Key Themes in Ancient History – serie
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The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad
Inbunden, 2014
1391 kr
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This is an accessible and up-to-date account of the Jews during the millennium following Alexander the Great's conquest of the East. Unusually, it acknowledges the problems involved in constructing a narrative from fragmentary yet complex evidence and is, implicitly, an exploration of how this …
The Roman Empire and World History
Häftad, 2025
435 kr
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How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire bestrode three continents. Peter Fibiger Bang develops a radical new world history framework for …
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
Av Simon Price, P. A. Cartledge
Häftad, 1999
459 kr
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This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but examines local practices …
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece
Av Rosalind Thomas, P. A. Cartledge m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
687 kr
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This book explores the role of written and oral communication in Greece and is the first systematic and sustained treatment at this level. It examines the recent theoretical debates about literacy and orality and explores the uses of writing and oral communication, and their interaction, in ancient …
Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World
Av Emma Dench
Häftad, 2018
442 kr
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This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the 'Empire of the Caesars', examines a broad range of ancient …
Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Av S. Cuomo
Häftad, 2007
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
552 kr
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The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their cultures? Through five case-studies, this book sets ancient technical knowledge in its political, social and intellectual context. It explores the …
The Social History of Roman Art
Häftad, 2008
502 kr
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The character of Roman art history has changed in recent years. More than ever before, it is concerned with the role of art in ancient society, including the functions that it served and the values and assumptions that it reflects. At the same time, images have become centrally important to the …
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Av Liba Taub
Inbunden, 2017
1077 kr
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We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly through those texts which happen to survive. By concentrating only on the ideas conveyed, we may limit our understanding of the meaning of those ideas in their historical context. Through considering the diverse ways in which scientific ideas were …
Geography in Classical Antiquity
Häftad, 2012
468 kr
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What were the limits of knowledge of the physical world in Greek and Roman antiquity? How far did travellers get and what did they know about far-away regions? How did they describe foreign countries and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the …
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Av Liba Taub
Häftad, 2017
452 kr
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We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly through those texts which happen to survive. By concentrating only on the ideas conveyed, we may limit our understanding of the meaning of those ideas in their historical context. Through considering the diverse ways in which scientific ideas were …
Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Häftad, 2015
435 kr
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Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of …
The Ancient City
Häftad, 2016
401 kr
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Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between …
Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Inbunden, 2015
1391 kr
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Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient historians with their primary evidence, but the role of language as a source for understanding the ancient world is often overlooked. Language played a key role in state-formation and the spread of Christianity, the construction of …
Geography in Classical Antiquity
Inbunden, 2012
1391 kr
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What were the limits of knowledge of the physical world in Greek and Roman antiquity? How far did travellers get and what did they know about far-away regions? How did they describe foreign countries and peoples? How did they measure the earth, and distances and heights on it? Ideas about the …
The Ancient City
Inbunden, 2016
1152 kr
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Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between …
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
Av Ian Morris, P. A. Cartledge
Häftad, 1992
687 kr
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In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Burials have a far wider geographical and social range than the surviving literary texts, …
Slavery and Society at Rome
Av Keith Bradley, P. A. Cartledge
Häftad, 1994
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
468 kr
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This book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world, and with revealing the impact the institution of slavery made on Roman society at large. It shows how and in what sense Rome was a slave society through much of its …
Banking and Business in the Roman World
Av Jean Andreau, P. A. Cartledge
Inbunden, 1999
1391 kr
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In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the state tax-farmers were handling enormous sums and exploiting the provinces of the Empire. Until now no book has presented a synthetic view of Roman …
Religions of the Ancient Greeks
Av Simon Price
Inbunden, 1999
1152 kr
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This 1999 book is about the religious life of the Greeks from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD, looked at in the context of a variety of different cities and periods. Simon Price does not describe some abstract and self-contained system of religion or myths but examines local practices …
Public Order in Ancient Rome
Inbunden, 1995
1291 kr
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The absence of a professional police force in the city of Rome in classical times is often identified as a major cause of the collapse of the Republic. But this alleged 'structural weakness' was not removed by the Emperor Augustus and his successors, and was in fact shared with other pre-modern …
Public Order in Ancient Rome
Av Wilfried Nippel, P. A. Cartledge m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
720 kr
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The absence of a professional police force in the city of Rome in classical times is often identified as a major cause of the collapse of the Republic. But this alleged 'structural weakness' was not removed by the Emperor Augustus and his successors, and was in fact shared with other pre-modern …
Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens
Av David Cohen, P. A. Cartledge m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
619 kr
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The theme of this book is the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, David Cohen challenges traditional evolutionary and functionalist accounts of the development of legal process. Examining …
Banking and Business in the Roman World
Av Jean Andreau, P. A. Cartledge m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
619 kr
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In the first century BC lending and borrowing by the senators was the talk of Rome and even provoked political crises. During this same period, the state tax-farmers were handling enormous sums and exploiting the provinces of the Empire. Until now no book has presented a synthetic view of Roman …
Money in Classical Antiquity
Inbunden, 2010
1408 kr
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This book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its …
Friendship in the Classical World
Inbunden, 1997
1391 kr
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This book - the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English - examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome from Homer to the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth century AD. Friendship is conceived of as a voluntary and loving relationship, but there are major …
Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice
Inbunden, 2009
989 kr
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Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought …
Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice
Häftad, 2009
468 kr
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Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought …
Money in Classical Antiquity
Häftad, 2010
502 kr
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This book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its …
Friendship in the Classical World
Av David Konstan, P. A. Cartledge m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
636 kr
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This book - the only history of friendship in classical antiquity that exists in English - examines the nature of friendship in Greece and Rome from Homer to the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth century AD. Friendship is conceived of as a voluntary and loving relationship, but there are major …
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
Av Mark Golden, P. A. Cartledge
Häftad, 1998
552 kr
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Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between sport, religion and warfare, the origins and history of the Olympic games, and the spirit of competition among the Greeks. Its main focus, however, is …
