Roger Backhouse.The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. 248 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-691-09626-0.

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Author(s):  
Salim Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
First Century ◽  
History Of Economics ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

Fates of Romes

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Alain Bresson
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

Kyle Harper's book The Fate of Rome marks the thunderous entry of Nature into the world of ancient history of the twenty-first century. This is not the first book devoted to questions of climate and diseases in the ancient world, but its publication nonetheless represents a turning point. From now on, whether they work on political, social, economic, or even religious history, ancient historians will no longer be able to ignore these factors in their own writings. That is not to say that all the theses of the book, especially its natural determinism, should be accepted uncritically.

Epic Heroes on Screen

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Active Point ◽  
Critical Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Complicated Nature

This is the first collection to look at the most recent manifestations of the ancient hero on screen. This volume written by scholars in the flourishing field of reception studies, enters the conversation at an active point in the history of the ancients on screen, when new ancients commonly arrive multiple times per year. It brings together an array of perspectives on twenty-first century cinematic representations of ancient world heroes and antiheroes –- from the mythical Hercules in various forms to famous leaders of the Greek and Roman worlds. Films and television series examined range from Hercules and The Legend of Hercules to Atlantis and Supernatural, as well as other biopic works influenced by the figure of the ancient hero. Using diverse critical practices, the authors question what it means to be an ancient hero on the screens of the twenty-first century. The volume includes an introduction and fourteen chapters that explore the complicated nature of the ancient hero (and the antihero) and the ways these figures are (re) invented on screen in recent works.

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