The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory
case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of …

Dissection is a practice with a long history stretching back to antiquity and has played a
crucial role in the development of anatomical knowledge. This absorbing book takes the …

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 …

" Gothic literature imagines the return of ghosts from the past. What about the classical past?
Spectres of Antiquity is the first full-length study describing the relationship between Greek …

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 …

Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based
on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The …

Caius Bruttius Goutus, son of Caius, from the tribe of Claudia, died at the venerable–almost
Saturnian–age of 80 in the legionary canaba of Novae, in modern-day Svishtov, Bulgaria …

Names: Kindt, Julia, 1975-editor. Title: Animals in ancient Greek religion/edited by Julia
Kindt. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.| Includes …

Many of the votive offerings which survive from antiquity were purpose-made for dedication.
These include things like anatomical votives, figurines, temple models, and sculpted reliefs …

According to some of the first studies of ancient disability, physical impairments were viewed
by the communities of Antiquity as a metaphor for divine punishment (Garland 1995; …