Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean

Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 9789004527683
ISBN-13 : 9004527680
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean by :

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.

Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires

Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 704
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ISBN-10 : 9789004710771
ISBN-13 : 9004710779
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires by :

Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires examines military structures and methods from the Elamite period through the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian empires. War played a critical role in Iranian state formation and dynastic transitions, imperial ideologies and administration, and relations with neighbouring states and peoples from Central Asia to the Mediterranean. Twenty chapters by leading experts offer fresh approaches to the study of ancient Iranian armies, strategy, diplomacy, and battlefield methods, and contextualise famous conflicts with Greek and Roman opponents.

Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity

Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9789004411791
ISBN-13 : 9004411798
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Gaining and Losing Imperial Favour in Late Antiquity by : Kamil Cyprian Choda

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.

The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity

The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9780192688811
ISBN-13 : 0192688812
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity by : Caillan Davenport

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.

Brill’s Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society

Brill’s Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9789004355774
ISBN-13 : 9004355774
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Brill’s Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society by : Jessica H. Clark

In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed – or failed to address – their military defeats and casualties of war. Original case studies illuminate not only how political and military leaders managed the political and strategic consequences of military defeats, but also the challenges facing defeated soldiers, citizens, and other classes, who were left to negotiate the meaning of defeat for themselves and their societies. By focusing on the connections between war and society, history and memory, the chapters collected in this volume contribute to our understanding of the ubiquity and significance of war losses in the ancient world.

Helena Augusta

Helena Augusta
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9780190875299
ISBN-13 : 0190875291
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Helena Augusta by : Julia Hillner

"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"--

Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon

Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 728
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ISBN-10 : 9789004209237
ISBN-13 : 9004209239
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon by : Robin J. Lane Fox

In the past 35 years our archaeological and epigraphic evidence for the history and culture of ancient Macedon has been transformed. This book brings together the leading Greek archaeologists and historians of the area in a major collaborative survey of the finds and their interpretation, many of them unpublished outside Greece. The recent, immensely significant excavations of the palace of King Philip II are published here for the first time. Major new chapters on the Macedonians' Greek language, civic life, fourth and third century BC kings and court accompany specialist surveys of the region's art and coinage and the royal palace centres of Pella and Vergina, presented here with much new evidence. This book is the essential companion to Macedon, packed with new information and bibliography which no student of the Greek world can now afford to neglect.

Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire

Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 311
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ISBN-10 : 9789004461611
ISBN-13 : 9004461612
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire by : Conor Whately

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.

Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean

Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9789004413740
ISBN-13 : 900441374X
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean by : Jeremy Armstrong

Brill’s Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From Pharaonic Egypt to Renaissance Italy, and from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to Hellenistic Greece and Roman Gaul, case studies by leading experts probe areas of both synergy and divergence within this distinctive form of warfare amongst the cultures in this broadly shared environment. Winner of the 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

As Above, So Below

As Above, So Below
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781646021536
ISBN-13 : 1646021533
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis As Above, So Below by : Gina Konstantopoulos

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.