Category: Ancient

By Shalom E. Holtz

Although students have recognized of Neo-Babylonian criminal texts nearly for the reason that Assyriology's very beginnings, no complete learn of court docket strategy has been undertaken. This lack is very obvious in mild of stories of courtroom method in prior classes of Mesopotamian heritage. With those stories as a version, this booklet starts by way of providing a accomplished type of the text-types that made up the 'tablet path' of documents of the adjudication of felony disputes within the Neo-Babylonian. In featuring this text-typology, it considers the texts' felony functionality in the adjudicatory method. in keeping with this, the booklet describes the adjudicatory approach because it is attested in inner most files in addition to in documents from the Eanna at Uruk.

By Rebecca Anne Strong

By Gesine Manuwald

This e-book analyses the tale of Nero and Octavia, as dramatically informed within the pseudo-Senecan Octavia, and its adjustments in (early) smooth opera and comparable items of different performative genres. In an in depth exam of the libretto (and dramatic) texts, the impression of this interesting tale is proven from the start of old opera. the amount is accordingly of relevance to literary students in addition to to readers attracted to the historical past of opera.

By Alan. Wargames Research Group (Great Britain) Buttery

By Eleonora Cussini

A trip to Palmyra originates from the will to recollect Delbert R. Hillers, who significantly contributed together with his paintings to Palmyrene stories. even though, it isn't intended simply as a memorial quantity, yet as a examine device. It includes 13 papers via students within the box of Palmyrene reports and Semitics concentrating on varied points of Palmyrene heritage, social historical past, paintings, archaeology and philology, with e-book of newly found inscriptions. It deals a cutting-edge dialogue on a number of matters concerning the sphere of Palmyrene reviews, and illustrates methodologies to be hired as a way to raise our wisdom of the advanced and multifaceted tradition of historical Palmyra and of neighbouring parts. Readership: students and scholars - undergraduates and graduates - within the box of Semitics, Classics, historic heritage, Archaeology and paintings, religious study, and all these attracted to the heritage of historical Palmyra.

By Charles Burton Gulick

This ebook was once initially released ahead of 1923, and represents a duplicate of an enormous historic paintings, holding a similar layout because the unique paintings. whereas a few publishers have opted to follow OCR (optical personality reputation) expertise to the method, we think this results in sub-optimal effects (frequent typographical blunders, unusual characters and complicated formatting) and doesn't competently safeguard the old personality of the unique artifact. We think this paintings is culturally very important in its unique archival shape. whereas we try to effectively fresh and digitally increase the unique paintings, there are sometimes circumstances the place imperfections corresponding to blurred or lacking pages, bad photographs or errant marks can have been brought as a result of both the standard of the unique paintings or the scanning approach itself. regardless of those occasional imperfections, we have now introduced it again into print as a part of our ongoing worldwide booklet renovation dedication, supplying buyers with entry to the absolute best historic reprints. We savour your realizing of those occasional imperfections, and basically wish you take pleasure in seeing the publication in a structure as shut as attainable to that meant through the unique writer.

By Bénédicte Boudassou

By Dr Mariya Ivanova

The Black Sea lies on the junction of 3 significant cultural parts: Europe, crucial Asia, and the close to East. It performs a vital position in enduring discussions concerning the impression of advanced close to japanese societies on eu societies, and the repercussions of early urbanization throughout Eurasia. This ebook provides the 1st entire evaluation of the Black Sea area within the prehistoric interval. It penetrates synthetic barriers imposed through traditions, politics, and language to surround either the eu and Asiatic coasts and either jap ecu and Western scholarly literature. With a serious compilation and synthesis of archaeological information, this learn situates the prehistoric Black Sea in an international historic context. by way of adopting the viewpoint of know-how and innovation, it transcends a simply descriptive account of fabric tradition and emphasizes society, human interplay, and engagement with the fabric global.

By Raymond Van Dam

The 1st translation into English of 1 of Gregory's 8 books of miracle tales, which incorporates a sequence of anecdotes in regards to the lives of confessors.

By H.W.F. Saggs; H. W. F. Saggs

A caricature of the traditional civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates valley
«And a effective angel took up a stone like a very good millstone, and forged it into the ocean, announcing: therefore with violence shall that groovy urban Babylon be thrown down and might be discovered not more at all.». REVELATIONS XVIII : 21
Splendor and degradation are the marks that centuries have positioned upon the traditional land of Babylon. Its historical past has been too frequently missed due to the many enigmas that experience baffled students because the time of its fall.