Zur fünften Auflage 1999: ""Im Rahmen des in Schule und Universität nicht mehr wegzudenkenden 'Grundrisses der Geschichte' erscheint Jochen Bleickens 'Geschichte der Römischen Republik' wohlverdientermaßen nunmehr zum fünften Male. B. hat sich seit Jahrzehnten als führender Fors…
Contributions faites à l´occasion de la conférence ayant eu lieu à l´Austrian Academy of Sciences entre le 28 et le 31 octobre 2014.
This volume presents the proceedings of the international interdisciplinary founding conference of the division?Documenta Antiqua? at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna), held in 2014. The research focus of the new division…
During the period 360-146 B.C., the Greco-Roman world underwent the transition from independent city states and small regional powers to the large and potent empires of the Hellenistic age. The essays in this volume consider various aspects of this central political transformati…
The story of Ancient Egypt and the extraordinary civilisation that flourished along the banks of the River Nile can seem like a gorgeous pageant studded with exceptional events. Among them are the building of the pyramids, the conquest of Nubia, Akhenaten's religious revolution,…
Private associations organized around a common cult, profession, ethnic identity, neighbourhood or family were common throughout the Greco-Roman antiquity. This volume collects a representative selection of inscriptions from associations in Asia Minor and the north coast of the …
'Polybius and his World' honours Walbank's achievements by bringing together scholars in Hellenistic historiography and history. It re-examines a number of central Polybian themes Polybius' position between Greece and Rome, his account of the Roman constitution and the relations…