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  • Freed Persons in the Roman World

    Status, Diversity, and Representation

    Edited by Sinclair W. Bell, Dorian Borbonus, Rose MacLean ...
    How were freed people represented in the Roman world? This volume presents new research about the integration of freed persons into Roman society. It addresses the challenge of studying Roman freed persons on the basis of highly fragmentary sources whose contents have been fundamentally shaped by the forces of domination. Even though freed persons were defined through a common legal status and ... Read more

    $90.99 USD

  • The Running Centaur

    Horse-Racing in Global-Historical Perspective

    Edited by Sinclair W. Bell, Christian Jaser, Christian Mann ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    This book surveys the practice of horse racing from antiquity to the modern period, and in this way offers a selective global history.Unlike previous histories of horse racing, which generally make claims about the exclusiveness of modern sport and therefore diminish the importance of premodern physical contests, the contributors to this book approach racing as a deep history of diachronically ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Roman Law before the Twelve Tables

    An Interdisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Sinclair W. Bell ...

    $26.99 USD

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  • Rome, Empire of Plunder

    The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation

    Edited by Matthew P. Loar, Carolyn MacDonald, Dan-el Padilla Peralta ...
    Bringing together philologists, historians, and archaeologists, Rome, Empire of Plunder bridges disciplinary divides in pursuit of an interdisciplinary understanding of Roman cultural appropriation - approached not as a set of distinct practices but as a hydra-headed phenomenon through which Rome made and remade itself, as a Republic and as an Empire, on Italian soil and abroad. The studies ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Trade and Taboo

    Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean

    by Sarah Bond ...
    Trade and Taboo addresses the legal, literary, social, and institutional creation of disrepute in ancient Roman society. Tracking the shifting application of stigmas of disrepute between the Republic and Late Antiquity, it follows particular groups of professionals—funeral workers, criers, tanners, mint workers, and even bakers—asking how they coped with stigmatization.In this book, Sarah E. Bond ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture

    by Michele George ...
    Series Book 52 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Replete now with its own scholarly traditions and controversies, Roman slavery as a field of study is no longer limited to the economic sphere, but is recognized as a fundamental social institution with multiple implications for Roman society and culture. The essays in this collection explore how material culture – namely, art, architecture, and inscriptions – can illustrate Roman attitudes ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World

    Edited by Ronnie Ancona, Georgia Tsouvala ...
    Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves introduced scholars, students, and general readers to an exciting new area of inquiry: women in classical antiquity. Almost fifty years later, New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World builds upon and moves beyond Pomeroy's seminal work to represent the next step in this interdisciplinary field. The “new ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Man of High Empire

    The Life of Pliny the Younger

    by Roy K. Gibson ...
    Pliny the Younger (c. 60-112 C.E.)--senator and consul in the Rome of emperors Domitian and Trajan, eyewitness to the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, and early 'persecutor' of Christians on the Black Sea--remains Rome's best documented private individual between Cicero and Augustine. No Roman writer, not even Vergil, ties his identity to the regions of Italy more successfully than Pliny. His ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Twelve Caesars

    Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern

    by Mary Beard ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Edited by Catherine Steel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • In Search of the Phoenicians

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    Series series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture

    Edited by Jonathan Edmondson, Alison Keith ...
    Series Book 46 - Phoenix Supplementary Volumes
    Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, ... Read more

    $37.99 USD