A Companion to Latin Literature
2004. 472 S., kart. Wiley-Blackwell.
A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography
2011. 705 S., 16,9 x 24,4 cm, kart. Wiley-Blackwell.
A Companion to Archaic Greece
2009. 792 S., kart. Wiley-Blackwell
A Companion to the Classical Greek World
2006.632 S., kart. Wiley-Blackwell
A Companion to the Hellenistic World
2005. 622 S., kart. Wiley-Blackwell.
A Companion to Ancient History
2009. 736 S., kart. Wiley-Blackwell.
A Companion to Greek Literature
A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Featuring contributions from a wide...
I Contain Multitudes
The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It’s an entire world, a colony full of life. In other words, you contain multitudes. These microscopic companions sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to...
Strategy
A History
The range of Freedman's narrative is extraordinary, moving from the surprisingly advanced strategy practiced in primate groups, to the opposing strategies of Achilles and Odysseus in The Iliad, the strategic advice of Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, the great military innovations of Baron Henri de...
The Later Prehistory of North-West Europe
The Evidence of Development-Led Fieldwork
By surveying changes in social forms, landscape organization, monument types, and ritual practices over six millennia, the volume reassesses the prehistory of north-west Europe from the late Mesolithic to the end of the pre-Roman Iron Age. It explores how far common patterns of social development...
The Politics of Iconoclasm
Religion, Violence and the Culture of Image-Breaking in Christianity and Islam
From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of cities, sacred sites and artefacts for religious, political or nationalistic reasons is central to our cultural legacy. This book examines the different traditions of image-breaking...
Speer
Hitler's Architect
Kitchen reconstructs Speer’s life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years, challenging the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely...
The Origins of the World's Mythologies
The Laurasian mythologies share a common story line that dates the world's creation to a mythic time and recounts the fortunes of generations of deities across four or five ages and human beings' creation and fall, culminating in the end of the universe and, occasionally, hope for a new world....
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology
Archaeology is a vast subject – it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from distant human origins 3-4 million years ago up to the present day. ›The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology‹ brings together 35 authors – all specialists in their own fields – to explain what archaeology is...
Delphi
A History of the Center of the Ancient World
In this richly illustrated account, Michael Scott covers the history and nature of Delphi, from the literary and archaeological evidence surrounding the site, to its rise as a center of worship, to the constant appeal of the oracle despite her cryptic prophecies. He describes how Delphi became a...
The Horse, the Wheel and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing...
Battling the Gods
Atheism in the Ancient World
How new is atheism? In ›Battling the Gods‹, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public...
The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism
2014. 825 pages, HC. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
Roman Power
A Thousand Years of Empire
The Roman Empire was one of the largest and most enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished historian William V. Harris sets out to explain, within an eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual waning of Roman imperial power, together with the Roman community's...
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