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Roman Economy
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Food for the Gods: New Light on the Ancient Incense Trade
edited by David Peacock and David Williams
The story of incense is one of the most intriguing in both eastern and western culture. From the first millennium BC to the present day it has been sought after and valued on a par with precious metals or gems. Although incense was a luxury, it was consumed in prodigious quantities by the ancient world, in temples and at funerals, but also in private homes. The papers in this volume look at the role of incense, primarily - though not exclusively ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$70.00, Our Price US$19.98
Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome
by Simon Keay, Martin Millett, Lidia Paroli and Kristina Strutt
In AD 42, the Emperor Claudius initiated work on the construction of a new artificial harbour a short distance to the north of the mouth of the Tiber. The harbour facilities were enlarged at the instigation of the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the second century AD, and Portus remained the principal port for the City of Rome into the Byzantine period. The surviving archaeological remains and comments by ancient sources make it clear that ...
Paperback. Price US$99.00
Numbering and Measuring in the Classical World
by William F Richardson
This volume aims to introduce the reader to Greek and Roman ways of expressing numbers, weights and measures. These are matters often relegated to footnotes or tabulations in an appendix. Yet the words, the symbols and the calculations used in the classical world have an interest in themselves and often reveal unexpected facets of the culture that employed them. The subject can be a complex one but this book seeks to cut it to the essentials and ...
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Romanization in the Time of Augustus
by Ramsay MacMullen
A detailed examination of the reasons why Roman ideas and Roman things were so readily adopted throughout the ancient world during Augustus' lifetime (63 BC - AD 14). Arranged geographically, the chapters explore the spread of Roman civilisation across the East, Africa, Spain and Gaul and show how each population realised that life would be better and easier if it became Romanised. The last chapter examines Roman methods of replication, including ...
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The Urban Economy during the Early Dominate: Pottery evidence from the Palatine Hill
by J Theodore Peña
A detailed study of a pottery deposit found during investigations on the Palatine Hill. This material was used and discarded during the period c.AD 290-315, at a time when a number of reforms were underway in light of the early years of the new imperial ...
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Financial Documents and Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World
by Claude Nicolet
The financial records of the Roman Empire in the first centuries BC and AD needed to record the assessment and collection of taxation are shown to be also a constantly updated record of the geographical extent of the Roman Empire. 24p (Myres Memorial ...
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Investment, Profit, and Tenancy: the Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy
by Dennis P. Kehoe
Based on an analysis of Roman legal sources and the account of Roman jurists in the Digest of Justinian, this study offers a picture of the economic mentality of upper-class Romans, specifically how Roman landowners contended with the legal, social ...
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PACT 27: Le commerce maritime romain en Méditerranée occidentale
edited by Tony Hackens and Marta Miró
Papers from an international colloquium held in Barcelona, at the European Centre for Cultural Inheritance, 1988. Papers in French and Spanish. 390p, many b/w pls, figs, maps, plans (PACT 27, 1990)
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Sheep-rearing and the wool trade in Italy during the Roman period
by Joan M Frayn
x + 208 pages, 13 illus, 8 plates. (Francis Cairns, ARCA 15, 1984)
Hardback. Price US$50.00
Patrimoines, echanges et prets d'argent: l'economie romaine
Andreau, Jean
Price US$437.50
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