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George Rawlinson

The Antiquity of Man, Historically Considered

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

John Lord

Beacon Lights of History; Imperial Antiquity

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Andrew Tobolowsky

Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity

This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity, especially early Late Antiquity. It identifies three major strategies…

A Cultural History of the Sea in Antiquity

The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food, but also a well-traveled roadway and a means to communicate, trade with, or wage war again…

Ahuvia Kahane

Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity

"This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of…

Nicholas Hudson

Dining at the End of Antiquity

"In this engaging and highly readable book, Nicholas Hudson weaves together literary and material evidence for dining in the Roman world from the Principate to the Dominate. Through careful attention…

Queens in Antiquity and the Present

This interdisciplinary volume explores the methodological and theoretical approaches to studying queens in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Andrew Tobolowsky

Israel and its Heirs in Late Antiquity

This Element explores constructions of Israelite identity among Jewish, Samaritan Israelites, and Christian authors in Late Antiquity. It makes various conclusions about the construction of ethnic identit…

Finding Antiquity, Making the Modern Middle East

This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas …

Simcha Gross

Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity

"Offers a radically new account that advances the modern scholarly understanding of Babylonian Jewish history and society, and of Sasanian rule. Building upon recent developments in the study of the …

Alexander Sutherland

Cockfighting in Britain from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

This book looks at the relationship of the cock and cockfighting in Britain from ancient times to the early modern period, showing the societal and cultural changes that affected that relationship. It exa…

Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity

This collection of articles is an important milestone in the history of the study of time conceptions in Greek and Roman Antiquity. It spans from Homer to Neoplatonism. Conceptions of time are considered …

Charles Lyell

The geological evidence of the antiquity of man

Reproduction of the original. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good conditio…

Charles Lyell

The geological evidence of the antiquity of man

Reproduction of the original. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in good conditio…

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity

"The city was one of the central and defining features of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that, far from 'declining and falling', cities used memories of the past to …

Apollo & Dionysus

Stef Conner, Barnaby Brown, Callum Armstrong, Olga Sutkowska, John Kenny, Justus Willberg, Rupert Till

Derek Sherinian

Planet X

Jadwiga Guerrero van der Meijden

The Making of Human Dignity in Christian Antiquity

The book examines the late ancient history of one pivotal concept of contemporary culture, that of human dignity, with the view to identifying the moment in history when European culture worked out a syst…

The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity

A complete geographical and thematic overview of the village in an antiquity and its role in the rise of Christianity. The volume begins with a "state-of-question" introduction by Thomas Robinso…