History

ISBN: 9789004238602
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Ancient Roman trade was severely hampered by slow transportation and by the absence state help in enforcing contracts. Here Terpstra offers a new explanation of how traders in the Roman Empire overcame these difficulties. Previous... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107020122
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book explores how deities were used to communicate and negotiate imperial power under the Severan dynasty (AD 193-235). Numismatic evidence is reintegrated into the wider material culture of the Severan period in order to bri... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107028173
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781931745901
Published by : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Scholars from Aristotle to Marx and beyond have been fascinated by the question of what constitutes value. John K. Papadopoulos and Gary Urton's The Construction of Value in the Ancient World makes a significant contribution to this ongoing... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405190329
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Containing both the necessary basics and the latest theoretical approaches this companion forms a comprehensive introduction to Tactitean studies. It is divided into five parts. Texts looks at the manuscript tradition and rediscovery of Tacitus... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780470674253
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
This volume presents a comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of overland transport and communication networks across premodern cultures. Featuring contributions from an international team of scholars, these readings delve deeply... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415642330
Published by : Routledge Ltd
This collection of papers analyses the writings of Ammianus Marcellinus from a variety of perspective, including Ammianus as historian of, and participant in, Julian's Persian campaign, his identification with traditional religiou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107673076
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905125449
Published by : Classical Press of Wales
Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily into narratives of Rome’s civil war of 49-31BC. Ronald Syme, father of international orthodoxy, stated that Sextus was ‘in reality an adventurer&rsquo... .... Learn More