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Caesar Versus Pompey
Who was Rome’s greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: Caesar or Pompey? Few people have had as many words written about them down through the centuries as Julius …
State Formation in Italy and Greece
State Formation in Italy and Greece offers an up-to-date and comprehensive sampler of the current discourse concerning state formation in the central Mediterranean. While …
Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World
This Handbook gathers 38 leading historians to describe, analyze, and interpret warfare and its effects in classical Greece and Rome.
The New Testament as Reception
In this book a new concept is systematically explored: that of the New Testament as a reception of various antecedents. Three chapters cover its reception of the Old Testament, of …
Byzantium and Landscapes of Loss
This richly illustrated book presents the art, architecture, and material culture of a little-known Byzantine dynasty, the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204–1261), uncovering their …
People and Places of the Roman Past
Written by scholars who have lived in Rome and specialize in Roman history, religion, and culture, this book is a cross between a tourist guide, scholarly article, and …
Imperial Legitimation
This fascinating study of the iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the Third Century AD, which started as a master’s dissertation, also includes all …
Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
Situated on opposite flanks of Eurasia, ancient Mediterranean and Han-Chinese societies had a hazy understanding of each other's existence. But they had no grounded knowledge about …
The African Emperor
Septimius Severus was Rome's black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna, AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter …
Consuls and Res Publica
The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic's highest office - to be sure, from different …
The Complete Essays of Plutarch (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
The Complete Essays of Plutarch includes 133 chapters on nature, Plutarch's Symposiacs, as well as his collection of literary essays. Plutarch was a Platonist, but was open to the …
Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa
The studies collected in this volume cover three broad areas of the history of North Africa as part of the Roman Empire. Studies devoted to the history of 'political institutions' …