Society & Culture

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781107026018
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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

ISBN: 9781441139276
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
The family has been recognised in the ancient world as the key social institution on which both society and the state are based. However, in the pre-Classical and Classical world the family was constructed in dissimilar ways and provides the me... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781441174680
Published by : Continuum International Pub.
This volume seeks to explain developments within the structure of the family in antiquity, in particular in the later Roman Empire and late antiquity. Drawing on the latest research by leading scholars in the field the book includes new approac... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004218505
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405196284
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Plautus comedies could be our most reliable source for reconstructing the lives of slaves in ancient Rome. By reading literature alongside the historical record, we can conjure a thickly contextualized picture of slavery in the late third and ... .... 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: 9780415692540
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Punishment was an integral element of the Roman justice system and as controversial as it is today. Bauman examines the mechanics of the administering of punishment and the philosophical beliefs from which attitudes to penalty were born. The em... .... Learn More