Two archaeologists trace the development of ancient civilizations and discuss how and why these civilizations collapsed

The Making of Civilization: History Discovered Through Archaeology

History

Wilkins, John

Whitehouse, Ruth

World

HarperCollins, Publishers

This book explains the importance of food to ancient Greek comedy: it was a medium through which comedy could represent the material, social, agricultural, political and religious worlds to the Greek city-state. The text also contains translations of hundreds of comic fragments; and it reassesses the division of comedy into Sicilian and Attic Old, Middle, and New.

The Boastful Chef: The Discourse of Food in Ancient Greek Comedy

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

The Mathematical And Philosophical Works Of The Right Rev. John Wilkins, Late Lord Bishop Of Chester: Iii. An Abstract Of His Essay Towards A Real Character, And A Philosophical Language

Computers & Technology

Franklin Classics

The Mathematical and Philosophical Works of the Right Rev. John Wilkins (Routledge Revivals)

Routledge

Lightly Used Softcover Edition published by Alfred A. Knopf, N.Y., 1986, 207 pages in Very Good Condition. Front Cover shows some minor wear along the corner tips. Back Cover does has a crease on the lower corner. Text is clean and unmarked with no rips, tears, creases, loose or bent pages. Spine is firm and uncreased. PLEASE SEE THE 13 PHOTOS THAT I POSTED ON THE PRODUCT PAGE OF THIS BOOK. A colorful and fascinating book filled with color & black and white photographs along with a lively, authoritative text written by two expert professional archaeologists, Dr. Wilkins and Dr. Whitehouse. Well-researched with an impressive body of work from years of excavating, surveying, searching through ruins, comparing and speculating, this book is an ideal introduction into historical archaeology and our distant past. A fascinating exploration on why civilizations collapse and die. A truly fascinating and comprehensive edition. We ship within 24 hours of your purchase with a Delivery Confirmation.

The Making of Civilization - History Discovered Through Archaeology

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Alfred.A. Knopf

In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and apractising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating anddrinking.Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200AD.Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linkedwith morality and the social order.Concerns people from all walks of life – impoverishedcitizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties anddrinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes.Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer toJuvenal and Petronius.

Food in the Ancient World (Ancient Cultures)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Hill, Shaun

Cooking Education & Reference

Wiley/Blackwell

In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. <ul>
<li>Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD. 
</li> <li>Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order. 
</li> <li>Concerns people from all walks of life – impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites. 
</li> <li>Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes. 
</li> <li>Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.</li> </ul>

Food in the Ancient World

Due to the scarcity of surviving texts by other poets, it is easy to forget that Aristophanes wrote for competition and that rivalry was an important component in the rhetoric of his comedies, especially Clouds and Knights . This important study, comprising 26 essays by leading international scholars presented at a conference held at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in 1996, aims to promote a better understanding of Aristophanes' work by assessing that of his many rivals, including Cratinus, Hermippus and Eupolis, who regularly triumphed over Aristophanes at major civic festivals. The papers also consider the evidence for Aristophanes' rival poets in other sources, notably painted vases. The chapters are divided into five sections: editing comic fragments, poets of Old Comedy, the transition to Middle Comedy, literary themes and social themes. Contributors: Kenneth Dover, W Geoffrey Arnott, Wolfgang Luppe, Ralph M Rosen, James Davidson, S Douglas Olson, Dwora Gilula, David Harvey, Jeffrey Henderson, David Braund, Giorgos Kavvadias, Ian C Storey, Thomas Braun, Heinz-Guenther Nesselrath, Keith Sidwell, N J Lowe, Bernhard Zimmermann, Stephen Colvin, Michael Silk, Angus Bowie, John Wilkins, Nick Fisher, Andrew Dalby, Edith Hall, Christopher Carey, Alan H Sommerstein, Paola Ceccarelli, Ian Ruffell.

The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy

Harvey,David

Poetry

Classical Pr of Wales

In this book, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, takes a systematic look at the 2010 English translation of the Roman Missal and the ways it fails to achieve what the Second Vatican Council mandated: the full participation of priest and people. Critiquing the unsatisfactory principles prescribed by the Vatican instruction Liturgiam Authenticam (2001), this book, which includes a chapter by John Wilkins:
<ul>
<li>tells the story of the maneuverings that sidelined the 1998 translation approved by eleven conferences of English-speaking bishops,</li>
<li>criticizes the 2010 translation, and</li>
<li>illustrates the clear superiority of the 1998 translation, the "Missal that never was"</li>
</ul>

Lost in Translation: The English Language and the Catholic Mass

Religion & Spirituality

O'Collins SJ, Gerald

Christian Books & Bibles

Liturgical Press

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