ineffective. What did people actually do when faced with pain and illness? Starting with a …
Ancient Alexandria between Egypt and Greece
Av William V. Harris, Giovanni Ruffini
Inbunden, 2004
2537 kr
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As one of the greatest cities of antiquity, Alexandria has always been a severe challenge to its historians, all the more so because the surviving evidence, material and textual, is so disparate. New archaeological and literary discoveries and the startling diversity of ancient Alexandria (so …
Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods
Av William V. Harris, Brooke Holmes
Inbunden, 2008
2772 kr
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Wealthy, conceited, hypochondriac (or perhaps just an invalid), obsessively religious, the orator Aelius Aristides (117 to about 180) is not the most attractive figure of his age, but because he is one of the best-known -- and he is intimately known, thanks to his Sacred Tales -- his works are a …
Mental Disorders in the Classical World
Inbunden, 2013
3439 kr
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The historians, classicists and psychiatrists who have come together to produce Mental Disorders in the Classical World aim to explain how the Greeks and their Roman successors conceptualized, diagnosed and treated mental disorders. The Greeks initiated the secular understanding of mental illness, …
Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History
Inbunden, 2013
2130 kr
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Scientists, historians and archaeologists are at last beginning to collaborate seriously on studies of the long-term history of the environment. The fruit of an international conference held in Rome in 2011, The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History brings together …
Late-Antique Studies in Memory of Alan Cameron
Av William V. Harris, Anne Hunnell Chen
Inbunden, 2021
2301 kr
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The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was, among other achievements, one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute W. V. Harris and Anne Hunnell Chen have brought together fourteen contributions that cover a broad range of …
