Ancient perspectives

maps and their place in mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

"Ancient Perspectives" encompasses a vast arc of space and time - Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE - to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society ...

Mercenaries in the Classical World

to the death of Alexander

Mercenaries were a significant factor in many of the wars of the Classical world, being employed in large numbers by many states. By far the most famous were Xenophon's 'Ten Thousand', who had to cut their way out of the Persian Empire after the ...

Luxor and its temples

This work, while aimed at a general audience, is by no means a dreary introductory textbook. Blackman perceptively answers the reader's most pressing questions about life in ancient Thebes, providing not only an informative text but also an engaging story. Topics covered include life ...

Approaches to healing in roman Egypt

The purpose of this study is to examine the healing strategies employed by the inhabitants of Egypt during the Roman period, from the late first century BC to the fourth century AD, in order to explore how Egyptian, Greek and Roman customs and traditions interacted ...

Macedonian armies after Alexander 323-168 BC

The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC threw the Macedonians into confusion; there was no capable heir, and no clear successor among the senior figures in Alexander's circle. Initial attempts to preserve the unity of Alexander's conquests gave way to a ...

Historia de Grecia antigua

Desde la antigüedad, la Historia de Grecia ha despertado el interés y la curiosidad por ser el alba de nuestra cultura y civilización. Las artes, las ciencias y las formas políticas han encontrado allí su origen. Este libro pretende familiarizar al lector con todas estas ...

Expedition to disaster

the athenian mission to Sicily 415 BC

The Athenian expedition to conquer Sicily was one of the pivotal events of the classical period. At this time (415 BC), Athens was locked in a decades-long struggle with Sparta for mastery of the Greek world. The expedition to Sicily was intended to give Athens ...

Greek and roman dress from A to Z

Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar's wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga? If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then ...

Greek and roman dress from A to Z

Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar's wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga? If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then ...

Consensus, concordia and the formation of Roman Imperial ideology

This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to 'legitimate' and 'traditional' forms of self-presentation. Lobur explores how these notions ...

The roman navy

ships, men and warfare 350 BC-AD 475

The Roman Navy was remarkable for its size, reach and longevity. As significant as the Royal Navy was to the British Empire in the nineteenth century, the Roman Navy was crucial to the extraordinary expansion of Imperial power and for its maintenance over a period ...

The praetorian guard

a history of rome's elite special forces

From the Immortals, the personal bodyguard of the Persian Achaemenid kings; the death-or-glory Companions, Alexander the Great's glorious cavalry corps; to Napoleon's Imperial Guards, flower of the French army, select martial cohorts are perennially fascinating. And perhaps no special force commands the romance ...

Intrepid sailors

the legacy of Preble's boys and the Tripoli campaign

ntrepid Sailors tells one of the greatest sea stories in the history of the U.S. Navy. Under Commodore Edward Preble, the Navy came of age fighting the scourge of the time, the infamous Barbary Pirates. Intrepid Sailors tells the story of the Navy's ...

When America first met China

an exotic history of tea, drugs, and money during the Age of Sail

Eric Jay Dolin traces America's fraught relationship with China back to the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that continues to shed light on America's ...

Stalin's secret agents

the subversion of Roosvelt's government

Until now, many sinister events that transpired in the clash of the world’s superpowers at the close of World War II and the ensuing Cold War era have been ignored, distorted, and kept hidden from the public. Through a meticulous examination of primary sources ...

La sociedad cortesana

En el centro de los intereses sociológicos del autor se encuentra la relación entre empirismo y teoría. Su propósito es determinar terminológicamente el concepto de "sociedad cortesana" en el mismo sentido en que se ha determinado la idea de "sociedad burguesa". Elias pone de relieve ...

Historia de las civilizaciones

desde el Neolítico hasta la Unión Europea

Esta obra ofrece un amplio panorama de la historia del mundo donde descubrirá a través de una serie de capítulos magníficamente ilustrados: los grandes imperios antes de Cristo o los tiempos de la especulación filosófica y espiritual; los seis grandes Imperios del comienzo de nuestra ...

The tactics of Aelian

a new translation of the manual that influenced warfare for Fifteenth Centuries

Aelian's work on tactics is a hugely significant piece of ancient military literature, yet the last new edition in English was published in 1814. Although writing (in his native Greek) in the second century AD, Aelian drew heavily on earlier works, such as Asclepiodotus ...

The portuguese in the Age of Discovery c.1340-1665

From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia). Portugal had established its present-day borders by 1300 and the following ...

Concrete hell

urban warfare from Stalingrad to Iraq

Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed, although strategists ...