Ancient Civilizations
epub |eng | 2017-12-11 | Author:Richard Carrier

4. IN PRAISE OF THE SCIENTIST In Science Education in the Early Roman Empire I explored to what extent science and natural philosophy held a relatively marginalized position in ancient ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:Brown, Peter [Brown, Peter]

An Empire Gains its Public Face: Language, Coinage, and Mosques As a result of these pressures, the state set in order by the successors of Mu’awiya, notably by the Califs ...
( Category: History December 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley [Tyldesley, Joyce]

Surviving lavatories are few and far between. The most universal model, modestly housed in a small cupboard-like room next to the bathroom, was a modern-looking carved wooden seat carefully balanced ...
( Category: World December 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-08 | Author:Esther Eidinow & Julia Kindt

WHERE ARE WE GOING? CURRENT DEBATES This brings us to current scholarship, and the tautological impasse, pointedly criticized by Robert Parker (2004: 57–8): ‘texts assembled in Sokolowski are sacred laws ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 8,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Caesar, Julius

4. The last stages 26. Meanwhile, Mithridates of Pergamum, a man of high standing at home, skilled and courageous in war, and a loyal and esteemed friend of Caesar’s, had ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 8,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-16 | Author:Martinez, Angel [Martinez, Angel]

Chapter Sixteen: Boys' Night Out An honorable man… Yes, Diego was that and so much more. Finn sat on a sandspur with his knees pulled up under his chin, downstream ...
( Category: Higher & Continuing Education December 8,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-24 | Author:Alexander Heidel

“ENÛMA ELISH” AND GEN. 1:1—2:3 DOUBTLESS RELATED: THREE EXPLANATIONS Our examination of the various points of comparison between Enûma elish and Gen. 1:1—2:3 shows quite plainly that the similarities are ...
( Category: Social Sciences December 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-01 | Author:Heather, Peter [Heather, Peter]

THE PERILS OF POPE LEO The answer to the second question is straightforward. The only legitimate emperor, according to all the official definitions of imperial propaganda, was one who was ...
( Category: Europe December 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Adrian Murdoch [Adrian Murdoch]

One day, as Saint Severinus was reading in his cell, he suddenly closed the book and began to sigh deeply and to weep. He ordered those around him to run ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-04 | Author:Christina Riggs

The beautiful and the dead The vogue for paintings inspired by ancient Egypt, like those of Alma-Tadema, Poynter and Long, was not limited to Britain by any means. It was ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Peter Messmore [Messmore, Peter]

Philip dressed and returned to his quarters. After his physician put a new patch over his eye, the king sent for his royal treasurer. The two men discussed the flow ...
( Category: Genre Fiction December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Koppel

As with genetics, some linguists have tried to use language evolution as a ticking clock to estimate how long people have been in the New World. Languages evolve over time ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 1995-11-13 | Author:Simon MacDowall [MacDowall, Simon]

The Roman saddle through to the end 4th century was characterised by four horns reinforced with these bronze plates. The horns ensured the rider kept a firm seat, and were ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Kostas Dervenis [Kostas Dervenis & Nektarios Lykiardopoulos]

Figure 3.62. Pankration. Hellenistic bronze statue, British Museum, London. Figure 3.63. Pankration. Hellenistic bronze statue, Antikensammlungen Museum, Munich. (Drawing based on a photograph from the museum.) ANALYSIS In figure 3.62 ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 3,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

And he nearly assumed a royal diadem then and there, doing away with the pretence that he was merely the chief executive of a republic. However, after his courtiers reminded ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 3,2017 )