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Volume III Part II carries on the history of the Near East from the close of Volume III Part I and covers roughly the same chronological period as Volume III Part III. During this period the dominant powers in the East were Assyria and then Babylonia. Each established an extensive empire which was based on Mesopotamia, and each in turn fell largely through internal strife. Assyrian might was reflected in the imposing palaces, libraries and sculptures of the Assyrian kings. Babylonian culture was outstanding in literature, mathematics and astronomy, and the great buildings of Nebuchadnezzar II surpassed even those of the Assyrian kings. Israel and Judah suffered at the hands of both imperial ...
Preliminary material /M. J. Vermaseren -- GERMANIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- RAETIA ET NORICUM /M. J. Vermaseren -- PANNONIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- DALMATIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- MACEDONIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- THRACIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- MOESIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- DACIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- REGNUM BOSPORI /M. J. Vermaseren -- COLCHIS /M. J. Vermaseren -- SCYTHIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- SCYTHIA sive SARMATIA /M. J. Vermaseren -- INDICES /M. J. Vermaseren -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE PLATES /M. J. Vermaseren.
The first in-depth study of the field in more than 20 years analyzes the role of various metals in the context of Greek economic life, politics, culture and art, traces the movement of metal from ore to finished objects, including works of art, and shows the relations between the regions where metals were extracted and the centres of metalworking, the structure of the workshops and the connections between them and the role of the workshops in economic life at different stages in Greek history. In doing so it adopts a multidisciplinary approach, defining the role of metals in the history of Greek society using the widest possible variety of sources: the excavated remains of workshops and hoar...
Before one embarks upon reading Thracian Language and Greek and Thracian Epigraphy, one should keep in mind that one should be facing an extremely complex situation.There is a methodological problem, originating in the past, which caused various misunderstandings. It is due to the volume of different entries assembled in the goal to compose a thesaurus of the Thracian language. Somehow, over the years during the last two centuries, there was a whole set of methods applied that were not in accordance to the progress made by linguistics. For example, the choice made in assembling the two main corpora so far, that of Tomaschek and Detschew, present data from literary and epigraphic sources. The...
A Companion to Ancient Thrace presents a series of essays that reveal the newly recognized complexity of the social and cultural phenomena of the peoples inhabiting the Balkan periphery of the Classical world. • Features a rich and detailed overview of Thracian history from the Early Iron Age to Late Antiquity • Includes contributions from leading scholars in the archaeology, art history, and general history of Thrace • Balances consideration of material evidence relating to Ancient Thrace with more traditional literary sources • Integrates a study of Thrace within a broad context that includes the cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, southwest Asia, and southeast Europe/Eurasia • Reflects the impact of new theoretical approaches to economy, ethnicity, and cross-cultural interaction and hybridity in Ancient Thrace
Ancient Greek city-states typically administered themselves through more or less permanent divisions of their populations or territories. The Athenian system of phylai ("tribes"), trittyes ("Thirds") & demes ("villages") is the familiar example, but something is known of the arrangements of about 200 other states representing all regions of the Greek world. Drawing upon the predominantly epigraphic record, Dr. Jones provides the first comprehensive analysis, arranged on a state-by-state basis, of these organizations. The book documents the widespread tendency of the public units, quite apart from their state-wide administrative roles, to be organized internally as self-sustaining associations. Constituting a public social organization, these "new communities" addressed the problem of the persistence within the state of inherited regional or political pluralism. Precisely because of their artificiality, the public associations offered an innocuous alternative to the old, divisive loyalties. Thereby a degree of stability might be secured for these often deeply fragmented societies.
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Preliminary material -- THE CULT OF SARAPIS AND ISIS -- THE CULT OF THE (GREAT) MOTHER OF GODS -- THE CULT OF SABAZIOS -- MONUMENTS WITH DEDICATIONS TO THE GOD (OR ZEUS) HYPSISTOS -- V. THE CULT OF ZEUS (JUPITER) DOLICHENUS -- THE GODDESSES ON THE BRONZE PLAQUES FROM RAZGRAD AND THEIR PARALLELS -- DEA SYRIA -- THE HOLY AND THE RIGHTEOUS GODS -- THE CAPITOLINE TRIAD IN ITS ANATOLIAN VARIANT (IX, 1-2) -- PRIAPUS -- GLYCON. THE MONUMENT FROM TOMI -- MÊN -- NOTES -- INDICES -- PLATES.
Although shortlived, Lysimachus' Hellespontine empire foreshadowed those of Pergamum and Byzantium. Lund's book sets his actions significantly within the context of the volatile early Hellenistic world and views them as part of a continuum of imperial rule in Asia minor. She challenges the assumption that he was a vicious, but ultimately incompetent tyrant.
Offering new evidence and interpretations of the relationship of Greeks and local peoples throughout the ancient world, this richly illustrated collection of papers shows how Greeks viewed other people, and how the establishment of Greek colonies culturally enriched both locals and Greeks. The volume is richly illustrated.