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Mythische Sphärenwechsel : Methodisch neue Zugänge zu antiken Mythen in Orient und Okzident
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Fahrt ins Totenreich, Versetzung auf die Insel der Seligen, Aufstieg in den Himmel – Sphärenwechsel in antiken Mythen thematisieren wichtige Welterklärungs- und Weltbewältigungsversuche. Um solche und andere Mythen systematisch und komparatistisch fund...
Die feinen Unterschiede : Kultur, Kunst und Konsum im antiken Rom
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Bei der Erforschung der römischen Eliten stand bislang ihr ebenso intensives wie alternativloses Engagement in Politik und Militär im Mittelpunkt. In diesem Buch soll die anhaltende Exklusivität dieses Lebensmodells kritisch hinterfragt und ein erweite...
Empire and Politics in the Eastern and Western Civilizations : Searching for a 'Respublica Romanosinica'
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: The volume includes the proceedings of the 2nd Roma Sinica project conference held in Seoul in September 2019 and aims to compare some features of the ancient political thought in the Western classical tradition and in the Eastern ancient thought. The ...
Streams of Unconsciousness V: Stability Reflected in the Pyriphlegethon.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Anesthesiology [Anesthesiology] 2018 Aug; Vol. 129 (2), pp. 366.
Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South : Theoretical and Empirical Insights From an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: The nucleus of society is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. The contributors look at such con...
Material Aspects of Reading in Ancient and Medieval Cultures : Materiality, Presence and Performance
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: This publication seeks to endeavour the relationship between material artefacts and reading practices in ancient and medieval cultures.While the acts of reception of written artefacts in former times are irretrievably lost, some of the involved artefac...
Time for the Ancients : Measurement, Theory, Experience
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Abstract: The book presents the author's latest research on ancient perceptions of time; it centres on medical discussions, especially of the doctor-philosopher Galen, while also contextualizing his work within Graeco-Roman evidence and discussions – archaeologi...
Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies : Volume 1: Contexts
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: The notion of the “Silk Road” that the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen invented in the 19th century has lost attraction to scholars in light of large amounts of new evidence and new approaches. The handbook suggests new conceptual and method...
Animal Kingdom of Heaven : Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World
Publication Type: eBook
Abstract: Zu den Forschungstrends der jüngeren Vergangenheit zählt ohne Zweifel die kulturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung von Tier-Mensch-Beziehungen, doch werden Ansätze aus den Human-Animal Studies (HAS) in den Altertumswissenschaften – und hier insbesondere fü...
- Animals in art
- Animals and civilization--History--To 1500
- Animals--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
- Animals--Symbolic aspects
- Human-animal relationships--Religious aspects
- Christian art and symbolism--To 500--Themes, motives
- Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Themes, motives
- Art, Ancient--Themes, motives
- Art, Medieval--Themes, motives
Deskription und Metapoetik in der spätantiken lateinischen Dichtung : Untersuchungen zur literarischen Beschreibung bei Claudian, Prudenz und Ausonius
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Abstract: Millennium transcends boundaries – between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the Millennium-Jahrbuch, the journal Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. Composed of scho...