In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as" rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition …
Roman children often seem to be absent from the ancient sources. How did they spend their first years of life? Did they manage to find their way among the various educators, often …
In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …
Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the 'classical'period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the …
This book deals with changing power and status relations between AD 193 and 284, when the Empire came under tremendous pressure, and presents new insights into the diachronic …
Regulus has lost his son, the one evil he did not deserve... Now that his son is dead he mourns insanely. The boy used to own a number of Gallic ponies for riding and driving, also …
In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, AD Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious …
This book offers the first comprehensive study of economic conditions and economic life in Roman cities during the late Republic and early Empire. By employing a sophisticated …