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Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World
Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World presents a comprehensive and accessible survey of religious and philosophical teaching and classroom practices in the ancient world. H. …
Les Commentaires de Simplicius et de Jean Philopon à la "Physique" d'Aristote
In Greek Late Antiquity philosophy defined itself above all through the interpretation of authoritative texts such as Plato’s dialogues or the treatises of Aristotle. This work …
Sex and the Family in Colonial India
In the early years of the British empire, cohabitation between Indian women and British men was commonplace and to some degree tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a …
Rome and China
Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases …
Greek Alexander Romance
Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the …
Imperial Security State
The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links between military knowledge and …
fiction des declamations
En dehors d'analyses de type sociologique, les declamations latines n'ont generalement que peu retenu l'attention des specialistes de l'Antiquite. Pourtant, ces discours fictifs …
After the Past
What was funny about ancient jokes, and why? Why did the Roman state legislate to curb the behaviour of its obscenely rich and powerful elite, if it never really expected such laws …
Eastern Approaches to Byzantium
The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing …
Land of Lost Gods
From as early as 1420 a few intrepid explorers made their way to Greece and Turkey, to recover - from brambles or burial, lime-kilns or building sites - the precious relics of the …
The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars AD 363-628
Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory …
Outsourcing Empire
How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the …