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Hermias: On Plato Phaedrus 257C-279C, with Syrianus
This third and final volume concludes Hermias' commentary on Plato's Phaedrus. Here, Plato delivers a celebrated critique of writing, and its relationship to orality. Hermias …
Sir Anthony Eden and the Suez Crisis
A reappraisal of Sir Anthony Eden's conduct of foreign relations during the Suez crisis of 1956. It traces his conduct of crisis management, from July until his decision to use …
Rise of Early Rome
The trajectory of Rome from a small village in Latium vetus, to an emerging power in Italy during the first millennium BC, and finally, the heart of an Empire that sprawled …
Gudea's Temple Building
Gudea of Lagash, who ruled at the end of the third millennium B.C., wanted to be remembered as a temple builder. An extensive narrative inscribed on two huge clay cylinders, one of …
Studies in Roman and Early Christian Architecture
The work of J. B. Ward-Perkins on Roman architecture spanned fifty years, and his numerous published papers covered almost every aspect of the subject. This selection of sixteen …
Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460-1580
Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first …
Christianity and Roman Society
Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing …
Die kultische Keuschheit im Altertum
Die Herausforderung religionsgeschichtlicher Forschung besteht darin, die Erschlieung von Quellen in ihren Kontexten und ihre theoriegeleitete Erklrung mit einer …
Death of Christ
What was the world like, and what was going on in it, around the time of Jesus' death? This study examines this very question, and also seeks to place Jesus in his larger …
The Cypria
In Classical times, the story of the Trojan War was told in a series of eight epic poems known as the Epic Cycle, of which only the Iliad and Odyssey by Homer survive to the …
Die Kroenung Josephs II. zum Roemischen Koenig in Frankfurt am Main
Das Buch vermittelt ein umfassendes Bild von den ebenso aufwendigen wie glanzvollen Kronungszeremonien Josephs II. zum Romischen Konig. Dabei kommt nicht nur die Vergangenheit zur …
Painting, Poetry, and the Invention of Tenderness in the Early Roman Empire
Tenderness is not a notion commonly associated with the Romans, whose mythical origin was attributed to brutal rape. Yet, as Hérica Valladares argues in this ground-breaking study, …