Religion - Ancient

From a "remarkably gifted historian" (New York Times), the definitive account of the golden age of Rome -- an ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatness The Pax Romana has long been shorthand for the empire's golden age. Stretching from Caledonia to Arabia,...

An intimate and human portrait of Perpetua, a third-century woman author who was idealized as a Christian martyr On March 7, 203, in the monumental amphitheater at Carthage, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the...

Pidot (Symposion)Viisas Sokrates vakuuttaa Symposionissa ymmrtvns, jollei mitn muuta, niin ainakin rakkautta. Saman tunnustuksen voisi Platon antaa itsestn. Siit mit molemmat tss suhteessa ovat tehneet tai lausuneet, on paljon kirjoitettu ja paljon kiistelty. Kauniita nuorukaisia metsstv Sokrates ja poikarakkaudesta avoimesti puhuva Platon ovat olleet...

Plato and PlatonismThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the...

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1The present work is intended as a sequel and supplement to my History of Greece. It describes a portion of Hellenic philosophy: it dwells upon eminent individuals, enquiring, theorising, reasoning, confuting, &c., as contrasted...

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2This dialogue is carried on between Sokrates and Alkibiades. It introduces Alkibiades as about twenty years of age, having just passed through the period of youth, and about to enter on the privileges and...

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 3 I put together these two dialogues, as distinguished by a marked peculiarity. They are the two erotic dialogues of Plato. They have one great and interesting subject common to both: though in the...

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 4The Republic is the longest of all the Platonic dialogues, except the dialogue De Legibus. It consists of ten books, each of them as long as any one of the dialogues which we have...

"I sing of arms and the man" wrote Vergil at the start of the Aeneid, one of Rome's most iconic origin stories as it explores the tumultuous journey of Aeneas from Trojan prince to Roman hero. But did Aeneas actually flee from Troy? How...

Sacred Nile is the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. Chester Higgins celebrates the agency of people of African descent and their influence on the foundation of Western religion. His images illustrate how faith migrated up and down the River Nile from...

Sophist The dramatic power of the dialogues of Plato appears to diminish as the metaphysical interest of them increases (compare Introd. to the Philebus). There are no descriptions of time, place or persons, in the Sophist and Statesman, but we are plunged at once...

ΠολιτικόςNote: The tonic system has been changed from polytonic to monotonic. Three errors indicated in a Table of Errors have been corrected in the text. The spelling of the book has not been changed otherwise. Words with bold characters are enclosed in &. ,...

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact--a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted...

Outreach 2025 Recommended Resource of the Year (Culture)The first Christians were weird.Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and practiced a whole new way of doing...

Originally published in 1944, 'Sumerian Mythology' was written by Samuel Noah Kramer, a leading figure in the creation of the modern discipline of Sumerology. He was the first to piece together, decipher, and edit major works of Sumerian mythology and literature.The Sumerians were a...

Symposium Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author...

In The Ancient City, Fustel de Coulanges hands us the skeleton key unlocking classical civilization--the Indo-European domestic cult--showing this archaic religion to be the engine behind the rise and fall of the classical world.In his foreword, Dennis Bouvard views The Ancient City through the...

Collector's Edition Laminated Hardback with Jacket The Apocrypha: The Complete Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible presents a rich compilation of biblical texts bridging the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. These writings, often celebrated for their historical and theological significance, include narratives like 1...

The Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus - Translated into English with Introduction and NotesThe early Church Orders were systematic manuals of disciplinary and liturgical rules for which the collective authority of the whole apostolate was claimed. They made their appearance in the second century, grew...

"A marvelous work of scholarship and storytelling" (Wall Street Journal​), offering a global history of the world's best-known and most influential book For Christians, the Bible is a book inspired by God. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands....