Society & Culture
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Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within [Hardback]
Christian Laes (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780521897464
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Very little has been written about the experience of childhood in antiquity, not least because children can often seem to be absent from many of the ancient texts that we read. Christian Laes' survey of children's life in the Greek and Roman wo... .... Learn More -
Freedman in the Roman World [Hardback]
Henrik Mouritsen (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780521856133
Published by : Cambridge University Press
It has always been difficult for scholars to account for and categorise the position of freedmen in Roman society, poised between slaves and the freeborn. In this study Mouritsen distances himself from the skewed and sometimes prejudiced work ... .... Learn More -
Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games [Hardback]
Garrett G Fagan (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780521196161
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Romans' fondness for watching savage gladiatorial combats is well known, but previous research into this has merely theorised about its cultural function in Roman society, and tied it closely to its original context. This study, however, a... .... Learn More -
Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games [Paperback]
Garrett G Fagan (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9780521185967
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The Romans' fondness for watching savage gladiatorial combats is well known, but previous research into this has merely theorised about its cultural function in Roman society, and tied it closely to its original context. This study, however, a... .... Learn More -
A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds [Hardback]
Beryl Rawson (Author)
£129.00ISBN: 9781405187671
Published by : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Gatherng together scholars from four continents, and with an impressive range of disciplines and approaches represented, this large volume aims to reflect the current vibrancy of research into the ancient family, and demonstrates the centrality... .... Learn More -
Imperial Ideals in the Roman West: Representation, Circulation, Power [Hardback]
Carlos F. Norena (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9781107005082
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book examines the figure of the Roman emperor as a unifying symbol for the western empire. It documents an extensive correspondence between the ideals cited in honorific inscriptions for the emperor erected across the Western Empire and th... .... Learn More -
Roman Imperialism and Civic Patronage: Form, Meaning and Ideology in Monumental Fountain Complexes [Hardback]
Brenda Longfellow (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9780521194938
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Brenda Longfellow examines one of the features of Roman Imperial cities, the monumental civic fountain. Built in cities throughout the Roman Empire during the first through third centuries AD, these fountains were imposing in size, frequently ... .... Learn More -
Peasants and Slaves: The Rural Population of Roman Italy (200 BC to AD 100) [Hardback]
Alessandro Launaro (Author)
£68.00ISBN: 9781107004795
Published by : Cambridge University Press
The crisis of the Roman Republic and its transformation into an Empire have fascinated generations of scholars. It has long been assumed that a dramatic demographic decline of the rural free peasantry (which was supplanted by slaves) triggered ... .... Learn More -
Everyday Writing in the Graceo-Roman East [Hardback]
Roger S. Bagnall (Author)
£41.95ISBN: 9780520267022
Published by : University of California Press
In this volume, based on his Sather Classical Lectures delivered at Berkeley in 2005, Roger Bagnall here argues that ordinary people in the ancient world used writing in their daily lives to a far greater extent than has been thought. He examin... .... Learn More -
School of Rome: Latin Studies and the Origins of Liberal Education [Hardback]
M. W. Bloomer (Author)
£34.95ISBN: 9780520255760
Published by : University of California Press
This original study considers the role of education under the Roman empire, focusing on what the Romans believed constituted a good education and the effect that it was intended to have on the young. Bloomer begins with a chronological survey o... .... Learn More