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The Construction of Time in Antiquity
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Jonathan Ben-Dov
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Time stands at the heart of human experience. In this book, new investigations illuminate the gamut of human engagement with time in antiquity.
Time at Emar
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Daniel E. Fleming
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-23 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought this area to light, thanks to salvage oper
Visions of the Future in Roman Frontier Kingdoms 100 BCE–100 CE
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Richard Teverson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-09-03 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This is the first book-length exploration of the ways art from the edges of the Roman Empire represented the future, examining visual representations of time an
Portrait of a Priestess
Language: en
Pages: 458
Authors: Joan Breton Connelly
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly
Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Anna Slaczka
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-31 - Publisher: BRILL

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As in various other cultures, in the Hindu tradition of the Indian Subcontinent construction rituals accompany the construction of a temple, from the moment of
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