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  • Strolling through Florence

    The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City

    by Professor Mario Erasmo ...
    To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city. From its establishment by Julius Caesar in the first century BC, through its Golden Age at the epicentre of the Italian Renaissance, to its position as an iconic cultural destination in the twenty-first century, Florence is a small city that packs a lot of punch. This is the city of Dante and ... Read more

    $19.09 CAD

  • Strolling Through Rome

    The Definitive Walking Guide to the Eternal City

    by Professor Mario Erasmo ...
    Rome, the Eternal City - birthplace of western civilisation and soul of the ancient world - has a history that stretches back two thousand five hundred years. It is also one of the most-visited places in the world, but where does one begin to delve into two millennia of history, culture, art and architecture, whilst also navigating the vibrant modern city? Mario Erasmo here guides the traveller ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

  • The Spectacular Dead

    Staging Death in Classical Antiquity

    by Professor Mario Erasmo ...
    Death ritual in Classical antiquity contained inherent elements of theatricality that involved performing participants and multiple layers of viewing in distinct phases, both private and public, centered upon a corpse. Even the moment of death could be staged, most notably in the arena as combat or execution. Today, modern reenactments of deaths such as Christ's or Caesar's perpetuate this ... Read more

    $28.49 CAD

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  • Roman Tragedy

    Theatre to Theatricality

    by Mario Erasmo ...
    Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first century C.E., making it difficult to define the role of tragedy in ancient Roman culture. Nevertheless, in this pioneering book, Mario Erasmo draws on all the available evidence to trace the evolution of Roman tragedy from the earliest tragedians to the ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity

    Edited by Professor Mario Erasmo ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Ancient Greek and Roman burial, mourning, and commemoration practices may seem irrelevant in the digital age of instant and virtual communications and entertainment. The lives and deaths of ancient peoples comprising Greek and Roman cultures, however, not only inform modern funerary practices through the reception of Classical antiquity, but they provide a contrast to communicating grief and ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Death

    Antiquity and Its Legacy

    by Professor Mario Erasmo ...
    Series series Ancients and Moderns
    Personal and yet utterly universal, inevitable and yet unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures, since earliest times. Different societies address death and the act of dying in culturally diverse ways; yet, remarkably, across the span of several millennia, we can recognize in the customs of ancient Greece and Rome ceremonies and rituals that have enduring present-day resonance. ... Read more

    $28.49 CAD

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  • The Art of the Roman Empire

    AD 100-450

    by Jaś Elsner ...
    Series series Oxford History of Art
    The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity of paintings, statues, luxury arts, and masonry, as both reflections and agents of those changes. Jas' ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • The Colosseum

    by Professor Keith Hopkins ...
    The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

  • The Appian Way

    Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

    by Robert A. Kaster ...
    Series series Culture Trails
    The eminent classicist delivers "an evocative history of Europe's first great road" from Rome to the heel of Italy in this "slim but evocative volume" ( The Guardian, UK).The 1st century Roman poet Statius called the Via Appia "the Queen of Roads," and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the Southern Italian city ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Etruscans

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From around 900 to 400 BC, the Etruscans were the most innovative, powerful, wealthy, and creative people in Italy. Their archaeological record is both substantial and fascinating, including tomb paintings, sculpture, jewellery, and art. In this Very Short Introduction, Christopher Smith explores Etruscan history, culture, language, and customs. Examining the controversial debates about their ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • The History of Rome in 12 Buildings

    A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of The Eternal City

    by Phillip Barlag ...
    Any travel guide to Rome will urge visitors to go the Colosseum, but none answers a simple question: Why is it called the Colosseum?The History of Rome in 12 Buildings: A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of The Eternal City is compelling, concise, and fun, and takes you behind the iconic buildings to reveal the hidden stories of the people that forged the Roman Empire.Typical travel guides ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A History of Roman Art

    by Steven L. Tuck ...
    A HISTORY OF ROMAN ARTThe new edition of the leading textbook on Roman art, updated with new images and expanded geographic and cultural scopeA History of Roman Art is an expansive survey of the painting, mosaic, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture of ancient Rome. This acclaimed textbook provides a fully-illustrated narrative history of Roman art that spans a millennium, from the early ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD