Tag: Antiquity

Free Download A History of Crimea
by Jobst, Kerstin S.;
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1350328006 | 380 pages | True EPUB | 7.84 MB

Free Download Lily Xiao Hong Lee, A.D. Stefanowska, Sue Wiles, "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. – 618 C.E"
English | 2007 | pages: 441 | ISBN: 0765617501 | PDF | 5,0 mb
This new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang’s didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of notoriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or scholarly accomplishment – all are to be found here. The editors have assembled the stories of women high born and low, representing the full range of female endeavor. The biographies are organized alphabetically within three historical groupings, to give some context to lives lived in changing circumstances over two millennia. A glossary, a chronology, and a finding list that identifies women of each period by background or field of endeavor are also provided.

Free Download Michael Hudson, "The Collapse of Antiquity"
English | ISBN: 394954612X | 2023 | 512 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point

Free Download Sebastiana Nervegna, "Menander in Antiquity: The Contexts of Reception"
English | ISBN: 1107004225 | 2013 | 334 pages | PDF | 15 MB
The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end of antiquity employing a broad range of sources such as portraits, illustrations of his plays, papyri preserving their texts and inscriptions recording their public performances. These are placed within the context of the three social and cultural institutions which appropriated his comedy, thereby ensuring its survival: public theatres, dinner parties and schools. Dr Nervegna carefully reconstructs how each context approached Menander’s drama and how it contributed to its popularity over the centuries. The resultant, highly illustrated, book will be essential for all scholars and students not just of Menander’s comedy but, more broadly, of the history and iconography of the ancient theatre, ancient social history and reception studies.

Free Download Helen King, "Health in Antiquity"
English | 2005 | pages: 316 | ISBN: 0415220653, 0415486939 | PDF | 1,6 mb
How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health?

Free Download B.J.L. Van den Bercken, "Engraved Gems: From antiquity to the present "
English | ISBN: 9088905061 | 2018 | 230 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Many are no larger than a fingertip. They are engraved with symbols, magic spells and images of gods, animals and emperors. These stones were used for various purposes. The earliest ones served as seals for making impressions in soft materials. Later engraved gems were worn or carried as personal ornaments – usually rings, but sometimes talismans or amulets. The exquisite engraved designs were thought to imbue the gems with special powers. For example, the gods and rituals depicted on cylinder seals from Mesopotamia were thought to protect property and to lend force to agreements marked with the seals.

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.