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The story of the Deluge, or the Global Flood of Noah, permeates nearly every culture in the world in some way, shape, or form. While details vary between the different cultures, the same basic elements occur in all versions. In 'Flood Legends', readers will discover: Detailed analysis of myth, legend, and historical details that are clues for a common, global event. Unique research from a comparative study supporting the biblical history. Despite...
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The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a 'revolution, which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth'.
This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as 'a bridge that carries one from the ancient world to the...
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"Shortlisted for the 2012 Runciman Award, Anglo-Hellenic League" Erich S. Gruen is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics (emeritus) at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans and Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition.
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves...
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No cabe duda de que el marxismo produjo un cambio profundo en la forma de entender la relación entre individuo y sociedad. Asimismo, el materialismo histórico, o método marxista de entender la Historia, transformó la forma de interpretar los acontecimientos y procesos históricos. Este cambio de paradigma alcanzó a los estudios sobre la Antigüedad, resignificando temas clásicos de estudio e introduciendo nuevos enfoques que revitalizaron la...
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The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to speculate on its layers of composition or second-guess its accuracy, it treated it as a work of art deserving rhetorical and aesthetic analysis. Ahead of its time in its sophisticated focus upon the verbal texture of narrative, it proved that a literary approach offered the...
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"The Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple. Martin Goodman describes the life of this book, from its composition in Greek for a Roman readership to the myriad ways it touched the lives of Jews and Christians over the span of two millennia. The scion of a priestly Jewish family, Josephus became a rebel general at...
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