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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-12-19
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9004527680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean is the first scholarly volume dedicated to examining the political, religious, social and cultural role bodyguards played in civilizations across the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author: Jeremy Armstrong
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004373617
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume offers an overview of current directions in the study of siege warfare from around the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author: Kamil Cyprian Choda
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-07
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9004411798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity studies fundamental dynamics of the political culture of the Later Roman Empire (4th and 5th centuries A.D.) by examining how people rose in and fell from the emperor’s favour.
Author: Caillan Davenport
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-09-23
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0192688812
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity examines the Roman imperial court as a social and political institution in both the Principate and Late Antiquity. By analysing these two periods, which are usually treated separately in studies of the Roman court, it considers continuities, changes, and connections in the six hundred years between the reigns of Augustus and Justinian. Thirteen case studies are presented. Some take a thematic approach, analysing specific aspects such as the appointment of jurists, the role of guard units, or stories told about the court, over several centuries. Others concentrate on specific periods, individuals, or office holders, like the role of women and generals in the fifth century AD, while paying attention to their wider historical significance. The volume concludes with a chapter placing the evolution of the Roman imperial court in comparative perspective using insights from scholarship on other Eurasian monarchical courts. It shows that the long-term transformation of the Roman imperial court did not follow a straightforward and linear course, but came about as the result of negotiation, experimentation, and adaptation.
Author: Jessica H. Clark
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9004355774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Brill'Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner compile original case studies that examine how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed – or failed to address – their military defeats and casualties of war.
Author: Julia Hillner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-11-20
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0190875291
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, is best known for the last two years of her life, when she traveled around the Eastern Mediterranean, and for something that, in all likelihood, she did not do: the discovery of the True Cross relic. Using a vast range of sources, from textual and epigraphical to visual, and an array of archaeological insights from the places Helena lived at or visited, this book instead investigates Helena in the round, taking seriously the ruptures in her life course and her changing positions within the imperial and female networks of her time. The book follows Helena's life, the majority of which was spent in the third century and during the period of the tetrarchy, and explores the different ways in which she was commemorated after her death, up to the late sixth century. It wrestles Helena's historical significance back from medieval legends, to demonstrate the development and purpose of her role within Constantinian politics and to chart her meandering impact on the image and behavior of the Christian empress in the late Roman world"--
Author: Robin J. Lane Fox
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-08-12
Total Pages: 728
ISBN-13: 9004209239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on the latest archaeology, epigraphy and historical interpretation, this major volume presents a survey of ancient Macedon, important parts of which are published by their excavators for the first time, including the palace of King Philip II. Archaeologists and historians of the ancient Greek worlds will welcome this milestone in the study of this rapidly changing filed, packed with new information, interpretations and essential bibliography.
Author: Conor Whately
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-06-22
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9004461612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire, Conor Whately examines Procopius’ coverage of rank-and-file soldiers in his three works, reveals the limitations, and highlights his value to our understanding of recruitment.
Author: Gina Konstantopoulos
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2021-09-21
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1646021533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume addresses the nexus of religion and geography in the ancient Near East through case studies of various time periods and regions. Using Sumerian, Akkadian, and Aramaic text corpora, iconography, and archaeological evidence, the contributors illuminate the diverse phenomena that occur when religion is viewed through the lenses of space and place. Gina Konstantopoulos draws upon Sumerian literature to understand mythicized and semimythicized locations. Seth Richardson and Elizabeth Knott focus on the Old Babylonian period, with Richardson addressing the interplay between law, location, and the gods, while Knott turns from text to image, relocating the reader to Syria and realizing the potential of royal iconography when situated in the “right” space. Shana Zaia moves forward to the first millennium, following the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as it shifted from city to city, with divine implications. Finally, Arnulf Hausleiter and Sebastiano Lora focus on northwest Arabia, unearthing a local pantheon and situating it among the various influences in the region from the second millennium onward. Covering a broad geographical and temporal scope while maintaining a cohesive focus on the theme, this book will appeal especially to Assyriologists, scholars of the ancient Near East, and specialists in historical geography.
Author: Jeremy Armstrong
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-10
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9004284850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Circum Mare presents a thematic approach to current directions in ancient military studies, bringing together studies on cultures from across the Mediterranean world, ranging from Pharaonic Egypt to Late Antique Europe and from Punic Spain to Persian Anatolia.
