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The Antiquities of the Jews (Footnote
By Flavius Josephus. 2013
Collected here in one unabridged edition are all 20 books of Flavius Josephus' The Antiquities of the Jews. Antiquities of…
the Jews was first published in 94 AD, it is history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. It begins with the creation of Adam and Eve, and follows the events of the historical books of the Hebrew Bible, often adding information that we might not otherwise have today. This work, along with Josephus's other major work, The Jewish Wars, provides valuable background material to anyone wishing to understand first-century Judaism and the early Christian period. "I have undertaken the present work . . . for it will contain all our antiquities, and the constitution of our government, as interpreted out of the Hebrew Scriptures. And indeed I did formerly intend, when I wrote of the war, to explain who the Jews originally were,-what fortunes they had been subject to,-and by what legislature they had been instructed in piety, and the exercise of other virtues,-what wars also they had made in remote ages, till they were unwillingly engaged in this last with the Romans. . ."-Flavius JosephusThe Hebrew Pharaohs of Egypt: The Secret Lineage of the Patriarch Joseph
By Ahmed Osman. 2003
A reinterpretation of Egyptian and biblical history that shows the Patriarch Joseph and Yuya a vizier of the eighteenth…
dynasty king Tuthmosis IV to be the same person Uses detailed evidence from Egyptian biblical and Koranic sources to place Exodus in the time of Ramses I Sheds new light on the mysterious and sudden rise of monotheism under Yuya s daughter Queen Tiye and her son AkhnatenWhen Joseph revealed his identity to his kinsmen who had sold him into slavery he told them that God had made him a father to Pharaoh Throughout the long history of ancient Egypt only one man is known to have been given the title a father to Pharaoh --Yuya a vizier of the eighteenth dynasty king Tuthmosis IV Yuya has long intrigued Egyptologists because he was buried in the Valley of Kings even though he was not a member of the Royal House His extraordinarily well-preserved mummy has a strong Semitic appearance which suggests he was not of Egyptian blood and many aspects of his burial have been shown to be contrary to Egyptian custom As The Hebrew Pharohs of Egypt shows the idea that Joseph and Yuya may be one and the same person sheds a whole new light on the sudden rise of monotheism in Egypt spearheaded by Queen Tiye and her son Akhnaten It would clearly explain the deliberate obliteration of references to the heretic king and his successors by the last eighteenth dynasty pharaoh Horemheb whom the author believes was the oppressor king in the Book of Exodus The author also draws on a wealth of detailed evidence from Egyptian biblical and Koranic sources to place the time of the departure of the Hebrews from Egypt during the short reign of Ramses I the first king of the nineteenth dynastyStonehenge - A New Understanding: Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument
By Mike Parker Pearson. 2013
Stonehenge stands as an enduring link to our prehistoric ancestors, yet the secrets it has guarded for thousands of years…
have long eluded us. Until now, the millions of enthusiasts who flock to the iconic site have made do with mere speculation—about Stonehenge’s celestial significance, human sacrifice, and even aliens and druids. One would think that the numerous research expeditions at Stonehenge had left no stone unturned. Yet, before the Stonehenge Riverside Project—a hugely ambitious, seven-year dig by today’s top archaeologists—all previous digs combined had only investigated a fraction of the monument, and many records from those earlier expeditions are either inaccurate or incomplete.Stonehenge—A New Understanding rewrites the story. From 2003 to 2009, author Mike Parker Pearson led the Stonehenge Riverside Project, the most comprehensive excavation ever conducted around Stonehenge. The project unearthed a wealth of fresh evidence that had gone untouched since prehistory. Parker Pearson uses that evidence to present a paradigm-shifting theory of the true significance that Stonehenge held for its builders—and mines his field notes to give you a you-are-there view of the dirt, drama, and thrilling discoveries of this history-changing archaeological dig.Managing Financial Resources in Late Antiquity: Greek Fathers' Views On Hoarding And Saving (New Approaches To Byzantine History And Culture Ser.)
By George Gotsis, Gerasimos Merianos. 2017
This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding saving and management of economic surplus …
and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean from the late first to the fifth century The study shows how the approaches of Greek Fathers such as Clement of Alexandria Basil of Caesarea John Chrysostom Isidore of Pelusium and Theodoret of Cyrrhus to hoarding and saving intertwined with stances toward the moral and social obligations of the wealthy It also demonstrates how these Fathers responded to conditions and practices in urban economic environments characterized by sharp inequalities Their attitudes reflect the gradual widening of Christian congregations but also the consequences of the socio-economic evolution of the late antique Eastern Roman Empire Among the issues discussed in the book are the justification of wealth alternatives to hoarding and the reception of patristic views by contemporariesThe Commerce of War: Exchange and Social Order in Latin Epic
By Neil Coffee. 2009
Latin epics such as Virgil’s Aeneid, Lucan’s Civil War, and Statius’s Thebaid addressed Roman aristocrats whose dealings in gifts, favors,…
and payments defined their conceptions of social order. In The Commerce of War, Neil Coffee argues that these exchanges play a central yet overlooked role in epic depictions of Roman society. Tracing the collapse of an aristocratic worldview across all three poems, Coffee highlights the distinction they draw between reciprocal gift giving among elites and the more problematic behaviors of buying and selling. In the Aeneid, customary gift and favor exchanges are undermined by characters who view human interaction as short-term and commodity-driven. The Civil War takes the next logical step, illuminating how Romans cope once commercial greed has supplanted traditional values. Concluding with the Thebaid, which focuses on the problems of excessive consumption rather than exchange, Coffee closes his powerful case that these poems constitute far-reaching critiques of Roman society during its transition from republic to empire.Dante's Idea of Friendship
By Filippa Modesto. 2015
In the ancient world, friendship was a virtue of great philosophical importance. Aristotle wrote extensively about it, as did Cicero.…
Their conception of friendship as a relationship based on reason and virtue was transformed by Christianity into a connection based on the mutual love of an individual and God.In Dante's Idea of Friendship, Filippa Modesto offers sharp readings of the Commedia, Vita Nuova, and Convivio that demonstrate Dante's interest in that theme. Drawing on a lucid and wide-ranging examination of the literature on friendship, she shows how he weaved together the contradictory classical and the Christian concepts of friendship into a harmonious synthesis in which friendship became a handmaiden to salvation and happiness. A fresh, perceptive interpretation of Dante's works, Dante's Idea of Friendship will engage medievalists, classicists, and scholars of friendship throughout the ages.The Sons of Remus: Identity in Roman Gaul and Spain
By Andrew C Johnston. 2017
Histories of Rome emphasize the ways the empire assimilated conquered societies, bringing civilization to “barbarians.” Yet these interpretations leave us…
with an incomplete understanding of the diverse cultures that flourished in the provinces. Andrew C. Johnston recaptures the identities, memories, and discourses of these variegated societies.The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy (Classics after Antiquity)
By Demetra Kasimis. 2018
In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE immigrants called metics metoikoi settled in Athens without…
a path to citizenship Galvanized by these political realities classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy s membership rules and explored the city s anxieties over intermingling and passing Yet readers continue to treat immigration and citizenship as separate phenomena of little interest to theorists writing at the time In The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy Demetra Kasimis makes visible the long-overlooked centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy and political theory in Athens She dismantles the interpretive and political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as Plato s Republic The result is a series of original readings that boldly reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their non-citizen membersAncient Egyptian Imperialism
By Ellen Morris. 2018
Offers a broad and unique look at Ancient Egypt during its long age of imperialism Written for enthusiasts and scholars…
of pharaonic Egypt, as well as for those interested in comparative imperialism, this book provides a look at some of the most intriguing evidence for grand strategy, low-level insurgencies, back-room deals, and complex colonial dynamics that exists for the Bronze Age world. It explores the actions of a variety of Egypt’s imperial governments from the dawn of the state until 1069 BCE as they endeavored to control fiercely independent mountain dwellers in Lebanon, urban populations in Canaan and Nubia, highly mobile Nilotic pastoralists, and predatory desert raiders. The book is especially valuable as it foregrounds the reactions of local populations and their active roles in shaping the trajectory of empire. With its emphasis on the experimental nature of imperialism and its attention to cross-cultural comparison and social history, this book offers a fresh perspective on a fascinating subject. Organized around central imperial themes—which are explored in depth at particular places and times in Egypt’s history—Ancient Egyptian Imperialism covers: Trade Before Empire—Empire Before the State (c. 3500-2686); Settler Colonialism (c. 2400-2160); Military Occupation (c. 2055-1775); Creolization, Collaboration, Colonization (c. 1775-1295); Motivation, Intimidation, Enticement (c. 1550-1295); Organization and Infrastructure (c. 1458-1295); Outwitting the State (c. 1362-1332); Conversions and Contractions in Egypt’s Northern Empire (c. 1295-1136); and Conversions and Contractions in Egypt’s Southern Empire (c. 1550-1069). Offers a wider focus of Egypt’s experimentation with empire than is covered by general Egyptologists Draws analogies to tactics employed by imperial governments and by dominated peoples in a variety of historically documented empires, both old world and new Answers questions such as “how often and to what degree did imperial blueprints undergo revisions?” Ancient Egyptian Imperialism is an excellent text for students and scholars of history, comparative history, and ancient history, as well for those interested in political science, anthropology, and the Biblical World.The Road to Sparta is the story of the 153-mile run from Athens to Sparta that inspired the marathon and…
saved democracy as told and experienced by ultramarathoner and New York Times bestselling author Dean Karnazes In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion in the Battle of Marathon In doing so he saved the development of Western civilization and inspired the birth of the marathon as we know it Even now some 2 500 years later that run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in the history of mankind Karnazes personally honors Pheidippides and his own Greek heritage by recreating this ancient journey in modern times Karnazes even abstains from contemporary endurance nutrition like sports drinks and energy gels and only eats what was available in 490 BCE such as figs olives and cured meats Through vivid details and internal dialogs The Road to Sparta offers a rare glimpse into the mindset and motivation of an extreme athlete during his most difficult and personal challenge to date This story is sure to captivate and inspire whether you run great distances or not at allThis is the first integrated study of Greek religion and cults of the Black Sea region, centred upon the Bosporan…
Kingdom of its northern shores, but with connections and consequences for Greece and much of the Mediterranean world. David Braund explains the cohesive function of key goddesses (Aphrodite Ourania, Artemis Ephesia, Taurian Parthenos, Isis) as it develops from archaic colonization through Athenian imperialism, the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire in the East down to the Byzantine era. There is a wealth of new and unfamiliar data on all these deities, with multiple consequences for other areas and cults, such as Diana at Aricia, Orthia in Sparta, Argos' irrigation from Egypt, Athens' Aphrodite Ourania and Artemis Tauropolos and more. Greek religion is shown as key to the internal workings of the Bosporan Kingdom, its sense of its landscape and origins and its shifting relationships with the rest of its world.Ancient Egypt
By Ken Jennings, Mike Lowery. 2015
Travel back in time to the age of the pyramids with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! winner and New…
York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings.With this book about ancient Egypt, you'll become an expert and wow your friends and teachers with awesome ancient facts: Did you know that some Egyptians used to shave their eyebrows whenever a cat died? Or that some people worshiped a god of lettuce? With great illustrations, cool trivia, and fun quizzes to test your knowledge, this guide will have you on your way to whiz-kid status in no time.Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity
By Ian Fielding. 2017
Ovid could be considered the original poet of late antiquity. In his exile poetry, he depicts a world in which…
Rome has become a distant memory, a community accessible only through his imagination. This, Ovid claimed, was a transformation as remarkable as any he had recounted in his Metamorphoses. Ian Fielding's book shows how late antique Latin poets referred to Ovid's experiences of isolation and estrangement as they reflected on the profound social and cultural transformations taking place in the fourth, fifth and sixth centuries AD. There are detailed new readings of texts by major figures such as Ausonius, Paulinus of Nola, Boethius and Venantius Fortunatus. For these authors, Fielding emphasizes, Ovid was not simply a stylistic model, but an important intellectual presence. Ovid's fortunes in late antiquity reveal that poetry, far from declining into irrelevance, remained a powerful mode of expression in this fascinating period.The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese: Politics, Economies, and Networks 338–197 BC
By D. Graham Shipley. 2018
Using all available evidence - literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological - this study offers a new analysis of the early…
Hellenistic Peloponnese. The conventional picture of the Macedonian kings as oppressors, and of the Peloponnese as ruined by warfare and tyranny, must be revised. The kings did not suppress freedom or exploit the peninsula economically, but generally presented themselves as patrons of Greek identity. Most of the regimes characterised as 'tyrannies' were probably, in reality, civic governorships, and the Macedonians did not seek to overturn tradition or build a new imperial order. Contrary to previous analyses, the evidence of field survey and architectural remains points to an active, even thriving civic culture and a healthy trading economy under elite patronage. Despite the rise of federalism, particularly in the form of the Achaean league, regional identity was never as strong as loyalty to one's city-state (polis).Conquest and Empire
By A. B. Bosworth. 1988
This book is an exploration of the process and consequences of the campaigns of Alexander the Great of Macedon (who…
reigned from 336 to 323 BC), focusing on the effect of his monarchy upon the world of his day. A detailed running narrative of the actual campaigns from the Danube to the Indus is complemented and enlarged upon by thematic studies on the reaction in Greece to Macedonian suzerainty, the administration of the empire, the evolution of the Macedonian army and its role as the instrument of conquest, and on the origins of the ruler cult.Aeschylus's Suppliant Women
By Geoffrey W. Bakewell. 2013
This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a…
venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece in starkly contemporary terms, emphasizing the encounter between newcomers and natives. Some scholars read Suppliant Women as modeling successful social integration, but Geoffrey W. Bakewell argues that the play demonstrates, above all, the difficulties and dangers noncitizens brought to the polis. Bakewell's approach is rigorously historical, situating Suppliant Women in the context of the unprecedented immigration that Athens experienced in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The flow of foreigners to Attika increased under the Pisistratids but became a flood following liberation, Cleisthenes, and the Persian Wars. As Athenians of the classical era became increasingly aware of their own collective identity, they sought to define themselves and exclude others. They created a formal legal status to designate the free noncitizens living among them, calling them metics and calling their status metoikia. When Aeschylus dramatized the mythical flight of the Danaids from Egypt in his play Suppliant Women, he did so in light of his own time and place. Throughout the play, directly and indirectly, he casts the newcomers as metics and their stay in Greece as metoikia. Bakewell maps the manifold anxieties that metics created in classical Athens, showing that although citizens benefited from the many immigrants in their midst, they also feared the effects of immigration in political, sexual, and economic realms. Bakewell finds metoikia was a deeply flawed solution to the problem of large-scale immigration. Aeschylus's Argives accepted the Danaids as metics only under duress and as a temporary response to a crisis. Like the historical Athenians, they opted for metoikia because they lacked better alternatives.Writing and Power in the Roman World: Literacies and Material Culture
By Hella Eckardt. 2018
In this book, Hella Eckardt offers new insights into literacy in the Roman world by examining the tools that enabled…
writing, such as inkwells, styli and tablets. Literacy was an important skill in the ancient world and power could be and often was, exercised through texts. Eckardt explores how writing equipment shaped practices such as posture and handwriting and her careful analysis of burial data shows considerable numbers of women and children interred with writing equipment, notably inkwells, in an effort to display status as well as age and gender. The volume offers a comprehensive review of recent approaches to literacy during Roman antiquity and adds a distinctive material turn to our understanding of this crucial skill and the embodied practices of its use. At the heart of this study lies the nature of the relationship between the material culture of writing and socio-cultural identities in the Roman period.Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays
By Bridget Reeves, Paul Murgatroyd. 2017
This volume offers up-to-date translations of all 21 epistles of Ovid’s Heroides. Each letter is accompanied by a preface explaining…
the mythological background, an essay offering critical remarks on the poem, and discussion of the heroine and her treatment elsewhere in Classical literature. Where relevant, reception in later literature, film, music and art, and feminist aspects of the myth are also covered. The book also contains an introduction covering Ovid's life and works, the Augustan background, the originality of the Heroides, dating, authenticity and reception. A useful glossary of characters mentioned in the Heroides concludes the book. This is a vital new resource for anyone studying the poetry of Ovid, Classical mythology or women in the ancient world.Rome and the Third Macedonian War
By Burton, Paul J.. 2017
This is the first full-length study of the final war between Rome and the ancient Macedonian monarchy and its last…
king, Perseus. The Roman victory at the Battle of Pydna in June 168 BC was followed by the abolition of the kingdom of Macedon - the cradle of Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Antigonid monarchs who followed. The first historian of Rome's rise to world power, and a contemporary of the war, Polybius of Megalopolis, recognized the significance of these events in making Rome an almost global power beyond compare - a sole superpower, in other words. Yet Roman authority did not lack challenges from lesser states and insurgents in the decades that followed. The book's meticulous documentation, close analysis, and engagement in scholarly controversy will appeal to academics and students, while general readers will appreciate its brisk narrative style and pacing.In The Archaeology of the Caucasus, Antonio Sagona provides the first comprehensive survey of a key area in the Eurasian…
land mass, from the earliest settlement to the end of the early Iron Age. Examining the bewildering array of cultural complexes found in the region, he draws on both Soviet and post-Soviet investigations and synthesises the vast quantity of diverse and often fragmented evidence across the region's frontiers. Written in an engaging manner that balances material culture and theory, the volume focuses on the most significant sites and cultural traditions. Sagona also highlights the accomplishments of the Caucasian communities and situates them within the broader setting of their neighbours in Anatolia, Iran, and Russia. Sprinkled with new data, much of it published here for the first time, The Archaeology of the Caucasus contains many new photographs, drawings and plans, many of which have not been accessible to Western researchers.