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The first edition to show Polybius as an extraordinary writer and not just as a historian, focusing on a particularly varied and exciting book, here presented in a new text. It... Læs mere
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This volume offers a detailed study of Ptolemy of Alexandria’s Geographical Guide, whose eight books contain a wealth of geographical information unavailable elsewhere and represent the culmination of the Greco-Roman discipline of geography.
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This volume explores the transformation of public space and administrative activities in Republican and Imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary examination of the topography of power.
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This volume explores emotion and its importance in Polybius’ conception of history, his writing of historiography, and the benefits of this understanding to readers of history.
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This volume investigates how versions of Trojan War narratives written in Greek in the first through fifth centuries C.E. created nostalgia for audiences, particularly in the case of the third-century C.E. poet Quintus of Smyrna’s epic Posthomerica.
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This volume explores various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts.
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This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented in literary sources.
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This new examination of Shakespeare’s four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeare’s dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place.
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First novel in a new historical trilogy set in Ancient Pompeii. Amara is a slave at the Wolf Den – the city's infamous brothel. But just because she's a slave now, doesn't mean she inends to remain a slave forever...
In West Britain, King Loarn of the Silures tribe leads a rebellion against their weakened Roman occupiers. Caught in the middle is Faustus, a Roman soldier with maternal ties to the... Læs mere
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The first comprehensive study of Rome's relationship with the kingdom and city of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama in Turkey) from the late third century BC... Læs mere
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Known since the Renaissance as the 'Christian Cicero,' Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius was a professor of Latin rhetoric, Christian... Læs mere