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Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing. Light Bumping to bottom of spine. ; Ancient Society and History; 1.68 x 8.76 x 8.78 Inches; 632 pages; Historians who viewed imperial Rome in terms of a conflict between pagans and Christians have often regarded the emperor Constantine's conversion as the triumph of Christianity over paganism. But in Constantine and the Bishops, historian H. A. Drake offers a fresh and more nuanced understanding of Constantine's rule and, especially, of his relations with Christians. Constantine, Drake suggests, was looking not only for a god in whom to believe but also a policy he could adopt. Uncovering the political motivations behind Constantine's policies, Drake shows how those policies were constructed to ensure the stability of the empire and fulfill Constantine's imperial duty in securing the favor of heaven. Despite the emperor's conversion to Christianity, Drake concludes, Rome remained a world filled with gods and with men seeking to depose rivals from power. A book for students and scholars of ancient history and religion, Constantine and the Bishops shows how Christian belief motivated and gave shape to imperial rule.
Very Good English Original yellow cloth bdg. Cr. 8vo (20 x 14 cm). In German. 327, [2] p. Das Lieblingsvolk Buddhas. Die Burmanen und ihr lebendiger Glaube.
Minor yellowing to boards. Scholar's name to inner cover (Cedric Boulter). ; 125 pages
New Persian Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Persian with a bilingual title in English and Persian. [10], 321 p. Pre-Islamic Iran: Understanding and critique of historical sources from the entry of Arians Until the collapse of Sassanid Empire.= Bâzshinâsî-i manâbi? va maâkhiz-i târîkh-i Îrân-i bâstân: Az vurûd-i âryâyîhâ tâ suqût-i impirâtûrî-i Sâsânî.
New Persian Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Text is in entirely Persian with a bilingual title in English and Persian on cover. [10], 482 p. Islamic civilization in Abbasid's period.= Tamaddun-i Islâmî dar 'asr-i 'Abbâsiyân.
Very faint shelfwear. ; In this account, Alexandra Richardson reveals (as she says in her introduction) her quest to get to know a ‘remarkable man who wholly dedicated his later life and finances to restoring and excavating what is surely one of the finest classical Greek sites in the Western Mediterranean. I rapidly began to be drawn in to the sketchy, sometimes speculative, details surrounding the remarkable Captain Hardcastle…I thought back to his unlit villa beside the theatrically shining temples, and the more I got to know the man, the more it seemed entirely in keeping with his personality that his former home should still be not be sharing the spotlight with the great monuments he was so intimately involved with. He remained a mysterious and private person who kept his own counsel throughout life. I was to discover that he wrote very few letters home to his family from the Far East, South Africa, Italy. And when he did write to the chosen few, I had to learn to read between the lines. Luckily his own family wrote to one another making mention of him…With so little to go on, it was just the sort of challenge that a researcher relishes. The Anglo-Italian theme was yet another appeal, my instinctive habitat. No full-scale biography had ever been written about him and thus I was not stepping on any toes. I had the field all to myself, piecing together a profile from many sources, set largely in a period of modern Sicilian history, the 1920s and early ‘30s rarely “popularised” by foreign writers. That was all how the four-year journey began...’ 'This book is the labour of years of research and scholarship. In Alexandra Richardson's book, the personality of Alexander Hardcastle comes to life in all its many facets. Her detailed account of the history of Agrigento is historically correct and written in a fluid style. Her descriptions of Sicily are accurate and lyrical, her cameos of Sicilians witty and a pleasure to read. Richardson's rigorous research describes his painful and determined iter from London to Girgenti, his stubborness and his resilience.' - Simonetta Agnello Hornby, 'The Almond Picker' ; Archaeological Lives; 9.5 X 6.6 X 0.3 inches; 143 pages
This study focuses on the "saucer pyres," a series of 70 deposits excavated in the residential and industrial areas bordering the Athenian Agora. Each consisted of a shallow pit, its floor sometimes marked by heavy burning, with a votive deposit of pottery and fragments of burnt bone, ash, and charcoal. Most of the pots were miniatures (including the eponymous saucers) but a few larger vessels were found, along with offerings associated with funerary cult. The deposits represent a largely Athenian phenomenon, with few parallels elsewherre. When first found in the 1930s, the deposits were interpreted as baby burials. Recent zooarchaeological analysis of the bones, however, reveals that they are the remains of sheep and goats, and that the deposits were sacrificial rather than funerary. The present study investigates the nature of those sacrifices, taking into account the contents of the pyres, their spatial distribution, and their relationship to buildings around the Agora and elsewhere. In light of a strong correlation between pyres and industrial activity, the author argues that the pyres document workplace rituals designed to protect artisans and their enterprises. ; Hesperia Supplement 47; 200 pages
Exact Reprint of the Tetypeset original (1809) Chicago 1930 ARES PUBLISHERS INC. In his school edict Julian prohibits Christian teachers from using pagan scripts e. G. The Illias, that formed the core of Roman education. This was an attempt to remove some of the power of Christian schools by alienating their students from Roman society, not to mention a satirical attack at what Julian may have viewed as a hypocrisy: Christian schools teaching the Bible as the sole source of knowledge while simultaneously teaching classical pagan texts as well, knowledge of which was needed for success in Roman society. In his tolerance edict of 362, Julian decreed the reopening of pagan temples, the restitution of alienated temple properties, and called back Christian bishops that were exiled by church edicts. The latter was an instance of tolerance of different religious views, but may also have been an attempt by Julian to widen a schism between different Christian sects, further weakening the Christian movement as a whole. ; 8.25 x 0.5 x 5.5 Inches; 119 pages
Very light edgewear else fine. ; De Rome à La Troisième Rome. Documents Et Études 1; 196 pages
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; 270 pages; This book examines the connection between political and religious power in the pagan Roman Empire through a study of senatorial religion. Presenting a new collection of historical, epigraphic, prosopographic and material evidence, it argues that as Augustus turned to religion to legitimize his powers, senators in turn also came to negotiate their own power, as well as that of the emperor, partly in religious terms. In Rome, the body of the senate and priesthoods helped to maintain the religious power of the senate; across the Empire senators defined their magisterial powers by following the model of emperors and by relying on the piety of sacrifice and benefactions. The ongoing participation and innovations of senators confirm the deep ability of imperial religion to engage the normative, symbolic and imaginative aspects of religious life among senators.
Very light shelfwear to DJ else Fine. ; 270 pages; This book examines the connection between political and religious power in the pagan Roman Empire through a study of senatorial religion. Presenting a new collection of historical, epigraphic, prosopographic and material evidence, it argues that as Augustus turned to religion to legitimize his powers, senators in turn also came to negotiate their own power, as well as that of the emperor, partly in religious terms. In Rome, the body of the senate and priesthoods helped to maintain the religious power of the senate; across the Empire senators defined their magisterial powers by following the model of emperors and by relying on the piety of sacrifice and benefactions. The ongoing participation and innovations of senators confirm the deep ability of imperial religion to engage the normative, symbolic and imaginative aspects of religious life among senators.
Fine English Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [xii], 955, [11] p., color ills. Uluslararasi Anadolu Inançlari Kongresi Bildirileri, 23-28 Ekim 2000, Ürgüp / Nevsehir.
xvi + 160pp., br.orig., 26cm., non coupé, bel état, dans la série "Université de Louvain. Recueil de travaux publiés par les membres des conférences d'histoire et de philologie" 1e série 43e fasc., R47201
Light edgewear. Minor creasing; Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near East Civilization 18; 10.2 X 7.3 X 0.3 inches; 120 pages
Very light shelfwear. ; Ausonius Éditions Scripta Antiqua 16; 9.1 X 6.7 X 0.8 inches; 278 pages
Tiny tear to DJ. ; As the perpetual stranger Dionysos is the embodiment of strangeness. He is nowhere at home, and yet in another sense the world is his home. Detienne evokes the manic activity of Dionysos in myths that connect him with the shedding of blood, the pouring of wine, and the ejaculation of semen. ; Revealing Antiquity 1; 8.3 X 5.5 X 0.7 inches; 90 pages
Small chip to base of spine. Else fine. ; The notion of competition has become crucial to our understanding of Greek and Roman religion and is often invoked to explain religous changes and to describe the relationship between various cults. This volume seeks to raise our awareness of what the notion implies and to test its use for the analysis of ancient religions. The papers range from Classical Greece, Hellenistic Babylon, Rome and the Etruscans, to Late Antiquity and the rise of Islam. They seek to determine how much can be gained in each individual case by understanding religious interaction in terms of rivalry and competition. In doing so, the volume hopes to open a more explicit debate on the analytical tools with which ancient religion is currently being studied. Contents: 1. Religion and Competition in Antiquity. An Introduction. David Engels / Peter Van Nuffelen: Religious Rivalry in Seleucid Babylonia. Marduk of Babylon versus Anu of Uruk. Tom Boiy: p. 45 3. Oracles and Oracle-Sellers. An Ancient Market in Futures. Esther Eidinow: p. 55 4. Liberty versus Religious Tradition. Some ‘Impious’ Thinkers in Ancient Greece. Aikaterini Lefka: p. 96 5. Etrusca disciplina and Roman Religion. From Initial Hesitation to a Privileged Place. Dominique Briquel: p. 112 6. Cohabitation or Competition in Ostia under the Empire? Françoise Van Haeperen: p. 133 7. The End of Open Competition? Religious Disputations in Late Antiquity. Peter Van Nuffelen: p. 149 8. Competing Coenobites. Food and Drink in the Lives of Theodoretus of Cyrrhus. Veit Rosenberger: p. 173 9. A Time for Prayer and a Time for Pleasure. Christianity’s Struggle with the Secular World. Ine Jacobs: p. 192 10. The Conquest of the Past. Christian Attitudes towards Civic History. Aude Busine: p. 220 11. Historising Religion between Spiritual Continuity and Friendly Takeover. Salvation History and Religious Competition during the First Millenium AD. David Engels: p. 237 12. Oriental Religions and the Conversion of the Roman Empire. The Views of Ernest Renan and of Franz Cumont on the Transition from Traditional Paganism to Christianity. Danny Praet: p. 285; Collection Latomus Volume 343; 307 pages; Isbn: 9782870312903
Heavy chipping to wraps with a few small pieces missing. Browning to wraps. Tear along bottom of spine. Browning to pages. Some pages uncut. Minor pencilling on a few pages and to front wrap. ; Mitteilungen Der Vorderasiatisch-Aegyptischen Gesellschaft (E. V. ) 1922, 2. 27. Jahrgang. ; 64 pages
Spine crudely repaired with cellotape leaving stains. Endpapers lightly browned. Light chipping along foreedges of wraps and pages. Scarce. ; Greek Text with Latin introduction. Xlvi, 202 Joannes Laurentius Lydus was an early Byzantine administrator and writer on antiquarian subjects. During his retirement he occupied himself in the compilation of works on the antiquities of Rome, three of which have been preserved. ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 183 pages
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Scholar's blindstamp to half-title (Robert Brown). Tiny stain to rear wrap. Light shelfwear. ; Zetemata Monographien Zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft Heft 57; 118 pages
Minor shelfwear. ; Examines the transformation of the pagan Roman into the early Byzantine empire by focusing on the ceremonies of the arrivals, funerals, and coronations of emperors from the late third to the late sixth century A. D. ; The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 1; 450 pages
A few pen and pencil markings to a few pages. From the library of Jenifer Neils. Lower part of spine cover torn and missing (6 cm). Tears to head of spine cover. Creasing to spine cover and wraps. ; While the Olympics, because of their modern revival, enjoy the greatest fame today, in ancient Greece other religious festivals were equally elaborate and impressive spectacles. The lavishly illustrated Goddess and Polis is the first work devoted to the Panathenaia, the most significant of these festivals to be held in ancient Athens. Founded in 566 B. C. , this complex ritual performed for the goddess Athena vied with other Greek festivals in grandeur and importance and was particularly distinguished by the works of art commissioned in its service. Among these were the painted vases known as Panathenaic amphoras, each of which contained forty liters of olive oil, awarded to athletic and equestrian victors. The contests depicted on these vases are the best extant illustrations of Greek sport. Although women were excluded from the competitions, they had an important role to play in the weaving of the peplos, an elaborate textile that took nine months to produce. The culmination of the festival was a long procession bearing this new robe to the cult statue of the goddess; the procession in turn was the subject of another great work of art, the Parthenon frieze. Combining art, spectacle, and civic consciousness, the Panathenaia contributed to the development of the high classical style of Periklean Athens. This book deals with every aspect of the festival and produces a vivid portrait of the worship of the patron goddess of the city. Essays by eminent classical scholars examine in depth the musical and poetic competitions, the athletic and equestrian contests, the peplos, and the evolving image of Athena as documented in sculpture from the Acropolis. Jenifer Neils, the curator of the exhibition Goddess and Polis, held at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, has contributed an introduction to the Panathenaia, an essay on the prize amphoras, and detailed entries for the seventy objects exhibited.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 232 pages
Reprint in one volume of the 1911, 1913 & 1920 titles. ; Greek & Roman Philosophy Volume 30
Light edgewear to wraps. ; Kernos Supplément 23; 337 pages