For Romans, bathing was a social event. Public baths, in fact, were one of the few places
where large numbers of Romans gathered daily in an informal context. They went to meet …

In this pathbreaking study of the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe
integrates history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis. He also takes a close look at …

In recent years, a number of classical scholars have turned their attention to prostitution in
the ancient world. Close examination of the social and legal position of Roman meretrices …

This survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of
every Roman reader's cultural and political self-understanding. This book describes the …

This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in Late Republican Rome
as a part of informal politics. It explores the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) …

This scholarly study throws a new light on the Roman impact on religious structures in
Republican Italy. In the last four centuries BC, Italy went through immense changes. The …

This book, consisting of three self-contained studies, deals with the Euripidean messenger-
speech. The first study concerns the form of the messenger-speech, which is that of a first …

This study of the Athenian" strategia" is concerned with identifying the locus of military
authority in the Athenian" polis," Consideration of the role played by generals in the …

Stories about brothers were central to Romans' public and poetic myth making, to their
experience of family life, and to their ideas about intimacy among men. Through the analysis …

The title of this thesis is' Theatrical elements in the Satyrica of Petronius". It is a literary study
which deals with the possible influence that Roman comic drama (comedies of Plautus and …