Society & Culture
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Continuity and Rupture in Roman Mediterranean Gaul: An Archaeology of Colonial Transformations at Ancient Lattara [Hardback]
Benjamin P. Luley (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789255669
Published by : Oxbow Books
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With the decline in popularity of the term “Romanization” as a way of analyzing the changes in the archaeological record visible throughout the conquered provinces of the Roman Empire, scholars have increasingly turned to the important concept of ... .... Learn More -
Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions [Hardback]
Tatiana Ivleva (Editor); Jasper de Bruin (Editor); Mark Driessen (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789250152
Published by : Oxbow Books
Embracing the Provinces is a collection of essays focused on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. The main aim is to showcase the vibrancy of Roman provincial studies and suggest new directions, or new empha... .... Learn More -
Jewish Childhood in the Roman World [Hardback]
Hagith Sivan (Author)
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ISBN: 9781107090170
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This is the first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. It follows minors into the spaces where they lived, learned, played, slept, and died and examines the actions and interaction of children with other children, with close-kin ... .... Learn More -
The Roman Retail Revolution: The Socio-Economic World of the Taberna [Hardback]
Steven J. R. Ellis (Author)
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ISBN: 9780198769934
Published by : Oxford University Press
Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections in numbers far exceeding those of any other form of building. That they played a vital role in the operation of the city, and ... .... Learn More -
Cave Canem: Animals in Roman Civilization [Hardback]
Iain Ferris (Author)
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ISBN: 9781445652931
Published by : Amberley Publishing
In many ways, Roman attitudes to animals were similar to our own; they kept animals as household pets, they farmed animals for meat and hunted and fished. However, animals also played a far more significant role in Roman culture and religion - and... .... Learn More -
Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World: A Social and Cultural History [Hardback]
Christian Laes (Author)
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ISBN: 9781107162907
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disability and society tries to accommodate their needs. But what was the situation in the Roman world? Was there a concept of disability? How were... .... Learn More -
Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) [Paperback]
Tamara M. Dijkstra (Editor); Inger N.I. Kuin (Editor); Muriel Moser (Editor); David Weidgenannt (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9789088904806
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens
Volume: VI
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independe... .... Learn More -
Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100 AD) [Hardback]
Tamara M. Dijkstra (Editor); Inger N.I. Kuin (Editor); Muriel Moser (Editor); David Weidgenannt (Editor)
£135.00ISBN: 9789088904813
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens
Volume: VI
At the beginning of the first century BC Athens was an independent city bound to Rome through a friendship alliance. By the end of the first century AD the city had been incorporated into the Roman province of Achaea. Along with Athenian independe... .... Learn More -
Touch and the Ancient Senses [Paperback]
Alex Purves (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781844658725
Published by : Routledge
Series: The Senses in Antiquity
Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as ... .... Learn More -
Ancient Greek and Roman Slavery [Hardback]
P. Hunt (Author)
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ISBN: 9781405188050
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
This book provides an introduction to pivotal issues in the study of classical (Greek and Roman) slavery. The span of topics is broad―ranging from everyday resistance to slavery to philosophical justifications of slavery, and from the process of e... .... Learn More
