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The Annals of Tacitus
Books 5 and 6 of Tacitus' Annals cover the last years of the emperor Tiberius. Although most of Book 5 is lost, Book 6 survives complete and offers a vivid narrative of the …
Paul, Community, and Discipline
Over the course of several years, Paul established numerous Christian communities in cities throughout the Roman Empire. Each of these small groups was founded on the premise of …
Hadrian's Wall
Over its venerable history, Hadrian's Wall has had an undeniable influence in shaping the British landscape, both literally and figuratively. Once thought to be a soft border, …
Reign of Constantius II
Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, ruled the Roman Empire between 337 and 361 CE. Constantius' reign is characterised by a series of political and cultural upheavals and …
Orthodox Mercantilism
This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance, but was the natural …
The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life
The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life is the first comprehensive guide to animals in the ancient world, encompassing all aspects of the topic by featuring …
Founding the Year: Ovid's Fasti and the Poetics of the Roman Calendar
This book considers the relationship between the Fasti, Ovid's long poem on the Roman calendar, and the calendar itself, conceived of as consisting both in the rites and …
Priest's Tale
Blood and adventure on the Mediterranean battlefield.Crete, 1492: After a sojourn on a Venetian-controlled island, Skiouros has learned everything he needs to know for his true …
The Tebtunis Papyri Volume IV
This volume makes available the letters, petitions, and such accounts as bear on land and taxation at Kerkeosiris in the numerous and extensive papyri briefly treated in the …
Hindsight in Greek and Roman History
Nine new studies here explore, and reconstruct, determinant episodes of Greek, Hellenistic and Roman history. The authors argue that hindsight – especially in modern works – has …
Rich and the Pure
A portrait of history's first complex Christian society as seen through the lens of Christian philanthropy and gift giving As the Roman Empire broke down in western Europe, its …
Jews in the Roman Empire
The focus of this book is on the legal status of the Jews within the Roman Empire and the changes that it underwent when the empire became Christian. Conflicts between Roman and …