AWOL - The Ancient World Online

Wounded Heroes: Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and PhilosophyMarina Berzins McCoy  

Vulnerability is not often associated with virtue. Yet to be vulnerable is central to human experience. In this...

Festivals in Latin Literature: The Poetics of CelebrationAnke Walter  

Festivals feature prominently in Latin literature, even in works that are not explicitly dedicated to festive days lik...

Founding the City: Statecraft and Urbanism in Northeast Africa and Southwest Asia, c. 200–100 BCEFrançois Gerardin  

The founding, or re-founding, of cities was a powerful engine of local change in the empire(s) create...

The Marriage of Freedom and Justice, 3000-300 BCE: A New History of IdeasJan Dietrich  

This book provides a new history of ideas concerning freedom and justice by comparing undervalued sources from ancient Near Eastern cultures wit...

Multimodal Artefact Analysis in Ancient Studies: Investigating the interplay between material, pictorial, linguistic, and spatial forms of communication in Ancient Egypt and Western AsiaElisa Roßberger, FU Berlin, Germany; Patrizia Heindl, LMU, Munic...