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This monograph explores the transformation of Berytus and the Bekaa after the Roman colonial foundation in 15 BCE, challenging the traditional perspective of Bronze Age roots for the sanctuary at Baalbek-Heliopolis and its deities.
Combining insider and outsider perspectives, Women in Lebanon looks at Christian and Muslim women living together in a multicultural society and facing modernity. While the Arab Spring has begun to draw attention to issues of change, modernity, and women's subjectivity, this manuscript takes a unique approach to examining and describing the Lebanese "alternative modernities" thesis and how it has shaped thinking about the meaning of terms like evolution, progress, development, history, and politics in contemporary Arab thought. The author draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as her own personal experience.
The Great Flood was the worst catastrophe to ever a ict the human race; it nearly destroyed all life on Earth. It is an event that is universally remembered in religion, mythology and cultural lore world-wide, yet factual records and physical evidence of it seem to be lacking. In fact, though, there are many records, but most are written in the universal and timeless languages of mathematics and geometry, which are to be found recorded in the stones of many of the most celebrated ancient structures around the world. is has preserved the records, but it has made them di cult to access and interpret. Afterall, they were written by astronomers who saw in the heavens the catastrophe that was about to befall the Earth. And they knew that only through mathematics and geometry could they transmit their knowledge of this event to the generations that they hoped and believed would follow them in the ages to come. is is no idle curiosity concerning an event that occurred so long ago that it is largely irrelevant to the present. e event that caused this world-wide catastrophe will return one day with the same devastating results. And, as before, all life on Earth will be at risk, with mass die-o s and the distinct possibility that there may not be a recovery and all life will come to an end. Here, then, is what they wrote.
The second volume in John Grainger's history of the Seleukid Empire is devoted to the reign of Antiochus III. Too often remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at Magnesia, Antiochus is here revealed as one of the most powerful and capable rulers of the age. Having emerged from civil war in 223 as the sole survivor of the Seleukid dynasty, he shouldered the burdens of a weakened and divided realm. Though defeated by Egypt in the Fourth Syrian War, he gradually restored full control over the empire. His great Eastern campaign took Macedonian arms back to India for the first time since Alexander's day and, returning west, he went on to conquer Thrace and finally wrest Syria from Ptolemaic control. ?Then came intervention in Greece and the clash with Rome leading to the defeat at Magnesia and the restrictive Peace of Apamea. Despite this, Antiochus remained ambitious, campaigning in the East again; when he died in 187 BC the empire was still one of the most powerful states in the world.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land is a travelogue by John Lewis Burckhardt, who is widely known for rediscovering the ruins of the city of Petra in Jordan.