Byzantine primary sources portray women as both public and secluded figures. Scholars have suggested that idealized stereotypes of secluded chaste women or fluctuations in the actual practice of secluding women could explain the discrepancy. Neither of these theories satisfactorily explains the contradictions. This study determines that by tracing the practice of secluding women in the gynaeceum, or women's quarters, from its origins in the ancient Greek world through to the Byzantine period, the dichotomy can be solved. By studying the ancient gynaeceum it is determined that wealthier women were secluded, but they could leave their homes for certain acceptable reasons.
Have you ever wondered what ancient civilizations looked like? Or where they were in comparison to where we live today? This unique atlas will take you on an incredible journey around the world and through time to explore the worlds of Egyptian pharaohs, Japanese dynasties, Peruvian peoples, and more. Experience a Mayan basketball game, climb the ziggurat steps at Chichén Itzá; and find out what happened behind formidable castle walls in the ancient Saxon countryside - all in the pages of the Atlas of Ancient Worlds.
Picking up shortly after the events of 2005's Dance of Death, the book opens with the arrival of a package of fine dust at the Museum of Natural History; Diogenes has returned the diamonds he stole earlier. Meanwhile, Aloysius is in prison, having been framed for a number of murders. As his friends plot to spring him, his adversary lays the groundwork for a crowning criminal achievement. A mysterious benefactor funds the restoration of an ancient Egyptian tomb at the museum, but the work is beset by the mayhem Preston and Child's readers have come to expect—gory murders and suggestions of the supernatural.
The Silk Road is a main artery connecting Europe and Asia for political, economical, cultural and technical exchange in antiquity, and glass is one of the earliest artificial materials to be invented. Studying the origin and evolution of ancient glass along the Silk Road is thus significant for understanding the development and exchange of culture and technology between China and abroad.
Archaeologist Finn Ryan and pilot Virgil Hilts are scouring the Sahara for the long-lost tomb of an Apostle when they stumble upon signs of a decades-old murder, along with an ancient Roman medallion bearing the infamous name of a fallen archangel.
But this relic is only the first piece of an enigmatic puzzle that will take Finn and Virgil across the globe from the sinister ruins of an ancient monastery to the wreck of a sunken ship in the Caribbean, to find a truth that might shake the foundations of history-or see them dead.
