Showing posts with label ancient history. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Syria and Egypt: From the Tell el Amarna Letters (Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology)

Syria and Egypt
Syria and Egypt: From the Tell el Amarna Letters (Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology)
William Matthew Flinders Petrie (Author)

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A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. In the early 1890s, he carried out significant work at Tell el-Amarna, the site of the ancient capital of Akhetaten. The illustrated 1894 excavation report that he co-authored has also been reissued in this series, along with many of his other publications. Petrie played a notable part in the preservation of a number of cuneiform tablets that became known collectively as the Tell el-Amarna letters. In this 1898 work, he presents summaries of the most important documents. They offer insights into war, peace and diplomacy in the Near East during the reigns of Amenhotep III and Akhenaten in the fourteenth century BCE. Informative notes on individuals and places mentioned in the letters help set them in context, while the methods used to interpret them are also elucidated.

  • Rank: #2359482 in Books
  • Published on: 2013-09-05
  • Released on: 2014-02-10
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: .46" h x 5.51" w x 8.50" l, .58 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 202 pages

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen

Empress Zenobia
Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen
Pat Southern (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars(2)

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<div><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 27.5pt">T</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">he ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse, and the surviving literary works are biased towards the Roman point of view, much as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica. In <i>Empress Zenobia</i>, Pat Southern seeks to tell the other side of the legendary 3</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 6.0pt">rd </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">century queen's place in history. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></span><br/><p class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">As queen of Palmyra (present-day Syria), Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful and clever, gathering round her at the Palmyrene court writers and poets, artists and philosophers. It was said that Zenobia claimed descent from Cleopatra, which cannot be true but is indicative of how she saw herself and how she intended to be seen by others at home and abroad. This lively narrative explores the legendary queen and charts the progression of her unequivocal declaration, not only of independence from Rome, but of supremacy. Initially, Zenobia acknowledged the suzerainty of the Roman Emperors, but finally began to call herself Augusta and her son Vaballathus Augustus. There could be no clearer challenge to the authority of Rome in the east, drawing the Emperor Aurelian to the final battles and the submission of Palmyra in AD 272. <o:p></o:p></span></p><br/><p class=MsoNormal style="mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Zenobia's story has inspired many melodramatic fictions but few factual volumes of any authority have been published. Pat Southern's book is a lively account that is both up to date and authoritative, as well as thoroughly engaging. </span></p></div>>

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  • Published on: 2009-01-17
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 9.06" h x 6.10" w x .98" l, 1.10 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 224 pages

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians)

Chronicle of
Chronicle of Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians)
Frank R. Trombley (Translator), John W. Watt (Translator)
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This is a Syriac text written, in all probability, by an inhabitant of Edessa almost immediately after the conclusion of the war between Rome and Persia in 502–506 AD. Although that conflict is treated in other ancient texts, none of them can match "Joshua" in his wealth of detail, his familiarity with the region where the hostilities occurred, and his proximity in time to the events. The Chronicle also vividly describes the famine and plague that swept through Edessa in the years immediately before the war. The work is a document of great importance for both the social and military history of late antiquity, remarkable for the information it provides on Roman and Persian empires alike.

  • Rank: #1593498 in Books
  • Published on: 2001-01-01
  • Original language: Syriac
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  • Dimensions: 7.87" h x 5.91" w x .0" l, .65 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 240 pages

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites: A Translation of the Syriac Text in Bedjam's Acta Martyrum Et Sanctorum (Christian Roman Empire Series)

The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites
The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites: A Translation of the Syriac Text in Bedjam's Acta Martyrum Et Sanctorum (Christian Roman Empire Series)
Frederick Lent (Author)

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Originally published in 1915, this English translation of The Life of Saint Simeon the Stylite is a fascinating account of the prototypical pillar saint the first of those amazing holy athletes who took their stand atop a high column. Of uncertain authorship, this vita was originally written in Syriac and was most likely penned shortly after Simeon s death in AD 459.

Much of Simeon s biography consists of mystical events, miraculous cures, piety rewarded, depravity punished, divine and satanic interventions in the lives of men. But the vita also contains a wealth of information about monastic and penitential practices and provides dozens of vignettes chronicling daily Christian life and the many hardships faced by ordinary citizens of the late Roman Empire in the East.

This book also includes an article by Charles C. Torrey (1899) entitled, "The Letters of Simeon the Stylite." This article offers English translations of several letters purportedly written by Simeon, along with a useful discussion of the controversy over the saint's opinion of the Council of Chalcedon.

  • Rank: #141776 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-12-15
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Dimensions: 7.64" h x 5.43" w x .39" l, .42 pounds
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 172 pages

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The World of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History

The World of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms
The World of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms: A Political and Military History
Trevor Bryce (Author)

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In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. In the subsequent Iron Age, numerous cities and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northern Syria, which are generally known today as the "Neo-Hittite kingdoms." Bryce's volume gives an account of the military and political history of these kingdoms, moving beyond the Neo-Hittites themselves to the broader Near Eastern world and the states which dominated it during the Iron Age.

Divided into three sections, The World of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms looks at the last decades of the empire and the features of these kingdoms and their subsequent treatment under their Anatolian successors. Through a closer look at the individual Neo-Hittite kingdoms and their rulers and a comparison with the contemporary Aramaean states and the other kingdoms of the age--notably the Neo-Assyrian empire --it concludes with a historical synthesis of the Neo-Hittites when the last kingdom was absorbed into the Assyrian provincial administration.

  • Rank: #570938 in Books
  • Published on: 2012-04-07
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: 9.49" h x 6.50" w x .0" l, 1.80 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 320 pages

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author trevor bryce format hardback language english publication year 15 03 2012 subject history military subject 2 ancient history title the world of the neo hittite kingdoms a political and military history author trevor bryce publisher oup oxford publication date may 22 2012 pages 356 binding hardcover dimensions 6 50 wx 9 50 hx 0 75 d isbn 0199218722 subject history ancient general brand new hardcover all orders get full access to our online status tracking service allowing you to view rea

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In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. In the subsequent Iron Age, numerous cities and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northern Syria, which are generally known today as the 'Neo-Hittite kingdoms'. Bryce's volume gives an account of the military and political history of these kingdoms, moving beyond the Neo-Hittites themselves to the broader Near Eastern world and the states which dominated it during the Iron Age.Divided into three sections, The World of Neo-Hittite Kingdoms looks at the last decades of the empire and the features of these kingdoms and their subsequent treatment under their Anatolian successors. Through a closer look at the individual Neo-Hittite kingdoms and their rulers and a comparison with the contemporary Aramaean states and the other kingdoms of the age - notably the Neo-Assyrian empire - it concludes with a historical synthesis of the Neo-Hittites when the last kingdom was absorbed into the Assyrian provincial administration.

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Categories: Ancient History * General. Contributors: Trevor Bryce - Author. Format: Hardcover