The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting
The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting

Author: David W. J. Gill

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1994-05

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9780802848475

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The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting locates the Book of Acts within various regional and cultural settings in the eastern Mediterranean. These studies draw on recent archaeological fieldwork and epigraphic discoveries to describe the key cities and provinces within the Roman Empire. The relevant societal aspects of these regions, such as the Roman legal system, Roman religion, and the problem of transport and travel, all help contextualize the book of Acts.

Understanding Architecture
Understanding Architecture

Author: Leland M. Roth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 1193

ISBN-13: 042997521X

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This widely acclaimed, beautifully illustrated survey of Western architecture is now fully revised throughout, including essays on non-Western traditions. The expanded book vividly examines the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture in ways that are both accessible and engaging.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens

Author: Jenifer Neils

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-18

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1108484557

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This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.

Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome
Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome

Author: Tonio Hölscher

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018-06-22

Total Pages: 671

ISBN-13: 0520421442

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Visual culture was an essential part of ancient social, religious, and political life. Appearance and experience of beings and things was of paramount importance. In Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome, Tonio Hölscher explores the fundamental phenomena of Greek and Roman visual culture and their enormous impact on the ancient world, considering memory over time, personal appearance, conceptualization and representation of reality, and significant decoration as fundamental categories of art as well as of social practice. With an emphasis on public spaces such as sanctuaries, agora and forum, Hölscher investigates the ways in which these spaces were used, viewed, and experienced in religious rituals, political manifestations, and social interaction.

The Ancient Circuit Walls of Athens
The Ancient Circuit Walls of Athens

Author: Anna Maria Theocharaki

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-12-02

Total Pages: 617

ISBN-13: 3110637065

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In Athens, most remains of the ancient city-wall were revealed during rescue excavations; as a result, documentation is scattered and fragmented. This book systematically investigates all published data, revealing the history and the nature of the surviving remains of this significant monument. The book provides an analysis of the ancient literary sources, the western travellers’ accounts, and the history of archaeological research on the circuit walls of ancient Athens. It collects, records, and maps all archaeological data from systematic and rescue excavations of the physical remains of the wall as it evolved over eleven centuries and through more than a dozen construction phases. It reviews issues relating to structure, chronology and topography of the ancient city wall, as well as to the management of its remains by the state authorities. The enormous amount of primary evidence makes the book essential reading for scholars of the topography of ancient Athens. This monograph also aspires to increase community awareness of cultural heritage in everyday urban contexts, as the wall has been preserved in a number of ways: in basements of buildings, reburied in situ, in the open air or beneath glass floors.

From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius
From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius

Author: David Whitehead

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9783515065726

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What was a polis? The Copenhagen Polis Centre (core-funded by the Danish National Research Foundation) has recently begun a broad series of investigations into the origins, nature and development of the ancient Greek city-states (poleis). This empirical project will be grounded in a comprehensive inventory of all attested poleis of the late archaic and classical periods (ca. 600 - ca. 323 B.C.); and that in turn necessitates an attempt to establish working principles, in source-criticism and historical methodology generally, for the differentiation of poleis from communities of other types. The present volume is a collection of papers, from members of the Centre, which seek to make preliminary contributions to the clarification of such principles.