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23553 results in Ancient history

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The Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great
  • Edited by Daniel Ogden
  • Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024
  • Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far as India, which led to Greek culture becoming dominant in much of this region for a millennium. Here, an international team of experts clearly explains the life and career of one of the most significant figures in world history. They introduce key themes of his campaign as well as describing aspects of his court and government and exploring the very different natures of his engagements with the various peoples he encountered and their responses to him. The reader is also introduced to the key sources, including the more important fragmentary historians, especially Ptolemy, Aristobulus and Clitarchus, with their different perspectives. The book closes by considering how Alexander's image was manipulated in antiquity itself.

The Colonate in the Roman Empire
  • Boudewijn Sirks
  • Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024
  • The fourth and fifth centuries AD gave rise to a particular phenomenon in the Roman Empire: the colonate. The colonate involved the fiscal regulation of a relationship of surety between landowners and farmers in the later Roman Empire and played a major role in agrarian and social relations, with implications for these farmers' freedom of movement and transmission of status. This study provides a clear and comprehensive reassessment of the legal aspects of the phenomenon, embedding them as far as possible in their social and economic contexts. As well as taking the innovative approach of working retrogradely, or backwards through time, the volume provides a thorough assessment of two critical sources, the Theodosian and Justinian Codes, and will therefore be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Roman law and the agricultural and social history of late antiquity.

Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
  • Edited by Blanka Misic, Abigail Graham
  • Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    25 January 2024
  • How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader audiences of diverse individuals, who experienced rituals as participants and/or performers. Case studies of ritual experiences from a variety of places, spaces, and contexts across the Roman world, including polytheistic and Christian rituals, state rituals, private rituals, performances, and processions, demonstrate the dynamic and broad-scale application that cognitive approaches offer for ancient religion, paving the way for future interdisciplinary engagement. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE)
  • An Introduction
  • Edited by Caroline Waerzeggers, Melanie M. Groß
  • Published online:
    02 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024
  • Personal names provide fascinating testimony to Babylonia's multi-ethnic society. This volume offers a practical introduction to the repertoire of personal names recorded in cuneiform texts from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. In this period, individuals moved freely as well as involuntarily across the ancient Middle East, leaving traces of their presence in the archives of institutions and private persons in southern Mesopotamia. The multilingual nature of this name material poses challenges for students and researchers who want to access these data as part of their exploration of the social history of the region in the period. This volume offers guidelines and tools that will help readers navigate this difficult material. The title is also available Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • Chapter 3 - Few against Many

  • Matthew A. Sears, University of New Brunswick
  • Book:
    Sparta and the Commemoration of War
    Published online:
    08 December 2023
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023, pp 64-99

  • Summary

    A look at the commemoration of the Persian Wars, especially the Battle of Thermopylae, through commemorative epigrams. A comparison of Spartan commemoration with that of other Greeks, concluding that initially the Spartans did not frame Thermopylae or the Persian Wars as a struggle for Greece or freedom, but as an arena for demonstrating excellence and winning glory.

  • Epilogue

  • Matthew A. Sears, University of New Brunswick
  • Book:
    Sparta and the Commemoration of War
    Published online:
    08 December 2023
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023, pp 236-249

  • Summary

    A meditation on how militaristic commemoration continues to influence attitudes towards war and increase the liklihood of more wars being fought in the future. Since the Spartans did not initially commemorate their wars as acts of liberation or altrusim, leading in the beginning to fewer rather than more wars, we should reconsider framing our wars as virtuous and selfless campaigns to help others, at least if we want wars to stop occurring.

  • Chapter 2 - Warrior Poets

  • Matthew A. Sears, University of New Brunswick
  • Book:
    Sparta and the Commemoration of War
    Published online:
    08 December 2023
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023, pp 33-63

  • Summary

    A study of Archaic Spartan commemoration, starting with Homeric ideas and the poetry of Tyrtaeus. A look at some key commemorative events in Archaic Sparta, including Sparta’s relationship with Samos and the Messenian Wars. A consideration of the role of commemoration in Spartan religion and cult.

  • Chapter 7 - From Thermopylae to 300

  • Matthew A. Sears, University of New Brunswick
  • Book:
    Sparta and the Commemoration of War
    Published online:
    08 December 2023
    Print publication:
    21 December 2023, pp 197-235

  • Summary

    The reception of Sparta, especially the Three Hundred, through 18th-century France, 19th- 20th-century Germany, 19th-century America, the Second World War, the Cold War, and today. A considering of how Sparta’s own distortion of Thermopylae in antiquity has been amplified throughout the centuries to leave us with the legacy of Thermopylae as a war for freedom when at the time it was not framed in any such way.

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