Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Browse subjects
  3. Classical Studies
  4. Ancient history
  5. Content listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

23990 results in Ancient history

Page 570 of 1200

Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books
  • With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices, Maps
  • Part 1, Introduction, Book VII (Text and Commentaries)
  • Herodotus
  • Edited by Reginald Walter Macan
  • Published online:
    05 July 2014
    Print publication:
    17 January 2010
    First published in:
    1908
  • Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, the classical scholar Reginald Walter Macan (1848–1941) published in 1908 this two-volume edition (in three parts) of the last books of Herodotus, which cover the Greco-Persian Wars during the period 486 to 479 BCE. Part 1 of Volume 1 contains an extensive introduction, addressing the characteristics of each book, followed by the text of Book 7 in Greek, with commentary and scholarly apparatus. Book 7 covers the Persian defeat at Marathon, the death of Darius, and the famous holding of the pass for three days by a Greek contingent at Thermopylae. Macan's edition, particularly valuable for its introduction, commentary maps, and extensive indexes, remains valuable to scholars of the history of textual criticism and the historiography of the classical world.

Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus
  • Volume 2, Orientalische Quellen zur Geschichte der Ssabier und des Ssabismus
  • Daniil Avraamovich Chwolson
  • Published online:
    05 July 2014
    Print publication:
    19 May 2011
    First published in:
    1856
  • The Ssabians were a Middle Eastern community (or possibly two separate communities) mentioned in the Qur'an and early Islamic writings, and categorised variously as 'people of the book' or 'heathens'. They are documented almost exclusively in Arabic sources, and this rare 1856 book, published in German in St Petersburg, remains an invaluable reference work about them, and includes substantial extracts from the early sources. The book aroused the interest of the theosophists in the 1890s owing to its portrayal of a mysterious and secretive Syriac- or Aramaic-speaking pagan sect, accomplished in astronomy and medicine, that functioned as an intellectual intermediary between the Greek and Arabic worlds. Volume 2 introduces the main sources and presents selections from forty-five texts, with variant readings, German translations and detailed notes. They include a wide variety of genres, ranging from religion, philosophy, literature and autobiography to historical, geographical, legal and lexicographic works.

Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books
  • With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices, Maps
  • Volume 2, Appendices, Indices, Maps
  • Herodotus
  • Edited by Reginald Walter Macan
  • Published online:
    05 July 2014
    Print publication:
    13 April 2010
    First published in:
    1908
  • Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, the classical scholar Reginald Walter Macan (1848–1941) published in 1908 this two-volume edition (in three parts) of the last books of Herodotus, which cover the Greco-Persian Wars during the period 486 to 479 BCE. Volume 2 contains appendices, indexes and maps pertinent to Books 7-9. Macan includes essays on supporting authorities, hypotheses on lost witnesses, and textual evidence presented by poets such as Pindar and the philosophers Plato and Aristotle. He also examines the events in the last books of The Histories, outlining the preparations of the Persians and Greeks for war, as well as reviewing the conflict's strategic aspects as it shifted from Thessaly through to Plataea and Sestos. Macan's edition remains valuable to scholars of the history of textual criticism and the historiography of the classical world.

Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books
  • With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices, Maps
  • Part 2, Books VIII and IX (Text and Commentaries)
  • Herodotus
  • Edited by Reginald Walter Macan
  • Published online:
    05 July 2014
    Print publication:
    17 January 2010
    First published in:
    1908
  • Fellow and Master of University College, Oxford, the classical scholar Reginald Walter Macan (1848–1941) published in 1908 this two-volume edition (in three parts) of the last books of Herodotus, which cover the Greco-Persian Wars during the period 486 to 479 BCE. Part 2 of Volume 1 contains the text of Books 8 and 9 in Greek, with commentary and scholarly apparatus. Book 8 covers the Greek naval retreat after Thermopylae and the evacuation of Athens. Book 9 recounts such events as the Battle of Plataea, the Athenian blockade of Sestos and the Persian defeat in Ionia. Macan's edition, particularly valuable for its introduction, commentary, maps and extensive indexes, remains valuable to scholars of the history of textual criticism and the historiography of the classical world.

  • 6: - Women in the Roman Republic

  • from Part 2 - Roman Society
  • Edited by Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University, New Jersey
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
    Published online:
    05 June 2014
    Print publication:
    23 June 2014, pp 127-148
    • Chapter
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • Export citation

Page 570 of 1200