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Long a major element of classical studies, the examination of the laws of the ancient Romans has gained momentum in recent years as interdisciplinary work in legal studies has …

In Roman Britain people used magic to protect themselves, to gain better health, to fall in love, and to curse wrongdoers. They used arcane words, strange and uncanny materials, …

Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the …

The purpose of become whole requires you to endure and grow through your experiences. You have to push through painful places. There is power in pain. Being broken into pieces …

*Thus Valour and Skill Have Their Reward*The year is 77 A.D. On the frontier of the Roman Empire, a Dacian man named Verus is captured and enslaved during an imperial raid north of …

This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies. Its main contention is …

The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an …

Annales, som er Tacitus’ hovedverk, omhandler perioden 14–68 e.Kr., dvs. årene fra keiser Augustus’ død og Tiberius’ tiltredelse til slutten av keiser Neros regjering, eller som …

Slaves have never been mere passive victims of slavery. Typically, they have responded with ingenuity to their violent separation from their native societies, using a variety of …

The Roman Martyrs contains translations of forty Latin passiones of saints who were martyred in Rome or its near environs, during the period before the 'peace of the Church' (c. …