The first book of its kind in English looks at a wide range and diversity of literature and studies Greek and Roman approaches to the broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included weather, earthquakes and comets amongst more...
Syracuse possesses a unique place in the history of the ancient Mediterranean because of its contribution to Greek culture and political thought and practice. The history and governance of the city were recorded from the fifth century BC and the volume of literary sources comes close to matching the..
The ancient Greeks and Romans lived in a world teeming with animals. In entries ranging from short to long, Kenneth Kitchell offers insight into this commonly overlooked world, covering representative and intriguing examples of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Of use to Classics stud..
The ancient Greeks and Romans lived in a world teeming with animals. In entries ranging from short to long, Kenneth Kitchell offers insight into this commonly overlooked world, covering representative and intriguing examples of mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Of use to Classics stud..
Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, this book covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought._x000D_
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This volume is groundbreaking in examining Plutarch’s views not only in the context of ancient philosophical and ethical thought, but also in its generally overlooked place in the history of speculation on human-animal relations..
An ambitious study which addresses the classic questions of the emergence, flowering and decline of ancient civilization from a fresh perspective - that of the great German sociologist Max Weber...
From his first attestations in Homer, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world...
From his first attestations in Homer, to the opposition between Apollo and Dionysos in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking, Graf examines Greek religion and myth to provide a full account of Apollo in the ancient world...
The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. Three papers examine Early Christian monuments, two of which expand the inquiry into their architectural..
The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. Three papers examine Early Christian monuments, two of which expand the inquiry into their architectural..