A key component of the view that Galilee was thoroughly Hellenized is the belief that Greek was widely spoken. Proponents of this position cite several arguments for support: centuries of exposure to ...

And I think the most important thing is that you would have seen the typical institutions of Roman culture.... You would have seen a Roman odeum, a Roman hippodrome, a place where you have the ...

Best books on Roman history, from Romulus and Remus to the decline of Empire - A curated list for those who can’t stop ...

Ancient Greek kingdoms existed in China, and there was a significant spread of Hellenism in Asia, including in Japan and ...

Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the Spartans. Falling prey to ...

Jewish culture and civilization during the Hellenistic ... one of the people who was trying to explain Christianity to the Greco-Roman world and doing so in the context of and using the categories ...

This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish ...

and reads that text as a meditation on an aesthetic and ontological question, in dialogue with 'contemporary' debates – contemporary with debates in the Greco-Roman culture that gave rise to the story ...

Our survey courses in Greco-Roman history and culture are offered alongside more specialized topics such as multiculturalism, beast literature, ancient medicine, and Roman law. Classical Studies, for ...

Somewhere in the background of today’s passages hides the sacramental analogy that refers to the church as bride and Christ ...

This is not your normal defense of the humanities. That’s because the barbarians are at the gate. Classics — the study of the ...

A new book on Hotan's history and culture was published by Beijing-based ... Mesopotamian, and even Greco-Roman. Merged together, a brilliant ancient civilization has risen. Animal husbandry ...