Strategy of Empire dispels the myth that Romans were incapable of longterm strategic thinking or maintaining any enunciated strategy for more than a brief period, acting as a welcome counternarrative to Edward Luttwaks The Grand Strateg...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), ISBN-13: 9780857508140)
From the hit Short History of... podcast comes the dramatic and thrilling history of Ancient Rome. Packed with vivid detail and extraordinary characters, this immersive account brings to life the rise and fall of one of the greatest empires the wo...Lasīt vairāk
A fully illustrated study of the 6th-century campaigns that saw the Byzantine Empire largely reconquer the Mediterranean, examining Emperor Justinian Is generals and troops in detail....Lasīt vairāk
Join the trio behind the hit history podcast, The Rabbit Hole Detectives, Richard Coles, Charles Spencer and Cat Jarman in their first trivia book as they investigate weird and wonderful facts and stories rescued from obscurity. From the earliest re...Lasīt vairāk
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was one of the most influential figures in late republican Rome, a moment of great social, political, and cultural unrest that would lead to the...Lasīt vairāk
Eleanor Cowan, Kit Morrell, Andrew Pettinger, Michael Sevel
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198959328)
The ideal of the rule of law - that the law should protect all citizens from arbitrary exercises of power - can be traced from ancient Greece to the present day. The Roman contribution to the rule of law tradition has been largely overlooked, howeve...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Handbook of Rewriting in Byzantium presents an overview of the various rewriting processes involved in the production of Byzantine literature....Lasīt vairāk
From the internationally bestselling author of Fair Rosaline comes a captivating historical novela powerful retelling of the life of one of the most beguiling and misrepresented female figures in history, Cleopatra....Lasīt vairāk
Joe Uziel, David Ilan, Matthew Susnow, Aren M. Maeir
Sērija : Archaeology of the Biblical Worlds
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110500745)
This volume is an excavation report on the important Bronze and Iron Age site, Tel Nagila. The site was excavated in the 1960s but the report was never published. Tel Nagila was an important Middle Bronze Age site and a Judahite site during Iron A...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111330877)
Recent studies have underlined the importance of consulting different sources to trace global histories of diseases. However, due to a lack of critical editions of medical works, leprosy is poorly understood, and a wider interpretation of it a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111579900)
Phrynichus Praeparatio sophistica ranks not last among the most importat works of ancient scholarly literature which we wish we could read in its original, full redaction. It was Phrynichus magnum opus, and the high status of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783119145435)
The epigraphic database Clauss Slaby (EDCS) was founded and developed 40 years ago by Manfred Clauss and Wolfgang Slaby at the University of Eichstätt. Today, it is the largest and most important digital tool for epigraphic research worldwide, provi...Lasīt vairāk
Victory and Celebration: An Introduction to Greek Athletics explores how the poems, statues, and other objects used by athletic victors to commemorate their victories in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE gave value and meaning to these victories. Th...Lasīt vairāk
Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece--how being a good boxer, or having a fast son or good horses was made into something significant in society more...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198981466)
This volume explores the significance of schadenfreude in Greek literature and culture from the archaic period to the second century CE. It examines how schadenfreude works, what purposes it serves within specific literary genres, and how generic tre...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198962519)
Inscribing Flavian Rome offers the first systematic investigation of Martials dynamic engagement with the full range of Roman epigraphic habits. Breaking new ground in the study of Roman epigram, it establishes a new interpretation of early...Lasīt vairāk
Presents the results of an extensive re-examination of Orkney Bronze Age barrows, their chronological development and the changing nature of mortuary and burial practices. Provides the exciting results of a long-term project examining Bron...Lasīt vairāk
