What if our long-held understandings of gender have less historical basis than we imagine?The gender norms and sexual distinctions of the first century world that produced the New Testament were not strictly binary, as we might think. Althoug...Daugiau...
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Medi...Daugiau...
The first comprehensive study of the associations of athletes and artists in the Roman empire. They were active across the Mediterranean world and played a key role in Greek festival culture. Due to their cultural activities and court and social conn...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, ISBN-13: 9780802879929)
A study of how mimesis, as discussed in early Christian literature and influenced by Greco-Roman culture, functioned as a religious-ethical concept that shaped early Christians conduct and character-- What did exhortations to follow Je...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198878964)
Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions invites the reader to view classical antiquity through the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the S...Daugiau...
A COMPANION TO CITIES IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World offers in-depth coverage of the most important topics in the study of Greek and Roman urbanism. Bringing together contributions by an in...Daugiau...
A History of the Greek and Roman World (1926) is a single-volume sweeping examination of the Greek and Roman civilisations from 2000 B.C. to the second century A.D. It covers all parts of the Greek and Roman worlds, and all aspects of their...Daugiau...
Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (1988) explores a number of themes that bind the regional cultural developments of mainland Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Rejecting the separation into two distinct disciplines for the study of the Medite...Daugiau...
Modern states have ever looked to antiquity for lessons, coveting Romes power and fearing its decline. So why did Rome collapse? Scientific study is providing novel answers. Placing texts and artifacts alongside evidence from ice cores and ancient D...Daugiau...
Based on a close rereading of material and textual remains, this volume challenges the interpretation of early Christian monasticism as a movement of anti-intellectual rustics. The various chapters explore how teaching was rooted in classical rhetori...Daugiau...
Who or what makes innovation spread? Ten case-studies from Greco-Roman Antiquity and the early modern period address human and non-human agency in innovation. Was Erasmus the superspreader of the use of New Ancient Greek? How did a special type of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-May-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691243436)
A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Medi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Feb-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009202831)
The first comprehensive study of the associations of athletes and artists in the Roman empire. They were active across the Mediterranean world and played a key role in Greek festival culture. Due to their cultural activities and court and social con...Daugiau...
Serija: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Feb-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192866103)
Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts uses literature, inscriptions, art, and architecture to explore the relationship of elite Greeks of the Roman imperial period to time. This wide-ranging work challenges conventi...Daugiau...
This book examines private associations from the Pontic Greek cities (6th century BC-3rd century AD), based on epigraphic evidence (205 inscriptions which record 114 associations). The approach is that of an ancient social historian and takes into co...Daugiau...
This book explores ancient efforts to explain the scientific, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of water. From the ancient point of view, we investigate many questions including: How does water help shape the world? What is the nature of the oc...Daugiau...
Korinna Zamfir explores the manner in which the Pastoral Epistles redefine roles and ministries within a changed ecclesiological framework (the ekklesia as oikos Theou). The contextual investigation focuses on the cultural and social background of th...Daugiau...
