The fascinating story of Republican Romes gruelling six-year campaign against the insurgent Numidian warlord, Jugurtha.Jugurtha, the adoptive son of Micipsa, king of the Numidians, was initially a much-respected ally of Rome, fighting gallantly alon...Lasīt vairāk
The fascinating story of Republican Romes gruelling six-year campaign against the insurgent Numidian warlord, Jugurtha.Jugurtha, the adoptive son of Micipsa, king of the Numidians, was initially a much-respected ally of Rome, fighting gallantly alon...Lasīt vairāk
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domain...Lasīt vairāk
Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-conscio...Lasīt vairāk
PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThe essays in this volume of the award-winning A Cultural History of Ideas explore essential domain...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341902)
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341759)
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040340318)
Archaic Greece (1976) describes the typical polis, and considers in turn each city-state in mainland Greece, the Aegean and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period -...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040340295)
Archaic Greece (1976) describes the typical polis, and considers in turn each city-state in mainland Greece, the Aegean and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period -...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691236674)
From one of todays most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIts easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691236674)
From one of todays most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIts easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040334485)
Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Despite internal dissensions and the almost perpetual threat of out...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040334447)
Originally published in 1957 and as a fourth edition in 1970 this is an accessible history of Byzantium from Constantine the Great to its final conquest by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Despite internal dissensions and the almost perpetual threat of out...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691252445)
How ideas and experiences of beauty informed human relationships with the divine in ancient GreeceBeginning with the earliest Greek literature, the epics of Homer and Hesiod, beauty was seen as having a special connection with the divine. The gods of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691252445)
How ideas and experiences of beauty informed human relationships with the divine in ancient GreeceBeginning with the earliest Greek literature, the epics of Homer and Hesiod, beauty was seen as having a special connection with the divine. The gods of...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331248)
This book is the first in-depth study of food in talmudic literature in its geographical and cultural contexts. It demonstrates the sharing of foods and foodways between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours in the Near East in Late Antiquity.Using bo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331477)
This volume, the first devoted specifically to Speusippus in English, offers a new picture of Speusippus philosophy via an in-depth analysis of the testimonia preserved by Aristotle.The book develops a new methodology for understanding the evidence...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331491)
This volume, the first devoted specifically to Speusippus in English, offers a new picture of Speusippus philosophy via an in-depth analysis of the testimonia preserved by Aristotle.The book develops a new methodology for understanding the evidence...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331323)
This book is the first in-depth study of food in talmudic literature in its geographical and cultural contexts. It demonstrates the sharing of foods and foodways between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbours in the Near East in Late Antiquity.Using bo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040312193)
The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four women-Constance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antioch-and an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered,...Lasīt vairāk
