It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth century...
Art and religion are both well-attested and much-studied aspects of ancient Greek life, yet their relationship is not perfectly understood. Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece presents...
Although lowland Britain in 300 CE had been as Roman as any province in the empire, in the generations on either side of 400, urban life, the money economy, and the functioning state collapsed. Many...
Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus
Jesper Majbom Madsen
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812252378
Pub Date: August 2020
Format: Hardcover
280 Pages
In 66 BCE, in the woods of Armenia Minor, Pompey the Great defeated Mithridates VI Eupator, making him one of the most successful Roman generals of all time. The victory presented him with the enormous...
Edited by Kurt W. Carr, Christopher A. Bergman, Christina B. Rieth, Bernard K. Means, Roger W. Moeller and Elizabeth Wagner
Price: $150.00
ISBN: 9780812250787
Pub Date: April 2020
Format: Hardcover
960 Pages
The definitive reference guide to artifacts representing 14,000 years of cultural evolutionPennsylvania is geographically, ecologically, and culturally diverse. The state is situated at the crossroads...
A fascinating case study of the archaeological site at Murujuga, AustraliaLocated in the Dampier Archipelago of Western Australia, Murujuga is the single largest archaeological site in the world. It...
The era of the Roman Empire was distinguished by an explosion of images and texts in a variety of media—metal, papyrus, mosaic, gemstone—all designed to protect, heal, or grant some abstract benefit...
In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents...
Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art
S. Rebecca Martin
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9780812249088
Pub Date: May 2017
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
The proem to Herodotus's history of the Greek-Persian wars relates the long-standing conflict between Europe and Asia from the points of view of the Greeks' chief antagonists, the Persians and Phoenicians....
The region of Boiotia was one of the most powerful regions in Greece between the Peloponnesian War and the rise of Macedonian power under Philip II and Alexander the Great. Its influence stretched across...
