Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx’s concept of an “Asiatic” mode of production, Wittfogel’s “hydraulic hypothesis,” and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ra...(展开全部)

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the long-awaited English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolaria della Lingua Greca. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally even beyond. Christian literat...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 约翰·伯瑞（J.B. Bury，1861–1927)，英国著名古典学者、拜占庭史学家和语言学家。1893-1902任都柏林三一大学伊拉斯谟·史密斯（Erasmus Smith）讲座教授。1902年直至逝世，任剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授。 【译者简介】 符莹岩，北京大学历史学博士，上海交通大学博士后。研究领域为希腊罗马史。 张继华，北京师范大学历史学博士，现供职于首都博物馆。研究领域为希腊罗马史和博物馆学。曾参与2010年国家社科基金重大招标项目《剑桥古代史》的翻译工作。

【作者简介】 约翰·伯瑞（J.B. Bury，1861–1927)，英国著名古典学者、拜占庭史学家和语言学家。1893-1902任都柏林三一大学伊拉斯谟·史密斯（Erasmus Smith）讲座教授。1902年直至逝世，任剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授。 【译者简介】 符莹岩，北京大学历史学博士，上海交通大学博士后。研究领域为希腊罗马史。 张继华，北京师范大学历史学博士，现供职于首都博物馆。研究领域为希腊罗马史和博物馆学。曾参与2010年国家社科基金重大招标项目《剑桥古代史》的翻译工作。

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...(展开全部)

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as...(展开全部)

Highlights the relevance of Nietzsche's thinking about human nature for contemporary debates in biopolitics and posthumanism Nietzsche coins the enigmatic term homo natura to capture his understanding of the human being as a creature of nature and tasks philosophy with the renaturalisation of humanity. Following Foucault's critique of the human sciences, Vanessa Lemm discusses ...(展开全部)

This collection contains more than 30 enthralling new retellings of favorite myths as well as some you might not have heard before! Including Theseus and the Minotaur, The Twelve Labours of Herakles, and the escapades of Jason and the Argonauts, each myth is told in engaging modern language, which is easy for children to understand yet still retains the humor and intrigue of th...(展开全部)