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St John Damascene
John Damascene, one-time senior civil servant in the Umayyad Arab Empire, became a monk near Jerusalem in the early years of the eighth century. He never set foot in the Byzantine …
Constructing Identity: The Roman Funerary Monuments of Aquileia Mainz and Nimes
A catalogue and discussion of the social meaning and family relationships behind the funerary monuments of Roman France. Hope aims to reconstruct the stories associated with …
Livy Book XXI
Originally published in 1888 as part of the Pitt Press Series, this book contains the Latin text of the 21st book of the monumental history of Rome by Titus Livius, which deals …
Throne of Caesar
In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the most famous murder in history . . .It's Rome, 44 BC, and the Ides of March are approaching.Julius …
Codex Fori Mussolini
The year is 1932. In Rome, the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini unveils a giant obelisk of white marble, bearing the Latin inscription MVSSOLINI DVX. Invisible to the cheering …
Rome, a City and Its Empire in Perspective: The Impact of the Roman World through Fergus Millar's Research
Fergus Millar's works have renewed our approach of the Roman world. He had studied the functioning of the Roman Empire in the perspective of the Emperor's activities, from Augustus …
Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires
Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires is a wide-ranging comparative study of the origins of today's ethnic politics in East Central Europe, the former Russian empire and the …
Prohibition in Turkey
A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.Prohibition in Turkey investigates …
Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World
Located in the small kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Dag (c.50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars. Qualified as a …
Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul
Late Roman Gaul is often seen either from a classical Roman perspective as an imperial province in decay and under constant threat from barbarian invasion or settlement, or from …
The Neronian Grotesque
During the reign of Nero, Roman culture produced some of its most spectacular works of art and literature, and some of its strangest. This study explores these effects across …
Parallel Lives
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate …