Author: Maurice Sartre
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: antiquity, revealing, snapshots, grecques, histoires
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-01-31
List price: $36.50
ISBN-10: 0674032128
ISBN-13: 9780674032125
In a series of brilliant snapshots, each a distinct bit of a larger story, Maurice Sartre’s Histoires Grecques spans the grand narrative of Greek culture over a thousand years and a vast expanse of land and sea. From Homer to Damascius, from recent discoveries in Kandahar to an account of the murder of Hypatia in 415 CE, each snapshot captures a moment in the history of Greek civilization. Together they offer a fresh perspective on an ancient culture whose wealth and depth of thought, variety and multiplicity of accomplishments, and astonishing continuity through time and space have made i
Author: Vincent L. Wimbush
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: antiquity, studies, christianity, amp, roman, behavior, greco, ascetic
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0800631056
ISBN-13: 9780800631055
Author: Stanley Jerome Isser
Publisher: Brill
Keywords: antiquity, studies, judaism, sect, samaritan, dositheans
Number of Pages: 223
Published: 1976
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9004044817
ISBN-13: 9789004044814
Author: Joseph Da
Publisher: Jason Aronso
Keywords: antiquity, mysticism, jewish, volume
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 076576007X
ISBN-13: 9780765760074
Author: Arthur Keith
Publisher: Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd
Keywords: man, antiquity
Number of Pages: 1270
Published: 2004-08-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8170419778
ISBN-13: 9788170419778
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott company ; London : Williams and Norgate Subjects: Human beings -- Origin Prehistoric peoples Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
Author: I. M. Diakonoff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: antiquity
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 1991-08-27
List price: $86.00
ISBN-10: 0226144658
ISBN-13: 9780226144658
The internationally renowned Assyriologist and linguist I. M. Diakonoff has gathered the work of Soviet historians in this survey of the earliest history of the ancient Near East, Central Asia, India, and China. Diakonoff and his colleagues, nearly all working within the general Marxist historiographic tradition, offer a comprehensive, accessible synthesis of historical knowledge from the beginnings of agriculture through the advent of the Iron Age and the Greek colonization in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea areas. Besides discussing features of Soviet historical sc
Author: Lester K. Little
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: pandemic, antiquity, plague
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2006-12-11
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0521846390
ISBN-13: 9780521846394
Plague was a key factor in the waning of Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. Eight centuries before the Black Death, a pandemic of plague engulfed the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea and eventually extended as far east as Persia and as far north as the British Isles. Its persisted sporadically from 541 to 750, the same period that witnessed the distinctive shaping of the Byzantine Empire, a new prominence of the Roman papacy and of monasticism, the beginnings of Islam and the meteoric expansion of the Arabic Empire, the ascent of the Carolingian dynasty in Frankish Gaul an
