The mediterranean world in late antiquity

Ad 395-700

This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman empire. Leading scholar Averil Cameron focuses ...

Breve historia del Mundo Antiguo

La aportación más significativa de esta nueva edición es la inclusión de documentos gráficos, acompañados todos ellos de un comentario generalmente amplio. En estas sociedades, de cultura fundamentalmente oral, la imagen funciona como medio de comunicación, con sus peculiares convenciones. Constituye, por tanto, para el ...

A culture of freedom

ancient Greece and the origins of Europe

When and where did Europe begin? With the ancient Greeks, argues Christian Meier. But do we really know who the ancient Greeks were? And what was it that made their culture so special? A Culture of Freedom attempts to answer this question - to find the ...

Ancient Empires

from Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam

Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity and the early Muslim period. Taking a focused and thematic approach, it aims to provoke a discussion of an ...

Money, trade and trade routes in pre-islamic North Africa

This book expands upon a conference held at the British Museum in 2008 that brought together scholars from differing fields specialising in ancient North Africa. This multidisciplinary approach allowed a number of subjects to be enriched through comparative evidence. The conference concentrated on the area ...

Una guía de la Antigüedad para la vida moderna

Vivimos en una época, nos dice Natalie Haynes, que ha eliminado el latín y el griego de la educación, y que conoce el mundo de la Antigüedad a través de una visión deformada por mitos y prejuicios. Pero este pasado está lleno de gente común ...

La guerra en la Antigüedad desde el presente

ÍNDICE: Introducción.- 1. La arqueología  e historia militar antigua en Europa y Estados Unidos: situación actual y perspectivas, FRANCISCO GRACIA ALONSO.- 2. Reflexiones sobre la historia, situación actual y perspectivas de la arqueología e historia militar antigua en España, FERNANDO QUESADA SANZ.- 3. Historia militar ...

Religions of the Ancient Near East

This book is a history of religious life in the Ancient Near East from the beginnings of agriculture to Alexander the Great's invasion in the 300s BCE. Daniel C. Snell traces key developments in the history, daily life and religious beliefs of the people ...

The prehistory of Asia Minor

from complex hunter-gatherers to early urban societies

In this book, Bleda During offers an archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, from 20,000 to 2,000 BC. During this period human societies moved from small-scale hunter-gatherer groups to complex and hierarchical communities with economies based ...

Historia y mito en el Mundo Antiguo

los orígenes de la cultura en Egipto, Israel y Grecia

Cuál es la función del recuerdo en la formación de las identidades culturales? ¿Qué formas de recuerdo cultural existen, cómo se organizan, a qué cambios están sometidas? Jan Assmann aborda estas cuestiones comparando tres culturas mediterráneas antiguas (Egipto, Israel y Grecia) y señala la importancia ...

Los monasterios paganos

la huida de la ciudad en el Mundo Antiguo

Este libro estudia las formas de vida colectiva apartadas de las ciudades durante la Antigüedad Clásica, tema que hasta el presente no ha sido tratado en una obra de conjunto. su título, Los Monasterios paganos, llama la atención porque yuxtapone dos términos casi antitéticos: los ...

Private worship, public values, and religious change in Late Antiquity

Conventional histories of late antique Christianity tell the story of a public institution - the Christian Church. In this book, Kim Bowes relates another history, that of the Christian private. Using textual and archaeological evidence, she examines the Christian rituals of home and rural estate, which ...

Maritime archaeology and ancient trade in the Mediterranean

Maritime Archaeology and Ancient Trade in the Mediterranean comprises twelve papers that look at the shifting patterns of maritime trade as seen through archaeological evidence across the economic cycle of Classical Antiquity. Papers range from an initial study of Egyptian ship wrecks dating from the ...

Legends of Alexander the Great

'How can a man become a god?' So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahmin sages of India. And how did they reply? 'By doing what it is impossible for a man to do.' And that answer set a keynote for the Conqueror's entire ...

Teutoburg forest ad 9

the destruction of Varus and his legions

Il. Peter Dennis .

A cultural history of animals in Antiquity

Ed. Linda Kalof. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 Animals had a ubiquitous and central presence in the ancient world. A Cultural History of Animals In Antiquity presents an extraordinarily broad assessment of animal cultures from 2500 BC to 1000 AD, describing how animals were ...

Textos para la historia del Próximo Oriente Antiguo

El presente libro, dedicado a difundir la milenaria y espectacular historia del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, prácticamente desconocida hasta comienzos del pasado siglo, ha sido realizado con las miras puestas en servir de herramienta cultural tanto para los amantes de la Historia en general como para ...

Ancient cities

the archaeology of urban life in the ancient near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome

"Ancient Cities" brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west Asia. It provides surveys of the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds ...

The art of the body

Antiquity and its legacy

The art of the human body is arguably the most important and wide- ranging legacy bequeathed to us by Classical antiquity. Not only has it directed the course of western image-making, it has shaped our collective cultural imaginary - as ideal, antitype, and point of departure ...

Phoenicia

episodes and anecdotes from the Ancient Mediterranean

In this magnum opus, the late Brian Peckham examines all of the evidence currently available to paint as complete a portrait as is possible of Phoenicia: its history, its people, and its culture. In fact, it was not the Phoenicians but the Canaanites who invented ...