Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia
Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia

Author: Bryan K. Hanks

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-08-31

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0521517125

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Challenges current interpretations of social and cultural change in prehistoric Eurasia, through a thematic investigation of archaeological patterns.

Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom
Mithridates VI and the Pontic Kingdom

Author: Jakob Munk Hojte

Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Published: 2009-06-22

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 8779346553

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Mithridates VI Eupator, the last king of Pontos, was undoubtedly one of the most prominent figures in the late Hellenistic period. Throughout his long reign (120-63 BC), the political and cultural landscape of Asia Minor and the Black Sea area was reshaped along new lines. The authors present new archaeological research and new interpretations of various aspects of Pontic society and its contacts with the Greek world and its eastern neighbours and investigate the background for the expansion of the Pontic Kingdom that eventually led to the confrontation with Rome.

A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001
A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001

Author: C. Edmund Bosworth

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2001-10-25

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780197262436

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The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilisations of the East sympathetically. Through the careers and achievements of these influential scholars these essays shed light on studies ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Hebrew, through Arabic, Persian and Turkish, to Indology, Chinese and Japanese. With important changes of methodology and approach to the cultures and religions of Asia, the twentieth century has been an exciting and fruitful period for Oriental Studies in Britain.