Society & Culture
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Tribes of Ancient Britain and Germany [Paperback]
$14.95ISBN: 9781781592380
Published by : Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Series: Military History from Primary Sources
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – AD 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works - the Annals and the Histories - examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors... .... Learn More -
Women in Ancient Rome [Hardback]
Paul Chrystal (Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781445608709
Published by : Amberley Publishing
The history of women in ancient Rome is fascinating and exhilarating. It gives a unique insight into one of the world’s most dynamic, successful super-power civilizations and, at the same time, illuminates any number of admi... .... Learn More -
Palladius: Opus Agriculturae [Hardback]
John G Fitch (Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9781903018927
Published by : Prospect Books
Palladius wrote in the 5th century AD. His is the latest of Roman agricultural texts and perhaps for that reason was the treatise most widely distributed in the medieval world, being translated into Italian, Catalan and Middle English, among other... .... Learn More -
Imperial Cult and Imperial Representation in Roman Cyprus [Paperback]
Takashi Fujii (Author)
$66.00ISBN: 9783515102575
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien
Volume: 53
Cyprus, the third largest island in the Mediterranean, came under Roman domination during the late Republican Civil War. Due to its position outside of the political and strategic centres of the Empire, Roman Cyprus was something of a terra incogn... .... Learn More -
Religiöses in der politischen Argumentation der späten römischen Republik: Ciceros Erste Catilinarische Rede – eine Fallstudie [paperback]
Vera Sauer (Author)
$87.00ISBN: 9783515103022
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAwB)
Volume: 42
English Description: Religion played a role in many different contexts in Rome. The “embedding” of religion into different contexts, for example social, political, economic or cultural, has been illuminated by differen... .... Learn More -
Approaches to Healing in Roman Egypt [Paperback]
Jane Draycott (Author)
$63.00ISBN: 9781407310145
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: Bar S
Volume: 2416
The purpose of this study is to examine the healing strategies employed by the inhabitants of Egypt during the Roman period, from the late first century BC to the fourth century AD, in order to explore how Egyptian, Greek and Roman customs and tra... .... Learn More -
Wo liegt eigentlich ... begraben? [Paperback]
Elbern (Author); Vogt (Author)
$23.00ISBN: 9783805343299
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
German description: Pyramide, Felsengrab, Beisarg Biografien beruehmter Persönlichkeiten sind allgegenwärtig. Doch wo sie ihre letzte Ruhestätte fanden, bleibt meist unbekannt. Stephan Elbern und Katrin Vogt haben sich auf Spurensuche begeb... .... Learn More -
Tra logica e giurisprudenza: Argumentum a simili nel Topici di Cicerone [Hardback]
Agnieszka Kacprzak (Author)
$70.00ISBN: 9788392591962
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 17
Cicero's Topica is a kind of compendium of arguments that functioned in ancient philosophy and rhetoric and were destined for jurists. The present book analyzes one of the patterns of argumentation described by Cicero, an argument drawn ... .... Learn More -
The Vindolanda Tablets and the Ancient Economy [Paperback]
Kasper Gronlund Evers (Author)
$67.50ISBN: 9781407308425
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The Vindolanda Tablets are rightly famous for the insights they provide into the life of Roman auxiliaries on the province of Britains northern frontier around the turn of the first century AD. This study focuses on the various kinds of evidenc... .... Learn More -
Living through the dead: Burial and commemoration in the Classical world [Paperback]
Maureen Carroll (Editor); Jane Rempel (Editor)
$60.00ISBN: 9781842173763
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Studies in Funerary Archaeology
Volume: 5
This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed... .... Learn More

