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Bisexuality in the Ancient World
by Eva Cantarella
Drawing on the full range of surviving sources - legal texts, inscriptions, medical documents, poetry and philosophical literature - Cantarella reconstructs the homosexual cultures of Greece and Rome, and provides a full history of bisexuality in the ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.99

Rabe und Krähe in der Antike: Studien zur archäologischen und literarischen Überlieferung
by Gudrun Schmidt
Ravens and crows, even today, can seem sinister, possibly for their associations with death and carrion and with witchcraft. It was the same in antiquity. This well-illustrated study, a thesis, draws on iconographic, literary and archaeological evidence ...
Paperback. Price GB £42.50

Studien zur Musikarchäologie III
edited by Ellen Hickmann, Anne D Kilmer and Ricardo Eichmann
This large volume presents 58 papers taken from two international conferences: The Archaeology of Sound held at Monastery Michaelstein in 2000, and Music Archaeology in the Aegean and Anatolia held in Istanbul in 1993. The chronological and geographical ...
Hardback. Price GB £79.00

Aspects of Friendship in the Graeco-Roman World: Proceedings of a Conference held at the Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Heidelberg, on 10-11 June, 2000
edited by Michael Peachin, with contributions by M L Caldelli, E Champlin, L de Blois, G L Gregori, L Mrozewicz, J Nicols, S Orlandi, S Panciera, M Peachin, F Pina Polo, C Ricci, H Solin, V Alonso Troncoso & C Veligianni
A wide range of papers from a conference in honour of Géza Alföldy, focusing on the topic of 'friendship' in the Graeco-Roman world. As a whole the volume confronts several questions regarding friendship in antiquity: What was the essential ...
Hardback. Price GB £49.50

Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical World
edited by David J Mattingly and John Salmon
This scholarly archaeological and historical study concentrates on the non-agrarian economies of the Greek and Roman worlds, highlighting the many important differences between Greek and Roman productive activities. Thirteen papers argue that a larger ...
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Hardback. Price GB £75.00

The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction
by Tessa Rajak
A collection of 27 of Tessa Rajak's interdisciplinary essays, three of which are previously unpublished, which examine the ways in which Jewish communities were integrated into Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. Divided into three parts, the ...
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Hardback. Price GB £138.00

Ancient History: Key Themes and Approaches
by Neville Morley
Described by the author as a `sourcebook on writings on ancient history', this book collates more than 500 extracts from modern writers on aspects of the ancient world. Morley argues that for anyone studying ancient history it is impossible to draw solely ...
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Hardback. Price GB £55.00

Metzler Lexicon: Antike
edited by Kai Brodersen and Bernhard Zimmerman
A dictionary of the Classical world that contains over 4,500 entries which explain many aspects of Greek and Roman culture, including art, architecture, literature, mythology, politics, philosophy, history, archaeology and people and events. Subjects are ...
Hardback. Price GB £32.00

Slavery
by David Turley
A thematic study that examines the nature of slavery across a wide geographical area and timespan. David Turley compares slavery in a number of cultures, including Greece, Rome, Africa, the Islamic world and Britain and America. His main interests are the ...
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Teachers and Text in the Ancient World: Philosophers, Jews and Christians
by H Gregory Snyder
This meticulous survey, which relies heavily on contemporary sources, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of religious and philosophical teaching and classroom practices from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD. Snyder's principal concern is the ...
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