Classical Controversies
Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping | 2022
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do…
Shaping Cultural Landscapes
Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies
Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Irene Vikatou & Jari Pakkanen | 2022
Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the…
City Gates in the Roman West
Forms and functions
Cornelis van Tilburg | 2022
This book discusses various aspects of city gates in the Western Roman Empire: Italy, Spain, Gaul, Germany and Britain. In these countries many Roman city gates are to be found, sometimes still in a good…
The early modern Zagori of Northwest Greece
An interdisciplinary archaeological inquiry into a montane cultural landscape
Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou | 2022
Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their…
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond
Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and its Reflection in Myth
Jörg Mull | 2022
The Late Bronze Age from about 1600 to 1150 BCE was a time of unprecedented economic activity in human history based on the supply and production of the eponymous alloy bronze on an almost industrial…
Middle and Late Helladic Laconia
Competing principalities?
Edited by Corien Wiersma & Maria P. Tsouli | 2022
Many new results on Middle and Late Bronze Age Laconia are presented in this volume, stemming from recent excavations by the Greek Archaeological Service as well as ongoing excavations, surveys and material studies by foreign…
The Value of a Human Life
Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity
Edited by Karel C. Innemée | 2022
Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much…
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Classical Controversies
Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Kim Beerden and Timo Epping | 2022
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do…
Shaping Cultural Landscapes
Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies
Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Irene Vikatou & Jari Pakkanen | 2022
Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the…
City Gates in the Roman West
Forms and functions
Cornelis van Tilburg | 2022
This book discusses various aspects of city gates in the Western Roman Empire: Italy, Spain, Gaul, Germany and Britain. In these countries many Roman city gates are to be found, sometimes still in a good…
The early modern Zagori of Northwest Greece
An interdisciplinary archaeological inquiry into a montane cultural landscape
Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou | 2022
Landscape-archaeology projects have had a significant impact on our understanding of the deep history of the Greek countryside, but have overwhelmingly been limited to the plains and have rarely placed the Ottoman period at their…
Towards the Borders of the Bronze Age and Beyond
Mycenaean Long Distance Travel and its Reflection in Myth
Jörg Mull | 2022
The Late Bronze Age from about 1600 to 1150 BCE was a time of unprecedented economic activity in human history based on the supply and production of the eponymous alloy bronze on an almost industrial…
Middle and Late Helladic Laconia
Competing principalities?
Edited by Corien Wiersma & Maria P. Tsouli | 2022
Many new results on Middle and Late Bronze Age Laconia are presented in this volume, stemming from recent excavations by the Greek Archaeological Service as well as ongoing excavations, surveys and material studies by foreign…
The Value of a Human Life
Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity
Edited by Karel C. Innemée | 2022
Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much…
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