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Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE

Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World (Hardcover, New): Vilho Harle Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World (Hardcover, New)
Vilho Harle
R2,705 Discovery Miles 27 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Harle focuses on the perennial issue of social order by providing a comparative analysis of ideas on social order in the classical Chinese political philosophy, the Indian epic and political literature, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, the classical Greek and Roman political thought, and early Christianity. His analysis is based on the religious, political, and literary texts that represent their respective civilizations as both their major achievements and sources of shared values.

Harle maintains that two major approaches to establishing and maintaining social order exist in all levels and types of social relations: moral principles and political power. According to the principle-oriented approaches, social order will prevail if and when people follow strict moral principles. According to the contending power-oriented approach, orderly relations can only be based on the application of power by the ruler over the ruled. The principle-oriented approaches introduce a comprehensive civil society of individuals; the power-oriented approaches give major roles to the city-state, its government and relationships between them. The question of morality can be recognized also within the power-oriented approaches which either submit politics to morality or maintain that politics must be taken as nothing else than politics. This book is a contribution to peace and international studies as well as political theory and international relations.

Seeking Our Irish Kinfolk - A Personal Journey Through Ireland, Canada and America (Hardcover): Edward J. Hedican Seeking Our Irish Kinfolk - A Personal Journey Through Ireland, Canada and America (Hardcover)
Edward J. Hedican
R869 Discovery Miles 8 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor [during the Summer of 1884] (Hardcover): J R Sitlington (John Robert Sterrett,... An Epigraphical Journey in Asia Minor [during the Summer of 1884] (Hardcover)
J R Sitlington (John Robert Sterrett, Archaeological Institute of America
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Kosmos - Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens (Hardcover, New): Paul Cartledge, Paul Millett, Sitta Von... Kosmos - Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens (Hardcover, New)
Paul Cartledge, Paul Millett, Sitta Von Reden
R2,519 R2,251 Discovery Miles 22 510 Save R268 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Kosmos' is the word the ancient Greeks used for human social order. It has therefore a special application to the Greeks' peculiar social and political unit of communal life that they called the 'polis'. Of the many hundreds of such units in classical Greece the best documented and the most complex was democratic Athens. The purpose of this collective 1998 volume is to re-evaluate the foundations of classical Athens' highly successful experiment in communal social existence. Topics addressed include religion and ritualization, political friendship and enmity, gender and sexuality, sports and litigation, and economic and symbolic exchange. The book aims to make a major contribution, theoretical as well as empirical, towards understanding how the social order of community life may be sustained and enhanced.

Ugarit and the Old Testament (Hardcover): Peter C Craigie Ugarit and the Old Testament (Hardcover)
Peter C Craigie
R887 R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Save R163 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Officials and Administration in the Hittite World (Hardcover): Tayfun Bilgin Officials and Administration in the Hittite World (Hardcover)
Tayfun Bilgin
R3,442 Discovery Miles 34 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There are few studies that deal with an overall treatment of the Hittite administrative system, and various other works on its offices and officials have tended to be limited in scope, focusing only on certain groups or certain time periods. This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the administrative organization of the Hittite state throughout its history (ca. 1650-1180 BCE) with particular emphasis on the state offices and their officials. Bringing together previous works and updating with data recovered in recent years, the study presents a detailed survey of the high offices of the state, a prosopographical study of about 140 high officials, and a theoretical analysis of the Hittite administration in respect to factors such as hierarchy, kinship, and diachronical changes.

A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem - Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 (Hardcover): H.J... A History of Pottery and Potters in Ancient Jerusalem - Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967 (Hardcover)
H.J Franken
R2,828 Discovery Miles 28 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book surveys four thousand years of pottery production and presents totally unexpected fresh information, using technical and analytical methods. It provides a study of ancient pottery of Jerusalem, from the earliest settlement to the medieval city and brings to light important aspects that cannot be discovered by the commonly accepted morphological pottery descriptions. Thus, third millennium BCE pottery appears to have been produced by nomadic families, mb ceramics were made by professional potters in the Wadi Refaim, the pottery market of the IA.II pottery cannot be closely dated and is still produced during the first centuries after the exile. The new shapes are made by Greek immigrant potters. The book contains a chapter on the systematics of ceramic studies and numerous notes about the potters themselves. H. J. Franken is Emeritus Professor at the State University Leiden, The Netherlands.

Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies - Volume 1: Contexts (Hardcover): Sitta Reden Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies - Volume 1: Contexts (Hardcover)
Sitta Reden; Contributions by Mamta Dwivedi, Lara Fabian, Kathrin Leese-Messing, Lauren Morris, …
R5,721 Discovery Miles 57 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The notion of the "Silk Road" that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and methodological tools for researching ancient economic exchange in a global perspective with a strong focus on recent debates on the nature of pre-modern empires. The interdisciplinary team of Chinese, Indian and Graeco-Roman historians, archaeologists and anthropologists that has written this handbook compares different forms of economic development in agrarian and steppe regions in a period of accelerated empire formation during 300 BCE and 300 CE. It investigates inter-imperial zones and networks of exchange which were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections. Volume I provides a comparative history of the most important empires forming in Northern Africa, Europe and Asia between 300 BCE and 300 CE. It surveys a wide range of evidence that can be brought to bear on economic development in the these empires, and takes stock of the ways academic traditions have shaped different understandings of economic and imperial development as well as Silk-Road exchange in Russia, China, India and Western Graeco-Roman history.

Consuls and Res Publica - Holding High Office in the Roman Republic (Hardcover): Hans Beck, Antonio Dupla, Martin Jehne,... Consuls and Res Publica - Holding High Office in the Roman Republic (Hardcover)
Hans Beck, Antonio Dupla, Martin Jehne, Francisco Pina Polo
R2,929 R2,578 Discovery Miles 25 780 Save R351 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic's highest office - to be sure, from different perspectives and with differing expectations. While the former aspired to the consulate as the defining magistracy of their social status, the latter perceived it as the embodiment of the Roman state. Holding high office was thus not merely a political exercise. The consulate prefigured all aspects of public life, with consuls taking care of almost every aspect of the administration of the Roman state. This multifaceted character of the consulate invites a holistic investigation. The scope of this book is therefore not limited to political or constitutional questions. Instead, it investigates the predominant role of the consulate in and its impact on, the political culture of the Roman republic.

Writing Greek Law (Hardcover, New): Michael Gagarin Writing Greek Law (Hardcover, New)
Michael Gagarin
R2,520 R2,252 Discovery Miles 22 520 Save R268 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The use of writing in the development of Greek law was unique. In this comparative study Professor Gagarin shows the reader how Greek law developed and explains why it became so different from the legal systems with which most legal historians are familiar. While other early communities wrote codes of law for academic or propaganda purposes, the Greeks used writing extensively to make their laws available to a relatively large segment of the community. On the other hand, the Greeks made little use of writing in litigation whereas other cultures used it extensively in this area, often putting written documents at the heart of the judicial process. Greek law thereby avoided becoming excessively technical and never saw the development of a specialised legal profession. This book will be of interest to those with an interest in the history of law, as well as ancient historians.

New Approaches in Demotic Studies - Acts of the 13th International Conference of Demotic Studies (Hardcover): Franziska Naether New Approaches in Demotic Studies - Acts of the 13th International Conference of Demotic Studies (Hardcover)
Franziska Naether
R4,297 Discovery Miles 42 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The present volume collects current research on manuscripts written in the demotic language, which have recently been discovered in excavations or which can be found in museums worldwide. The manuscripts' topics range from religion, law, and literature through ancient Egyptian linguistics to the history of economics as well as social history. Featured articles were first presented at the International Conference for Demotic Studies in Leipzig.

Women in Ancient Rome - A Sourcebook (Hardcover, New): Bonnie Maclachlan Women in Ancient Rome - A Sourcebook (Hardcover, New)
Bonnie Maclachlan
R5,222 Discovery Miles 52 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This sourcebook includes a rich and accessible selection of Roman original sources in translation ranging from the Regal Period through Republican and Imperial Rome to the late Empire and the coming of Christianity. From Roman goddesses to mortal women, imperial women to slaves and prostitutes, the volume brings new perspectives to the study of Roman women's lives. Literary sources comprise works by Livy, Catullus, Ovid, Juvenal and many others. Suggestions for further reading, a general bibliography, and an index of ancient authors and works are also included.

In Search of Humanity - Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin (Hardcover): Andrea Radasanu In Search of Humanity - Essays in Honor of Clifford Orwin (Hardcover)
Andrea Radasanu; Contributions by Ryan K. Balot, Timothy W. Burns, Paul A. Cantor, Brent Edwin Cusher, …
R3,935 Discovery Miles 39 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of "humanity" as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of-and also a replacement for-formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of this virtue, by comparison with what came before and with attention to its development from early to late modernity, and up to the present.

Orestes (Hardcover): Euripides Orestes (Hardcover)
Euripides
R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Space, Time and Language in Plutarch (Hardcover): Aristoula Georgiadou, Katerina Oikonomopoulou Space, Time and Language in Plutarch (Hardcover)
Aristoula Georgiadou, Katerina Oikonomopoulou
R3,948 Discovery Miles 39 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Space and time' have been key concepts of investigation in the humanities in recent years. In the field of Classics in particular, they have led to the fresh appraisal of genres such as epic, historiography, the novel and biography, by enabling a close focus on how ancient texts invest their representations of space and time with a variety of symbolic and cultural meanings. This collection of essays by a team of international scholars seeks to make a contribution to this rich interdisciplinary field, by exploring how space and time are perceived, linguistically codified and portrayed in the biographical and philosophical work of Plutarch of Chaeronea (1st-2nd centuries CE). The volume's aim is to show how philological approaches, in conjunction with socio-cultural readings, can shed light on Plutarch's spatial terminology and clarify his conceptions of time, especially in terms of the ways in which he situates himself in his era's fascination with the past. The volume's intended readership includes Classicists, intellectual and cultural historians and scholars whose field of expertise embraces theoretical study of space and time, along with the linguistic strategies used to portray them in literary or historical texts.

The Mycenaeans - A Captivating Guide to the First Advanced Civilization in Ancient Greece (Hardcover): Captivating History The Mycenaeans - A Captivating Guide to the First Advanced Civilization in Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R709 R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Save R122 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Plotinus - A Visionary Recital (Hardcover): Mary Casey Plotinus - A Visionary Recital (Hardcover)
Mary Casey; Foreword by Therese Schroeder-Sheker
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Revolutions and Continuity in Greek Mathematics (Hardcover): Michalis Sialaros Revolutions and Continuity in Greek Mathematics (Hardcover)
Michalis Sialaros
R4,653 Discovery Miles 46 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume brings together a number of leading scholars working in the field of ancient Greek mathematics to present their latest research. In their respective area of specialization, all contributors offer stimulating approaches to questions of historical and historiographical 'revolutions' and 'continuity'. Taken together, they provide a powerful lens for evaluating the applicability of Thomas Kuhn's ideas on 'scientific revolutions' to the discipline of ancient Greek mathematics. Besides the latest historiographical studies on 'geometrical algebra' and 'premodern algebra', the reader will find here some papers which offer new insights into the controversial relationship between Greek and pre-Hellenic mathematical practices. Some other contributions place emphasis on the other edge of the historical spectrum, by exploring historical lines of 'continuity' between ancient Greek, Byzantine and post-Hellenic mathematics. The terminology employed by Greek mathematicians, along with various non-textual and material elements, is another topic which some of the essays in the volume explore. Finally, the last three articles focus on a traditionally rich source on ancient Greek mathematics; namely the works of Plato and Aristotle.

Egypt - Ancient Histories, Modern Archaeologies (Hardcover, New): Rachael Dann, Karen Exell Egypt - Ancient Histories, Modern Archaeologies (Hardcover, New)
Rachael Dann, Karen Exell
R2,513 Discovery Miles 25 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book covers Egyptian history from the Predynastic to the late Roman Period. It also introduces early contemporary literary references to ancient Egypt and uses a number of theoretical approaches to interrogate the archaeological and textual data.

Joseph's Hypocephalus (Hardcover): Clark D Shaver Joseph's Hypocephalus (Hardcover)
Clark D Shaver
R2,044 R1,635 Discovery Miles 16 350 Save R409 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of the Peloponnesian War; 1 (Hardcover): Thucydides, William 1711-1787 Smith The History of the Peloponnesian War; 1 (Hardcover)
Thucydides, William 1711-1787 Smith
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Splintered Divine - A Study of Istar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East... The Splintered Divine - A Study of Istar, Baal, and Yahweh Divine Names and Divine Multiplicity in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover)
Spencer L. Allen
R4,300 Discovery Miles 43 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Istar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around four key questions: How did the ancients define what it meant to be a god - or more pragmatically, what kind of treatment did a personality or object need to receive in order to be considered a god by the ancients? Upon what bases and according to which texts do modern scholars determine when a personality or object is a god in an ancient culture? In what ways are deities with both first and last names treated the same and differently from deities with only first names? Under what circumstances are deities with common first names and different last names recognizable as distinct independent deities, and under what circumstances are they merely local manifestations of an overarching deity? The conclusions drawn about the singularity of local manifestations versus the multiplicity of independent deities are specific to each individual first name examined in accordance with the data and texts available for each divine first name.

The Natural Genesis, Volume II (Hardcover): Gerald Massey The Natural Genesis, Volume II (Hardcover)
Gerald Massey
R1,093 Discovery Miles 10 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Egyptologist Gerald Massey challenged readers in A Book of the Beginnings to consider the argument that Egypt was the birthplace of civilization and that the widespread monotheistic vision of man and the metaphysical was, in fact, based on ancient Egyptian mythos. In The Natural Genesis, Massey delivers a sequel, delving deeper into his compelling polemic. Volume II provides detailed discourse on the Egyptian origin of the delicate components of the monotheistic creed. With his agile prose, Massey leads an adventurous examination of the epistemology of astronomy, time, and Christology-and what it all means for human culture. British author GERALD MASSEY (1828-1907) published works of poetry, spiritualism, Shakespearean criticism, and theology, but his best-known works are in the realm of Egyptology, including A Book of the Beginnings and Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World.

Greek Mythology (Hardcover): Jordan Parr Greek Mythology (Hardcover)
Jordan Parr
R595 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R101 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Continuity of Classical Literature Through Fragmentary Traditions (Hardcover): Francesco Ginelli, Francesco Lupi The Continuity of Classical Literature Through Fragmentary Traditions (Hardcover)
Francesco Ginelli, Francesco Lupi
R3,073 Discovery Miles 30 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fragmentary texts play a central role in Classics. Their study poses a stimulating challenge to scholars and readers, while its methods and principles, far from being rigidly immutable, invite constant reflection on its methods, approaches, and goals. By focusing on some of the most relevant issues that fragmentologists have to face, this book contributes to the ongoing and lively debate on the study of fragmentary texts. This volume contains an extensive theoretical introduction on the study of textual fragments, followed by eight essays on a wide variety of topics relevant to the study of fragmentary texts across literary genres. The chapters range from archaic Greek epics (the Hesiodic corpus) to late-antique grammarian Nonius Marcellus as a source of fragments of Republican literature. All contributions share a nuanced, critical attention to the main methodological implications of the study of fragmentary texts and mutually contribute to highlighting the field's common specificities and limitations, both in theory and in editorial practice. The book offers a representative spectrum of fragmentological issues, providing all readers with an interest in Classics with an up-to-date, methodologically aware approach to the field.

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