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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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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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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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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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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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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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Herodotus
Histories

Histories by Herodotus is a pioneering work of history that recounts the rise of the Persian Empire and its conflicts with the Greek city-states, especially the Greco-Persian Wars. Blending inquiry, trave…

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Nikolaus Leo Overtoom
The Parthians at War

Nikolaus Leo Overtoom provides a comprehensive study to evaluate and understand the military capabilities and accomplishments of the greatest enemy of the Seleucids and Romans, the Parthians.Overtoom draw…

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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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Alley Marie Jordan
Classical Taste in the Architectural World of Thomas Jefferson

"Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of classical architecture in hi…

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Herodotus
Histories

Histories by Herodotus is a pioneering work of history that recounts the rise of the Persian Empire and its conflicts with the Greek city-states, especially the Greco-Persian Wars. Blending inquiry, trave…

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Culture and Ideology under the Seleukids

The volume offers a timely (re-)appraisal of Seleukid cultural dynamics. While the engagement of Seleukid kings with local populations and the issue of "Hellenization" are still debated, a movem…

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Gregory Crane
Philology in a Digital Age

Philology in a Digital Age: Selected Papers brings together more than four decades of scholarship by Gregory Crane documenting the evolution of Classical Studies during the rise of digital technologies--i…

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Arjan van den Os
"Vengeance is Mine"

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe

Modern readers of the Bible often find it difficult to reconcile divine vengeance with God's identification as love (1 John 4:8). What does divine vengeance mean, and how does it function in the New Testa…

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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…

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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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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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Claire Bubb
How to Eat

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers

A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating wellToday, we're stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet b…

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Lester L. Grabbe
When Israel Was Young

Lester L. Grabbe provides a magnificent overview of the ancient history of this turbulent region in this comprehensive but readable study of Israel's origins. Grabbe engages in this fascinating history, w…

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Benjamin Straumann
The Just State

Why should we engage with ideas about politics from hundreds or thousands of years ago? Why not just focus on what historical figures actually did, rather than on what they thought? How can Greek and Roma…

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