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Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile
Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile is a companion volume to Damon's revised Oxford Classical Texts edition of Caesar's Bellum civile, his account of his civil war with …
Myths on the Edge of Empire: How Classical Mythology Spread throughout Roman Britain
Myths on the Edge of Empire presents the findings of an extensive investigation into how classical mythology spread across Roman Britain, revealing which characters and deities …
Seneca on Society
Seneca's De Beneficiis (On Benefits) is the only work surviving from antiquity that discusses the exchange of gifts and services. Though the topic is of great importance, in …
Essays On Art and Archaeology
Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) was a British archaeologist specialising in Greek and Roman artefacts. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford before joining the British Museum as an …
On the Happy Life
A fresh, new translation of Augustine’s inaugural work as a Christian convert The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are the …
Settlement, Urbanization, and Population
This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean …
On Architecture
In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on …
Harvesting the Sea
Harvesting the Sea provides the first systematic treatment of the exploitation of various marine resources, such as large-scale fishing, fish salting, salt and purple-dye …
Representations of Writing Materials on Roman Funerary Monuments
Ancient funerary reliefs are full of representations of writing materials and instruments, the interpretation of which can help us better understand the phenomenon of ancient …
Birds in Roman Life and Myth
This book explores the place of birds in Roman myth and everyday life, focusing primarily on the transitional period of 100 BCE to 100 CE within the Italian peninsula.A diverse …
Life on the Golden Horn
Travelling through the wartorn Balkans with her husband on what proved to be a wholly useless diplomatic mission to Constantinople, Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) left a vivid, …
Kompendium til studiet af kulter og ofringer i det antikke Rom
Bogen indeholder udvalgte tekster til romersk religion i 21 kapitler, der kommenteres og ledsages af forklarende noter, samt oversigter til og sammendrag af emnerne. Forfatteren …