In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A
Książka została poświęcona odznakom, odznaczeniom i orderom wojskowym w armii rzymskiej. Napisana została przez eksperta od tej tematyki, a mianowicie Profesor archeologii, Valerie Maxfield z Uniwersytetu w Exeter.
In The Ancient Economy Professor Finley makes the first attempt at a systematic formulation of concepts through which the economy of ancient Greeks and Romans can be analysed and for which modern categories - capital, labour, investment, market, credit - cannot be automatically employed. The
A Greek who lived in Asia Minor during the second century A.D., Pausanias traveled through Greece and wrote an invaluable description of its classical sites that is a treasure trove of information on archaeology, religion, history, and art. Although ignored during his own time, Pausanias is
Spis treści Arguing and Giving Reasons 1 Consistency 6 Doubt and Certainty 11 Inference 17 Observation Memory Testimony 23 Uses of Argument 26 Logical Validity 32 Truth and Falsehood 35 Existential Import of Categorical Schemata 53 Use of Diagrams to Test Validity of Schemata 56 Use of
In this volume, thirteen philosophers contribute new essays analyzing the criteria for personal identity and their import on ethics and the theory of action: it presents contemporary treatments of the issues discussed in Personal Identity, edited by John Perry (University of California Press, 1975)
A well-written and beautifully illustrated book on foot binding and the exquisite shoes designed for the tiny feet.
Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this brilliantly original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West? Beginning with a meditation on Auschwitz, the prizewinning author then takes us on a journey that encompasses the
This study is the first of its kind: a street-level inside account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. Stephen Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly
