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  • - Volume 3: The Greek World, the Jews, and the East
    av Fergus Millar
    858,-

    Presents essays that contribute to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman culture acted as a vehicle for the self-expression of indigenous cultures. This book offers English translations of passages in Greek, Latin, and Semitic languages.

  • - Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire
    av Fergus Millar
    814,-

    This second volume of the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's published essays draws together 20 of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire worked in practice and what it was like to live under Roman rule.

  • - Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta
    av Nigel M. Kennell
    684,-

    Examines education in ancient Sparta, covering the period from the sixth century BC to the fourth century AD. Nigel Kennell refutes the popular notion that classical Spartan education was a conservative amalgam of "primitive" customs, and argues instead that later political and cultural movements made the system appear to be more distinctive than it actually had been.

  • - The Process of Hellenization in Roman Relief Sculpture
    av Diane Atnally Conlin
    930,-

  • - Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems
    av Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
    612,-

  • - Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution
    av Fergus Millar
    814,-

    These 16 essays open with a contribution by Fergus Millar, in which he defends studying Classics. He also questions the dominiant interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power, therefore shedding new light on Augustus' regime.

  • - Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome
    av Daniel J. Gargola
    814,-

    Examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 BC). Using agrarian law as a case study and focusing especially on rituals that both validated and gave structure to the administrative process, Gargola demonstrates the fundamental connections between religion, law, and government.

  • av James P. Sickinger
    698,-

    Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens

  • - Publius Clodius Pulcher
    av W. Jeffrey Tatum
    727,-

    Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. The first modern, comprehensive biography of Clodius, The Patrician Tribune traces his career from its earliest stages until its end in 52 BC, when he was murdered by a political rival.

  • - Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
    av George W. Houston
    663,-

    Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity

  • - Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic
    av Nathan Rosenstein
    779,-

    Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic

  • - Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians
    av Catalina Balmaceda
    612,-

    Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition which fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman.

  • - The Genesis and Meaning of a Roman Imperial Monument
    av Martin Beckmann
    540,-

    Martin Beckmann makes a thorough study of the form, content, and meaning of this infrequently studied monument. Beckmann employs a new approach to the column, one that focuses on the process of its creation and construction, to uncover the cultural significance of the column to the Romans of the late second century A.D.

  • av Brian Campbell
    815,-

    Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores the role and influence of rivers and their surrounding landscape on the society and culture of the Roman Empire.

  • av Fred K. Drogula
    684,-

    Examines the development of Roman provincial command using the terms and concepts of the Romans themselves as reference points. Beginning in the earliest years of the republic, Fred Drogula argues provincial command was not a uniform concept fixed in positive law but rather a dynamic set of ideas shaped by traditional practice.

  • - The Republic and Its Spaces
    av Daniel J. Gargola
    612,-

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