Описание: The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced picture is offered, grounded in recent cutting-edge research. Of interest to scholars of Graeco-Roman religions and Late Antiquity, historians of early Christianity and historians of religion.
Описание: The understanding of motion - the core concept of natural philosophy - underwent crucial changes in Greek thinking from Parmenides to Aristotle. This book examines the logical, methodological, and mathematical foundations for the emergence of a full conception of motion that also allows for comparing and measuring speeds.
Автор: Sattler Barbara M., Coope Ursula Название: Ancient Ethics and the Natural World ISBN: 1108839789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108839785 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 20714.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores a distinctive feature of ancient philosophy: the closeness between ethics and the study of the natural world. It will be of interest to academics and students in philosophy and classics, and more generally to anyone intrigued by novel ideas about the relation between ethics and nature.
Автор: Hunter Richard, Uhlig Anna Название: Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture ISBN: 131660747X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316607473 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 9183.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book studies the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama, and especially how poets and critics use this idea to create a deep temporal sense. All chapters are informed by recent developments in performance studies, and all Greek and Latin is translated.
Автор: Viidebaum Laura Название: Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition ISBN: 1108836569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108836562 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 20714.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines how different aspects of rhetorical theory gradually came to be associated from Plato`s Phaedrus onwards with the two outstanding writers in fourth-century BCE Athens, Lysias and Isocrates, and how in first-century BCE Rome Dionysius of Halicarnassus proposed to unite them to create the foundation for the ancient rhetorical tradition.
Описание: Investigates posthuman transformation (becoming angels and demons) among poets, philosophers, and theologians of the ancient Mediterranean world. Brings together Hellenic, Jewish, Christian, and gnostic authors, and connects their visions of moral transformation to modern transhumanist visions of biotechnical enhancement.
Автор: Bowie Ewen Название: Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture ISBN: 1107058082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107058088 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 38106.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Brings together the many, often seminal, contributions of a leading Hellenist to our understanding of early Greek literature, above all elegiac poetry, but also early Greek epic, iambic, melic and epigrammatic poetry. An invaluable resource for scholars, enhanced by Ewen Bowie`s Introduction and extensive indexes.
Автор: Isayev Elena Название: Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy ISBN: 1107576385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107576384 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 12702.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the nature of human mobility, attitudes to it, and constructions of place over the last millennium BC in Rome and Italy. It demonstrates that there were high rates of mobility, challenging the perception of sites and communities as static and ethnically oriented entities.
Описание: This book should appeal to those interested in how and why Native American villages formed in relation to migration, environment and agriculture. The focus is on the big picture of cultural relatedness over broad regions and the amount of social detail that can be gleaned from archaeological and biological data.
Автор: Dal Lago Enrico, Katsari Constantina Название: Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern ISBN: 1009113844 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009113847 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 9183.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ancient and modern historians debate the possibility of comparing specific features of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the modern Atlantic world and the United States. The results demonstrate the inheritance from antiquity of slavery in the modern world and the fundamental similarity of the issues and problems.
Описание: A redefinition in how we view ancient gods, the relationships between them, and the rhetoric used to exalt them. This volume demonstrates that the primary difference between biblical and ancient Near Eastern presentations lies in their rhetorical goals, not their conceptions of gods - exclusive worship (not monotheism) versus divine supremacy.
Автор: Kцnig Jason, Woolf Greg Название: Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture ISBN: 1107629640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107629646 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 10748.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This volume answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics and medicine through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire.
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