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ISBN: 9783515103114
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien
Volume: 54
Molossia is perhaps most famous as the kingdom of the third-century warlord Pyrrhus. The Inscriptions of Dodona and A New History of Molossia re-examines the non-oracular stone and bronze inscriptions, re-dating some of the most important to the t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515102575
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien
Volume: 53
Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, came under Roman domination during the late Republican Civil War. Due to its position outside of the political and strategic centres of the Empire, Roman Cyprus was something of a terra incogn... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515102261
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Volume: 52
This volume presents the first results of research conducted on 'The Social and Cultural Construction of Emotions: The Greek Paradigm' by a research group in Oxford funded by the European Research Council. The project aims at contributing to a bet... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515094450
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Volume: 51
English summary: The spatial localization of historical memory has been intensely discussed in historical scholarship for the ancient period. On that account, the idea of a thorough, coherent form of memory sometimes obscures the complexity... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515099042
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Volume: 48
English summary: How did the Roman veterans make their lives after the end of the term of service and discharge from the army? What positions did they take in the social and economic structures of their chosen residences? There is scarcely ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515099165
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Volume: 49
This volume assembles approaches to rituals in several cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean (Egyptian, Punic, Greek, Italian, Roman) from the second millennium BCE to Late Antiquity. 'Ritual dynamics' is the common theme of the fourteen chapters.... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515094498
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Volume: 47
English summary: Human perception includes the division of space into left and right. In general, left holds a negative connotation: A clumsy man appears linkisch in German, links meaning left, and the term translates as awkward. If you con... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515094306
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Volume: 46
This volume assembles 15 essays, which reflect on the diverse and changing ways in which themes and phenomena of classical antiquity were, have been, or should be, integrated into areas beyond Classics: in the study of political phenomena such ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515092234
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (HABES)
Volume: 45
The recent success of Hollywood blockbusters such as Troy, Alexander and 300 demonstrates how popular Greek antiquity still is and how well it can be marketed. Today as in the golden age of the peplum-genre, its myths, the Homeric heroes, the A... .... Learn More