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The Roman Army at War 100 BC - AD 200
This detailed examination of the way in which the Roman army operated during a war and how it fought a battle breaks away from existing studies, which mostly concentrate on the …
Plato's Symposium
Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she …
Coptic Interference in the Syntax of Greek Letters from Egypt
Egypt in the early Byzantine period was a bilingual country where Greek and Egyptian (Coptic) were used alongside each other. Historical studies along with linguistic studies of …
Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire
The Sibylline Oracles (sacred prophecies) which provide narratives of Roman history are our best sources for popular understanding of contemporar y events, since they were written …
Medical Latin in the Roman Empire
Despite the ubiquitous importance of medicine in Roman literature, philosophy, and social history, the language of Latin medical texts has not been properly studied. This book …
Historiography at the End of the Republic
This study of six historians from the edges of the Roman world at the end of the Republic - the author of I Maccabees, Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus, Pompeius Trogus, Nicolaus of …
Ovid Epistulae ex Ponto, Book I
The present edition of the first book of the Epistulae ex Ponto gives a revised text with a new translation, an extended introduction, and the first full-scale commentary of this …
Imperial Power, Provincial Government, and the Emergence of Roman Asia, 133 BCE-14 CE
What ambitions lay behind Roman provincial governance? How did these change over time and in response to local conditions? To what extent did local agents facilitate and contribute …
Roman Nature
Pliny's Natural History has too often been regarded as simply a quarry for quaint stories - a view which has tended to overshadow its overall structure and purpose. Dr Beagon …
Agathokles of Syracuse
Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues that Agathokles was an important player in …
A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII
This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of …
Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
This study challenges the idea that sanctuaries in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor were fully institutionalized within the polis that hosted them. It proposes a triangular …