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Caesarius was born in 469/70 and served as Bishop of Arles from 502 until his death in 542. Originally trained as a monk at Lérins, he devoted himself as Bishop to an ambitious programme of church reform and Christianization inspired by strict monastic standards of piety. Best k…
"Ancient history has traditionally focused on Greece and Rome. This book takes a global approach to the distant past, following the development of human societies across the globe from the last Ice Age, 11,700 years ago, to the rise of Islam in the seventh century CE. The only b…
Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity
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This book provides a collection of essays representing the state of the art in the research into argumentation in classical antiquity. It contains essays from leading and up and coming scholars on figures as diverse as Parmenides, Gorgias, Seneca, and Classical Chinese "wanderin…
Proporcionado por la pág. del editor: "The general purpose of military paperwork in the Roman army was to control and to manage the personnel, giving detailed information about compositions of the unit, status and availability of the soldiers for duty tasks, their salaries and e…
"In the late nineteenth century, the budding field of anthropology was said by Edward Burnett Tylor, one of its foremost early practitioners, to enable the "great modern nations to understand themselves, to weigh in a just balance their own merits and defects, and even in some m…
"In the late nineteenth century, the budding field of anthropology was said by Edward Burnett Tylor, one of its foremost early practitioners, to enable the "great modern nations to understand themselves, to weigh in a just balance their own merits and defects, and even in some m…
C.P. Jones offers here the first full-length portrait of Dio in English and, at the same time, a view of life in cities such as Alexandria, Tarsus, and Rhodes in the first centuries of our era. The Greek orator Dio Chrysostom is a colorful figure, and along with Plutarch one of…