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  • av Mark Golden
    316 - 591,-

    The book includes a completely new final chapter, text and notes rewritten throughout to incorporate evidence and scholarship that has appeared over the past twenty-five years, and an index of ancient sources.

  • av A. Thomas Cole
    369,-

    Is it fair to judge early Greek rhetoric by the standards of Plato and Aristotle? Arguing against the common view that it is, this work sees early Greek rhetoric as largely unsystematic efforts to explore, more by means than by precept, all aspects of discourse.

  • - The Role and Status of Women in Greek and Roman Antiquity
    av Eva Cantarella
    376,-

    and judicial sources can and cannot be used to discover that Greek and Roman men thought about women.

  • - From Plautus to Macrobius
    av Elaine Fantham
    406 - 880,-

    This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.

  • - Topography and Social Conflict
    av Christopher (Villanova University) Haas
    541,-

    Eventually, Haas concludes, Alexandrian society achieved a certain stability and reintegration-a process that resulted in the transformation of Alexandrian civic identity during the crucial centuries between antiquity and the Middle Ages.

  • av Michael (Professor & Pennsylvania State University) Kulikowski
    566 - 825,-

    This groundbreaking study will prompt further reassessments of the other Roman provinces and of medieval Spanish history.

  • av Thomas S. Burns
    410,-

    What he describes is, in fact, a drawn-out period of acculturation, characterized more by continuity than by change and conflict and leading to the creation of a new Romano-barbarian hybrid society and culture that anticipated the values and traditions of medieval civilization.

  • av John E. Stambaugh
    354,-

    For the person already familiar with the Eternal City's cultural riches or with its modern manifestation, The Ancient Roman City provides a deeper appreciation of Rome's phsical monuments and social foundations.

  • av Suzanne Dixon
    369,-

    ) Other topics include love and other aspects of the institution of marriage, the role of the children in the family, how families adjusted to new members, and how they dealt with aging and death.

  • av Nancy Demand
    442,-

    She draws relevant details from cure records and dedications from healing sanctuaries, labor scenes depicted on tombstones, Aristophanic comedy, andPlatonic philosophy.

  • av Steven H. Lonsdale
    409,-

    The act of worship, he explains, often implied engaging in collective rites regulated by playful behavior, the most common forms of which were group hymns and choral dances.

  • av Kenneth W. (Tulane University) Harl
    906,-

    It will be of interest to scholars and students of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as to professional and amateur numismatists.

  • - The Politics of Intolerance
    av H. A. (Department of History) Drake
    462,-

    A book for students and scholars of ancient history and religion, Constantine and the Bishops shows how Christian belief motivated and gave shape to imperial rule.

  • - Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean
    av J. Donald Hughes
    386 - 811,-

    In addition to extensive revisions based on the latest research, this new edition includes photographs from Hughes's worldwide excursions, a new chapter on warfare and the environment, and an updated bibliography.

  • av James C. Anderson
    417,-

    This detailed and concise account will appeal not only to students and scholars of Roman history, but to all with an interest in ancient architecture and urban society.

  • av Alison Burford Cooper
    390,-

    '- from Land and Labor in the Greek World.

  • av Stephen L. (Park Professor of Classics Dyson
    442,-

    He examines the "typicalRoman community during the High Empire and explores the life cycle of rural inhabitants, showing how individuals- the aristocrats, the free poor, and the slaves- developed in relation to society as a whole.

  • av Giovanni Comotti
    383,-

  • av Geza Alfoldy
    362,-

  • - A Cultural and Social History
    av Tim G. (Elizabeth and James Tatoulis Chair of Classics Parkin
    396,-

    As a work of both social and cultural history, it broadens our knowledge of the ancient world and encourages us to reexamine our treatment of older people today.

  • av Gregory S. (Professor Aldrete
    396,-

    Readers with an interest in rhetoric, urban culture, or communications in any period will find the book informative, as will those working in art history, archaeology, history, and philology.

  • av Matthew R. (Indiana University) Christ
    658,-

    Determining that the term sykophant was applied rhetorically rather than, as some have believed, to describe a specific subclass, Christ shows how the public debates over legal chicanery helped define the limits of ethical behavior under the law and in public life.

  • av Gregory S. (Professor Aldrete
    768,-

    He discusses the strategies the Romans employed to alleviate or prevent flooding, their social and religious attitudes toward floods, and how the threat of inundation influenced the development of the city's physical and economic landscapes.

  • - A Living Portrait of an Ancient City
    av Stephen L. Dyson
    449 - 933,-

    In doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.

  • - A Social and Economic Study
    av C. R. (University of Cambridge) Whittaker
    417,-

    Yet the very permeability of the frontiers, Whittaker contends, permitted a transformation of Roman society, breathing new life into the empire rather than causing its complete extinction.

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