The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment The
growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our …

Rome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This
book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the …

Defined by borders both physical and conceptual, the Roman city stood apart as a
concentration of life and activity that was legally, economically, and ritually divided from its …

Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome.
How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home …

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches
and chapels in the late antique Mediterranean (c. 300–800 CE), compares them to similar …

Diana Spencer, known for her scholarly focus on how ancient Romans conceptualized
themselves as a people and how they responded to and helped shape the world they lived …

This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and
communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused …

A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning,
chiefly-but by no means only-of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly …

Using the necropolis environments of the Vesuvian region of Imperial period Italy as a case
study, this paper examines the ways in which multiple, overlapping, and temporally specific …

Abstract Nea Paphos, the Hellenistic-Roman capital of Cyprus, was established according to
a regular Hippodamian street grid in the Hellenistic period. The city has been subjected to …