Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Rome

Das Onomastikon des Eusebius von Caesarea ist eine unentbehrliche Quelle fur die Topographie des Heiligen Landes. Beruhend auf biblischen Texten und antiken Autoren bietet das Onomastikon bis heute zentrale Anhaltspunkte fur die Lokalisierung antiker Statten. Diese Neuedition berichtigt eine Reihe von Fehlern der Ausgabe von Klostermann (1902) und bezieht neue Quellen fur die Textetablierung mit ein.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca-whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson-to his rightful place among the...

Dieser Sammelband umfasst Ergebnisse aktuellster Forschung zur spatantiken patristischen Literatur, von Fragen zur Methodik des Edierens uber interpretatorische Ansatze bis zur Prasentation eines unedierten, verloren geglaubten spatantiken Traktats. Die Beitrage beschaftigen sich u.a. mit Tertullian, Fortunatian von Aquileia, Ambrosius, Prudentius, Augustinus, Hieronymus, Eucherius, Gregor von Nazianz und monastischen Texten.

Mit dem vorliegenden Band wird das lange vernachlassigte Zusammenspiel von Metalldepot und Fundplatz ins Blickfeld geruckt. Im Rahmen einer sozialarchaologischen Auswertung werden die raumlichen Bezuge der kupfer- und bronzezeitlichen Deponierungspraxis zwischen den Flussen Donau und Po offengelegt. Auf strukturelle Weise geben sich darin einzelne Aspekte der topokulturellen Logik einer rituellen Inszenierung der Landschaft zu erkennen.

At the center, the tumultuous life of Seneca, ancient Rome's preeminent writer and philosopher, beginning with banishment in his fifties and subsequent appointment as tutor to twelve-year-old Nero, future emperor of Rome. Controlling them both, Nero's mother, Julia Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress, great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of...

This is the fourth and final volume of the catalogue of Roman portraits in the Capitoline Museums. It includes around 60 portraits of children, supplements to Volumes I III, and 120 portraits from relief sculptures.

In The Aroma of Righteousness, Deborah Green explores images of perfume and incense in late Roman and early Byzantine Jewish literature. Using literary methods to illuminate the rabbinic literature, Green demonstrates the ways in which the rabbis' reading of biblical texts and their intimate experience with aromatics build and deepen their interpretations. The study uncovers the cultural associations that are evoked by perfume and incense in both the Hebrew Bible and midrashic texts and seeks to understand the cultural, theological, and experiential motivations and impulses that...

The ninth volume of Notebooks on Medieval Topography (Documentary and field research), gives much input into research about Cultural Landscape. Latium (Monte Romano; Viterbo), and Basilicata (provinces of Potenza and Matera) are the Italian lands chosen to which methods, instruments and analyses, have been applied. Research from geology, archaeology, history, agronomy, history of art, engineering, architecture, literature, photography and cinema have all been used to contribute to a better analysis of Cultural Landcsape, i.e. the Space affected by Time and Human action. The whole area of...

By offering fluent, accurate translations of extracts and fragments from a wide assortment of ancient texts, this volume allows a comprehensive overview of ancient Greek and Roman concepts of otherness, as well as Greek and Roman views of non-Greeks and non-Romans. A general introduction, thorough annotation, maps, a select bibliography, and an index are also included.