Society & Culture
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The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World [Hardback]
Werner Riess (Editor); Garret G. Fagan (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780472119820
Published by : University of Michigan Press
What soldiers do on the battlefield or boxers do in the ring would be treated as criminal acts if carried out in an everyday setting. Perpetrators of violence in the classical world knew this and chose their venues and targets with care: killing J... .... Learn More -
Moving Romans: Migration to Rome in the Principate [Hardback]
Laurens E. Tacoma (Author)
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ISBN: 9780198768050
Published by : Oxford University Press
While the importance of migration in contemporary society is universally acknowledged, historical analyses of migration put contemporary issues into perspective. Migration is a phenomenon of all times, but it can take many different forms. The Rom... .... Learn More -
Roman Crete: New Perspectives [Hardback]
Jane E. Francis (Editor); Anna Kouremenos (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781785700958
Published by : Oxbow Books
The last several decades have seen a dramatic increase in interest in the Roman period on the island of Crete. Ongoing and some long-standing excavations and investigations of Roman sites and buildings, intensive archaeological survey of Roman are... .... Learn More -
The Panathenaic Games: Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 11-12, 2004 [Paperback]
Olga Palagia (Author); Alkestis Spetsieri-Choremi (Author)
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ISBN: 9781782979821
Published by : Oxbow Books
The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens (May 11-14, 2004) and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international as... .... Learn More -
A Late Roman Town House and its Environs [Paperback]
Emma Durham (Author); Michael Fulford (Author)
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ISBN: 9780907764397
Published by : Roman Society Publications
Series: Britannia Monographs
Volume: 26
This report publishes the 1937–8 excavations in Colliton Park, Dorchester, Dorset, which revealed one of the best preserved late Roman town houses so far discovered in Roman Britain. Extensively decorated with mosaics, the building has recently be... .... Learn More -
The Island Standard [Hardback]
John Tully (Author)
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ISBN: 9780897223294
Published by : American Numismatic Society
Volume: 28
This book is the first comprehensive study of the monetary history of one of the major coin-producing states of the Hellenistic and Roman Aegean. It analyzes the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman coinages of the Cycladic island of Paros. It presen... .... Learn More -
Alexander to Constantine [Paperback]
Eric M. Meyers (Author); Mark A Chancey (Author)
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ISBN: 9780300205831
Published by : Yale University Press
This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B.C.E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century... .... Learn More -
Diva Faustina [Hardback]
Martin Beckmann (Author)
£66.00ISBN: 9780897223225
Published by : American Numismatic Society
Volume: 26
The coinage struck posthumously in the name of Faustina the Elder, wife of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, was the largest such issue ever produced by the mint of Rome. Until now it has been impossible to date these coins with any accuracy, and ... .... Learn More -
A City of Marble: The Rhetoric of Augustan Rome [Hardback]
Kathleen S. Lamp (Author)
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ISBN: 9781611172775
Published by : University of South Carolina Press
In A City of Marble, Kathleen Lamp argues that classical rhetorical theory shaped the Augustan cultural campaigns and that in turn the Augustan cultural campaigns functioned rhetorically to help Augustus gain and maintain power and to influence ci... .... Learn More -
Women in Ancient Rome [Hardback]
Paul Chrystal (Author)
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ISBN: 9781445608709
Published by : Amberley Publishing
The history of women in ancient Rome is fascinating and exhilarating. It gives a unique insight into one of the world’s most dynamic, successful super-power civilizations and, at the same time, illuminates any number of admirable,... .... Learn More
