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Richard Bauman - Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome (1996).jpg
Crime and punishment have concerned humanity since the beginning of social life. Their manifestations in ancient Rome remains a fascinating topic, as the law of most European countries today is derived from ancient Roman law. Richard A. Bauman tells the history of ...
Richard Hawley - Women In Antiquity.jpg
The study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone rapid and wide-ranging development in the past two decades. This collection of new assessments has been written by some of the most influential experts in this field from all over the world. The contributors reassess ...
Judith Evans Grubbs - Women and the Law in the Roman Empire.jpg
It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period - from ...
Dominic Perring - The Roman House in Britain (2001).jpg
Fully illustrated, The Roman House in Britain is the essential resource on how houses were built, used and understood in Roman Britain. Authoritative, original,this volume draws on recent archaeological work and places the findings in the context of classical ...
Jan Wi Drijvers - Late Roman World and its Historian.jpg
This book comprises a collection of papers analyzing Ammianus's writings from a variety of perspectives, including Ammianus as historian of, and participant in, Julian's Persian campaign, his identification with traditional religious attitudes and values in Rome and ...
Ray Laurence - Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire (1998).jpg
This provocative and often controversial volume examines the notions of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and ...
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Throughout history, every culture has had its own ideas on what growing up and growing old. This volume is the first to highlight the role of age in determining behaviour, and expectations of behaviour, across the life span of an inhabitant of ancient Rome. Drawing on ...
Serena Connolly - Lives behind the Laws.jpg
In this exploration of the administration of law and its role in the lives of ordinary people in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire, Serena Connolly draws upon a rich but little-known legal collection from the late 3rd century known as the Codex Hermogenianus. The ...
Arthur Keaveney - Lucullus.jpg
In antiquity Lucullus was indisputably a great general, one to be numbered with alongside Sulla and Pompey. Lucullus narrates the great Asiatic campaigns upon which his military repute chiefly rests. Despite his reputation, some ancient traditions suggest that when the ...
Samuel Lieu - Constantine.jpg
Constantine examines the reign of Constantine, the first Christian emperor and the founder of Constantinople. From a variety of angles: historical, historiographical and mythical. The volume examines the circumstances of Constantine's reign and the historical ...
Ioana A Oltean - Dacia.jpg
Providing a detailed consideration of previous theories of native settlement patterns and the impact of Roman colonization, Roman Dacia offers fresh insight into the province Dacia and the nature of Romanization. It analyzes Roman-native interaction from a landscape ...
Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis - Ravenna in Late Antiquity (2010).jpg
Ravenna was one of the most important cities of late antique Europe. Between 400 and 751 AD, it was the residence of western Roman emperors, Ostrogothic kings, and Byzantine governors of Italy, while its bishops and archbishops ranked second only to the popes. During this ...
H. E. M. Cool - Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain (2007).jpg
What were the eating and drinking habits of the inhabitants of Britain during the Roman period? Drawing on evidence from a large number of archaeological excavations, this fascinating new study shows how varied these habits were in different regions and amongst different ...
Greg Woolf - Becoming Roman.jpg
This book studies the processes conventionally termed "Romanization" through an analysis of the experience of Roman rule over the Gallic province of the empire in the period 200 BC-AD 300. It examines how and why Gallo-Roman civilization emerged from the confrontation ...
G. W. Bowersock - Martyrdom and Rome (1995).jpg
This book examines the historical context of the earliest Christian martyrs, and anchors their grisly and often willful self-sacrifice to the everyday life and outlook of the cities (mostly Greek) of the Roman empire. By exploring the remains of contemporary documents of ...
Catharine Edwards - The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome (1993).jpg
This book addresses the question not how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Far from ...
The Modern Scholar - Thomas F. Madden - Decline and Fall of Rome (2008).jpg
Even millennia after its fall, the grand expanse of Roman achievement continues to affect not only American society, but the entire world as well. What caused a civilization of such accomplishments to disintegrate? In this informative and lively series of lectures, ...
Gregory S. Aldrete - Daily Life in the Roman City.jpg
Despite the fact that the majority of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire lived an agricultural existence and thus resided outside of urban centers, there is no denying the fact that the core ofRoman civilization—its essential culture and politics”was based in ...
Stephen Dando-Collins - The Ides.jpg
The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many compelling questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Did Caesar bring death on himself by planning to make ...
Fabian E. Udoh - To Caesar What Is Caesar's.jpg
This book is the first detailed and comprehensive study of taxation in Jewish Palestine in the Early Roman period, from the conquest of the Jewish state by Pompey in 63 B.C.E. to the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Rather than constructing theoretical models of the economic ...
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The story of a small town that rose to become the most powerful empire of the ancient world has been an inspiration to generations of people. Even after the collapse of the Roman Empire, many nations and their leaders have styled themselves 'heirs of Rome', emulating its ...
Diana E. E. Kleiner - Cleopatra and Rome (2005).jpg
ReviewIn Cleopatra and Rome, Diana Kleiner describes the unique convergence of individuals and events that shaped the period. She brings the world of the Ptolemies and ancient Rome vividly to life and offers candid sketches of the people involved in Cleopatra's complex ...
Graeme Davis - Mythic Vistas.jpg
Mythic Vistas, the line that brought you Testament and the Trojan War, now completes its ancient world trifecta with the definitive guide to the glory of Rome! Covering all major periods from Rome's founding to the final barbarian incursions, Eternal Rome gives you ...