Studies In Ancient History
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Author | : Hermann Bengtson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1975-01-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780520031500 |
Our translation is made especially for students who have not yet acquired facility in German. It departs from Professor Bengtson's text mainly in that the general bibliographical appendix has been reorganized to conform with the plan of the Cambridge Ancient History and also has been revised with the English-reading student in mind.
Author | : Agnès Garcia-Ventura |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2021-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1646020898 |
The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Silvia Alaura, Isabel Almeida, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.
Author | : Mark Humphries |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2019-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004422617 |
This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.
Author | : Jennifer Baird |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2010-10-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136894640 |
Ancient Graffiti in Context brings together papers by historians and archaeologists using graffiti as evidence to explore the Greek and Roman worlds. Illuminating such varied topics as ancient emotions, Roman children, quarry workers, and military communities, this collection demonstrates the importance of this often undervalued form of evidence.
Author | : Dorothy Mills |
Publisher | : Sophia Perennis |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781597313537 |
The Book of the Ancient World is an account of our common heritage from the dawn of civilization to the coming of the Greeks. It is the story of how human beings began their great adventure of learning how to live; of how they have sought to satisfy the practical needs of their bodies, the questioning of their minds, and the searching of their spirits. To this end it subordinates details of political events to the record of things that lie at the foundation or our modern civilization. Dorothy Mills had an uncanny and unique ability to write history that is interesting and at the same time based on sound scholarship. Her direct, engaging approach is valued increasingly by the many parents in our day who are looking for reliable materials for home study, as well as by many private school educators. The highly-prized six volumes of her historical works (see below) have become very scarce on the used book market, and so Dawn Chorus has undertaken to reprint them as part of its effort to offer texts ideally suited to the needs of a new generation of teachers and students. In a world where the quality of education has so deteriorated, may the reissue of this wonderful historical series shine as a beacon to a new generation of young (and not so young) scholars . Dawn Chorus publishes these five other books by Dorothy Mills: The Book of the Ancient Greeks; The Book of the Ancient Romans; The People of Ancient Israel; The Middle Ages; and Renaissance and Reformation Times. Dawn Chorus has also republished another outstanding, and long-out-of-print historical series perfectly suited for home or school use (and highly recommended in home-school curricula), entitled The Picturesque Tale of Progress, by Olive Beaupre Miller. It is available in large format (9 volumes), or smaller, double-bound format (5 volumes).
Author | : Jessica Nowlin |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2021-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004473289 |
Etruscan Orientalization outlines the modern influences of orientalism, nationalism, and colonialism in the terms ‘orientalizing’ and ‘orientalization’ to reconsider their use in describing Mediterranean connectivity in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE.
Author | : Luke Pitcher |
Publisher | : I.B. Tauris |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845119577 |
Well organised and laid out with attractive features for students, this book covers the subject of writing about ancient history.
Author | : Amanda Jo Coles |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2020-06-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004438343 |
Roman Republican and Imperial colonies were established by diverse agents reacting to contemporary problems. By removing anachronistic interpretations, Roman colonies cease to seem like ‘little Romes’ and demonstrate a complex role in the spread of Roman imperialism and culture.
Author | : Paul J. Burton |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2019-05-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004404732 |
Rome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state behavior, which we now describe as ‘imperialism,’ since well before the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria (and sometimes farther east) and from the North Sea to North Africa. How and why they did this is a perennial source of scholarly controversy. Earlier debates over whether Rome was an aggressive or defensive imperial state have progressed to theoretically-informed discussions of the extent to which system-level or discursive pressures shaped the Roman Empire. Roman imperialism studies now encompass such ancillary subfields as Roman frontier studies and Romanization.
Author | : Gwynaeth McIntyre |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2019-02-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004398376 |
As political power in Rome became centered on the emperor and his family, a system of honors and titles developed as one way to negotiate this new power dynamic. Classified under the modern collective heading ‘imperial cult’ (or emperor worship or ruler cult), this system of worship comprises religious rituals as well as political, economic, and social aspects. In this article, Gwynaeth McIntyre surveys the range of ancient literary sources and modern scholarly debates on how individuals became gods in the Roman world. Beginning with the development of exceptional honors granted to Julius Caesar and his deification, she traces the development of honors, symbols, and religious rituals associated with the worship of imperial family members. She uses case studies to illustrate how cult practices, temples, and priesthoods were established, highlighting the careful negotiation required between the emperor, imperial family, Senate, and populace in order to make mortals into gods.