Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 5

Confucius,
The Analects

The Analects of Confucius has stood as the bedrock of Chinese culture for over 2,500 years, shaping the trajectory of human history in ways unmatched by nearly any other secular philosophy. But until now,…

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Brenda Segone
Occidentalism in Egypt

"From the odalisques to the pashas, to the orange sellers, there is no shortage of depictions of Arabs from the western world. But what about Europeans? How are they perceived and understood in the A…

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Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta
The Roman Arch

The freestanding arch is one of Roman architecture's most innovative and distinctive structures. Despite its ubiquity throughout the Roman Empire, little attention has been paid to the first monuments con…

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Lizzie Wade
Apocalypse

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 • APublishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year • A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Book of the YearA…

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Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute
After Jesus Before Christianity

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of …

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Peter Meineck
Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel

"By connecting our modern heroes to the archetypes of ancient myth, Peter Meineck's marvelous book bestows thrilling contemporary resonance upon those bygone legends." ---Christopher Markus, cos…

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D T J Bailey
Plato's Phaedo

D.T.J. Bailey here offers a student-friendly guide to Plato's dialogue Phaedo , as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. In the process of explaining the text, Bailey provides a picture of Plato…

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Karen Valby
The Swans of Harlem

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK • Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterho…

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Sophia Vasalou
Al-Ghazālī And the Ideal of Godlikeness

What might it mean to take God as a model for virtue? Al-Ghaz¿l¿ and the Ideal of Godlikeness investigates how Muslim thinkers developed the idea of imitating God across diverse cultural channels and how …

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D T J Bailey
Plato's Phaedo

D.T.J. Bailey here offers a student-friendly guide to Plato's dialogue Phaedo , as part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series. In the process of explaining the text, Bailey provides a picture of Plato…

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T E Franklinos, Rino Modonutti,
Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors

Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton's Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII is a collection of biographies that spans the period from ancient Rome to…

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Vitruvius
How to Make a Home

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decorationThe idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as…

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Walter Sennhauser
Plato und die Mathematik - Die Mathematik und Plato

Der Schweizer Theologe und Mathematiker Walter Sennhauser beschreibt im ersten Teil des Buches detailliert die Rolle der Mathematik in Platos Philosophie, wobei einige schwer verständliche Texte erklärt w…

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Practical Truth

The sixteen essays in this collection concern the origin of practical truth in Aristotle's ethics, the history of practical truth throughout the intervening centuries, and the role it currently plays in c…

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Ben Lamm
The Elements of Civilization

By the cofounder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, which recently gained global headlines for reviving the extinct dire wolf --- the first of many planned "de-extinction" projects, including wool…

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Ralf Mennekes
Architektur als Mimesis

Studien zur internationalen Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte - Band 202

Über die Räume und Zeiten hinweg haben die Menschen sehr verschiedengestaltige Bauwerke errichtet. Diese Bauwerke sind jeweils spezifisch genug, um ganzen Kulturen ein charakteristisches Gepräge zu verlei…

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Joshua Hammer
The Mesopotamian Riddle

An "adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike" (The Washington Post ) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest wr…

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Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
Hunting for Justice

Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.

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Manuel Cojocaru
Der Wille zum Sein

Dieses Buch behandelt Tod und Unsterblichkeit, indem es Platons Philosophie des „Gottähnlichwerdens" durch die Ausübung von Intellekt und Tugenden mit dem archaisch-griechischen und heroischen Weg zu…

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Ryan Denson,
A Zoobiography of the Ancient Sea Monster

A comprehensive study of the ketos - the most prominent sea monster of Greco-Roman culture.

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