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Author : Bridget Ann Buxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3487002
Author : Robert Hannah
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849667531
The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularising its activities over time. That means is a calendar, and its regularity is a function of how well it models the more or less regular movements of the celestial bodies - of the moon, the sun or the stars. Greek and Roman Calendars examines the ancient calendar as just such a time-piece, whose elements are readily described in astronomical and mathematical terms. The story of these calendars is one of a continuous struggle to maintain a correspondence with the regularity of the seasons and the sun, despite the fact that the calendars were usually based on the irregular moon. But on another, more human level, Greek and Roman Calendars steps beyond the merely mathematical and studies the calendar as a social instrument, which people used to organise their activities. It sets the calendars of the Greeks and Romans on a stage occupied by real people, who developed and lived with these time-pieces for a variety of purposes - agricultural, religious, political and economic.This is also a story of intersecting cultures, of Greeks with Greeks, of Greeks with Persians and Egyptians, and of Greeks with Romans, in which various calendaric traditions clashed or compromised.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Latin language
ISBN : IOWA:31858050348881
Author : Carl Deroux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Latin literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121810563
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : IND:30000107682498
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121646447
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113538404
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X030049870
Author : Christoph Baumer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755639694
"Rich and illuminating." Literary Review A landscape of high mountains and narrow valleys stretching from the Black to the Caspian Seas, the Caucasus region has been home to human populations for nearly 2 million years. In this richly illustrated 2-volume series, historian and explorer Christoph Baumer tells the story of the region's history through to the present day. It is a story of encounters between many different peoples, from Scythians, Turkic and Mongol peoples of the East to Greeks and Romans from the West, from Indo-European tribes from the West as well as the East, and to Arabs and Iranians from the South. It is a story of rival claims by Empires and nations and of how the region has become home to more than 50 languages that can be heard within its borders to this very day. This first volume charts the period from the emergence of the earliest human populations in the region – the first known human populations outside Africa - to the Seljuk conquests of 1050CE. Along the way the book charts the development of Neolithic, Iron and Bronze Age cultures, the first recognizable Caucasian state and the arrival of a succession of the great transnational Empires, from the Greeks, the Romans and the Armenian to competing Christian and Muslim conquerors. The History of the Caucasus: Volume 1 also includes more than 200 full colour images and maps bringing the changing cultures of these lands vividly to life.
Author : Josiah Osgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029897
A new historical survey that recasts the 'fall of the Roman Republic' as part of the rise of a uniquely successful world state.
Author : Claire Holleran,Amanda Claridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405198196
A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600. Offers a unique interdisciplinary, closely focused thematic approach and wide chronological scope making it an indispensible reference work on ancient Rome Includes several new developments on areas of research that are available in English for the first time Newly commissioned essays written by experts in a variety of related fields Original and up-to-date readings pertaining to the city of Rome on a wide variety of topics including Rome’s urban landscape, population, economy, civic life, and key events
Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,David Konstan,Bruce Duncan MacQueen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501504020
The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres. These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the first section discuss “mapping the world in the novels.” The second part looks at the dialogical imagination, and the conversation between fiction and history in the novels. Section 3 looks at the way ancient fiction has been transmitted and received. Space, as the locus of cultural interaction and exchange, is the topic of the fourth part. The fifth and final section is devoted to character and emotion, and how these are perceived or constructed in ancient fiction. Overall, a rich picture is offered of the many spatial and cultural dimensions in a variety of ancient fictional genres.
Author : Stanley M. Burstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199336159
This book provides the first comprehensive history of Afro-Eurasia during the first millennium BCE and the beginning of the first millennium CE. The history of these 1300 plus years can be summed up in one word: connectivity. The growth in connectivity during this period was marked by increasing political, economic, and cultural interaction throughout the region, and the replacement of the numerous political and cultural entities by a handful of great empires at the end of the period. In the process, local cultural traditions were replaced by great traditions rooted in lingua francas and spread by formalized educational systems. This process began with the collapse of the Bronze Age empires in the east and west, widespread population movements, and almost chronic warfare throughout Afro-Eurasia, while the cavalry revolution transformed the nomads of the central Asian steppes into founders of tribal confederations assembled by charismatic leaders and covering huge territories. At the same time, new artistic and intellectual movements appeared, including the teachings of Socrates, Confucius, the Buddha, and Laozi. Increased literacy also allowed people from a wide range of social classes such as the Greek soldier Xenophon, the Indian Buddhist emperor Ashoka, the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, and elite women such as the poetess Sappho, the Christian martyr Perpetua, and the scholar Ban Zhao to create literary works. When the period ended in 300 CE, conditions had changed dramatically. Temperate Afro-Eurasia from the Atlantic to the Pacific was dominated by a handful of empires--Rome, Sassanid Persia, and Jin Empire-that ruled more than half the world's population, while an extensive network of trade routes bound them to Southeast and Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and made possible the spread of new book based religions including Christianity, Manichaeism, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism, thereby setting the stage for the next millennium of Afro-Eurasian history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Rila Mukherjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811665813
The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's history, India’s changing status in the region, and India's cross-cultural networking over a long period are explored in this book. It is organized in specific themes in thirteen chapters. It incorporates a wealth of research on India’s strategic significance in the Indian Ocean arena throughout history. It enriches the reader's understanding of the emergence of the Indian Ocean basin as a global arena for cross-cultural networking and nation-building. It discusses issues of trade and commerce, the circulation of ideas, peoples and objects, and social and religious themes, focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. The book provides a refreshingly different survey of India’s connected history in the Indian Ocean region starting from the archaeological record and ending with the coming of empire. The author’s unique experience, combined with an engaging writing style, makes the book highly readable. The book contributes to the field of global history and is of great interest to researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students across the fields of political, cultural, and economic history and strategic studies.
