Hakutulokset: Sarja Approaching the Ancient World
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Art, Artefacts and Chronology in Classical Archaeology
The museums of the world are full of statues and other artefacts of the Greeks and the Romans. All are given a date. But how are these dates arrived at. What is the evidence?This …
The Uses of Greek Mythology
In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most …
Epigraphic Evidence
Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information …
Greek Archaeology for Historians
Greek Archaeology for Historians seeks to challenge the predominance of literature as witness to the classical past, and instead to integrate archaeological and historical …
Literary Texts and the Greek Historian
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Archaeology of Mesopotamia
The only critical guide to the theory and method of Mesopotamian archaeology, this innovative volume evaluates the theories, methods, approaches and history of Mesopotamian …
Reading Ancient Medical Writers
Julius Rocca here presents the key medical writers of antiquity. As well as supplying biographical details, Reading Ancient Medical Writers outlines the problems and …
Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History
Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History discusses how the abundant Mesopotamian cuneiform text sources can be used for the study of various aspects of history: political, …
Hieroglyphs and Writing History
This is a student-friendly introduction to the forms of writing in ancient Egypt and their use to historians. Incorporating New Historicism and examining the recent scholarly …
Literary Texts and the Greek Historian
Our knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, …
Ancient History from Coins
Like other volumes in this series, Ancient History from Coins demystifies a specialism, introducing students (from first year upwards) to the techniques, methods, problems and …
The Sources of Roman Law
The notion and understanding of law penetrated society in Ancient Rome to a degree unparalleled in modern times. The poet Juvenal, for instance, described the virtuous man as a …