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Readings in late antiquity: a sourcebook
Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new “Germanic” kingdoms. In the East, Byzantium emerged, while the Persian Empire reached its apogee and collapsed. Arab armies carrying the banner of Islam reshaped the political map and brought the late antique era to a close.
Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome
By Richard A. Billows
Julius Caesar offers a lively, engaging, and thoroughly up-to-date account of Caesar’s life and times. Richard Billows’ dynamic and fast paced narrative offers an imaginative recounting of actions and events, providing the ideal introduction to Julius Caesar for general readers and students of classics and ancient history. Click here to read more.
The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World
By Yun Lee Too
In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex institution with many different forms. Click here to read more.
Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity
Edited by Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan
As the changes in the traditional family accelerated toward the end of the twentieth century, a great deal of attention came to focus on fathers, both modern and ancient. While academics and politicians alike singled out the conspicuous and growing absence of the modern father as a crucial factor affecting contemporary family and social dynamics, ancient historians and classicists have rarely explored ancient father-absence, despite the likelihood that nearly a third of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world were fatherless before they turned fifteen. Click here to read more.
More Books
Xenophon, edited by Vivienne J. Gray
Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great, Book 10, edited and translate by J. E. Atkinson and J. C. Yardley
Ancient Greek Religion: Historical Sources in Translation, edited by Emily Kearns
Historical Atlas of the Ancient World, edited by Anne Wittke, Eckhart Olshausen and Richard Szydlak
