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The Panathenaic Games
edited by Olga Palagia and Alkestis Spetsieri-Choremi
The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens (May 11-14, 2004) and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international assembly of archaeologists, art historians, ancient historians, epigraphists and classical scholars contributed to the discussion of the origins and the historical development of the Panathenaic Games in ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £45.00, Our Price GB £15.00
The Clothed Body in the Ancient World
edited by Liza Cleland, Mary Harlow and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The sixteen contributors present on-going research into the study of the clothed body in ancient Egypt and the Aegean, Classical Greece, Rome and Late Antiquity. Through literary and artistic evidence and film, they discuss how dress articulates and defines an individual within his or her given ...
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Body Language in the Greek and Roman Worlds
edited by D L Cairns
A distinguished international cast of scholars discusses models of gesture and non-verbal communication as they apply to Greek and Roman culture, literature and art. Topics include dress and costume in the Homeric poems; the importance of looking, eye-contact, and face-to-face orientation in Greek society; the construction of facial expression in Greek and Roman epic; the significance of gesture and body language in the visual meaning of ancient ...
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The Classical Cookbook
Andrew Dalby and Sally Grainger
Marrow Alexandria-style, fish in coriander crust or pancakes with honey and sesame seeds - all types of food are represented here. This is an exploration of Mediterranean cuisine from 750 BC to AD 450 which allows the modern cook to recreate the varied diet of the classical world, from the banquets of the rich elite to the simpler meals of soldiers, farmers and slaves. Translations of the 50 original recipes are followed by a version specially ...
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Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World
by Philip de Souza
Pirates, piracy, banditry and warfare were very much part of the Greco-Roman world and were well instilled in ancient Greek literature by c.800 BC. Philip de Souza presents a detailed account of the origins and development of piracy and pirates from the Archaic period through to Late Antiquity. Laid out chronologically and based purely on literary sources, this study presents a different perspective on piracy, showing it to be diverse, evolving ...
Paperback. Price GB £21.99
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The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World
by Yun Lee Too
Yun Lee Too argues that the ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the focus for students of the subject up till now. She shows the library as an ancient concept to be a complex institution with many different forms and functions. It can be a building with books, but it can also be individual people, or the individual books themselves. In antiquity, the library's functions were numerous: as an instrument ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans
edited by W.V. Harris
The ancient economy is always a subject which provokes intense debate, and these essays on ancient monetary systems are no exception. Topics include: origins of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; the use of bullion as money; the availability and use of credit in the ancient world; the extent of monetization; whether economic growth was possible in the ancient world; and whether the Roman Empire could be considered a singel integrated ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00
Hardback. Price GB £61.00
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rhetoric
edited by Erik Gunderson
Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods and disciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set of practices ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.99
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Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity
edited by Sabine R. Hubner and David M. Ratzan
Ancient historians and classicists have rarely explored ancient father-absence, despite the likelihood that nearly a third of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world were fatherless before they turned fifteen. The proportion of children raised by single mothers, relatives, step-parents, or others was thus at least as high in antiquity as it is today. This book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels of chronic father-absence had on ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Time in Antiquity
by Robert Hannah
How did ordinary people in the ancient world conceptualise time? Robert Hannah argues that the best way to answer this question is not to focus on the works of philosophers (who after all were the only writers to really focus on the issue), but to study the instruments used for measuring and marking time, the sundials, water clocks and calendars of the ancient world, as well as the ways in which the landscape both natural and man-made was used in ...
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