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Damien Stone
The Secret Sacred

With numerous images of artifacts, an illuminating investigation of the clandestine cults of the ancient world.The Secret Sacred explores the hidden religious practices of the classical world. These cults…

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Katherine Krauss
Exemplarity and Allusion in Macrobius' Saturnalia

This book builds a new framework for interpreting the use of classical source material in Macrobius' Saturnalia . It argues that the Saturnalia , an educational dialogue long dismissed as a nostalgic comp…

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Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism

Scepticism has been the driving force in the development of Greco-Roman culture in the past, and the impetus for far-reaching scientific achievements and philosophical investigation. Early Jewish culture,…

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Studies in Premodern Sciences in Memory of Noel M. Swerdlow

Archimedes - Band 74, Altes Testament und Moderne - Band 74

This book, in memory of Noel M. Swerdlow, brings together new work by prominent historians of the ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Arabic, Hebrew, Classical, Hellenistic, Medieval and Renaissance traditions …

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Marnie Fogg
Fashion: The Whole Story

'A serious yet readable history that takes the reader from the togas and tunics of early civilizations to the age of ASOS' Telegraph This ambitious and fascinating book traces the history of fashion in ev…

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Philip Abbott
Sounds for a New World

In the Greco-Roman world, gods were known to tame soundscapes, or acoustic landscapes. Zeus, Apollo, Orpheus, and other Classical deities demonstrated their power by bringing order to chaotic sound worlds…

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A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Mathematics in Antiquity covers the period from 3000 BCE to 500 CE, exploring the great richness and diversity of mathematical thought and activity across the ancient world. Our mode…

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The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 1, the Ancient World

The ancient world existed before the modern conceptual and linguistic apparatus of rights, and any attempts to understand its place in history must be undertaken with care. This volume covers not only Gre…

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Second-Century Christianity

The second century of the Common Era was a time of significant transition, innovation, and upheaval for the Greco-Roman world. In the midst of great societal changes the relatively new religious movement …

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Women Philosophers from Non-western Traditions: The First Four Thousand Years

This book presents the views of 22 women philosophers from outside the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian worlds. These eminent thinkers are from Mesopotamia, India, Tibet, China, Korea, Japan, Australia, Am…

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Rory Cox
Origins of the Just War

A groundbreaking history of the ethics of war in the ancient Near EastOrigins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding t…

lieferbar ab 3.2.2026.

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Rebecca I. Denova
Paul

A detailed exploration of both Paul the Apostle and his world in the first centuryPaul: The Apostle to the Gentiles places Paul's life and teachings in historical context while examining the origin and ev…

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Nonnus,
Dionysiaca

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adv…

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Playful Classics

This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity - an understudied research area within classical reception studies - that can shed light on current processes of…

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Charles Travis
Environment as a Weapon

Environment as a Weapon considers how the confluence of war and nature from the time of the Agricultural Revolution (10,000 BCE) to our present day has been represented in works of history, geography, and…

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Thomas A. Robinson
Revisiting the God-fearer Thesis in the Development of Early Christianity

This volume examines in depth the theory, evidence, and trail of scholarly work on god-fearers. Thomas A. Robinson argues for substantial revisions in the depiction of the god-fearer phenomenon, the story…

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Nonnus,
Dionysiaca

Nonnus of Panopolis's Dionysiaca is the longest and most ambitious epic poem to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity. Written by an Egyptian Christian in the fifth century CE, this stunning mythological adv…

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Rony Kozman
Adam's Wisdom and Israel's Law

The concept of natural law-universal moral knowledge-is often associated with Stoic philosophers, Thomas Aquinas, or the medieval Jewish rabbis. But Jews in the Second Temple period had their own model of…

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Mary Cain
This Is Not about Running

By one of the fastest runners of her generation, an affecting, brutally honest memoir of elite sports gone wrong---and a clear-eyed call for how parents, coaches, and young athletes themselves can build a…

lieferbar ab 28.4.2026.

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Erin Shields
Ransacking Troy

After nearly a decade of the Trojan War, the women of Greece are growing restless. Led by the indomitable Penelope and the fierce Clytemnestra, a band of Grecian women defy the odds and bravely set sail f…

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