Society & Culture

ISBN: 9781612005133
Published by : Casemate UK
Series: Casemate Short History
The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duals in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous ‘thumbs down' signal) or spar... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789088904806
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens
Volume: VI
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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

ISBN: 9789088904813
Published by : Sidestone Press
Series: Publications of the Netherlands Institute at Athens
Volume: VI
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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

ISBN: 9780198810513
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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This volume investigates the history and nature of pain in Greek culture under the Roman Empire (50-250 CE). Traditional accounts of pain in this society have focused either on philosophical or medical theories of pain or on Christian notions of '... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781472422231
Published by : Routledge
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Focusing on the Roman world from the early second century CE through to the fourth century CE, this volume examines episodes of mass-violence associated with war and imperial expansion, and also episodes of violence associated with religious strug... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781405188050
Published by : Wiley-Blackwell
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Classical slavery provides fascinating, complex, and engaging, albeit sometimes grim, topics for the historian. Over the last generation, these have attracted the attention of many of the best minds in ancient social history. The issues involved h... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781782438564
Published by : Michael O'Mara Books
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Walk a day in a Roman's sandals.What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities - one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide, bests... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781844658695
Published by : Routledge
Olives, bread, meat and wine: it is deceptively easy to evoke ancient Greece and Rome through a few items of food and drink. But how were their tastes different from ours? How did they understand the sense of taste itself, in relation to their own... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107130616
Published by : Cambridge University Press
Migration, Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy challenges prevailing conceptions of a natural tie to the land and a demographically settled world. It argues that much human mobility in the last millennium BC was ongoing and cyclical. In particular... .... Learn More