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Penal Practice and Penal Policy in Ancient Rome
Using Roman literary and legal sources, this book assesses Roman penal policy through an in-depth examination of six high-profile criminal cases, ranging from the Bacchanalian …
The Rise of the Chinese Empire
The second and first centuries B.C. were a critical period in Chinese history—they saw the birth and development of the new Chinese empire and its earliest expansion and …
Greco-Buddhist Relations in the Hellenistic Far East
This book provides the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary view of the relationship between the Greeks and Buddhist communities in ancient Bactria and Northwest India, from …
Reconstructing Damon
Fifth-century Athenian musical and political theorist Damon was the first to study music's psychological, behavioural, and political effects, profoundly influencing debates on …
Journeys of the Mind
A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historiansThe end of the ancient world was long …
Espionage and Treason in Classical Greece
This history of ancient diplomacy demonstrates how the ancient Greeks used guest-friendship as a mechanism of diplomacy. Ancient proxenoi were the equivalent of contemporary …
Ushering in a New Republic
The ancient Romans are well known for their love of the pageantry of power. No single ceremony better attests to this characteristic than the triumph, which celebrated the victory …
fiction des declamations
En dehors d'analyses de type sociologique, les declamations latines n'ont generalement que peu retenu l'attention des specialistes de l'Antiquite. Pourtant, ces discours fictifs …
Questionable People
In the 1860s, a series of reforms imposed by Tsar Alexander II dramatically began modernizing and reshaping life in imperial Russia. However, for a generation of Jewish artists and …
Histoire Romaine de Dion Cassius. Tome 4 (Éd.1845-1870)
Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancient Greek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finest …
Eastern Approaches to Byzantium
The eastern frontier of Byzantium and the interaction of the peoples that lived along it are the themes of this book. With a focus on the ninth to thirteenth centuries and dealing …