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TRAC 2000: Tenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, London 2000
edited by Gwyn Davis, Andrew Gardner and Kris Lockyear
Thirteen papers on Roman archaeology from the 10th TRAC conference in London. The tenth Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference was held in April 2000, at the Institute of Archaeology. As the confernce was diveded into five different sessions. In the opening session, Representing Romans the methodology of portraying the Romans to the wider world was expolored. Hunter and Clarke's paper outline the challenge of designing appropiate gallery ...
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Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World
edited by J Pearce, M Millett and M Struck
Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of Roman society. The papers are grouped under five headings: The reconstruction of mortuary ...
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Roman Perspectives: Studies in the Social, Political and Cultural History of the First to Fifth Centuries
by John Matthews
The fifteen papers in this volume discuss issues of Roman social, cultural and political history from the foundation of the Principate to the age of barbarian settlements of the west. Working imaginatively from within the diverse evidence, they show the institutional continuity of the Roman empire between its early and later periods, and reveal the roots of political behaviour in social practice. Five of the papers, including three of the most ...
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Plutarch and History: Eighteen Studies
by Christopher Pelling
Much of ancient history can only be written thanks to evidence supplied by Plutarch. His historical methods and qualities were for long subjected to little systematic analysis. However, in recent decades an authoritative and profoundly influential set of studies has appeared in the field, the work of Christopher Pelling. This book contains eighteen of Pelling's most important papers, revised by the author. Together, they form an essential work of ...
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Velleius Paterculus: Making History
edited by Eleanor Cowan
Velleius Paterculus' short work is the earliest surviving attempt on the part of a post-Augustan historian to survey the history of the res publica from its origins to his own times. In a period from which no other contemporary historical narrative survives in more than meagre fragments, Velleius' work is uniquely important. It is a critical counter to the later accounts of Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio, not simply because it offers a ...
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Hannibal's War
Lazenby, J. F.
Lazenby's classic work is now available once more; it gathers together research in many detailed fields, and in particular by analysis of ancient sources, attempts to ascertain what actually happened in those momentous eighteen years during which Rome and Carthage struggled for mastery of the Mediterranean, clashing in Italy, France, Spain, Greece and North Africa. 354p (Aris & Phillips 1978, reprinted 2007)
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Marcus Aurelius: A biography
by Anthony Birley
Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor from the second half of the second century AD is known to us particularly through the private notebook he kept for his last ten years. Unusually for a Roman emperor, he has enjoyed an almost univerally good reputation with later writers both ancient and modern. The backdrop to the tranquility of the Meditations are the Marcomannic Wars, in which for the first time imperial Italy and Greece are ...
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In Quest of the Lost Legions
by Tony Clunn
In AD9 three legions under the command of Quinctilius Varus were wiped out by Germanic tribes. Many theories surround the location of the massacre; this book may have the answer. Over a ten year period Tony Clunn, an amateur archaeologist and Major in the British army, systematically surveyed Kalkriese in northern Germany and, in conjunction with archaeologists, discovered numerous coins, military equipment and everyday items. This is an unusual ...
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The Antonines: The Roman Empire in Transition
by Michael Grant
Three sucessive emperors spanned the 2nd century AD; Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. Maintenance of a massive empire obssessed them, with Germant a constant thorn, and the arts of rulership have never been so clearly defined as in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. These themes run through a book that describes the personalities of three great rulers and the political structures, literature and arts that defined their age. ...
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Julius Caesar: The Colossus of Rome
by Richard A. Billows
Whether the world necessarily needs another biography of Caesar aimed primarily at the general reader, is something that perhaps might be questioned, but Richard Billows' take on the man, his career and the end of the Republic more generally is certainly engagingly written and a joy to read. His approach assumes little prior knowledge and thus concentrates a good deal of its coverage to the structures and institutions of Republican Rome, and to ...
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