Reading latin epitaphs

a handbook for beginners

This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John Parker has reproduced the text of 52 church memorials in Latin, and this edition is illustrated with photographs of eight of ...

Alexander the Great

myth, genesis and sexuality

What are ancient texts saying to us when they describe Alexander the Great's romantic relationship with his wife Barsine, or comment on his homosexual relationship with Hephaestion? What did it mean when the ancient writers told that Alexander had been sired by a thunderbolt ...

Mortuary practices and social identities in the Middle Ages

essays in burial archaeology in honor of Heinrich Härke

Edited by Duncan Sayer and Howard Williams. Building upon Heinrich Härke#s influential research on burial archaeology and early medieval migrations, and in particular, his ground-breaking work on the relationship between the theory and practice of burial archaeology, this book sets a new agenda for ...

Nazism, war and genocide

new perspectives on the history of the Third Reich

The history, psychology, and pathology of Nazism and its practices have been addressed by an almost limitless list of authors, historians, and researchers since the twilight of the Third Reich. This volume of specially commissioned essays from internationally recognized scholars, available for the first time ...

Soledades

Esta edición de Soledades ofrece una revisión completa de las interpretaciones anteriores de los poemas realizadas por la crítica. Basada en la edición original de 1903, vista como la encarnación misma del modernismo español, esto será el único texto disponible en el mercado.

Myth, history and culture in Republican Rome

studies in honour of T.P. Wiseman

In this collection of essays, an international team of outstanding scholars engage with the ideas and methods of Professor Peter Wiseman#s past and present work. They provide a sustained response to the work of one of the most widely respected Roman historians of this ...

The relations of history and geography

studies in England, France and the United States

The apocryphal lives of Adam and Eve

British shipbuilding and the state since 1918

a political economy of decline

The last years of Austria-Hungary

a multi-national experiment in earley twentieth-century Europe

Reading texts and images

essays on Medieval and Renaissance art and patronage in honour of Margaret M. Manion

The roman Alexander

reading a cultural myth

This book seizes on one of the eternal objects of widespread attention in Ancient History and turns the tables on the scholarship that has shaped and dominated the field. Instead of scrutinising the documents in order to reconstruct the biography and assess the historical significance ...

Plato and the city

a new introduction to Plato's political thought

Plato and the City is a general introduction to Plato#s political thought. It covers the main periods of Platonic thought, examining those dialogues that best show how Plato makes the city's unity the aim of politics and then makes the quest for that ...