Agrarian change in late antiquity

gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance

The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, Jairus Banaji argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and social change, propelled by the powerful stimulus of a stable ...

Travel, geography and culture in ancient Greece, Egypt and the near east

This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions ...

L'Âge d'Or de l'Inde classique

Au terme du premier grand empire de son histoire - celui des Maurya (fin IVe siècle-début IIe siècle av. J.-C.) -, l'Inde connaît, du Ier au IIIev siècle de notre ère, les puissants pouvoirs des Kushâna, au nord, et des Sâtavâhana, au sud. Mais c ...

Espacios de infertilidad y agamia en la antigüedad

Este volumen se centra en el estudio de las atokusai o mujeres infértiles de la Antigüedad y en los espacios de agamía, es decir, algunos de los diferentes momentos de la vida de la mujer en los que el matrimonio o el contacto sexual reglado ...

Choix d'écrits

Louis Robert (1904-1985) fut l#un des plus grands savants du XXe siècle dans le domaine de l#Antiquité. Directeur d#études à l#École Pratique des Hautes Études (1933-1974), professeur au Collège de France (1939- 1974), cet historien eut une réputation internationale incontestée, et ...

Fear of slaves-fear of enslavement in the ancient Mediterranean

peur de l'esclave-peur de l'esclavage en méditerranée ancienne (discours, représentations, pratiques). Actes du XXIXe Colloque du Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Esclavage dans l'Antiquité (GIREA), Rethymnon, 4-7 novembre 2004

Centré sur la problématique de la peur et de l'esclavage le 29e colloque du GIREA qui s'est tenu à Rethymnon en novembre 2004 s'est voulu un rassemblement international d'antiquisants qui a porté son attention sur une thématique qui incitait à l ...

War in late antiquity

a social history

War in Late Antiquity is the first book to focus on the social impact of warfare and the Roman army from the third to the early seventh century AD. Drawing on the rich and varied source materials for the period, Doug Lee investigates how the ...

The mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam

a sourcebook

In recent decades it has become obvious that mathematics has always been a worldwide activity. But this is the first book to provide a substantial collection of English translations of key mathematical texts from the five most important ancient and medieval non-Western mathematical cultures, and ...

Mysteries of the oracles

the last secrets of antiquity

How did the ancient oracles operate - and how were they used and abused for treacherous, deceitful and dangerous ends? The oracles are one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. Doorways to the underworld, foretellers of the future, decision-makers for kings and paupers alike ...

Civilizing climate

social responses to climate change in the ancient near east

Description is based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of changes in climate and how that affected social and political developments. This work uses 3 major case studies of the Neolithic, Early Bronze, and Roman/Byzantine periods.

Ciudadanos y extranjeros en el mundo antiguo

segregación e integración

"Musa, háblame sobre aquel varón de gran ingenio, quien, tras destruir la sagrada ciudad de Troya, peregrinó errante entre muchas ciudades y pueblos..." (Odisea, I, 1-3)

La imagen del sexo en la Antigüedad

El comportamiento sexual en la Antigüedad constituye un terreno en el que pocos estudiosos se han atrevido a internarse y, sin duda, la iconografía provee de un material abundante pero difícil de interpretar. Los autores de este volumen, sin embargo, desentrañan el papel desempeñado por ...

Calendars and years

astronomy and time in the ancient near east

Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were based upon observations or calculations of regular astronomical phenomena, such as the first sighting of the new ...

La madre en la Antigüedad

literatura, sociedad y religión

L'historia

commencements grecs

Les dix nouvelles qui composent ce volume ont été écrites sur une période de quinze ans. D'une écriture sèche, rapide, brillante, à mi- chemin entre sérieux et humour, Javier Marias nous offre une pléthore de personnages aussi normaux qu'excentriques. Un majordome diplômé de ...

Heródoto y la Ciencia de su tiempo

Handbook to life in Ancient Egypt

Accessible, authoritative, and clearly organized, this book offers an engaging took at a culture whose art and architecture, religion, and medicine would come to form the basis of Western Civilization. 80 halftones.

Objects of provenance not known. Pt.3.

Stelae (early Dynastic Period to Dynasty XVII)

The third part of "Topographical Bibliography VIII, Objects of Provenance Not Known", presents accessible references for unprovenanced stelae dating from the beginning of the Dynastic Period to the end of Dynasty XVII. The coverage includes monuments in museums and private collections, as well as those ...

La arqueología del Egipto arcaico

transformaciones sociales en el noreste de África (10.000-2650 a.C.)

En este estudio riguroso y bien documentado, Wengrow busca las raíces sociales del antiguo Egipto. Para ello, el autor remonta a finales de la era Cuaternaria, rastreando en el desierto los orígenes de la civilización egipcia. Sin duda un largo período de tiempo de más ...

El escriba del faraón

Durante el reinado de Amenhotep II, faraón de Egipto, se produjo el Éxodo del pueblo hebreo de la tierra de Egipto y el posterior nacimiento de la nación de Israel. Testigo de excepción será Nebi, un inteligente muchacho instruido como escriba. Amigo y confidente del ...