Society & Culture
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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 -
Rome, Polybius and the East [Hardback]
Peter Sidney Derow (Author); Andrew Erskine (Editor); Josephine Crawley Quinn (Editor)
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ISBN: 9780199640904
Published by : Oxford University Press
Rome, Polybius, and the East offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow, Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford, during the course of his career. With a detailed introd... .... 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... .... 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 -
Ethics, Identity and Community in Later Roman Declamation [Hardback]
Neil W. Bernstein (Author)
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ISBN: 9780199964116
Published by : Oxford University Press
Rhetorical training was the central component of an elite Roman man's education. Controversiae (declamations), imaginary courtroom speeches in the character of a fictional or historical individual, were the most advanced exercises in the standard ... .... Learn More -
Violence in Roman Egypt [Hardback]
Ari Z. Bryen (Author)
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ISBN: 9780812245080
Published by : University of Pennsylvania Press
What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they fel... .... 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
