Search results for “[Subject: ancient-general]”

• Author(s): Paul Louis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Biblical Studies - GeneralOriginally published in 1927 this volume includes an economic history of Rome from the origins to the Empire, with four illustrations...

• Author(s): Brian M. Fagan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralArchaeology: The Basics, rewritten for this fourth edition, is a short, engaging book that takes the re...

• Author(s): Beverley Southgate • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - GeneralThis is a highly accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject and discusses the tr...

• Author(s): Emma Stafford • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThere is more material available on Herakles than any other Greek god or hero. His story has many more episodes than those of other heroes, co...

• Author(s): C. G. Cumston • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up-to-date findings in all branches of the social sciences a...

• Author(s): D. R. SarDesai • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia"An indispensable tool for college students and general readers, the only available text that treats Vietnamese history in its entiret...

• Author(s): Ronald Mellor | Jason Moralee • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThe Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single...

• Author(s): Manuel Fernández-Götz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Military - GeneralIn the past two decades, conflict archaeology has become firmly established as a promising field of research, as reflected in publ...

• Author(s): Sonja Brentjes | Jürgen Renn • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe contributions to this volume enter into a dialogue about the routes, modes and institutions that transferred and transfo...

• Author(s): Oystein S. Labianca | Sandra Arnold Scham • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralToday's politicians argue that the more 'connected' societies are the less danger they pose to global stability...

• Author(s): Robert Hannah • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralTime in Antiquity offers a detailed survey of the science of time and its measurement in the Greek and Roman worlds, including Babylon and ...

• Author(s): Shane Butler | Mark Bradley • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis set includes all six titles in The Senses in Antiquity series. Buying the set provides a significant saving as opposed t...

• Author(s): Lukas de Blois • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAn Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of the history of the ancient Near East, Greec...

• Author(s): Andrew N. Sherwood | Milorad Nikolic | John W. Humphrey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralIn this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passage...

• Author(s): Mogens Trolle Larsen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThe Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and a...

• Author(s): Carlos Machado | Rowan Munnery | Rebecca Sweetman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis volume considers "lived space" as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Perilli | Daniela P. Taormina • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAncient Philosophy provides a broad introduction to ancient philosophy, including influences from the Ancient Near ...

• Author(s): William H. Stiebing Jr • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAncient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the a...

• Author(s): D. D. Kosambi • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceFirst published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real ...

• Author(s): David J. Mattingly | John Salmon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis book presents a challenge to the long held view that the predominantly agricultural economies of ancient Greece and...

• Author(s): Donald Hill • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Engineering (General)It is impossible to understand the cultures and achievements of the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs, without knowing something of t...

• Author(s): Duane W. Roller • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria's Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical inf...

• Author(s): Sandra R. Joshel | Sheila Murnaghan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralWomen and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subo...

• Author(s): Catherine Hezser • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (3rd to 7th c. C.E.), providing c...

• Author(s): Dominic Montserrat • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFirst Published in 2004. The seventeenth-century physician John Bulwer's book, better known by its neologistic classical title Anthrop...

• Author(s): Miranda Aldhouse Green • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - GeneralUsing archaeology and social anthropology, and more than 100 original line drawings and photographs, An Archaeology of Images take...

• Author(s): Gwendolyn Leick • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralWhat do we know of the real Nebuchadnezzar? Was there an historical precedent for the mythical Gilgamesh? Who were the Hittites? When did...

• Author(s): Jan R. Stenger • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralEducation in the Graeco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. Yet the complex ways in which pedagogical theory and practice intersected...

• Author(s): Joanne M. a. Murphy • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralRituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and genera...

• Author(s): Stefan Schorn | Robert Mayhew • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabi...

• Author(s): Lesley A. Beaumont | Matthew Dillon | Nicola Harrington • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic ma...

• Author(s): Jakub Filonik | Christine Plastow | Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis volume brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of...

• Author(s): Michael Rice • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralThe archaeological remains in the Gulf area are astounding, and still relatively unexplored. Michael Rice has produced the first up-to-d...

• Author(s): Sidoli Nathan | R. S. D. Thomas • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios (2nd-1st century BCE), a...

• Author(s): Lionel Scott • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralPytheas of Massalia (Marseille), mariner, explorer, geographer and astronomer, made a pioneering voyage into the then unknown Atlantic aroun...

• Author(s): Ingemar During • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralOriginally published in 1941. Herodicus was a Greek physician of the fifth century BC, and a native of Selymbria. The first use of therape...