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The Ancient Israelite World

The Ancient Israelite World

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israel’s society economy religion language culture and history synthesizing archaeological remains and integrating them with discussions of ancient Near Eastern and biblical texts. Driven by theoretically and methodologically informed discussions of the archaeology of the Iron Age Levant the 47 chapters in The Ancient Israelite World provide foundational accessible and detailed studies in their respective topics. The volume considers the history of interpretation of ancient Israel studies on various aspects of ancient Israel’s society and history and avenues for present and future approaches to the ancient Israelite world. Accompanied by over 150 maps and figures it allows the reader to gain an understanding of key issues that archaeologists historians and biblical scholars have faced and are currently facing as they attempt to better understand ancient Israelite society. The Ancient Israelite World is an essential reference work for students and scholars of ancient Israel and its history culture and society whether they are historians archaeologists or biblical scholars.

GBP 190.00
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Gender in the Ancient Near East

Gender in the Ancient Near East

Gender in the Ancient Near East is a wide-ranging study through text and art that presents our current understanding of gender constructs in ancient Mesopotamia Egypt Anatolia Cyprus and the Levant and incorporates current trends in gender theory. Budin begins with definitions of sex and gender in modern society and scholarship before exploring ancient Near Eastern understandings of these concepts. Readers are then guided through sources in translation in order to understand how the denizens of the ancient Near East understood notions of femininity masculinity and other with a final chapter considering how modern notions of hetero- and homosexuality apply to the ancient world. The volume also explores how these concepts are portrayed in ancient art and material culture through accompanying photographs and illustrations. The overview of both Near Eastern history and contemporary gender theory allows readers unfamiliar with the material easily to approach the subject and draw meaningful conclusions. Gender in the Ancient Near East offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the subject for students of the ancient Near East and of gender in the ancient world. It is also of interest to those working in gender studies and queer studies.

GBP 32.99
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Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars it covers the full range of ancient philosophy from the sixth century BC to the sixth century AD and beyond. There are dedicated discussions of the major areas of the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle together with accounts of their predecessors and successors. The contributors also address various problems of interpretation and method highlighting the particular demands and interest of working with ancient philosophical texts. All original texts discussed are translated into English.

GBP 46.99
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Ancient Macedonia

Ancient Macedonia

The first English-language monograph on ancient Macedonia in almost thirty years Carol J. King's book provides a detailed narrative account of the rise and fall of Macedonian power in the Balkan Peninsula and the Aegean region during the five-hundred-year period of the Macedonian monarchy from the seventh to the second century BCE. King draws largely on ancient literary sources for her account citing both contemporary and later classical authors. Material evidence from the fields of archaeology epigraphy and numismatics is also explored. Ancient Macedonia balances historical evidence with interpretations—those of the author as well as other historians—and encourages the reader to engage closely with the source material and the historical questions that material often raises. This volume will be of great interest to both under- and post-graduate students and those looking to understand the fundamentals of the period.

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Children in the Bible and the Ancient World Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children

Children in the Bible and the Ancient World Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children

The topic of children in the Bible has long been under-represented but this has recently changed with the development of childhood studies in broader fields and the work of several dedicated scholars. While many reading methods are employed in this emerging field comparative work with children in the ancient world has been an important tool to understand the function of children in biblical texts. Children in the Bible and the Ancient World broadly introduces children in the ancient world and specifically children in the Bible. It brings together an international group of experts who help readers understand how children are constructed in biblical literature across three broad areas: children in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East children in Christian writings and the Greco-Roman world and children and materiality. The diverse essays cover topics such as: vows in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible obstetric knowledge infant abandonment the role of marriage Greek abandonment texts ritual entry for children into Christian communities education sexual abuse and the role of archeological figurines in children’s lives. The volume also includes expertise in biological anthropology to study the skeletal remains of ancient children as well as how ancient texts illuminate Mary’s female maturity. The volume is written in an accessible style suitable for non-specialists and it is equipped with a helpful resource bibliography that organizes select secondary sources from these essays into meaningful categories for further study. Children in the Bible and the Ancient World is a helpful introduction to any who study children and childhood in the ancient world. In addition the volume will be of interest to experts who are engaged in historical approaches to biblical studies while appreciating how the ancient world continues to illuminate select topics in biblical texts. | Children in the Bible and the Ancient World Comparative and Historical Methods in Reading Ancient Children

GBP 38.99
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Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

This fully revised and updated third edition of the bestselling Ancient Egypt seeks to identify what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics ranging across material culture the mindset of its people and social and economic factors. In this volume Barry J. Kemp identifies the ideas by which the Egyptians organized their experience of the world and explains how they maintained a uniform style in their art and architecture across three thousand years whilst accommodating substantial changes in outlook. The underlying aim is to relate ancient Egypt to the broader mainstream of our understanding of how all human societies function. Source material is taken from ancient written documents while the book also highlights the contribution that archaeology makes to our understanding of Egyptian culture and society. It uses numerous case studies illustrating them with artwork expressly prepared from specialist sources. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed the book is an indispensable text for all students of ancient Egypt and for the general reader. | Ancient Egypt Anatomy of a Civilization

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Reading Papyri Writing Ancient History

Reading Papyri Writing Ancient History

Since its first publication in 1995 Reading Papyri Writing Ancient History has proved to be an invaluable resource for students of the ancient world looking to integrate papyrological evidence into their research. In the quarter century since its publication changes in the research environment have affected papyrology like other fields. Although the core philological methods of the field remain in place the field has increasingly embraced languages other than Greek and Latin with considerable impact on the Hellenistic and Late Antique periods. Digital tools have increased the ease and speed of access with profound effects on research choices and digital imaging and materiality studies have brought questions about the physical form of written materials to the fore. In this fully revised new edition Bagnall adds to the previous analysis a portrait of how the use of papyri for historical research has developed during recent decades. Updated with the latest research and insights from the author the volume guides historians in how to use these scattered and often badly damaged documents and to interpret them in order to create a full and diverse picture of ancient society and culture. This second edition of Reading Papyri Writing Ancient History continues to offer students and researchers of the ancient world a critical resource in navigating how to use these ancient texts in their research.

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An Introduction to the Ancient World

An Introduction to the Ancient World

An Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of the history of the ancient Near East Greece and Rome. Covering the social political economic and cultural processes that have influenced later western and Near Eastern civilisations this volume considers subjects such as the administrative structures economies and religions of the ancient Near East Athenian democracy the development of classical Greek literature the interaction of cultures in the Hellenistic world the political and administrative system of the Roman Republic and empire and the coming of Christianity all within the broad outline of political history. This third edition is thoroughly updated and some chapters are completely rewritten to cover recent historical research. Changes include: more attention to economic structures and developments and to the history of the later Roman Empire (third to sixth centuries AD); incorporation of the results of recent archaeological and historical research and recently published studies of ancient literature; ‘boxes’ that support the main text on topics including economic and political systems religion and terminology; redrawn maps and new higher-quality images; the inclusion of useful websites in the bibliography. An Introduction to the Ancient World provides an easily readable user-friendly integrated overview for students of ancient history classics and archaeology. Lavishly illustrated clearly and concisely written and well organised this fully updated and revised edition will remain a key resource for students beginning to investigate the civilisations of the ancient Mediterranean.

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Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households

Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households

This book provides the first detailed study of the water supply of households in antiquity. Chapters explore settings from Classical Greece to the Late Roman Empire across a wide variety of environments from dry deserts and moderate Mediterranean zones to wet and temperate climates further north. The different case studies presented in each chapter are united by three intimately interconnected aspects. The first rainwater harvesting in cisterns provides detailed techno-hydraulic investigations of the household water supply systems. The second aspect households and water at the margins stresses how domestic water supply systems were successfully adapted to unusually harsh environmental conditions. The third other waters for houses focuses on other types of water supply systems (rivers water-bearers stepped pools wells) and their life biographies. As shown by the different chapters a careful study of a household’s water supply is a rich source of evidence for understanding everyday decisions anxieties and changes in life. They also build towards a greater understanding of the social inequalities that are at play in the ancient Mediterranean and beyond providing a wealth of new research to greatly augment our understanding of water as a resource in the ancient Mediterranean. Providing a new and important perspective on a central part of everyday life in the ancient world this book is aimed at archaeologists and historians of the ancient Mediterranean notably the Greek and Roman worlds especially those with an interest in ancient households and water culture. | Water in Ancient Mediterranean Households

GBP 130.00
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Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World

Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World

Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life after death and if so what form that life might take for centuries. What did people in the ancient world think the next life would hold and did they imagine there was a chance for a relationship between the living and the dead? How did people in the ancient world keep their dead loved ones alive through memory and were they afraid the dead might return and haunt the living in another form? What sort of afterlife did the ancient Greeks and Romans imagine for themselves? This volume explores these questions and more. While individual representations of the afterlife have often been examined few studies have taken a more general view of ideas about the afterlife circulating in the ancient world. By drawing together current research from international scholars on archaeological evidence for afterlife belief chiefly from funerary sites together with studies of works of literature this volume provides a broader overview of ancient ideas about the afterlife than has so far been available. Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World explores these key questions through a series of wide-ranging studies taking in ghosts demons dreams cosmology and the mutilation of corpses along the way offering a valuable resource to those studying all aspects of death in the ancient world

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Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

Winner of CAMWS' 2023 Bolchazy Pedagogy Award. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome features the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world brought together for the first time in a single volume in both their original languages and translated into English with accompanying commentaries. The most cost-effective and comprehensive way to study the women writers of Greece and Rome this book provides original texts accessible text-commentaries and detailed English translations of the works of ancient female poets and authors such as Sappho and Sulpicia. It takes a student-focused approach discussing texts alongside new and original English translations and highlighting the rich diverse scholarship on ancient women writers to specialists and non-specialists alike. The perspectives of women in the ancient world are still relevant and of interest today as issues of gender and racial (in)equality remain ever-present in modern society. Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome provides a valuable teaching tool for students of Greek Latin and Classical Studies as well as those interested in ancient literature history and gender studies who do not have proficiency in Greek or Latin.

GBP 34.99
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Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. This new edition is a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the Near East from prehistory and the beginnings of farming to the fall of Achaemenid Persia. Through text images maps and historical documents readers discover the material social and political world of cultures from Egypt to India allowing students to see how these intertwined cultures interacted throughout history. Now fully updated and incorporating the latest scholarship on society religion and the economy this book highlights the changing fortunes of these great civilizations. A special feature of this book is its many Debating the Evidence sections where the reader becomes familiar with scholarly disputes concerning the interpretation of textual and archaeological evidence on a variety of topics and case studies. The fourth edition of Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture remains a crucial textbook for undergraduates and general readers studying the ancient Near East particularly the political and social history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia as well as students of archaeology and biblical studies who are working on the region.

GBP 59.99
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Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

From the early cities in the second millennium BC to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan on the eve of the Spanish conquest Ancient Mesoamericans created landscapes full of meaning and power in the center of their urban spaces. The sixteenth century description of Tenochtitlan by Bernal Diaz del Castillo and the archaeological remnants of Teotihuacan attest to the power and centrality of these urban configurations in Ancient Mesoamerican history. In Landscape and Power in Ancient Mesoamerica Rex Koontz Kathryn Reese-Taylor and Annabeth Headrick explore the cultural logic that structured and generated these centers. Through case studies of specific urban spaces and their meanings the authors examine the general principles by which the Ancient Mesoamericans created meaningful urban space. In a profoundly interdisciplinary exchange involving both archaeologists and art historians this volume connects the symbolism of those landscapes the performances that activated this symbolism and the cultural poetics of these ensembles.

GBP 130.00
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Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome

This groundbreaking study among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary philosophical and scientific documents. Even today ancient female homosexuals are still too often seen in terms of a mythical ethereal Sapphic love or stereotyped as Amazons or courtesans. Boehringer's scholarly book replaces these clichés with rigorous precise analysis of iconography and texts by Sappho Plato Ovid Juvenal and many other lyric poets satirists and astrological writers in search of the prevailing norms constraints and possibilities for erotic desire. The portrait emerges of an ancient society to which today's sexual categories do not apply—a society before sexuality—where female homosexuality looks very different but is nonetheless very real. Now available in English for the first time Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome includes a preface by David Halperin. This book will be of value to students and scholars of ancient sexuality and gender and to anyone interested in histories and theories of sexuality.

GBP 35.99
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Ancient Egypt Foundations of a Civilization

Ancient Egypt Foundations of a Civilization

Ancient Egypt is a beautifully illustrated easy-to-read book covering the formative era of the Egyptian civilization: the age before the pyramids. Douglas Brewer shows why an awareness of the earliest phase of Egyptian history is crucial to understanding of later Egyptian culture. Beginning with a quick review of the fields of Egyptology and archaeology Ancient Egypt takes the reader on a compelling survey of Egypt's prehistoric past. The books tours the Nile Valley to explore its impact on all aspects of life from day-to-day living to regional politics and introduces the reader to the Nile Valley's earliest inhabitants and the very first Egyptians. | Ancient Egypt Foundations of a Civilization

GBP 150.00
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Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s

Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s

Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s 2nd edition is a guide to creating beautiful historically accurate hairstyles for theatrical productions and events. This volume covers hairstyles from Ancient Egypt through Romantic/Biedermeier styles of the 1820s and 30s. Chapters begin with an overview of historic figures who influenced the look of each period and their styles followed by step-by-step instructions and photographs showing the finished look from every angle. The book also explores the necessary supplies and styling products needed to create the perfect coif tips for proper wig handling a brief history of the makeup for each historical period and basic styling techniques useful when working with wigs or real hair. New hairstyles featured in this edition include: - Ancient Egyptian male dreadlocks - Ancient Grecian male curls - Ancient Roman braided goddess - Braided Medieval lady - Regency hairstyle with a Classical influence With over 1 000 full-color images and detailed instructions on how to create iconic hairstyles and makeup Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s 2nd edition is an excellent resource for professional costume designers and wig makers as well as for students of Costume Design and Wig Making and styling courses.

GBP 35.99
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Ancient Medicine

Ancient Medicine

The third edition of this magisterial account of medicine in the Greek and Roman worlds written by the foremost expert on the subject has been updated to incorporate the many new discoveries made in the field over the past decade. This revised volume includes discussions of several new or forgotten works by Galen and his contemporaries as well as of new archaeological material. RNA analysis has expanded our understanding of disease in the ancient world; the book explores the consequences of this for sufferers for example in creating disability. Nutton also expands upon the treatment of pre-Galenic medicine in Greece and Rome. In addition subtitles and a chronology will make for easier student consultation and the bibliography is substantially revised and updated providing avenues for future student research. This third edition of Ancient Medicine will remain the definitive textbook on the subject for students of medicine in the classical world and the history of medicine and science more broadly with much to interest scholars in the field as well.

GBP 36.99
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Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy

This volume offers an updated analysis of the use meaning and scope of the classical notion of aitia. It clarifies philosophical and philological questions about aitia and offers bold and innovative interpretations of this key concept of ancient philosophy. The numerous meanings and nuances of aitia remain difficult to grasp. Ancient philosophers use aitia to explain the existence and activity of substances bodies souls or gods. Paradoxically its own definition remains difficult to establish. This book reconstructs some of the most important uses variants and scopes of the term aitia within different philosophical perspectives in antiquity including early Greek philosophy Plato Aristotle Stoicism and Islamic philosophy. The chapters analyze metaphysical aspects epistemological issues and logical implications of aitia. They engage with the most relevant critical literature generated in several modern languages. In doing so they offer an inclusive and overarching re-evaluation of our assumptions about causation and explanation in ancient philosophy. Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Pre-Socratic philosophy Plato Aristotle Hellenistic philosophy late antiquity and medieval philosophy.

GBP 130.00
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Studies on Ancient Christianity

Studies on Ancient Christianity

This third collection of articles by Henry Chadwick brings together a series of studies on Augustine written in light of the new texts now available and on other individual Christian authors of antiquity in other words of the age when Christianity was acquiring its now familiar shape. A number of papers published here appear in print for the first time or make accessible to English readers studies which first saw the light in German. These include a substantial discussion of the idea of conscience important in the highly ethical context of early Christianity and a study of ancient anthologies and are complemented by other essays on general themes in the history of the early Church. | Studies on Ancient Christianity

GBP 28.99
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Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

The achievements of the Greek cavalry on the battlefield were monumental and yet until now the heavy infantry - the hoplite - has received by far the most attention from military historians. This book traces the history of the Greek cavalry offering a reassessment of the place of mounted troops in the warfare of Ancient Greece. Its historical sweep is broad with coverage which extends from 1400 BC through the Archaic period to the Classical period. | Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

GBP 36.99
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Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt

Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt

In this new edition of Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Denys A. Stocks introduces further experimental research on stoneworking in Ancient Egypt through archaeological and pictorial evidence. A further 20 years of research has been added to the original publication and the book now includes the results of experiments that test and evaluate over 250 reconstructed and replica tools bringing alive the methods and practices of Ancient Egyptian craftworking. This practical approach to understanding the fundamentals of Ancient Egyptian stoneworking highlights the evolution of tools and techniques and how these come together to produce the wonders of Egyptian art and architecture. A new chapter on Predynastic industrial transitions and convergence explores how the surge in technology particularly in the expanding production of stone vessels and in the production of faience artifacts drove the expansion of the economy of the Late Predynastic period in Egypt. Introducing the results of new research to enrich our understanding of the fundamental development of stoneworking and other supporting technologies in Ancient Egypt this book remains an important volume for students and researchers wishing to understand Ancient Egyptian technology and development. | Experiments in Egyptian Archaeology Stoneworking Technology in Ancient Egypt

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The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought

The History of Ancient Chinese Economic Thought

This volume comprises twelve papers written by Chinese scholars on various aspects of the history of ancient Chinese economic thought. The contributions are preceded by an introduction which gives an overview of the development of the subject of history of economic thought in China and which also provides an historical context to the individuals who constitute the major schools of ancient Chinese economic thought. The authors of the papers are leading scholars who have dominated this research area since the founding of New China in 1949 while the broad range of topics covered by the contributions includes questions of methodology detailed and sometimes controversial interpretations of texts and schools and the international influence and modern relevance of ancient Chinese thought. A recurrent theme is that ancient Chinese thought has at least as much to offer to the historian as ancient Western thought. As the first such volume of papers to be translated into English this collection provides a unique opportunity for non-Chinese readers to sample the way in which Chinese historians of economics have attempted to understand their own intellectual heritage. This book will be relevant to scholars interested in the history of economic thought economic history and Chinese studies.

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