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Epic and history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub
| Epic and history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
| Disciplina |
809.132
810.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KonstanDavid
RaaflaubKurt A |
| Collana | The ancient world, comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Epic literature - History and criticism
Literature and history History in literature |
| ISBN |
1-282-34985-6
9786612349850 1-4443-1563-3 1-4443-1564-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Epic and History; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Maybe Epic: The Origins and Reception of Sumerian Heroic Poetry; 3 Historical Events and the Process of Their Transformation in Akkadian Heroic Traditions; 4 Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero; 5 Manly Deeds: Hittite Admonitory History and Eastern Mediterranean Didactic Epic; 6 Epic and History in the Hebrew Bible: Definitions, "Ethnic Genres," and the Challenges of Cultural Identity in the Biblic
7 No Contest between Memory and Invention: The Invention of the Pandava Heroes of the Mahabharata 8 From "Imperishable Glory" to History: The Iliad and the Trojan War; 9 Historical Narrative in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Elegy; 10 Fact, Fiction, and Form in Early Roman Epic; 11 The Song and the Sword: Silius' Punica and the Crisis of Early Imperial Epic; 12 The Burden of Mortality: Alexander and the Dead in Persian Epic and Beyond; 13 Slavic Epic: Past Tales and Present Myths; 14 Historicity and Anachronism in Beowulf 15 The Nibelungenlied - Myth and History: A Middle High German Epic Poem at the Crossroads of Past and Present, Despair and H16 Medieval Epic and History in the Romance Literatures; 17 Roland's Migration from Anglo-Norman Epic to Royal French Chronicle History; 18 A Recurrent Theme of the Spanish Medieval Epic: Complaints and Laments by Noble Women; 19 History in Medieval Scandinavian Heroic Literature and the Northwest European Context; 20 Traditional History in South Slavic Oral Epic; 21 Lord Five Thunder and the 12 Eagles and Jaguars of Rabinal Meet Charlemagne and the 12 Knights of France 22 History, Myth, and Social Function in Southern African Nguni Praise Poetry 23 Epic and History in the Arabic Tradition; 24 Comments on "Epic and History""; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139860203321 |
| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Epic and history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub
| Epic and history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Konstan and Kurt A. Raaflaub |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
| Disciplina |
809.132
810.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
KonstanDavid
RaaflaubKurt A |
| Collana | The ancient world, comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Epic literature - History and criticism
Literature and history History in literature |
| ISBN |
1-282-34985-6
9786612349850 1-4443-1563-3 1-4443-1564-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Epic and History; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Maybe Epic: The Origins and Reception of Sumerian Heroic Poetry; 3 Historical Events and the Process of Their Transformation in Akkadian Heroic Traditions; 4 Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero; 5 Manly Deeds: Hittite Admonitory History and Eastern Mediterranean Didactic Epic; 6 Epic and History in the Hebrew Bible: Definitions, "Ethnic Genres," and the Challenges of Cultural Identity in the Biblic
7 No Contest between Memory and Invention: The Invention of the Pandava Heroes of the Mahabharata 8 From "Imperishable Glory" to History: The Iliad and the Trojan War; 9 Historical Narrative in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Elegy; 10 Fact, Fiction, and Form in Early Roman Epic; 11 The Song and the Sword: Silius' Punica and the Crisis of Early Imperial Epic; 12 The Burden of Mortality: Alexander and the Dead in Persian Epic and Beyond; 13 Slavic Epic: Past Tales and Present Myths; 14 Historicity and Anachronism in Beowulf 15 The Nibelungenlied - Myth and History: A Middle High German Epic Poem at the Crossroads of Past and Present, Despair and H16 Medieval Epic and History in the Romance Literatures; 17 Roland's Migration from Anglo-Norman Epic to Royal French Chronicle History; 18 A Recurrent Theme of the Spanish Medieval Epic: Complaints and Laments by Noble Women; 19 History in Medieval Scandinavian Heroic Literature and the Northwest European Context; 20 Traditional History in South Slavic Oral Epic; 21 Lord Five Thunder and the 12 Eagles and Jaguars of Rabinal Meet Charlemagne and the 12 Knights of France 22 History, Myth, and Social Function in Southern African Nguni Praise Poetry 23 Epic and History in the Arabic Tradition; 24 Comments on "Epic and History""; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817299103321 |
| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Geography and ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert
| Geography and ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.23
930 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RaaflaubKurt A
TalbertRichard J. A. <1947-> |
| Collana | The ancient world comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Geographical perception
Human geography Civilization, Ancient |
| ISBN |
1-282-46165-6
9786612461651 1-4443-1565-X 1-4443-1566-8 |
| Classificazione | LC 50000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Geography and Ethnography; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India; 3 Humans, Demons, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India; 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China; 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China; 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires; 7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview; 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination; 9 Inca Worldview
10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt; 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees; 13 ""I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea"": Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World; 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure; 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia; 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels; 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns; 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500-1750; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139485703321 |
| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Geography and ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert
| Geography and ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 p.) |
| Disciplina |
304.23
930 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
RaaflaubKurt A
TalbertRichard J. A. <1947-> |
| Collana | The ancient world comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Geographical perception
Human geography Civilization, Ancient |
| ISBN |
1-282-46165-6
9786612461651 1-4443-1565-X 1-4443-1566-8 |
| Classificazione | LC 50000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Geography and Ethnography; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India; 3 Humans, Demons, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India; 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China; 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China; 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires; 7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview; 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination; 9 Inca Worldview
10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt; 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees; 13 ""I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea"": Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World; 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure; 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia; 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels; 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns; 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500-1750; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996441544703316 |
| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
| ||
The Greek polis and the invention of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner
| The Greek polis and the invention of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (412 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.938/5 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->
RaaflaubKurt A WagnerPeter <1956-> |
| Collana | Ancient world : comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Democracy - Greece - History - To 1500
City-states - Greece - History - To 1500 Social change - Greece - History - To 1500 Citizenship - Greece - History - To 1500 Politics and culture - Greece - History - To 1500 Arts - Political aspects - Greece - History - To 1500 Civilization - Greek influences |
| ISBN |
1-118-56167-8
1-118-56176-7 1-299-44889-5 1-118-56160-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner -- Part I. The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective -- Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye : Civilizational and Political Transformations / Johann P. Arnason -- Transformations of Democracy : Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective / Peter Wagner -- Part II. Ways of Polis-making : Grasping the Novelty of the Political -- To Act with Good Advice : Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere / Egon Flaig -- Democracy and Dissent : The Case of Comedy / Lucio Bertelli -- Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece / Jonas Grethlein -- Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens / Harvey Yunis -- Law and Democracy in Classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni -- Democracy and Political Philosophy : Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement / Ryan Balot -- Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens / Elizabeth Meyer -- Part III. Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments -- Perfecting the Political Creature (z?ion politikon) : Equality and "the Political" in the Evolution of Greek Democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong -- The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139030503321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The Greek polis and the invention of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner
| The Greek polis and the invention of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (412 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.938/5 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->
RaaflaubKurt A WagnerPeter <1956-> |
| Collana | Ancient world : comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Democracy - Greece - History - To 1500
City-states - Greece - History - To 1500 Social change - Greece - History - To 1500 Citizenship - Greece - History - To 1500 Politics and culture - Greece - History - To 1500 Arts - Political aspects - Greece - History - To 1500 Civilization - Greek influences |
| ISBN |
1-118-56167-8
1-118-56176-7 1-299-44889-5 1-118-56160-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner -- Part I. The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective -- Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye : Civilizational and Political Transformations / Johann P. Arnason -- Transformations of Democracy : Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective / Peter Wagner -- Part II. Ways of Polis-making : Grasping the Novelty of the Political -- To Act with Good Advice : Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere / Egon Flaig -- Democracy and Dissent : The Case of Comedy / Lucio Bertelli -- Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece / Jonas Grethlein -- Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens / Harvey Yunis -- Law and Democracy in Classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni -- Democracy and Political Philosophy : Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement / Ryan Balot -- Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens / Elizabeth Meyer -- Part III. Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments -- Perfecting the Political Creature (z?ion politikon) : Equality and "the Political" in the Evolution of Greek Democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong -- The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996441547603316 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
| ||
The Greek polis and the invention of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner
| The Greek polis and the invention of democracy [[electronic resource] ] : a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations / / edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (412 p.) |
| Disciplina | 320.938/5 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->
RaaflaubKurt A WagnerPeter <1956-> |
| Collana | Ancient world : comparative histories |
| Soggetto topico |
Democracy - Greece - History - To 1500
City-states - Greece - History - To 1500 Social change - Greece - History - To 1500 Citizenship - Greece - History - To 1500 Politics and culture - Greece - History - To 1500 Arts - Political aspects - Greece - History - To 1500 Civilization - Greek influences |
| ISBN |
1-118-56167-8
1-118-56176-7 1-299-44889-5 1-118-56160-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub, and Peter Wagner -- Part I. The Greek Experience in Long-term Perspective -- Exploring the Greek Needle's Eye : Civilizational and Political Transformations / Johann P. Arnason -- Transformations of Democracy : Towards a History of Political Thought and Practice in Long-term Perspective / Peter Wagner -- Part II. Ways of Polis-making : Grasping the Novelty of the Political -- To Act with Good Advice : Greek Tragedy and the Democratic Political Sphere / Egon Flaig -- Democracy and Dissent : The Case of Comedy / Lucio Bertelli -- Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-century Greece / Jonas Grethlein -- Political Uses of Rhetoric in Democratic Athens / Harvey Yunis -- Law and Democracy in Classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni -- Democracy and Political Philosophy : Influences, Tensions, Rapprochement / Ryan Balot -- Inscriptions and the City in Democratic Athens / Elizabeth Meyer -- Part III. Changing a Way of Life : Democracy's Impact on polis-Society -- The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life / Sara Forsdyke -- The Participation of the demos in Decision-Making : Principles and Reality / Claude Mossé -- Democracy and Religion in Classical Greece / Robin Osborne -- Democracy and War / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Part IV. Political Concepts and Commitments -- Perfecting the Political Creature (z?ion politikon) : Equality and "the Political" in the Evolution of Greek Democracy / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong -- The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828276603321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The Roman empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub
| The Roman empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Disciplina |
937.06
937/.06 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->
RaaflaubKurt A |
| Collana | Ancient World: Comparative Histories |
| ISBN |
1-283-51415-X
9786613826602 1-4443-9020-1 1-4443-9018-X 1-4443-9019-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Expansion and Transformation; 2 From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective; 3 The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance; 4 Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon; Part II Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity; 5 The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the RomanEmpire
6 The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity7 Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium; Part III Destinies of the Roman Legacy; 8 The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West; 9 The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE; 10 The First Islamic Empire; Part IV Comparative Perspectives; 11 From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria; 12 China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government; 13 The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran 14 The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of RomePart V Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections; 15 The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization; 16 Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions; General Index; Index of Sources (selective) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910140850703321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The Roman empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub
| The Roman empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Disciplina |
937.06
937/.06 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->
RaaflaubKurt A |
| Collana | Ancient World: Comparative Histories |
| ISBN |
1-283-51415-X
9786613826602 1-4443-9020-1 1-4443-9018-X 1-4443-9019-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Expansion and Transformation; 2 From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective; 3 The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance; 4 Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon; Part II Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity; 5 The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the RomanEmpire
6 The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity7 Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium; Part III Destinies of the Roman Legacy; 8 The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West; 9 The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE; 10 The First Islamic Empire; Part IV Comparative Perspectives; 11 From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria; 12 China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government; 13 The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran 14 The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of RomePart V Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections; 15 The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization; 16 Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions; General Index; Index of Sources (selective) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830446703321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The Roman empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub
| The Roman empire in context : historical and comparative perspectives / / edited by Johann P. Arnason and Kurt A. Raaflaub |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Disciplina |
937.06
937/.06 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ÁrnasonJóhann Páll <1940->
RaaflaubKurt A |
| Collana | Ancient World: Comparative Histories |
| ISBN |
1-283-51415-X
9786613826602 1-4443-9020-1 1-4443-9018-X 1-4443-9019-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; Part I Expansion and Transformation; 2 From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective; 3 The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance; 4 Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon; Part II Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity; 5 The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the RomanEmpire
6 The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity7 Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium; Part III Destinies of the Roman Legacy; 8 The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West; 9 The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE; 10 The First Islamic Empire; Part IV Comparative Perspectives; 11 From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria; 12 China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government; 13 The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran 14 The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of RomePart V Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections; 15 The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization; 16 Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions; General Index; Index of Sources (selective) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910840757803321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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