From Homer to Solon

From Homer to Solon
Author: Johannes C. Bernhardt
Publisher: Mnemosyne, Supplements
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004513624

"The study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the cultural turn have led to an emphasis on long-term developments and continuities. After an introduction to the state of research, the volume offers a wide range of studies under the headings "Approaches on early-Archaic Greece," "Citizens and Citizen-States," and "Leaders and Reformers" ranging from Homer to Solon and circling around the central problem of continuity and change in Archaic Greece"--

Reading Śiva

Reading Śiva
Author: Ellen Raven
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 669
Release: 2021-12-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004473009

An extensive, illustrated bibliography for the Hindu god Śiva in the arts of South and Southeast Asia, offering detailed indices and easy access to resource repositories.

Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome

Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2022-02-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004511407

This volume breaks new ground by exploring how the political actors of different formal statuses, age, and gender were able to “take the lead” in ancient Rome through initiating communication, proposing new solutions, and prompting others to act.

Robert Kilwardby's Commentary on the Ethics of Aristotle

Robert Kilwardby's Commentary on the Ethics of Aristotle
Author: Anthony J. Celano
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2022-04-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004511571

Kilwardby’s work on the first three books of the Nicomachean Ethics is the first medieval commentary on the Ethics whose author is known. The critically edited Latin text contains a careful explanation of Aristotle’s text on happiness and moral virtue.

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese
Author: Paul W. Kroll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Chinese language
ISBN: 9789004325135

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese is the long-desired Chinese - English reference work for all those reading texts dating from the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty, and beyond. Comprising 8,000+ characters, arranged alphabetically by Pinyin, with an index by "radical" and stroke- count, and various appendices, including one with reign-eras and exact accession dates of emperors according to both Chinese and Western calendars.

A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570-1792

A History and Catalogue of the Lindsay Library, 1570-1792
Author: Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher: Library of the Written Word
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004503779

This is the first study of Jacobean Scotland's largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the Lindsays of Balcarres.

The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio

The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio
Author: Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher: Historiography of Rome and Its
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2022
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004510487

"Cassius Dio (c. 160-c. 230) is a familiar name to Roman historians, but still an enigmatic one. His text has shaped our understanding of his own period and earlier eras, but basic questions remain about his Greek and Roman cultural identities and his literary and intellectual influences. Contributors to this volume read Dio against different backgrounds including the politics of the Severan court, the cultural milieu of the Second Sophistic and Roman traditions of historiography and political theory. Dio emerges as not just a recounter of events, but a representative of his times in all their complexity"--

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. Third Edition

A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. Third Edition
Author: Paul W. Kroll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-03
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9789004499393

Since its first publication in 2014, 'A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese' has proven itself the essential resource for reading and translating historical, literary, and religious texts dating from approximately 500 BCE to 1000 CE.0This third edition has been extensively revised and expanded, with over a thousand additions and improvements to existing entries, plus numerous wholly new entries. Referencing more than 8,300 characters, it also includes an abundance of alliterative and echoic binomes (lianmianci), accurate identifications of hundreds of plants, animals, and assorted technical terms in various fields, as well as the Middle Chinese reconstructed pronunciation of every character, and various useful appendices.