Society & Culture
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Ethnic Constructs in Antiquity [Hardback]
Ton Derks (Author)
Regular Price: £80.00
Special Price: £24.95
ISBN: 9789089640789
Published by : Amsterdam University Press
This volume explores the theme of ethnicity and ethnogenesis in societies of the ancient world. Its starting point is the current view in the social and historical sciences of ethnicity as a subjective construct that is shaped through interacti... .... Learn More -
Vessel Glass [Hardback]
Gladys D. Weinberg (Author); E. Marianne Stern (Author)
£130.00ISBN: 9780876612347
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Athenian Agora
Volume: 34
The authors present 404 glass vessels excavated in the Athenian Agora. Although mostly fragmentary, examples are given of almost every type of glass known from the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, and representative finds from Byzantine ... .... Learn More -
Roman Pottery: Fine-Ware Imports [Hardback]
John W. Hayes (Author)
£130.00ISBN: 9780876612323
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Athenian Agora
Volume: 32
Examples of Roman period red-gloss and red-slip pottery (terra sigillata) found during excavations in the Athenian Agora form the focus of this volume. These fine wares, like the other table wares of the first seven centuries A.D. discussed here, ... .... Learn More -
Julius Caesar: The People's Dictator [Hardback]
Luciano Canfora (Author)
Regular Price: £24.99
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9780520235021
Published by : University of California Press
This, the result of years of research is a major new biography of Julius Caesar. Canfora picks through the evidence with meticulous skill, emphasising that too often Caesar's story is seen as somehow predestined. Shakespeare and generations of ... .... Learn More -
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day [Paperback]
Philip Matyszak (Author)
Regular Price: £12.95
Special Price: £5.95
ISBN: 9780500287606
Published by : Thames and Hudson
Written in the style of a modern travel guide, this entertaining little book shows the reader around the sights of Imperial Rome. Sections include "Where to stay", "Medical emergencies", "Dining out" and "Shopping", and there is a walking tour ... .... Learn More -
The Neolithic Pottery from Lerna [Hardback]
K. D. Vitelli (Author)
£130.00ISBN: 9780876613054
Published by : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Series: Lerna
Volume: V
Beneath the famous remains of the House of the Tiles and the other Bronze Age remains found at Lerna, a large amount of Neolithic pottery was found during 1950s excavations by the American School of Classical Studies. Although the mixing of materi... .... Learn More -
Ancient Board Games in Perspective [Hardback]
Irving Finkel (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780714111537
Published by : British Museum Press
Everyone plays board games, and everyone will find something to fascinate them in this book about the games of the past, and their history and development. Based on the lectures given at a conference in the British Museum, this book tells the s... .... Learn More -
Portus: An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome [Paperback]
Simon Keay (Author); Martin Millett (Author); Lidia Paroli (Author); Kristian Strutt (Author)
Regular Price: £49.50
Special Price: £35.00
ISBN: 9780904152470
Published by : British School at Rome
Series: Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome
Volume: 15
In AD 42, the Emperor Claudius initiated work on the construction of a new artificial harbour a short distance to the north of the mouth of the Tiber. The harbour facilities were enlarged at the instigation of the Emperor Trajan at the beginni... .... Learn More -
JJP Supplement 5 (2006) Journal of Juristic Papyrology: Marriage. Ideal - Law - Practice: Proceedings of a Conference Held in Memory of Henryk Kupiszewski in Warsaw on the 24th of April 2004 [Hardback]
Z. Sluzewska (Author); J. Urbanik (Author)
£47.00ISBN: 9788391825044
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 5
The book collects 13 papers delivered at a conference held in Warsaw in April 2004, devoted to the memory of an eminent Warsaw Papyrologist and Romanist, Henryk Kupiszewski. The authors of the book, leading scholars in the field of Legal Histor... .... Learn More -
Health in Antiquity [Hardback]
Helen King (Author)
Regular Price: £93.99
Special Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9780415220651
Published by : Routledge
Some ancients believed that disease and ill-health came from Pandora's jar, as prescribed in myth, whilst others saw man as the protagonist of his own ill-health. This collection of fourteen essays on health in antiquity takes an approach which... .... Learn More
