Studies In Ancient History

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163932662

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Studies in ancient history by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. F. McLennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:3715051

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Studies in Ancient History by J. F. McLennan Pdf

Author : P. Kershasp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415608435

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Studies in Ancient Persian History by P. Kershasp Pdf

This volume lays the foundation of a âeoecorrectâe view of ancient Persian history, which, in the authorâe(tm)s opinion, had hitherto been approached from a âeoebiased standpoint.âe It presents a survey of ancient and modern historians such as Gibbon, Malcolm and Rawlinson and critiques their work âe" either for having too much partiality for Greek and Latin writers, not being conversant with the literature of the East or not doing justice to the ancient Persians. Arab and Persian historians are also discussed and social, literary, legal, religious, economic and political questions examined.

Author : John Ferguson McLennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Endogamy and exogamy
ISBN : UOM:39015065652789

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Studies in Ancient History by John Ferguson McLennan Pdf

A comprehensive anthropological and historical study of marriage and women's social role in Australia, Africa, the Americas, etc.

Author : Cyril Courrier,Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000450026

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Ancient History from Below by Cyril Courrier,Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira Pdf

If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history—‘from below’—is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing it. Despite undeniable advances in recent decades, ‘our slowness to reconstruct plausible visions of almost any aspect of society beyond the top-most strata of wealth, power or status’ (as Nicholas Purcell has put it) remains a persistent feature of the field. Therefore, this book concerns a historical field and social groups that are still today neglected by modern scholarship. However, writing ancient history ‘from below’ means much more than taking into account the anonymous masses, the subaltern classes and the non-elites. Our task is also, in the felicitous expression coined by Walter Benjamin, ‘to brush history against the grain,’ to rescue the viewpoint of the subordinated, the traditions of the oppressed. In other words, we should understand the bulk of ancient populations in light of their own experience and their own reactions to that experience. But, how do we do such a history? What sources can we use? What methods and approaches can we employ? What concepts are required to this endeavour? The contributions mainly engage with questions of theory and methodology, but they also constitute inspiring case studies in their own right, ranging from classical Greece to the late antique world. This book is aimed not only at readers working on classical Greece, republican and imperial Rome and late antiquity but at anyone interested in ‘bottom-up’ history and social and population history in general. Although the book is primarily intended for scholars, it will also appeal to graduate and undergraduate students of history, archaeology and classical studies.

Author : Michael Crawford,Emilio Gabba,Fergus Millar,Anthony M. Snodgrass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1983-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521289580

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Sources for Ancient History by Michael Crawford,Emilio Gabba,Fergus Millar,Anthony M. Snodgrass Pdf

If a scholar wishes to create a picture of a topical society in all its aspects, there is little of what he needs to know that he cannot know, although there may still be much that he cannot understand. For the history of Greece and Rome, there is a great deal that is simply unknowable. From the end of the archaic age of Greece, there is an unbroken sequence of works by Greek and, later, Roman historians down to the end of antiquity. Their vision and range of interest were often limited and much of what they produced has been lost. Some help may be derived from the documentary material supplied in antiquity, material that was the product of officials organising public activities, or heads of families organising their affairs, or individuals leaving their mark on the world. Beyond this, the evidence of archaeology and numismatics may also be helpful. The four essays in this book set out to characterise the nature of the ancient literary tradition, the inscriptional material, the archaeological and numismatic evidence and to explain how and for what purposes they may be used.

Author : Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Lorenzo Verderame
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646020874

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Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies by Agnès Garcia-Ventura,Lorenzo Verderame Pdf

The present volume collects eighteen essays exploring the history of ancient Near Eastern studies. Combining diverse approaches—synthetic and analytic, diachronic and transnational—this collection offers critical reflections on the who, why, and how of this cluster of fields. How have political contexts determined the conduct of research? How do academic agendas reflect larger social, economic, and cultural interests? How have schools of thought and intellectual traditions configured, and sometimes predetermined, the study of the ancient Near East? Contributions treating research during the Nazi and fascist periods examine the interpenetration of academic work with politics, while contributions dealing with specific national contexts disclose fresh perspectives on individual scholars as well as the conditions and institutions in which they worked. Particular attention is given to scholarship in countries such as Turkey, Portugal, Iran, China, and Spain, which have hitherto been marginal to historiographic accounts of ancient Near Eastern studies. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Selim Ferru Adali, Silvia Alaura, Isabel Almeida, Petr Charvát, Parsa Daneshmand, Eva von Dassow, Hakan Erol, Sebastian Fink, Jakob Flygare, Pietro Giammellaro, Carlos Gonçalves, Katrien de Graef, Steven W. Holloway, Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Changyu Liu, Patrick Maxime Michel, Emanuel Pfoh, Jitka Sýkorová, Luděk Vacín, and Jordi Vidal.

Author : Hermann Bengtson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0520031504

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Introduction to Ancient History by Hermann Bengtson Pdf

Our translation is made especially for students who have not yet acquired facility in German. It departs from Professor Bengtson's text mainly in that the general bibliographical appendix has been reorganized to conform with the plan of the Cambridge Ancient History and also has been revised with the English-reading student in mind.

Author : Brian Campbell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807869048

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Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome by Brian Campbell Pdf

Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding landscape on the society and culture of the Roman Empire. Examining artistic representations of rivers, related architecture, and the work of ancient geographers and topographers, as well as writers who describe rivers, Campbell reveals how Romans defined the geographical areas they conquered and how geography and natural surroundings related to their society and activities. In addition, he illuminates the prominence and value of rivers in the control and expansion of the Roman Empire--through the legal regulation of riverine activities, the exploitation of rivers in military tactics, and the use of rivers as routes of communication and movement. Campbell shows how a technological understanding of--and even mastery over--the forces of the river helped Rome rise to its central place in the ancient world.

Author : Luke Pitcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857718037

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Writing Ancient History by Luke Pitcher Pdf

'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp looks at the classical historians with an eye to what data they can provide about the ancient world. The second camp examines the ancient writers as literary texts in their own right, employing the tools of literary criticism and engaging with such matters as narrative artistry.Attempting to fuse these two - mutually suspicious - approaches, Luke Pitcher's attractive introduction offers undergraduate students of classics the first comprehensive introduction to historiography in antiquity on the market. It unites the nitty-gritty of the historian's trade (the finding and managing of data) to an awareness of the importance of style, form, allusion and composition. The book also seeks to do justice to individual classical historians, and discusses such important figures as Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Cicero, Plutarch and Lucian. A comprehensive bibliography and glossary are included. "Writing Ancient History" at last does full justice to the mechanics of history-writing in the ancient world.

Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521837693

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Studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Society by Robin Osborne Pdf

A collection of innovative essays on major topics in ancient Greece and Rome, first published in 2004.

Author : Neville Morley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134709830

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Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches by Neville Morley Pdf

Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches is a sourcebook of writings on ancient history. It presents over 500 of the most important stimulating and provocative arguments by modern writers on the subject, and as such constitutes an invaluable reference resource. The first section deals with different aspects of life in the ancient world, such as democracy, imperialism, slavery and sexuality, while the second section covers the ideas of key ancient historians and other writers on classical antiquity. Overall this book offers an invaluable introduction to the most important ideas, theories and controversies in ancient history, and a thought-provoking survey of the range of views and approaches to the subject.

Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004422612

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Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity by Mark Humphries Pdf

This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.

Author : Jennifer Baird,Claire Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136894633

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Ancient Graffiti in Context by Jennifer Baird,Claire Taylor Pdf

Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on monuments in the city, on objects used in daily life, and on mountains in the countryside. In each case they can be seen as actively engaging with their environment in a variety of ways. Ancient Graffiti in Context interrogates this cultural phenomenon and by doing so, brings it into the mainstream of ancient history and archaeology. Focusing on different approaches to and interpretations of graffiti from a variety of sites and chronological contexts, Baird and Taylor pose a series of questions not previously asked of this evidence, such as: What are graffiti, and how can we interpret them? In what ways, and with whom, do graffiti communicate? To what extent do graffiti represent or subvert the cultural values of the society in which they occur? By comparing themes across time and space, and viewing graffiti in context, this book provides a series of interpretative strategies for scholars and students of the ancient world. As such it will be essential reading for Classical archaeologists and historians alike.

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469611167

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Women's History and Ancient History by Sarah B. Pomeroy Pdf

This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles develop as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships. Essays on Hellenistic queens and Spartan and Roman women document how women exerted political power--usually, but not always, through their relationship to male leaders--and show how political upheaval created opportunities for them to exercise powers previously reserved for men. Essays on the writings of Sappho and Nossis focus on the interaction between women's public and private discourses. The collection also includes discussion of Athenian and Roman marriage and the intrusion of the state into the sexual lives of Greek, Roman, and Jewish women as well as an investigation of scientific opinion about female physiology. The contributors are Sarah B. Pomeroy, Jane McIntosh Snyder, Marilyn M. Skinner, Cynthia B. Patterson, Ann Ellis Hanson, Lesley Dean-Jones, Natalie Boymel Kampen, Mary Taliaferro Boatwright, and Shaye J.D. Cohen.