Ancient History, Classical Art And Civilization – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 7

Robert Garland
What to Expect When You're Dead

An entertaining and enlightening book about how ancient peoples dealt with death---and what we might learn from themA lively story of death, What to Expect When You're Dead explores the fascinating death-…

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Women Re-Creating Classics

"Drawing together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly and creative voices, this volume looks at contemporary discussions surrounding women's engagement with the classical past. There is a discuss…

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Eternal Offerings

The collection of ancient Chinese bronzes at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is exceptional in its depth and rarity. It is generally considered to be one of the most important in the United States. The w…

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The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Late Antique Art and Archaeology: Volume 2, Settlements, Regions, Peoples and Debates

Late Antiquity marked one of the most significant transitions in European history-one that saw the rise of Christianity and the transformation of the classical Mediterranean world of ancient Rome. The ric…

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The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Late Antique Art and Archaeology: Volume 1, Architecture, Artifacts and Evidence

Late Antiquity marked one of the most significant transitions in European history-one that saw the rise of Christianity and the transformation of the classical Mediterranean world of ancient Rome. The ric…

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The Philology of the Future

This book gathers a group of scholars whose work has been influenced by the distinctive dialogue between ancient philosophy (and rhetoric) and critical theory promoted by the scholarship of James I. Porte…

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Epictetus,
Discourses and Selected Writings

A Penguin Classics Hardcover

A beautiful special clothbound edition of the Greek Stoic philosopher's great writings'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nic…

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Uwe Kolbe
Das Alter der Elbe

Gedichte, gespeist von einem großen europäischen FlussUwe Kolbe spricht in seinem neuen Gedichtband 'Das Alter der Elbe' von der Elbe und ihrem weit gefassten Einzugsgebiet. Die Gedichte folgen autobiogra…

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Gabriel Zuchtriegel,
The Buried City

The director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park offers a vivid view of daily life in the lost city, shares the latest discoveries, and reflects on preserving heritage.InThe Buried City, Gabriel Zuchtriege…

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Women Creating Classics

"From Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles (2012) to Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships (2019), there has been a huge rise in women's literary receptions of classics in recent years. This first volume in…

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The Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin, and each one developed its own, unique set of socio-political institutions and social…

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Gabriel Zuchtriegel,
The Buried City

"Join Gabriel Zuchtriegel for the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city that was tragically annihilated yet perfectly preserved in the year AD 79. As director of the arch…

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Zahi Hawass
Discovering Tutankhamun

A thorough and absorbing account of the life and times of the famous young pharaoh, Tutankhamun, from the discovery of his tomb to the CT-scans of the twenty-first century, now fully updated and expandedP…

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Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art

"Images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the archaic Greek to the Christian era. This book traces their significance across the chronological and geographic borders of the ancient world…

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Sabina Antonini, Christian Robin
The Arts of Ancient South Arabia

A superb collection of spectacular and varied pre-Islamic Arabian artefacts held by The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, many published here for the first time. Between the third millennium BCE and the third …

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Alley Marie Jordan
Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson

"Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in hi…

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Pantelis Michelakis
Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sop…

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Phenomenology and the Painted Vase

Most people today encounter ancient Greek vases as static, untouchable artifacts safely out of reach behind glass, in the quiet of a museum gallery. Once, however, these vessels were also useful objects, …

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Thomas J Nelson, Giuseppe Pezzini, Stefano Rebeggiani
Pergamon and Rome: Culture, Identity, and Influence

This interdisciplinary volume provides the first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon. It surveys the rich and diverse interactions between these two cities fro…

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Ory Amitay
Alexander the Great in Jerusalem

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History discusses four different stories told in antiquity about the meeting between Alexander the Great and the Judeans of Jerusalem. In history, this meeting p…

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