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This study is the first comprehensive historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. It sheds new light on the creation of Hellenic cultural identity and the formation of collective memory in the Classical and Hellenistic eras.
Authoritative account of villages on the edge of the Cotswolds.
Hammurabi was the sixth king of ancient Babylon and also its greatest. This book shows that Hammurabi, while certainly one of the most able rulers in the whole of prehistory, was also responsible for pivotal developments in the history of civilization.
A case-study of Heracles' role in Athenian propaganda and how this affects the reading of Euripides’ Heracles.
Presents a perspective on the complexities of the late Republic and the rise of Octavian. This book focuses on how Roman politics, the desire for personal glory and the inadequacies of the Republican system ultimately led to Caesar's dictatorship.
The Wilton House sculptures constituted one of the largest and most celebrated collections of ancient art in Europe, formed around the late 1710s... Læs mere
This volume presents over 1070 coins (ca. 310 BC–AD 641) and 1320 examples of Late Roman and Early Islamic pottery. Kom al-Ahmer and Kom Wasit emerge as centers of an exchange network involving large-scale trade of raw materials to and from the central and eastern Mediterranean.