Society & Culture

ISBN: 9780674996793
Published by : Harvard University Press
New to the Loeb Classical Library is Method of Medicine, a systematic and comprehensive account of the principles of treating injury and disease and one of Galen's greatest and most influential works. Enlivening the detailed case studies are ma... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781887829830
Published by : John Humphrey
These papers present a series of case studies of localities in southern Italy and Sicily focusing on the period between the 5th and 1st centuries BC, and investigating the twin influences of Rome and the Greek colonies on local cultures and cul... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781887829847
Published by : John Humphrey
These papers contribute to the inevstigation of a complex question: "whether advances in either ship construction or navigation are likely to have lowered the costs of maritime trade at any time during the longe duree of the Graeco-Roman Medi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004216686
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This volume publishes a vast array of new research on the Jewish Revolt of 66-70/74 AD. Essays focus in particular on the nature and interpretation of the source material, including several reappraisals of aspects of Josephus' work . Other app... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407308425
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study mines the Vindolanda tablets for evidence of economic activity, investigating its range and scale, and asking how it should be characterised as an economic model. Three different kinds of economic behaviour are investigated, namely ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780752465173
Published by : The History Press
Running the Roman Home
explores the real every-day
life of the Romans and the
effort required to run a
Roman household. It is
divided into sections on how
the Romans collected water
and fuel, milled flour,
produced ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107009080
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book explores the influence of Roman imperialism on the development of Messianic themes in Judaism in the fifth through the eight centuries CE. It pays special attention to the ways in which Roman imperial ideology and imperial eschatology... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004185937
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
The aim of this weighty volume is to move beyond the strict confines of conventional scholarship and to explore new avenues of research, including the examination of the place of the findings from the Judean Desert in their contemporary context... .... Learn More

ISBN: 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