Although there are many books on women in the ancient world, this is the first to explore in depth what life was like for women in the period of late antiquity (3rd to 6th centuries AD) once Christianity became the dominant religion. It is also unique in focusing on both pagan and Christian lifestyles. Dr Clark provides a fascinating and ...
Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing perspectives arising from a changing social and academic culture. Key issues concerning early Christianity are addressed, such as how early Christian accounts of pagans, Jews ...
"Out of the Frying Pan "is an empowering memoir that traces Gillian Clark's rise from a beginner to a top chef. But managing a kitchen also taught her about parenting. With a wealth of experience and wisdom, and a healthy dash of humor, Gillian now shares her life's recipes, from the solutions she cooked up for parenting challenges to her favorite ...
Providing an introduction to women's lives in late antiquity (3rd - 6th centuries AD) when Christianity became the dominant religion, this book ranges across both the Pagan and the Christian culture. It should be of interest to classicists, ancient historians and theologians, and scholars of patristics or life in the early Church, theologians and ...
One of the earliest autobiographies, as well the paradigm for all subsequent literary "confessions," St. Augustine's 13-volume work is a classic of Christian theology and Western philosophy. In the confessions, St. Augustine addresses God, revealing the details of his life up to his conversion to Christianity and reflecting on a former life of sin ...
One of the earliest autobiographies, as well the paradigm for all subsequent literary "confessions," St. Augustine's 13-volume work is a classic of Christian theology and Western philosophy. In the confessions, St. Augustine addresses God, revealing the details of his life up to his conversion to Christianity and reflecting on a former life of sin ...
Iamblichus, whose life spanned the late third and fourth centuries, was a celebrated Platonist philosopher. The Emperor Julian planned to use his work as the philosophical basis for a revival of pagan religion to meet the Christian challenge. This book is a study of Pythagoras. It is not an historical biography, but an account of Pythagoras and ...
Twenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralization. "Ancient Health" expands and celebrates that work. Confirming earlier conclusions that human health ...
This volume collects together 14 articles by leading authorities covering history, the law, mythology, literature, and religion in Graeco-Roman antiquity, reflecting 20 years of scholarship. The majority of articles have been updated to take account of the latest discoveries and developments, and the detailed and substantial introduction has been ...
Miriam Griffin is unrivalled as a bridge-builder, between historians of the Graeco-Roman world and students of its philosophies. This volume in her honour brings together seventeen international specialists. Their essays range from Socrates to late antiquity, extending to Diogenes, Cicero, Pliny the Elder, Marcus Aurelius, the Second Sophistic, ...
When Augustine wrote his Confessions in the last years of the fourth century, he was just over forty and had abandoned a successful career for a life of prayer and study. He interpreted his past life as a search for God, in which understanding and commitment had been frustrated by wrong education, mistaken ambition, sexual desire and sinful nature ...
Iamblichus, whose life spanned the late third and fourth centuries, was a celebrated Platonist philosopher. The Emperor Julian planned to use his work as the philosophical basis for a revival of pagan religion to meet the Christian challenge. This book is a study of Pythagoras. It is not an historical biography, but an account of Pythagoras and ...
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