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Time, History, and Political Thought

Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether wi…

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Antioch on the Orontes

"Drawing on a vast body of modern research, this volume offers an archaeological and historical overview of Antioch from its origins through late antiquity. It explores the city's built environment, …

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Rares Ilie Marinescu
Proclus on Aristotle on Plato

"Refutes the often-held view that Proclus - in line with other Neoplatonists - adheres to the idea of an essential harmony between Plato and Aristotle. Enables a reassessment of the reception and aut…

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Moulie Vidas
The Rise of Talmud

The rabbinic sages of late antiquity are known for their sophisticated and creative reading of Scripture, but rabbinic literature also includes elaborate commentary on the sages' own teachings. The Rise o…

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Animal Kingdom of Heaven

The essays collected in this volume apply an interdisciplinary approach to explore aspects of the relationship between animal and human in late antiquity. With a focus on ways that anthropozoological conn…

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Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim,
The Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Hrotsvit, who lived at the convent of Gandersheim in Saxony in the tenth century, is the first Latin dramatist since late antiquity whose work survives. Her plays are preeminently written for women and mo…

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Ancient Epigraphic Culture on the Aegean and Ionian Islands

Through a series of case-studies of nine Aegean and Ionian islands, the contributors examine the ancient epigraphic culture of each island's political, social and religious history from the archaic age un…

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Shaping Relations During the Middle Ages in Southwestern Europe

This book deploys the analytic model of centres and peripheries to study medieval southwestern Europe and, more specifically, the Iberian Peninsula. Here, the reader will find engaging, up-to-date scholar…

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Antonios Pontoropoulos
Writing Herstory Through Ancient Greek Letters

Offering the first comprehensive feminist analysis of ancient Greek fictional letters, this book focuses on the centuries between the Roman Imperial period and late antiquity. Through an exploration of mo…

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Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue

Beiträge zur Koranforschung - volume 4

This volume examines the Rabbinic, Qur'anic and Christian understandings of prophecy from a historical and comparative theological perspective. The Rabbinic perspectives on the phenomenon of prophecy are …

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The Senses on Edge?

Palingenesia - volume 141

Ancient literature abounds with portrayals of and reflections on sensory experience, yet there has been no systematic study of its more extreme and marginal phenomena, be it a loss of the senses or their …

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Karl Kerényi,
Dionysos

A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible lifeNo other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In…

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Karl Kerenyi,
Dionysos

A landmark account of the Dionysos myth as an archetypal expression of indestructible lifeNo other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and ritual practices of antiquity as Dionysos. In…

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Jan N. Bremmer
Jews, Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire

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This volume brings together a series of articles on religion in the Roman Empire by Jan N. Bremmer, all of which have been updated and revised where necessary. Organised into four thematic sections, the a…

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Rare& Marinescu
Proclus on Aristotle on Plato

This is a study of Proclus' engagement with Aristotle's theory of motion, with a specific focus on Aristotle's criticism of Plato. It refutes the often-held view that Proclus - in line with other Neoplato…

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Jennifer A. Lorden
Literary Form in Early Medieval England

The earliest English writers left little comment on their literary forms. In contrast to the grammatical treatises of late antiquity or critical studies of contemporary and modern literature, early mediev…

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A Companion to Ancient Agriculture

A COMPANION TO ANCIENT AGRICULTUREAn authoritative overview of agricultural development in the ancient worldA Companion to Ancient Agriculture investigates the history and development of agriculture in th…

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Augustine's 'Confessions'

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first …

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The Early Islamic Empire at Work, Transregional and Regional Elites - Connecting the Early Islamic Empire

Transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential for the integration of diverse regions into the early Islamic Empire, from Central Asia to North Africa. This volume is an important…

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Walter Roy Laird
The Renaissance of Mechanics

This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time…

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