This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, including information that is hard to find and even harder to decipher. Clear, authoritative, and highly organized, Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome provides a unique look at a civilization whose art, literature, law, and engineering influenced the whole of ...(展开全部)

From Ancient Greece, modern Western civilisation has derived many of its artistic philosophical and political ideals. But, in certain areas of sexual tolerance and inventiveness, we still have much to learn from the land and age which produced the most flourishing and creative culture of the ancient world. Professor Hans Licht, in this erudite and fascinating book, discusses in...(展开全部)

This single-author survey combines an authoritative and engaging retelling of the history of ancient Greece with an assessment of the relevance of the Greeks today. Drawing upon the latest archaeological research and a wealth of textual evidence, Jeremy McInerney describes an extraordinary culture that produced innovations in such areas as philosophy, democracy and medicine tha...(展开全部)

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGE An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by a rising star in archaeology Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the spr...(展开全部)

andbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan spans the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 through the end of the Edo (Tokugawa) period in 1868. The medieval and early modern eras in Japan were largely shaped by the rise of the warrior class. After 1603, with the founding of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japanese culture changed dramatically, but as cities grew and merchan...(展开全部)

作者简介： 弗雷德里克•乔治•凯尼恩爵士（Sir Frederic George Kenyon，1863—1952）是英国著名古典学家、圣经学家和古文书学家。1863年1月生于伦敦，先后就读于温切斯特公学和牛津大学新学院，毕业后1883年被遴选为牛津大学麦格达伦学院教研人员。1889年成为大英博物馆助理馆员，1898年被选为写本部副部长。1909年被任命为大英博物馆馆长、图书馆首席馆员，担任此职一直到1931年退休。其间，1912年被封为爵士，1913年担任古典学会会长，1917年成为英国人文与社会科学院院长，1918年成为英国皇家艺术学院古代史教授，1919年成为希腊学研究学会会长。 凯尼恩毕生致力于纸草文献的整理、研究和出版，著述颇丰，主要有：亚里士多德《雅典宪法》的首个校勘整理本以及英文翻译（1891, 1904, 1920），《大英博物馆所藏...(展开全部)