Carl Newell Jackson Lectures – serie
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7 produkter
Ancient Mystery Cults
Häftad, 1989
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
289 kr
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The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This …
“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”
Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship
Av Anthony Grafton, Joanna Weinberg
Inbunden, 2011
416 kr
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“[An] extraordinary book.” —New RepublicFusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) is known to us through …
Empire That Would Not Die
The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740
Av John Haldon
Inbunden, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
522 kr
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The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse. Yet it did not die. In this holistic analysis, John …
Development of Greek Biography
Expanded Edition
Häftad, 1993
361 kr
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Tracing the growth of ancient biography from the fifth century to the first century B.C., Arnaldo Momigliano asks fruitful questions about the origins and development of Greek biography. By clarifying the social and intellectual implications of the fact that the Greeks kept biography and …
Making of Late Antiquity
Av Peter Brown
Häftad, 1993
307 kr
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Peter Brown presents a masterly history of Roman society in the second, third, and fourth centuries. Brown interprets the changes in social patterns and religious thought, breaking away from conventional modern images of the period.
Ethics After Aristotle
Av Brad Inwood
Inbunden, 2014
484 kr
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From the earliest times, philosophers and others have thought deeply about ethical questions. But it was Aristotle who founded ethics as a discipline with clear principles and well-defined boundaries. Ethics After Aristotle focuses on the reception of Aristotelian ethical thought in the Hellenistic …
Roman Near East
31 BC–AD 337
Häftad, 1995
465 kr
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From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris. In a remarkable work of interpretive history, Fergus Millar shows us this world as it was forged into the Roman provinces of Syria, …
