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This book describes ten different government archives of cuneiform tablets from Assyria, using them to analyze the social and economic character of the Middle Assyrian state, as well as the roles and practices of writing.
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Beginning with a geographical overview that explains the development of Egyptian belief systems as well as its subsequent political development, this cornerstone study... Læs mere
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This book follows the life story of Amenhotep III, one of the most important rulers of ancient Egypt, from his birth and into the afterlife. Amenhotep III ruled for thirty-eight years, from c.1391–1353 BC, during the apex of Egypt's international and artistic power.
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This book examines the reception of Aristotle in antiquity through a full study of the surviving evidence for Xenarchus of Seleucia, an... Læs mere
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Rhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. This collection of essays presents a large arena of responses and... Læs mere
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Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of... Læs mere
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This book explores how art and material culture were used to construct age, gender and social identity in the Greek Early Iron Age, 1100–700 BCE. This study offers a comprehensive view of early Greece by recognizing the place of children and women in a warrior-focused society.
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Articulates the nature of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the nature of things.
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Ancestral fault was a central concept in ancient Greece and also figured prominently in the Western reception of Greek thought. Adopting an innovative, multidisciplinary... Læs mere
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What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study of the very varied answers ancient philosophers gave to these questions.
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Echeñique argues that Aristotle developed an original and compelling theory of moral responsibility and contributed in novel ways to our understanding of... Læs mere
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Explores the archaeological evidence for the development of measuring activities in numerous ancient societies and the implications of these discoveries.