Society & Culture

ISBN: 9781842173763
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 5
This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842176009
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation of the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781842176023
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume of 15 papers is a tribute to Petros Themelis for his significant contribution to Greek archaeology and especially to the excavation, study and conservation of the ancient site of Messene in the Peloponnese. An international cast of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700168027
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: VERöFFENTLICHUNGEN ZUR BYZANZFORSCHUNG
Volume: 20
Parchment, the writing material prepared from animal skin in late antiquity and in the medieval period, has been costly at all times, and therefore texts that had become expendable for any reason were removed by being scraped or washed off to r... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788882655389
Published by : L'Erma di Bretschneider
Mario Torelli, Status femminile e calzature, con appendice di Massimo Cultraro, I vasi a forma di scarpa nella produzione attica di età Geometrica: una nota; Juliette De La Genière, Barbares et Grecs, des vases attiques pour les morts; Heide M... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515092654
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
During the Hellenistic period, the Greek city states were thought to have lost their independence and thus also their means of democratic government. This study shows that interstate relations among the Greek cities of coastal Asia Minor were s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195394009
Published by : Oxford University Press
A lead tablet found at Selinus, and a block of marble from Cyrene, are both inscribed with 'sacred laws' from their city of origin. There has been fierce scholarly debate over how to read and interpret each one, and Noel Robertson advances a new a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515097338
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Palingenesia. Schriftenreihe für Klassische Altertumswissenschaft

Volume: 96
This book offers a reappraisal of basic aspects of Aristotelian cosmology. Aristotle believed that all celestial objects consisted of the same substance that pervade the heavens, a stuff unlike those found near the center of the cosmos that compos... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125487
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, ... .... Learn More