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The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy
The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removing used water from baths and …
Hannibal's Last Battle
At Zama in what is now Tunisia in 202 BC the armies of two empires clashed. The Romans under Scipio Africanus won a bloody, decisive victory over Hannibal's Carthaginians. Scipio's …
Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art
The artistic category of relief has long dominated scholarly discussions of ancient Greco-Roman art for good reason: images in relief pervaded ancient visual culture from the rise …
Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy
Modern economics tantalizes historians, promising them a set of simple verbal and mathematical formulas to explain and even retrospectively predict historical actions and choices. …
Intertextuality in Seneca's Philosophical Writings
This volume is the first systematic study of Seneca's interaction with earlier literature of a variety of genres and traditions. It examines this interaction and engagement in his …
Beyond the Romans
This latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture. These perspectives …
History of Ravenna, a Strategic City of the Roman Empire
Defying Rome
The power of the Roman Empire was under constant challenge. Nowhere was this truer than in Britain, Rome's remotest and most recalcitrant province. A succession of idealists, …
Culture In Pieces
This volume originated in a conference of the same title, held in Oxford in September 2006, to celebrate the 70th birthday of Peter Parsons, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford …
Geography Matters in Ancient Rome
Why did Roman towns have bathhouses? Why was Rome at great risk from fires? What happened to the town of Pompeii in AD 79? Geography Matters in Ancient Rome looks at how the Roman …
Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
Did the ancient Greeks and Romans use psychoactive cannabis? Scholars say that hemp was commonplace in the ancient world, but there is no consensus on cannabis usage. According to …
The Akathistos Hymnos and Intermedial Compositional Processes in Later Byzantium
This book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos. Highlighting illuminated and notated manuscript copies of the hymn as …