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A Cultural History of the Sea in Antiquity

The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food, but also a well-traveled roadway and a means to communicate, trade with, or wage war again…

Queens in Antiquity and the Present

This interdisciplinary volume explores the methodological and theoretical approaches to studying queens in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Nicholas Hudson

Dining at the End of Antiquity

"In this engaging and highly readable book, Nicholas Hudson weaves together literary and material evidence for dining in the Roman world from the Principate to the Dominate. Through careful attention…

Andrew Tobolowsky

Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity

This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity. It makes various conclusions about the construction of ethnic identit…

Classification from Antiquity to Modern Times

The volume presents phenomena of classification and categorisation in ancient and modern cultures and provides an overview of how cultural practices and cognitive systems interact when individuals or larg…

Simcha Gross

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

"Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the …

Alexander Sutherland

Cockfighting in Britain from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

This book looks at the relationship of the cock and cockfighting in Britain from ancient times to the early modern period, showing the societal and cultural changes that affected that relationship. It exa…

Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity

This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered …

Apollo & Dionysus

Stef Conner, Barnaby Brown, Callum Armstrong, Olga Sutkowska, John Kenny, Justus Willberg, Rupert Till

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity

"The city was one of the central and defining features of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that, far from 'declining and falling', cities used memories of the past to …

Ulrich Felgner

Philosophy of Mathematics in Antiquity and in Modern Times

>>Philosophy of Mathematics<< is understood, in this book, as an effort to clarify such questions that mathematics itself raises but cannot answer with its own methods. These include, for exam…

Nathan D. Howard

Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity

By exploring gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity, this book contributes to discussions about how gender, id…

Derek Sherinian

Planet X

Solitude Aeturnus

Into The Depths Of Sorrow (180g) (Limited Numbered Edition) (Gold & Orange Marbled Vinyl)

Solitude Aeturnus ist eine amerikanische Epic-Doom-Metal-Band aus Arlington, Texas. Gegründet von John Perez Anfang 1987, bestand die ursprüngliche Besetzung aus Perez an der Gitarre, Sänger Kristoff (Chr…

Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden

The Making of Human Dignity in Christian Antiquity

The book examines the late ancient history of one pivotal concept of contemporary culture, that of human dignity, with the view to identifying the moment in history when European culture worked out a syst…

The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity

"A comprehensive overview of the ancient village and hinterland as related to the expansion of early Christianity, covering both geographical and thematic perspectives"--

Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver

Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

Lorna Hardwick, Stephen Harrison, Elizabeth Vandiver

Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry

Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in WWI. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but engagement with Greek and Roman antiquity was de…

Charles H. Cosgrove

Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity

The first comprehensive history of music at social recreations in antiquity, from private parties to festivals, demonstrating not only its diverse pleasures but also the various personal and social purpos…