Ancient history Books

Storica Greca, Volume 1 by Ernst Curtius offers a detailed exploration of ancient Greek history. Written in Italian, this volume provides insights into the political, social, and cultural aspects of ancient Greece. A valuable resource for students and...

The Chronicles of the Pathán Kings of Dehli, by Edward Thomas, offers a detailed historical account of the Delhi Sultanate, illuminated by numismatic evidence, inscriptions, and other antiquarian remains. First published in 1871, this seminal work...

Orígenes Históricos De Cataluña, by José Balarí Y Jovany, explores the historical origins of Catalonia. Published in 1899, this book provides a detailed account of the region's early history and medieval development. It is an invaluable...

This is an edition of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, specifically Book 30, meticulously edited by Karl Friedrich Siegmund Alschefski. This volume presents the text of Livy's account of Roman history, drawing upon manuscript sources to ensure fidelity to the...

De Epimenide Crete, penned by Carl Schultess and published in 1877, delves into the intricacies surrounding Epimenides of Crete, a figure shrouded in both historical and philosophical significance. Written in Latin, the text likely offers a scholarly...

L'ottica Di Claudio Tolomeo, a Latin edition of Ptolemy's work on optics, provides a valuable resource for scholars interested in the history of science and classical texts. This edition makes Ptolemy's important contributions to the understanding of...

"Halkyonia: Wanderung an den Ufern des halkyonischen Meeres" entführt den Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch Griechenland. Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer nimmt uns mit auf eine Erkundungstour entlang der Küsten des halkyonischen Meeres und offenbart...

Die Athener und Sokrates, by Peter Wilhelm Forchhammer, explores the complex relationship between the city of Athens and the philosopher Socrates. Published in 1837, this work delves into the tensions between established laws and revolutionary thought,...

Questa collezione presenta una selezione di opere erotiche greche tradotte in italiano volgare. Risalente al 1833, questa edizione offre uno sguardo affascinante sulla letteratura erotica dell'antichità classica, rendendola accessibile a un...

"Estudio Histórico De La Moneda Antigua Española Desde Su Origen Hasta El Imperio Romano, Volume 2" offers a comprehensive historical analysis of ancient Spanish currency, tracing its evolution from its origins to the Roman Empire. Penned by Jacobo...

Le Livre D'Hénoch Sur L'amitié, translated from Hebrew by Auguste Pichard, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Israelite history, customs, and literature. Published in 1845, this French translation includes extensive notes that...

This is a Latin edition of Pindar's Olympian Odes, edited by Albertus De Jongh. The book includes critical annotations, a Latin translation, and commentary to aid in the understanding of Pindar's complex and beautiful poetry. Pindar, one of the most...

Patrologiæ Cursus Completus [Series Græca], Volume 152 is a comprehensive collection of writings from the Holy Fathers, Doctors, and Ecclesiastical Writers, both Latin and Greek. Edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, this volume forms part of an extensive...

Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.A purely political understanding of justice does not convey the cosmological origins of the ancient conception of justice, Dikē, in Aeschylus's Oresteia...

Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China considers how the reading of celestial signs-including comets, strange clouds, halos,...

What If Everything You Knew About History Was a Lie?Beneath the surface of the history you were taught lies a world of secrets-shocking, chilling, and deliberately erased from the pages of time. The Forbidden Archives unlocks the hidden corridors of...

En esta obra explico las visiones del profeta judío Daniel, quien viviera durante el tiempo de la deportación judía por parte del imperio babilonio. Su libro no es abordado por los rabinos en sus estudios, en cambio, en la escatología cristiana, sus...

We now know that Ancient Greece gave birth to democracy. But did you know that before that happened, there was tyranny? This book explores the progression of Greece's form of government from a monarchy, oligarchy, tyranny and finally democracy. Read...

This book will focus on the rebirth of Nubia, or what it was like after it was free from Egyptian influence. This is a huge topic as it details what pure, uninfluenced Nubian culture was. In particular, it will discuss Nubian art and architecture,...

The English alphabet that we use today is based on the Greek alphabet. But do you know that the Greek alphabet is based on yet another ancient writing system? In this book, you will read about how the Phoenicians came up with a sophisticated writing...

This book will highlight the natural resources of Ancient Nubia, particularly timber, gold and iron ore. It will also talk about Meroe, a famous trade center that was developed after Nubia gained its freedom from Egyptian rule. There will also be a...

You can pretty much say that the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Nubia are like two peas in a pod. There were a lot of similarities between them, particularly in sacred traditions, architecture, and language. This book will explore these similarities...

Egypt and Nubia were geographically close to each other that's why their cultures have become so intertwined. However, they did not always have peaceful relations. In this book, you will read about the ancient battles that transpired between Egypt and...

You can pretty much say that art and religion were intertwined for the Olmecs. They create powerful works of art to associate with their many gods. In this book, you will read about some of these artwork and understand how they resonate the people's...

The Olmec civilization was so powerful that it is known as the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica. Olmecs were forward thinking people. They created traditions that influenced succeeding cultures. They also left legacies that we take advantage of even today...

Perché scrivere un libro sulla vita di Gesù? In quest'epoca in cui il materialismo ha raggiunto il suo apice, la vita di Gesù e il suo ruolo nel Programma Divino interessano probabilmente a poche persone a parte una piccola minoranza di persone alla...

The aim of this volume is to analyse and put into debate various practical facets of intelligence/diplomatic activities in the Balkans and to provide a better understanding on what an historical perspective can add to our explicit understanding of...

As the heritage of ancient culture, rock art is distributed at each continent around the world, from which the ancestors recorded their social and economic life via this method to manifest their understanding and recognition on the world.

This interdisciplinary anthology takes as its starting point the belief that, as the material grounds of lived experience, material culture provides an avenue of historical access to women's lives, extending beyond the reaches of textual evidence...

No subject in medieval history is changing as rapidly as crusade studies. Even so, the Second Crusade has been oddly neglected. The present volume is the first ever to have been devoted to it in English and one of the few which has appeared in any...

Herodotus and Greek History, first published in 1982, examines the themes and preoccupations which form the basis for Herodotus' style of history. The Athenian nobility, important protagonists in the context of what we know of his sources; the human and...

First published in 1909, in an era of receding interest in Classical authors, this volume aimed to encourage a renewed interest in the Classics through shared emotion, humanity and the everyday. Attributing the disinterest to a lack of familiarity and a...

Explore The World of African History, Mythology & Hoodoo Journey through centuries of fascinating figures, kingdoms and events that have shaped Africa and learn all about the mystical world of HoodooIncluded in this Captivating 2 Book Collection...

The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details the identities and dates, with ages and wives, where known, of heads of...

A Social History of Christian Origins explores how the theme of the Jewish rejection of Jesus - embedded in Paul's letters and the New Testament Gospels - represents the ethnic, social, cultural, and theological conflicts that facilitated the...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...