Bøker av Matthew Dillon

The Greeks speak for themselves, both in the formal language of public office and in the colloquial speech of the household and the street.

The chapters have been carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study of the role of religion in the wars of the Roman Empire.

Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception.

Part of a trilogy on religion in classical warfare which should become the standard work on the subject. This volume deals with Archaic and Classical Greece

Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece provides a detailed analysis of pilgrimage, which is comprehensive and accessible to both the specialist and those interested in the Ancient Greek world.

It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most importnat religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that