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The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history of doctrine or an account of jurisprudence, the Handbook brings to bear upon Roman legal study the full...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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What kind of allusion is possible in a poetry derived from a centuries-long oral tradition, and what kind of oral-derived poetry are the Homeric epics? Comparison of Homeric epic with South Slavic heroic song has suggested certain types of answers to these questions,...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-29
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This volume results from the international research project ‘The Migration of Faith: Clerical Exile in Late Antiquity (325?c.600)’. The project is a collaboration between the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, the Seminar für Kirchengeschichte at the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-26
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The third edition of Ancient Greek Civilization is a concise, engaging introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece from the Minoan civilization to the age of the Roman Empire. Explores the evolution and development of Greek art, literature, politics, and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-09-12
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The empires of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean invented cosmopolitan politics. In the first millennia BCE and CE, a succession of territorially extensive states incorporated populations of unprecedented cultural diversity. Cosmopolitanism and Empire traces the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-01
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'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into...
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Penguin
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2016-08-25
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Von Achill bis Zentaur, von Aberglaube bis Zahnpflege: 4.500 Stichworte erschließen prägnant die griechisch-römische Antike. Abgestimmt auf den Unterricht an Gymnasien und Universitäten beantwortet das in der Neuauflage um rund 500 Einträge erweiterte Lexikon alle...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-16
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Von Achilleus bis Zeus, von Altar bis Zauberpapyri - in über 1.000 Artikeln werden die mythologischen Figuren der griechischen und römischen Antike und die wichtigsten Mythographen und ihre Werke ebenso lebendig wie die antike Religion und Religiosität.
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-05
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Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last 'pagan' emperor. Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae offers a major reinterpretation of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-17
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Ammianus Marcellinus' Res Gestae holds a prominent position in modern studies of the emperor Julian as the fullest extant narrative of the reign of the last 'pagan' emperor. Ammianus' Julian: Narrative and Genre in the Res Gestae offers a major reinterpretation of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-16
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While the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of all times, but it can take many different forms. The Roman case is of real...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-27
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While the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of all times, but it can take many different forms. The Roman case is of real...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-26
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The emotions have long been an interest for those studying ancient Greece and Rome. But while the last few decades have produced excellent studies of individual emotions and the different approaches to them by the major philosophical schools, the focus has been almost...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-05-02
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Angesichts des derzeitigen
Streits von Orientalisten und Islamwissenschaftlern über die Frage der
ungeklärten – von vielen behaupteten, aber von immer mehr Forschern
angezweifelten – Historizität Muhammads und auch angesichts des Streits über
die ungeklärte Entstehung...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2016-04-25
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The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-04-21
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The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhône to the Indus. A Celt from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-04-21
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Sotto la direzione di John Scheid, Olivier de Cazanove, Filippo Coarelli e Adriano La Regina, lo studio dei luoghi di culto dell’Italia antica è un progetto di ampia portata che si concretizza nella pubblicazione della serie di fascicoli che vanno sotto il nome di Fana,...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2016-04-06
Collection :
Institut des civilisations
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Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace and others did not. Explores the idea that concepts of peace in antiquity occurred only in periods...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-03-18
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Ancient World: Comparative Histories
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Das Buch entschlüsselt ein für das Geschlecht der Wettiner sonst untypisches Handeln: Während der Zeit der deutschen Ostsiedlung begründen Dietrich der Bedrängte und sein Sohn Heinrich der Erlauchte zahlreiche Klöster in ihren Herrschaftsbereichen neben einer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-03-18
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'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2016-03-10
Collection :
Brief Histories
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