Rome & the Roman Provinces
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The Villa of Livia Ad Gallinas Albas: A study in the Augustan villa and garden [Paperback]
Jane Clark Reeder (Author)
Regular Price: £32.00
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ISBN: 9780974860985
Published by : Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
This work attempts to integrate the architecture and iconography of the Villa of Livia, ad Gallinas Albas . This was a very important residence in its heyday, so it is perhaps surprising that it was only partially excavated until fairly recent... .... Learn More -
Colchester, Fortress of the War God: an Archaeological Assessment [Hardback]
David Radford (Author); Adrian Gascoyne (Author); Philip Wise (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781842175088
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume is a critical assessment of the current state of archaeological knowledge of the settlement originally called Camulodunon and now known as Colchester. The town has been the subject of antiquarian interest since the lat... .... Learn More -
The Roman Remains: John Izard Middleton's Visual Souvenirs of 1820-1823 (with additional views in Italy, France, and Switzerland) [Hardback]
C. R. Mack (Author); L. Robertson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781570031694
Published by : University of South Carolina Press
Includes essays and a catalogue commentary, alongside many black and white plates of the artist's work. .... Learn More -
The Excavation of the Shrine of Apollo at Nettleton, Wiltshire, 1956-71 [Hardback]
W. J. Wedlake (Author)
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ISBN: 9780854312337
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
Series: Research Reports
Volume: 40
The results of thirty years of excavation at the sanctuary where in the first century AD a small temple was built, at first circular, but later rebuilt in octagonal form with greater architectural pretensions. Also discovered were various associat... .... Learn More -
The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity [Hardback]
Frances B. Titchener (Author)
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ISBN: 9780520210295
Published by : University of California Press
This book seeks to study 'the interaction between human life and the literary and plastic arts'. The sixteen contributors to this book not only cite examples of this interaction, but study the influence of art on life and society, and vice vers... .... Learn More -
Ancient History [Paperback]
George Rawlinson (Author)
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ISBN: 9780760773581
Published by : Barnes & Noble
Originally published in 1869 this book is full of the spirit of the heroic age of archaeology, and was written to make the recent discoveries in Egypt and the Near East available to a wider audience. Accordingly the book does not subordinate th... .... Learn More -
Celebrity in Antiquity: From Media Tarts to Tabloid Queens [Paperback]
Robert Garland (Author)
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ISBN: 9780715634486
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
What sort of people were able to grab the attention of the public in the ancient world? How was celebrity achieved? What methods did people use to achieve it? Robert Garland turns the spotlight on the careers of some of the most successful and ... .... Learn More -
Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction [Hardback]
Victoria Rimell (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521815864
Published by : Cambridge University Press
According to Victoria Rimell's scholarly investigation of one of antiquity's most innovative and notorious works of literature, the Satyricon is a disintegrated work, linked by `its Neronian metaphor of the literary text as an animal or human ... .... Learn More -
Religion in Republican Italy [Hardback]
Celia Schultz (Editor); Paul B. Harvey Jr. (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780521863667
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Using archaeological and epigraphic evidence as well as the literary sources the 10 essays presented here aim to shed light on the 'Romanisation' of religion in the Italian penninsula in the mid to late republic. Attempts are made to define pre... .... Learn More -
Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Scoiety in Central Italy [Hardback]
Roman Roth (Author)
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ISBN: 9780521875677
Published by : Cambridge University Press
All too often Romanisation seems to mean villas and mosaics, the creation of a Romanised elite. This interesting study uses the archaeology of central Italy to examine the impact of Romanisation in late 3rd and 2nd century BC on the lives of or... .... Learn More