Society & Culture
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Alexander to Constantine [Paperback]
Eric M. Meyers (Author); Mark A Chancey (Author)
Regular Price: £21.00
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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 -
Women in Ancient Rome [Hardback]
Paul Chrystal (Author)
Regular Price: £20.00
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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 -
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 -
A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus [Hardback]
Frederic Raphael (Author)
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Special Price: £7.95
ISBN: 9780307378163
Published by : Random House
An audacious history of Josephus, the Jewish general turned Roman historian whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Raphael goes beyond the fascinating details of Josephus's life and his singular literary ... .... Learn More -
Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy [Paperback]
Brooke Holmes (Author)
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ISBN: 9780195380835
Published by : Oxford University Press
Gender has now become a pervasive topic in the humanities and social sciences. Yet despite its familiarity within universities and colleges, some have argued that the radical debates which first characterized gender studies have become ghettoized ... .... Learn More -
Settling in a Changing World [Hardback]
Diederick Habermehl (Author)
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ISBN: 9789089645067
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
Offering a broad analysis of the complex developments in rural habitation of the northern provinces of the Roman Empire, "Settling in a Changing World" reconstructs the colonial villa from social and economic perspectives to create a broad geograp... .... Learn More -
The Empire of the Self [Hardback]
Christopher Star (Author)
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ISBN: 9781421406749
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
In "The Empire of the Self", Christopher Star studies the question of how political reality affects the concepts of body, soul, and self. Star argues that during the early Roman Empire the establishment of autocracy and ... .... Learn More
