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Ancient World

Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece and the Near East
edited by Colin Adams and Jim Roy
This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient ...
Publisher's Price US$80.00, Our Price US$19.98

Childhood in the Past (2008)
edited by Eileen M. Murphy
The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, in conjunction with Oxbow Books, publishes the new international journal, Childhood in the Past. This journal provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and chronological boundaries. The editor welcomes offers of ...
Paperback. Price US$50.00

Deliciae Fictiles IV: Architectural Terracottas in Ancient Italy. Images of Gods, Monsters and Heroes
edited by Patricia Lulof and Carlo Rescigno
In Ancient Italy, temples were adorned with full-figure architectural terracotta images such as acroteria, statuary groups and high reliefs. These terracottas mostly show complex scenes of gods and heroes, legendary battles and mythical animals, as well as large volutes and palmettes. The fourth edition of the Deliciae Fictiles conferences focused on this specific class of mostly handmade terracotta roof decoration from Etruria and Central Italy, ...

Alter in der Antike: Die Blüte des Alters aber ist die Weisheit
edited by Landschaftsverband Rheinland / LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn
English summary: With 40 years, one turned into an "old man" in Ancient Rome. Advanced age in Antiquity was, in some cases, highly revered: In Sparta, the council of elders always had the last word in politics, and the Roman Senate derived its name from "senex", "old man". But still, Ancient art is full of countless statues of athletic young men and women -like Aphrodite - and only a handful of depictions of the elderly.

The ...
Hardback. Price US$38.00

Das antike Zypern: Aphrodites Insel zwischen Orient und Okzident
by Patrick Schollmeyer
English summary: The Island of Aphrodite: Far more than just a holiday destination! The island of Cyprus has had many different rulers throughout its long history- and they have all left numerous traces.

The ruins of the cities, tombs, and palaces as well as countless magnificent works of art attest to the material wealth of the elite classes, and of their far-reaching contacts. Using the most current research as a basis, the ...
Hardback. Price US$38.00

Dalmatia: Eine römische Provinz an der Adria
by Mirjana Sanader
English summary: The Palace of Diocletian in Split, the amphitheatre of Salona - today, numerous buildings still remind us of the time when the Romans ruled the Eastern Adriatic Sea.

The Province was called Dalmatia, and it encompassed today's Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania. It reached from the Adriatic islands to the hinterland rich in forests and ore. Mirjana Sanader, an expert in Ancient ...
Hardback. Price US$45.00

Kreta: in Flugbildern von Georg Gerster
by Margret Karola Nollé
English summary: Crete as seen from a new perspective: An aerial view of the cradle of Europe.

Europa and the bull, the Minotaur, and the Labyrinth - Crete is the location of numerous myths. From here, not only did Daedalus and Icarus start their flight attempt, but long before Athens' rise, a great civilisation had its home on this island: The Minoan civilization was the first advanced European civilisation. It is attested in ...
Hardback. Price US$38.00

The Limits of Ancient Biography
edited by Brian McGing and Judith Mossman
The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to ...
Hardback. Price US$89.00

Archestratus: Fragments from the Life of Luxury
by John Wilkins and Shaun Hill
The big fact about Archestratus is that the fragments that survive constitute the earliest written culinary text to come down to us from the classical world (pedants might argue that the Babylonian and Egyptian materials are earlier but they in no way resemble a book.)

This remarkable and almost unique work was written in the 4th century BC by the poet Archestratus, from Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily. The complete text has long ...
Paperback. Price US$24.00

Childhood in the Past Volume 4 (2011)
edited by Eileen Murphy and Traci Ardren
The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, in conjunction with Oxbow Books, publishes this recent international journal, Childhood in the Past. This journal provides a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, international forum for the publication of research into all aspects of children and childhood in the past, which transcends conventional intellectual, disciplinary, geographical and chronological boundaries. The editor welcomes offers of ...
Paperback. Price US$50.00