Travel In The Ancient World

Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0801848083

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Travel in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson Pdf

The only book of its kind in any language, Travel in the Ancient World offers a lively, comprehensive history of ancient travel, from the first Egyptian voyages recorded in Old Kingdom inscriptions through Greek and Roman times to the Christian pilgrimages of the fourth and sixth centuries. Rich in anecdote and colorful detail, it now returns to print in paperback with a new preface by the author.

Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Travel, Ancient
ISBN : OCLC:9992071

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Travel in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson Pdf

Author : Philip A. Harland
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554582402

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Travel and Religion in Antiquity by Philip A. Harland Pdf

Travel and Religion in Antiquity considers the importance of issues relating to travel for our understanding of religious and cultural life among Jews, Christians, and others in the ancient world, particularly during the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The volume is organized around five overlapping areas where religion and travel intersect: travel related to honouring deities, including travel to festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries; travel to communicate the efficacy of a god or the superiority of a way of life, including the diffusion of cults or movements; travel to explore and encounter foreign peoples or cultures, including descriptions of these cultures in ancient ethnographic materials; migration; and travel to engage in an occupation or vocation. With interdisciplinary contributions that cover a range of literary, epigraphic, and archeological materials, the volume sheds light on the importance of movement in connection with religious life among Greeks, Romans, Nabateans, and others, including Judeans and followers of Jesus.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780753454640

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Everyday Life in the Ancient World by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Troels Myrup Kristensen,Wiebke Friese
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351856263

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Excavating Pilgrimage by Troels Myrup Kristensen,Wiebke Friese Pdf

This volume sheds new light on the significance and meaning of material culture for the study of pilgrimage in the ancient world, focusing in particular on Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity. It thus discusses how archaeological evidence can be used to advance our understanding of ancient pilgrimage and ritual experience. The volume brings together a group of scholars who explore some of the rich archaeological evidence for sacred travel and movement, such as the material footprint of different activities undertaken by pilgrims, the spatial organization of sanctuaries and the wider catchment of pilgrimage sites, as well as the relationship between architecture, art and ritual. Contributions also tackle both methodological and theoretical issues related to the study of pilgrimage, sacred travel and other types of movement to, from and within sanctuaries through case studies stretching from the first millennium BC to the early medieval period.

Author : Noreen Humble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351192736

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Mediterranean Travels by Noreen Humble Pdf

"Written by leading scholars in the field, this collection analyses the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to Medieval pilgrimages, to Venetians diplomatic missions, to an Egyptian's account of Paris in the nineteenth century, to French artistic journeys in North Africa and to contemporary narratives of privileged resettlement, death and dislocation."

Author : Eric Flint,Marilyn Kosmatka
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618246615

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Time Spike by Eric Flint,Marilyn Kosmatka Pdf

THE DEADLIEST PREDATORS OF THREE SEPARATE EONS Captain Andy Blacklock was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois' maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped. They thought it was an earthquake until they found that the Mississippi River had disappeared, along with all signs of civilization. Then the sun came up¾in the wrong direction. And a dinosaur came by and scratched its hide against the wall of the prison ... Something had thrown the prison back in time millions of years. And they were not alone. Other humans from periods centuries, even millennia, apart had also been dropped into the same time. Including a band of murderous conquistadores. But the prison had its own large population of murderers. They couldn't be turned loose, but what else could be done with them. Death walked outside the walls, human savagery was planning to break loose inside, and Stephens and the other men and women of the prison's staff were trapped in the middle. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Henry Arderne Ormerod
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0801855055

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Piracy in the Ancient World by Henry Arderne Ormerod Pdf

Now available in paperback, Omerod's classic Piracy in the Ancient World brings the treachery of the ancient high seas alive. Drawing on the works of Homer and Thucydides and the historical records that have survived from ancient Greece and Rome, Ormerod reconstructs the dangers of coastal living and seafaring and the attempts to protect against the threat of invasion from the seas. Seaborne brigands were greatly feared in the ancient world. Pirates not only preyed on merchant ships and fishing craft in the Mediterranean but also wreaked havoc on coastal townstaking men, women, and children to ransom or sell as slaves; raiding treasures; and exacting tribute from fearful town leaders. Responding to the threat of piracy, the Greeks established their primary cities inland for protection and even in their North African and Sicilian outposts they left coastal land uncultivated. Mariners feared pirate ships around every promontory and sought protection from the navies of such states as Rhodes and Crete. The Romans were beset in the time of their early Republic by "Tyrreanean" pirates based in the south of Italy and during the last years of the Empire by the Cilician pirates of Asia Minor. When one great pirate, Sextus Pompeiius, was finally suppressed, rather than being punished he was charged with ridding the seas of his former followers. His attempts failed. Now available in paperback, Ormerod's classic Piracy in the Ancient World brings the treachery of the ancient high seas alive. Drawing on the works of Homer and Thucydides and the historical records that have survived from ancient Greece and Rome, Ormerod reconstructs the dangers of coastal living and seafaring and the attempts to protect against the threat of invasion from the seas. He describes the general nature of early piracy, ancient navigation, and the pirate's routines and tactics.

Author : Paul G. Bahn
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780711259140

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Great Sites of the Ancient World by Paul G. Bahn Pdf

From deserts to hidden corners of busy cities, quiet mountain tops to caves submerged deep underground, Great Sites of the Ancient World is a tour of our human past.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870999611

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The Year One by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

"More than 150 works of art that exemplify all these societies at the Year One are illustrated in color and explained in this volume. Historical summaries accompanied by maps briefly describe the nature of each culture and the flow of power and peoples during the period centering around the Year One.

Author : David Long
Publisher : Magnified
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711249707

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Ancient World Magnified by David Long Pdf

Ancient World Magnified whisks readers on a journey through time, magnifying glass in hand, for a search-and-find adventure at the beginning of human history.

Author : Lionel Casson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400853465

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Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson Pdf

Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible" traces the art and technology of Mediterranean ships and seamanship from their first crude stages (about 3000 B.C.) to the heyday of the Byzantine fleets. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Mark Norell,Denise Patry Leidy,Laura Ross,American Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Sterling Signature
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Silk Road
ISBN : 1402781377

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Traveling the Silk Road by Mark Norell,Denise Patry Leidy,Laura Ross,American Museum of Natural History Pdf

An elegantly, lavishly illustrated history of the legendary Silk Road and the cultural pathway it blazed for the modern world. Spanning centuries of history, this engrossing book--created in conjunction with the world-famous American Museum of Natural History--takes an epic journey to major stops in China, Uzbekistan, Iraq, and beyond. Not only did people from many lands trade their goods along this incredible network of routes, they also exchanged their languages, religions, art, and technology in what can be seen as man's first engagement in globalization."

Author : Jim Roy,Colin Adams
Publisher : Leicester Nottingham Studies i
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1785705504

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Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East by Jim Roy,Colin Adams Pdf

The purpose, mode, and presentation of travel offers a window onto a wide range of features of ancient cultures - sense of place, perceptions of space, relations with foreign powers, engagements with other cultures, and a deeper understanding of one's own culture, among others. The chapters in this volume take on a range of these issues, and leading scholars of the history and culture of Egypt, Greece and the eastern regions of the Graeco-Roman world assess the importance of travel in a world much less sedentary than often assumed. Indeed, their work shows that travel was embedded in the cultures of the ancient eastern Mediterranean. Together they demonstrate the cultural importance and the influence on culture that travel had in these societies.

Author : Nancy Day
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822530767

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Your Travel Guide to Ancient Greece by Nancy Day Pdf

Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in ancient Greece, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, a few notable personalities, and more.