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 War and Peace in the Ancient World 
 War and Peace in the Ancient World Author: composite authors Blackwell Publishing Limited 2006 Pages: 400 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 1.4 Mb This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. 19 distinguished scholars, all of whom are experts in their fields, discuss different aspects of this fascinating subject in relation to a large number of early civilizations, from China and India through West Asia (Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Hittites, Israel, Persia, and early Islam) to the Mediterranean (Greece, Rome, and early Christianity) and the Americas (the Aztecs and the Iroquois Peace League). The book demonstrates that ancient societies, no less than modern ones, suffered from the losses and destructions caused by war, and yearned for peace and prosperity. It offers remarkable insights into the different responses ancient societies developed in order not only to defend their territory, but also to avoid war and restore peace. Some early societies, the volume reveals, even developed an explicit public discourse on war and peace, and embedded peace in an ideological or religious framework.
Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe
 Author: Ion Grumeza Dacia: Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe Hamilton Books 2009 Format: PDF (rar+3%) Size: 4,18 mb Language: English Pages: 276 This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This book revives the Dacian history and contributes to our understanding of the region as it is today.
Milestones in Archaeology: A Chronological Encyclopedia
 Author: Tim Murray Milestones in Archaeology: A Chronological Encyclopedia ABC-CLIO ISBN: 1851096450 2007 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 12,8 Mb, 639 pages The history of archaeology leads from the musty collections of dilettante antiquarians to high-tech science. The book identifies three major developmental periods—Birth of Archaeology (16th–18th centuries), Archaeology of Origins and Empires (19th century), and World Archaeology (20th century). An introductory essay acquaints the reader with the essence of the science for each period. The short entries comprising the balance of the book expand on the themes introduced in the essays. Organized around personalities, techniques, controversies, and conflicts, the encyclopedia brings to life the history of archaeology. It broadens the general reader's knowledge by detailing the professional significance of widely known discoveries while introducing to wider knowledge obscure but important moments in archaeology. Archaeology is replete with the visionaries and swashbucklers of popular myth; it is also filled with careful and dedicated scientists.
Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade
Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade (Agora Picture Book 6)
Author: Grace, V. R
American School of Classical Studies
1961
ISBN: 0876616198
Pages: 36
Format: PDF
Size: 15 mb
Language: English
Although this booklet is based on broken pottery found during the excavation of the Agora, the author ranges far beyond the confines of Athens in her discussion of the purpose and significance of different amphora types. She shows how chronological variations in shape and the geographical clues offered by stamped handles make amphoras a fascinating source of economic information. The booklet illustrates many different forms of amphora, all set into context by the well-written text.
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Historical Dictionary of the Vikings
 Historical Dictionary of the Vikings Author: composite authors The Scarecrow Press 2011 Pages: 404 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 1.74 Mb This book provides a comprehensive work of reference for people interested in the vikings, including entries on the main historical figures involved in this dramatic period, important battles and treaties, significant archaeological finds, and key works and sources of information on the period. It also summarizes the impact the vikings had on the areas where they traveled and settled. There is a chronological table, detailed and annotated bibliographies for different themes and geographical locations, and an introduction discussing the major events and developments of the viking age.
Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
 Author: Peter Green Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography University of California Press ISBN: 0520275861 2013 Format: PDF Size: 56,5 МБ Language: English Pages: 640 Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power. Green, a Cambridge-trained classicist who is also a novelist, portrays Alexander as both a complex personality and a single-minded general, a man capable of such diverse expediencies as patricide or the massacre of civilians. Green describes his Alexander as "not only the most brilliant (and ambitious) field commander in history, but also supremely indifferent to all those administrative excellences and idealistic yearnings foisted upon him by later generations, especially those who found the conqueror, tout court, a little hard upon their liberal sensibilities." This biography begins not with one of the universally known incidents of Alexander's life, but with an account of his father, Philip of Macedonia, whose many-territoried empire was the first on the continent of Europe to have an effectively centralized government and military. What Philip and Macedonia had to offer, Alexander made his own, but Philip and Macedonia also made Alexander form an important context for understanding Alexander himself. Yet his origins and training do not fully explain the man.
Encyclopedia of Archaeology - Volume 1-3
 Encyclopedia of Archaeology Volume 1-3 Academic Press 2007 ISBN: 012548030XE Pages: 2209 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 142,7 МВ The Encyclopedia of Archaeology changes this, in making all aspects of archaeology accessible to a broad audience of the general scientific community, educators, students, and avocational archaeologists. Professional archaeologists and anthropologists will also find the encyclopedia a ready source of up-to-date information on specialities outside their own expertise.
Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Second Edition
 Author: Thomas R. Martin Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times, Second Edition Yale University Press 2013 Format: epub Size: 20.4 Mb Language: English In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and architecture of Athens in its Golden Age, Martin integrates political, military, social, and cultural history in a book that will appeal to students and general readers alike. Now in its second edition, this classic work now features new maps and illustrations, a new introduction, and updates throughout.
The Stratagems. The Aqueducts of Rome
 Author: Julius Frontinus S. Harvard University Press 1925 Format: PDF Size: 18.4 mb Quality: Good Language:English
The Greenhaven Encylopedia of Ancient Mesopotamia
 The Greenhaven Encylopedia of Ancient Mesopotamia Author: Don Nardo Greenhaven Press Greenhaven Encylopedia 2006 ISBN: 0737734418 Format: PDF Size: 10 MB Language: English Pages: 386 Mesopotamia, the "land between the rivers," was the site of the world's first true cities, empires, large-scale engineering projects, and written literature. The history, culture, and contributions of the pivotal civilizations that inhabited the area are presented in vivid detail in this volume, which includes the rise and fall of Sumeria, Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia.
Religions of Rome: Volume 1: A History
Religions of Rome: Volume 1: A History
Cambridge University Press
Author: Mary Beard, John North and Simon Price
1998
Pages: 478
Format: PDF
Size: 15 mb
Language: English
This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eight century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The companion volume, Religions of Rome 2: A Sourcebook, sets out a wide range of documents, richly illustrating the religious life in the Roman world.
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Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe
 Author: Peter Clark (Editor) Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe Oxbow Books 2009 Format: epub Size: 20.8 Mb Language: English New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often quite different to those used by their neighbours further inland. The sea did not appear to be a barrier to these people but rather a highway, connecting communities in a unique cultural identity; the 'People of La Manche'. Symbolic of these maritime Bronze Age Connections is the iconic Dover Bronze Age boat, one of Europe's greatest prehistoric discoveries and testament to the skill and technical sophistication of our Bronze Age ancestors. This monograph presents papers from a conference held in Dover in 2006 organised by the Dover Bronze Age Boat Trust, which brought together scholars from many different countries to explore and celebrate these ancient seaborne contacts. Twelve wide-ranging chapters explore themes of travel, exchange, production, magic and ritual that throw new light on our understanding of the seafaring peoples of the second millennium BC.
Discover Ancient Egypt
 Discover Ancient Egypt Author: Neil D. Bramwell Enslow Pub Inc Discover Ancient Civilizations 2014 ISBN: 1464403333 Pages: 104 Language: English Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 10 MB Follow the story from the Egyptians' prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans. Begin the journey at Hatshepsut’s tomb, Egypt’s first woman pharaoh. Then explore the amazing pyramids at Giza, learn about the fascinating language of hieroglyphics, and the rise and fall of the mighty pharaohs.
The Age of Augustus
 Author: Donald Earl The Age of Augustus Crown Publishers Inc. 1968 Format: PDF Pages: 216 Language: English Size: 35.6 MB Augustus Caesar or Octavian as he was known as a young man - was the founder of the great Roman Empire. Nominated by his great-uncle Julius Caesar as his heir, he nevertheless had to struggle for supremacy over his uncle's murderers before he became sole ruler of the Roman world, after the defeat of Antony. Dr Earl discusses Octavian's background and his family history, and describes the society in which he lived, in an attempt to evaluate the emperor's character and assess the influences which affected him most.
The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery
 Author:Translated by Muriel Heppell with a Preface by Sir Dimitri Obolensky The Paterik of the Kievan Caves Monastery Harvard University Press 1989 Format: pdf Size: 35.6 MB Language: English The Kievan Caves Monastery was for centuries the most important Ukrainian monastic establishment. It was the outstanding center of literary production, and its monks served throughout the territory of Rus' as bishops and monastic superiors. The most detailed source for the monastery early history is its Paterik, a thirteenth-century compilation containing stories reaching back to the monastery's foundation in the mideleventh century. Muriel Heppell now makes available the first complete English translation of the Paterik. With an introduction, map, and several appendices, Muriel Heppell discusses the work's Byzantine background and also sets it in its historical context.
Pots and Pans of Classical Athens
Pots and Pans of Classical Athens (Agora Picture Book 1)
Author: Sparkes, B., Talcott, L.
American School of Classical Studies
1958
ISBN: 0876616015
Pages: 36
Format: PDF
Size: 11 mb
Language English
By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ceramics recovered during excavations at the Agora, the authors show how different vessel forms were used in Classical Athens. By linking the shapes of pots with their social functions, this book gives meaning to the ancient names, such as skyphos, olpe, kantharos, lekane, and hydria, that one encounters when visiting museums. The booklet is illustrated with over 60 black and white photographs.
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Pompeii
 Pompeii (The Roman World) Oxford University Press Author: Peter Connolly 1994 Pages: 80 Format: PDF Size: 20 mb Language: English From the remarkable pen of Peter Connolly comes a comprehensive look at the ancient city of Pompeii. He begins with the scientific facts: How was Pompeii destroyed? How did Mount Vesuvius become an active volcano? What happened during the eruption? How long did Pompeii lay buried and how was it finally rediscovered? What was Pompeii's history before the disaster? Then, Peter Connolly does what he does better than anyone--he rebuilds the past in words and pictures, allowing us to imagine what it was like to live in old Pompeii. Like an archaeological detective, he sifts through the ruins and artifacts to reconstruct one area of the town in minute detail. With maps and cross-sections, photographs, drawings, and engrossing, fact-filled text, Connolly takes us into the very homes of its citizens--into the kitchens, atriums, bedrooms and out into the gardens. We learn what the furniture looked like, how the homes were lighted and heated, what kind of jewelry was popular, and what the gladiators wore. We view the varied styles of architecture and decoration, attend a grand dinner party, visit local shops, go to the theater, to a public bath, and to the gladiators' arena. We gain an understanding of this ancient civilization, and begin to see how much was lost when the city fell prey to the tons of lava and ashes that fell on it during the devastating disaster. The story of Pompeii is one of the most terrible and fascinating in history. Connolly brings it alive for children, adding another distinguished volume to Oxford's Rebuilding the Past series.
History of Rome (Vol. I, II, IV-VIII, XI, XIII)
 Author: Livy History of Rome (Vol. I, II, IV-VIII, XI, XIII) Harvard University Press The Loeb Classical Library Language: /English 1919, 1922, 1926, 1929, 1940, 1943, 1949, 1936, 1951 (Reprint 1967, 1967, 1969, 1978, 1968) Format: PDF Size: 228,79 mb 502 + 498 + 602 + 476 + 542 + 470 + 606 + 454 + 458
Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia
 Author: Christy G. Turner II, Nicolai D. Ovodov, Olga V. Pavlova Animal Teeth and Human Tools: A Taphonomic Odyssey in Ice Age Siberia Cambridge University Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 22.6 Mb Language: English The culmination of more than a decade of fieldwork and related study, this unique book uses analyses of perimortem taphonomy in Ice Age Siberia to propose a new hypothesis for the peopling of the New World. The authors present evidence based on examinations of more than 9000 pieces of human and carnivore bone from 30 late Pleistocene archaeological and palaeontological sites, including cave and open locations, which span more than 2000 miles from the Ob River in the West to the Sea of Japan in the East. The observed bone damage signatures suggest that the conventional prehistory of Siberia needs revision and, in particular, that cave hyenas had a significant influence on the lives of Ice Age Siberians. The findings are supported by more than 250 photographs, which illustrate the bone damage described and provide a valuable insight into the context and landscape of the fieldwork for those unfamiliar with Siberia.
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