Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Rome

Geschichtsbewutsein: Wie sind die romischen Vorstellungen von der eigenen Vergangenheit entstanden und welche Motive und Erfahrungen haben sie geformt? Zeitalter der Gracchen: Welches Programm hatten die Gracchen und warum lie der Versuch seiner Durchsetzung das politische Leben in Rom 'entgleisen'? Krise der Republik: Was waren die Rahmenbedingungen der hundert Jahre andauernden, standig eskalierenden Krise der Republik? Welche Rolle fiel dabei den Popularen zu? In diesem Band sind Aufsatze (darunter einige unveroffentlichte) und Rezensionen aus 35 Jahren gesammelt, die Antworten zu...

This work focuses on the persistence of the 'Gates of Hades' iconographic theme among the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. The analysis considers both the written tradition and the iconographic evidence surviving in funerary contexts, showing how the idea of the nether world among the eastern civilizations constituted a background for Greek and Etruscan imagary. The chronological period considered begins with Egyptian tombs of the Ancient Kingdom and moves on to concentrate on the period between the 7th and 5th centuries B. C., when the 'Gates of Hades' theme appears in Etruscan and...

Die Bibliotheca Teubneriana, gegrundet 1849, ist die weltweit alteste, traditionsreichste und umfangreichste Editionsreihe griechischer und lateinischer Literatur von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Pro Jahr erscheinen 4-5 neue Editionen. Samtliche Ausgaben werden durch eine lateinische Praefatio erganzt.

Die wissenschaftliche Betreuung der Reihe obliegt einem Team anerkannter Philologen:

Gian Biagio Conte (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
James Diggle (University of Cambridge)
Donald J. Mastronarde (University of California, Berkeley)
Franco...

What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they felt harmed and helpless?

If ancient historians have frequently written about nonelite people as if they were undifferentiated and interchangeable, Ari Z. Bryen counters by drawing on one of our few sources of personal narratives from the Roman world: over a hundred papyrus petitions, submitted to local and imperial officials, in which individuals...

The Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period is a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Eastern Mediterranean, including Byzantine Italy, in the Early Middle Ages. Itis published in two sectionsand documents over 21,000 people. The first section covers the period from 641 to 867, the second extends to 1025. Apart from the main volumes, each section contains an additional introductory volume, Prolegomena, containing principally information about the most important sources for the period - both Byzantine and non-Byzantine - together with a concluding volume with...

The Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period is a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Eastern Mediterranean, including Byzantine Italy, in the Early Middle Ages. Itis published in two sectionsand documents over 21,000 people. The first section covers the period from 641 to 867, the second extends to 1025. Apart from the main volumes, each section contains an additional introductory volume, Prolegomena, containing principally information about the most important sources for the period - both Byzantine and non-Byzantine - together with a concluding volume with...

The Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period is a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Eastern Mediterranean, including Byzantine Italy, in the Early Middle Ages. Itis published in two sectionsand documents over 21,000 people. The first section covers the period from 641 to 867, the second extends to 1025. Apart from the main volumes, each section contains an additional introductory volume, Prolegomena, containing principally information about the most important sources for the period - both Byzantine and non-Byzantine - together with a concluding volume with...

The Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period is a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Eastern Mediterranean, including Byzantine Italy, in the Early Middle Ages. Itis published in two sectionsand documents over 21,000 people. The first section covers the period from 641 to 867, the second extends to 1025. Apart from the main volumes, each section contains an additional introductory volume, Prolegomena, containing principally information about the most important sources for the period - both Byzantine and non-Byzantine - together with a concluding volume with...

The Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period is a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Eastern Mediterranean, including Byzantine Italy, in the Early Middle Ages. Itis published in two sectionsand documents over 21,000 people. The first section covers the period from 641 to 867, the second extends to 1025. Apart from the main volumes, each section contains an additional introductory volume, Prolegomena, containing principally information about the most important sources for the period - both Byzantine and non-Byzantine - together with a concluding volume with...

The Prosopography of the Middle Byzantine Period is a comprehensive biographical dictionary for the Eastern Mediterranean, including Byzantine Italy, in the Early Middle Ages. Itis published in two sectionsand documents over 21,000 people. The first section covers the period from 641 to 867, the second extends to 1025. Apart from the main volumes, each section contains an additional introductory volume, Prolegomena, containing principally information about the most important sources for the period - both Byzantine and non-Byzantine - together with a concluding volume with...