This study of Constantinoples monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (13941453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the citys Ottoman conquest and transfo...Lasīt vairāk
This volume provides, for the first time, a focused study of scare tactics and fearmongering in a broad range of Greek and Roman authors and genres, showing how alarmist tactics were used in both antiquity and today....Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that Aristotelian character education cannot work in liberal democracies today. It shows that when we clearly understand the basic structure of Aristotles value theory and correctly grasp the core requirements of liberalism, we will...Lasīt vairāk
The collection of essays in this volume explores the significance of old age for Jews and Christians as well as Greeks and Romans in antiquity. Of interest for students and scholars of religion, as well as scholars in classical studies and ancient h...Lasīt vairāk
The chapters in this volume highlight the complexity and diversity of approaches to how ancient and medieval cultures understood martial masculinity and the significance warfare had on masculine values during the premodern era....Lasīt vairāk
This volume introduces the notion of stranger-kingship to the field of ancient history and evaluates its use as a new way of thinking about kingship as a political, social, and cultural phenomenon....Lasīt vairāk
Socrates recommends that we live examined lives, but what exactly does that mean? Should we criticise and dismantle our moral convictions? Or construct theories of virtue and the good? This book argues that the answer is neitherthe best human life i...Lasīt vairāk
This volume presents studies by international experts on aspects of the society, economy, religion, culture, and history of the Greek settlements of the ancient western Mediterranean, one of the most innovative areas of the ancient Greek world....Lasīt vairāk
This new edition of Stoicism provides an introduction to one of the most influential schools of philosophy in antiquity, the influence of which has persisted to the present day....Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a reassessment of argumentation in classical rhetoric, foregrounding its rational dimension. This concise yet comprehensive book will interest intermediate and advanced students, as well as scholars of rhetoric, argumentation, persu...Lasīt vairāk
Identities in Antiquity is multi-disciplinary platform for the synthetic study of ancient identities, set in a more rounded and inclusive notion of Antiquity, spanning the ancient Mediterranean world and beyond from the third millennium BCE until th...Lasīt vairāk
This volume examines the dynamism and complexity of religious expressions in rural settings across Late Antique Iberia, refuting the idea that rural spaces, and in turn rural religious practices, were static and unchanging, anchored in tradition and...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the origins of complex political organisation in Inner Asia which enabled mighty empires, proto-state entities and confederacies such as the Cimmerians, Scythians and the Xiongnu Huns to emerge and dominate large swathes of the Eu...Lasīt vairāk
This book applies an SFL-inspired, multi-dimensional approach to Latin linguistics, offering fresh insights into Latin narrative tenses while addressing challenges posed by its closed-corpus nature....Lasīt vairāk
The first of its kind, this book presents a wide range of passages exploring many aspects of the Greco-Roman watery world: physics, philosophy, weather, medicine, marine biology, religion and mythology, infrastructure, sailing, and mercantile activi...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Pocket Guide to Legal Latin is an invaluable legal reference tool, providing a quick and informative guide to Latin words and phrases commonly used in legal settings....Lasīt vairāk
Navigating a diversity of religious myths and worldviews in both conventional and nuanced secular ways, this edited volume explores transdisciplinary common knowledge and global citizenship ideology through the lens of spirituality, depth hermeneuti...Lasīt vairāk
This 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 cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological approaches, a...Lasīt vairāk
Enheduana: Princess, Priestess, Poetess offers the first comprehensive biography of Enheduana, daughter of Sargon of Agade and one of the most intriguing, yet elusive, women from antiquity....Lasīt vairāk
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
