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Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily
In pre-Roman Italy and Sicily, dozens of languages and writing systems competed and interacted, and bilingualism was the norm. Using frameworks from epigraphy, archaeology and the …
Bronze Age Lives
The Bronze Age of Europe is a crucial formative period that underlay the civilisations of Greece and Rome, fundamental to our own modern civilisation. A systematic description of …
Early History of Rome (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.Livy's Early History of Rome tells of a small monarchical state's struggle to survive. It tells …
The Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC. Aeneid tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor …
How to Manage Your Slaves by Marcus Sidonius Falx
At last, a clear manual for managing slaves the Roman way. In How to Manage Your Slaves, Marcus Sidonius Falx offers practical advice, showing where and how to buy slaves and how …
The Archaeology of Lucanian Cult Places
With the emergence and structuring of the Lucanian ethnos during the fourth century BC, a network of cult places, set apart from habitation spaces, was created at the crossroads of …
Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World
In this book, Ann Marie Yasin reveals the savvy and subtle ways in which Roman and late Roman patrons across the Mediterranean modulated connections to the past and expectations …
Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome
By examining a portion of private law in imperial Rome as a functioning element in social life, this book constitutes an important contribution to the sociological understanding of …
Ending of Roman Britain
Why did Roman Britain collapse? What sort of society succeeded it? How did the Anglo-Saxons take over? And how far is the traditional view of a massacre of the native population a …
Tastes of Byzantium
A detailed revelation of what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman Empire, accompanied by colourful descriptions of the sights and smells of Constantinople and its …
The Sasanian Empire at War
A comprehensive military history of one of the most important empires of Late AntiquityThe Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224–651 is the first …
Owning Disaster
Delving into the intertwined tapestry of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim sacred texts, exegesis, philosophy, theology, and historiography, this book explores the similar coping …