The Socio-Economic History and Material Culture of the Roman and Byzantine Near East

Walter D. Ward

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity | nr. 22
• The Socio-economic History and Material Culture of the Roman and Byzantine Near East collects thirteen papers written in honor of S. Thomas Parker by ... Lees meer

Hannibal's Odyssey

W C Mahaney, William Mahaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Hannibal's invasion of Italia in 218 BC is depicted from the standpoint of environmental evidence elicited from ancient texts, and analyzed against pr... Lees meer

The Small Temple

Sara Reid

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Excavation of the Small Temple of Petra, Jordan has revealed a Roman building likely dedicated to the imperial cult. Constructed in the wake of Roman ... Lees meer

Sleep and Sleeplessness in Byzantium

Nikolaos Barkas

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity | nr. 20
• In recent decades certain historians have intimated that Byzantine society - and monastics in particular - suffered from a lack of sleep (whether desc... Lees meer

The Sleeper's Dream

Jeffrey Pettis

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• An understanding of Greek and Roman culture cannot occur without paying attention to its various forms of religious experience. The early Christian co... Lees meer

Essays in Global Color History

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity | nr. 19
• This collection of 13 interdisciplinary essays (3000 B.C.- 600 A.D) examines a wide range of topics, examining the use and cultural significance of co... Lees meer

Hearsay, History, and Heresy

Randall Howarth, Richard E Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• This collection of articles by Richard E. Mitchell presents all the major historiographical problems scholars encounter in reconstructing the early Re... Lees meer

Xenophon's Memorabilia and The Apology of Socrates translated by Sarah Fielding

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity | nr. 21
• Sarah Fielding (1710-1768), the younger sister of Henry Fielding, and the close friend of his literary rival Samuel Richardson, was one of the very fe... Lees meer

Who Is Afraid of the Rhetor? an Analysis and Exegesis of Socrates and Gorgias' Conversation in Plato's Gorgias

Yosef Z Liebersohn

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• This book concentrates on the conversation between Socrates and Gorgias which takes place in the first part of Plato's Gorgias. Scholars have tended t... Lees meer

Proclus on the transition from metaphysical being to natural becoming

Christos Terezis, Elias Tempelis

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity | nr. 23
• This volume examines the historical end of the Platonic tradition in relation to creation theories of the natural world through the Neoplatonist philo... Lees meer

He Did Not Fear

Keenan Baca-Winters

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity | nr. 24
• He Did Not Fear: Xusro Parviz, King of Kings of the Sasanian Empire spotlights Xusro II, the man who almost conquered the Roman Empire in the Roman-Sa... Lees meer

Early Christian Attitudes to War, Violence and Military Service

Despina Iosif

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• The early Christians were not of one mind when it came to war, violence and military service. There was a bewildering variety of opinion as to how the... Lees meer

The Life of One Chosen by God

Elena Narinskaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity | nr. 29
• Moses is an inspirational prophetic figure in Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious traditions. This book journeys through the Abrahamic faiths and i... Lees meer

Color-Terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome

Rachael Goldman

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Romans attached nuanced implications to color-terms which went beyond their literal meaning, using these terms as a form of cultural assessment, defin... Lees meer

Lucullus, a Life

Arthur Keaveney

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Lucullus is one of the great figures of the late Roman republic. But his achievements have been overshadowed by a reputation for luxurious living. Thi... Lees meer

Justinian's Indecision

Joshua McKay Powell

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Since the time of Eduard Schwartz, scholars have tended to treat ecclesiastical policy under the influence of Justinian as inconsistent and even capri... Lees meer

The Sentences of the Syriac Menander

David Monaco

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• The Sentences of the Syriac Menander appears in two Syriac manuscripts in the British Library, a full version in one codex, and a far shorter version,... Lees meer