Tag: Antiquity

Free Download Kostas Vlassopoulos, "Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1845118456 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.0 mb
Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which ‘gave’ the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. And the desire by the western powers, especially America, to foment (or impose) democracy across the globe is one of the most powerful driving motors in present-day geopolitics: not least in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, a lively and well informed treatment of the nexus between politics in antiquity and political discourse in the modern era is both timely and apposite. As Kostas Vlassopoulos shows, much can be learned about the practice of politics from a comparative discussion of the classical and the contemporary. His starting point is that the value of looking back to a political system with different assumptions and elements can help us think, and even shape, what the future of modern politics might be.

Free Download Alessandra Russo, "A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600"
English | ISBN: 0271095695 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 296 MB
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of considering the European experience of "New World" artifacts and materials through the lenses of "curiosity" and "exoticism," Russo asks a different question: What impact have these works had on the way we currently think about―and theorize―the arts?

Free Download World Order in Late Antiquity: The ‘Two Eyes’ Rivalry of Byzantium and Sasanian Persia
by Kevin Blachford
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198882130 | 225 Pages | PDF | 6 MB

Free Download Jean-Michel Spieser, "Urban and Religious Spaces in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium "
English | ISBN: 0860788512 | 2001 | 318 pages | EPUB, PDF | 24 MB + 34 MB
Professor Spieser deals here with a number of the transformations that took place in the world of Late Antiquity – and early Christianity – focusing upon notions of space. The first set of articles, opening with a newly-written introductory essay, addresses the development of urban landscapes from the Roman period up to the iconoclast era in Byzantium. In particular, he looks at the consequences of christianisation, and argues that the changing fortunes of the town cannot be attributed to a few causes, such as war or natural disaster, but resulted from a complex interplay between the economy and ideology, religion and politics. A second group, concerned with the relationship of ‘late antique’ man with his surroundings, and therefore his perception of space, sets out to explain how the decoration of churches – on apses, for example, or on doors – reflects new senses of how religious spaces should be organised. Six of these studies have been translated into English for this volume, and it ends with an important section of additional notes and comment.

Free Download Felix Schlichter, "Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry: Pagan Antiquity and the Biblical Text in the Scholarly World of Guillaume Bonjour (1670"
English | ISBN: 9004684956 | 2024 | 420 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The present work offers the first major study of the Augustinian historian and missionary Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714) and places Bonjour’s hitherto unstudied contributions to pagan mythography, biblical chronology, and ancient religion in their historical, intellectual context. It argues that Bonjour was part of a prominent scholarly tradition which advanced a new understanding of and approach to studying pagan antiquity, an approach which, if developed with the intention of elucidating and further confirming traditional assumptions about the authority of biblical history, nevertheless proved innovative for the way in which it postulated a new relationship between the "sacred" and the "profane" in ancient history.

Free Download Rodrigo Laham Cohen, "The Jews in Late Antiquity "
English | ISBN: 1942401655 | 2018 | 112 pages | PDF | 918 KB
Is it possible to summarize the history of the Jews in late antiquity? The lack of source material makes it challenging, but this short book provides a brief snapshot, based on the available evidence. It focuses on seven different regions: Italy, North Africa (except Egypt), Gaul, Spain, Egypt, the Land of Israel, and Babylonia, and identifies common patterns, but also clear regional and temporal differences between each distinct area. The Jews in Late Antiquity should be considered as a first step towards the understanding of a little-known period in Jewish history, and its aim is to leave the reader wanting to know more.

Free Download Religion and War from Antiquity to Early Modernity edited by Alan James, Irene Polinskaya, Ioannis Papadogiannakis
English | November 28, 2024 | ISBN: 0567697789 | True EPUB/PDF | 512 pages | 1.6/6.6 MB
Responding to the profound challenges of our times, this book provides a comparative and cross-cultural exploration of the role of religion in war in a long historical perspective, from the second millennium BCE, and even earlier, up to early modernity.

Free Download The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point
by Michael Hudson
English | 2023 | ISBN: 394954612X | 512 Pages | PDF | 24 MB

Free Download Mirko D. Grmek, "Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Coordinated by Bernardino Fantini"
English | ISBN: 067440355X | | 496 pages | PDF | 290 MB
A landmark work, this history of medical thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages reconstructs the slow transformations and sudden changes in theory and practice that marked the birth and early development of Western medicine.

Free Download Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity
by Maria Gerolemou, Isabel Ruffell
English | 2025 | ISBN: 019285755X | 423 Pages | PDF | 29 MB