Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - General

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first...

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first...

Since 1923 the Sammlung Tusculum has published authoritative editions of Greek and Latin works together with a German translation. The original texts are comprehensively annotated, and feature an introductory chapter. In the new volumes, additional essays delve into specific aspects of the works, illuminating their historical context and reception to the present day. The high academic quality of the new editions together with clearly written essays and annotations make the Sammlung Tusculum essential reading for students who are discovering an ancient author for the first...

A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has been taking place in Norfolk and the Fenlands over the last twenty years, and in which the author has played a central role.

One of the most haunting and enigmatic archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering in 1998 at low tide of the so-called Seahenge off the north coast of Norfolk. This circle of wooden planks set vertically in the sand, with a large inverted tree-trunk in the middle, likened to a ghostly 'hand...

Die Corpora der antiken Arzte (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum, Corpus Medicorum Latinorum) haben die Aufgabe, die erhaltenen Schriften aller griechischen und lateinischen medizinischen Autoren, einschlielich der Fragmente aus nicht vollstandig uberlieferten Werken, vom 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum Ausgang der Antike in textkritischen Editionen mit Ubersetzungen (wahlweise in Deutsch, Englisch, Franzosisch, Italienisch) und erschopfenden Namen- und Wortverzeichnissen vorzulegen. Die Ausgaben konnen um Kommentare...

Die Vergabe von Geschenken durch den Kaiser an zivile und militarische Wurdentrager war von grosser Bedeutung fur den Erwerb und die Sicherung der kaiserlichen Herrschaft, stellte zugleich aber eine schwere wirtschaftliche Belastung dar. In diesem Buch sind erstmals samtliche noch erhaltenen Edelmetallgegenstande des 4. Jhd. n. Chr. zusammengestellt, die als kaiserliche Gaben anzusehen sind. Dieser Katalog dient als Grundlage fur die historische Auswertung. Untersucht wird zunachst die Organisation von Herstellung und Verteilung kaiserlicher Gaben in der Spatantike. Im Gegensatz zur...

This volume is devoted to the numismatic evidence from the ancient and mediaeval city of Amorium in central Anatolia (Turkey). Section 1 discusses the city mint of Amorium, illustrated by a chronological and typological catalogue of known specimens. Sections 2 and 3 are a catalogue of some 730 coins that have been found at the site between 1987 and 2006. The finds confirm the city's enduring importance as the capital of the Anatolic Theme.