Thomas Harrison (2) (1969–)
Autore di The Great Empires of the Ancient World
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The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus (1999) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
What is a God? Studies in the Nature of Greek Divinity (Classical Press of Wales) (1997) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (2003) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus: New Approaches in Archaeology and History (New Perspectives on the Ancient World S.) (2000) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
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- Opere
- 11
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- 16
- Utenti
- 124
- Popolarità
- #161,165
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- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 50
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Several authors say that their respective empires are probably not empires by any "modern definition of empire" because they are not unified and centralized. But no definition of "empire" is ever given, not even in the introduction. They probably mean "a definition of modern empire"; they seem unware of the fact that virtually all definitions of premodern, non-western empires would emphasize their diversity, forms of indirect rule, and lack of unity and centralization. And most empires in world history ARE premodern and non-western.
The authors who were given the chapter on the Hellenistic period are so in awe of Alexander "the Great" that they forget to give sufficient attention to the three long-lasting successor polities, the Seleucid, Ptolemaic, and Antigonid empires. The Caliphate/Umayyad Empire is conspicuously absent even from the chapter that deals with the Sasanians.… (altro)