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Through detailed analysis of a selection of material (poetry, prose and statues), this book explores how imperial power, and the authority and accessibility of the Roman emperor, were constructed and contested through the representation of sexual relations.
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An examination of the development of archaic Rome which successfully united disparate cultures and integrated them into political life. The author discusses the... Læs mere
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Discusses the transformation of Rome in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. While traditional studies have focused on the rise of the... Læs mere
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The reign of the emperor Constantine (306–337) was as revolutionary for the transformation of Rome's Mediterranean empire as that of Augustus, the first emperor three... Læs mere
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This book is a companion volume to K. D. White's Agricultural Implements of the Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 1967). He deals here with equipment and instruments which were for the most part used in processing and storage as opposed to cultivation.
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This volume contains a selection of Professor F. W. Walbank's more important and influential papers covering a wide range of... Læs mere
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The development of medicine and philosophy in antiquity was closely connected. This collection... Læs mere
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Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World explores the Jewish experience with art during the Greco-Roman period. It surveys ways that Jews fully participated in, transformed, and at times rejected the art of their general environment.
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This book examines hostage-taking in ancient Rome, which was a standard practice of international diplomacy. Hundreds of foreign hostages, typically adolescents, were detained as the empire grew in the Republic and early Principate.
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Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans... Læs mere
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What made the people of the Roman provinces Roman? In this book, Revell's case studies of public architecture in several urban settings provide an understanding of the ways urbanism, the emperor and religion were part of the daily encounters of the peoples in these communities.
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Strabo of Amasia's Geography observes the world of the Augustan period. This 2005 volume explores a wide range of questions addressed in the... Læs mere