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The Byzantine Wars
By the middle of the sixth century the Byzantine emperor ruled a mighty empire that straddled Europe, Asia and North Africa. Within 100 years, this powerful empire had been cut in …
Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000–1200
What does it mean to be a man? What makes one effeminate or manly? What renders a man 'Byzantine'? Drawing from theories of gender, posthumanism and disability, this book explores …
The History of the Roman Republic
The Classic One Volume Abridgment of Mommsen's monumental History of Rome, from Earliest Times to 44 B.C.New edition from Rogue Scholar Press with a New Foreword by Mart …
Layers of Loyalty in Latin Panegyric
This is the first monograph in English on the Panegyrici Latini, and the first in any language dedicated to the five speeches of praise from 289 - 307. The study considers the …
The Early Byzantine Historians
The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after …
Borders of Belief
Religion and nationalism are two of the most powerful forces in the world. And as powerful as they are separately, humans throughout history have fused religious beliefs and …
Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English ]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central …
Epiphanios the Monk
This volume provides the first English (or indeed any modern) translation of two early ninth-century hagiographical texts that deal with the Virgin Mary and the apostle Andrew. …
Roman Conquests: Egypt & Judaea
Egypt was the last of the Macedonian Successor states to be swallowed up by Roman expansion. The Ptolemaic rulers had allied themselves to Rome while their rivals went down …
Augustan Succession
Written in the author's maternal Greek, the Roman History of the third-century A.D. historian Cassius Dio is our fullest surviving historical source for the reign of the Emperor …
Health and Disease in Byzantine Crete (7th-12th centuries AD)
Daily life and living conditions in the Byzantine world are relatively underexplored subjects, often neglected in comparison with more visible aspects of Byzantine culture, such as …
Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity
This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was …