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Dogs in the Athenian Agora
In this book, readers are shown how dogs fit into ancient Greek society with material from the last 90 years of excavations at the Athenian Agora by the American School of …
Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century
Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeA wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religious networks expanded across the …
The Petra Papyri I-V (boxed set)
The Petra Papyri Series, Greek language papyrus texts from the sixth century A.D. that were discovered in carbonized condition in Petra in 1992-93. This scholarly publication …
Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE–20 CE
In the century following 150 BCE, the Romans developed a coherent vision of empire and a more systematic provincial administration. The city of Rome itself became a cultural and …
American Race Relations and the Legacy of British Colonialism
Colonial rule distorts a colony's economy and its society, and British rule was no exception. British policies led to a stratified American colonial society with slaves on the …
Rabbinic Drinking
Though ancient rabbinic texts are fundamental to analyzing the history of Judaism, they are also daunting for the novice to read. Rabbinic literature presumes tremendous prior …
Imperatores Victi
Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and …
Imperia sine fine?
Wenn Vergil Rom als ein "Reich ohne Grenzen" (Aen. 1, 279) bezeichnet, mag dies im übertragenen Sinn zutreffen, tatsächlich verfügte das Imperium jedoch über lange und tief …
Who were the Romans anyway?
A irreverent and friendly information book answering all the big and small questions about Roman life.Did Romans have toilets? Was Roman school hard work? Who were the gladiators? …
Ancient Greece
This book examines the development of ancient Greek civilization through a path-breaking application of social scientific theories. David B. Small charts the rise of the Minoan and …
Envy, Poison, & Death
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and …
Imperial Capitals of China
As China- the oldest continuous civilisation in existence- stands to become the most influential, with its economy expected to exceed that of the United States by 2020, Arthur …