Religion
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Urban Religion in Roman Corinth: Interdisciplinary Approaches [Paperback]
Daniel Schowalter (Author); Steven J. Friesen (Author)
£28.95ISBN: 9780674016606
Published by : Harvard University Press
In 146 BC Corinth was sacked by the Roman general Mummius, its men killed and women and children enslaved. For a century it stumbled on as `an almost-deserted ghost town', populated by farmers, before, in 44 BC, Julius Caesar refounded Corinth ... .... Learn More -
The World of Roman Song: From Ritualized Speech to Social Order [Hardback]
thomas Habinek (Author)
Regular Price: £42.00
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ISBN: 9780801881053
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
The Roman word carmen , usually translated as song, Thomas Habinek argues, encompasses a rang of practices including ritualized speech, poetry and storytelling. In this study he seeks to explore the world of verbal production and its significan... .... Learn More -
Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds [Hardback]
Shmuel Shepkaru (Author)
Regular Price: £77.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780521842815
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This book presents a linear history of Jewish martyrdom, from the Hellenistic period to the high Middle Ages. Following the chronology of sources, the study challenges the general consensus that martyrdom was an original Hellenistic Jewish idea. I... .... Learn More -
Temples, Religion and Politics in the Roman Republic [Paperback]
Eric M. Orlin (Author)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9780391041325
Published by : Brill
The construction of a new temple in the Roman Republic was an event that illuminated key features of their political and religious systems. Building a temple was for instance a way for a victorious general to proclaim his glory and for a magist... .... Learn More -
Romans and Christians [Paperback]
Dominic Janes (Author)
Regular Price: £17.99
Special Price: £3.95
ISBN: 9780752419541
Published by : Tempus Publishing Ltd
Images, both artistic and architectural, were an integral part of the ways in which Romans and Christians spread their message across the empire. Initially, this `visual history' discusses how Rome's power was projected through the construction... .... Learn More -
Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe Volume 2: Ancient Greece and Rome [Paperback]
Valerie I. J. Flint (Author); Richard Gordon (Author); Georg Luck (Author); Daniel Ogden (Author)
Regular Price: £59.99
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9780485891027
Published by : Athlone Press
Evidence for witchcraft and magic in the Greek and Roman worlds comes from a variety of largely written sources including fictional literature, historical narratives, philosophical and scientific works, religious texts and performative sources.... .... Learn More -
Mulva III: Die Grabgebäude in der Nekropole Ost [Hardback]
Michael Blech (Author)
Regular Price: £85.00
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ISBN: 9783805315173
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
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Consolatory Rhetoric: Grief, Symbol and Ritual in the Greco-Roman Era [Hardback]
Donovan J. Ochs (Author)
Regular Price: £38.50
Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9780872498853
Published by : University of South Carolina Press
Consolatory Rhetoric explores Greco-Roman funeral rituals to reveal how opposing symbols functioned rhetorically to comfort communities afflicted by the death of one of their members. While the bulk of rhetorical criticism interprets written te... .... Learn More -
Mulva II: Die Sudnekropole von Munigua. Grabungskampagnen 1977 bis 1983 [Hardback]
Mercedes Vegas (Author)
Regular Price: £55.00
Special Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9783805309561
Published by : Philipp von Zabern
Hundreds of tile graves and pot burials were discovered during excavations around the Roman town of Munigua, about 50 kms NW of Seville, Spain. .... Learn More -
On Pagans, Jews, and Christians [Paperback]
Arnaldo Momigliano (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780819562180
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Arnaldo Momigliano is the greatest contemporary scholar of the history and historiography of classical civilization. M.I. Finley has written in the New Statesman that "there is no one alive today who knows the subject as he d... .... Learn More
